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November 14, 2007
pledge of allegiance redux
It's election season again—does it ever stop, anymore?—and with it comes the usual bushel of hysterical bullshit scandals. Barack Obama was recently lambasted by the usual suspects for not putting his hand over his heart during the pledge of allegiance in this photo.
Mouth-breathers were outraged. He's unpatriotic. A "terrorist," even. And then it turns out that the very premise of their argument was wrong: it was not the pledge of allegiance, but the national anthem. Reply the mouth-breathers: Faulty premise? No problem! Our conclusions remain unabashedly the same!
It's almost admirable, that degree of confident self-delusion. Almost.
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