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[evelomaddict]

i think many are sensitive to flags with black and white flags. a gay pride event is something that they would love to have targetted. 

how many hours did cnn milk this for?

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@evelomaddict wrote:

i think many are sensitive to flags with black and white flags. a gay pride event is something that they would love to have targetted. 

how many hours did cnn milk this for?

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I don't know how long they talked about it but it was long enough to cause embarrassment for CNN because they've removed the entire news video from their website. 

[debic]

They need to have the flag bearer on every talk show in the country.  Wonder if he could keep from laughing.

Wonder if Peter Bergen (terrorism expert) saw what the flag was right away? 

[NickNack1]

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@Smaug wrote:

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@evelomaddict wrote:

i think many are sensitive to flags with black and white flags. a gay pride event is something that they would love to have targetted. 

how many hours did cnn milk this for?

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I don't know how long they talked about it but it was long enough to cause embarrassment for CNN because they've removed the entire news video from their website. 

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I saw the segment.  It was five minutes or less.

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@debc wrote:

They need to have the flag bearer on every talk show in the country.  Wonder if he could keep from laughing.

Wonder if Peter Bergen (terrorism expert) saw what the flag was right away? 

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I found this on another website. Poor Peter indeed. 

"Poor Peter Bergen, a respected figure who has written several books and in 1997 actually interviewed Osama bin Laden from a cave in Afghanistan, was made to spend the first several minutes of the segment waiting patiently on the line to give his analysis of the situation.

CNN threw to Bergen by asking him what sounded like an awfully leading barrage of questions: "From a national security point of view, does this bother you? Does this concern you? Should people in that crowd be concerned? Should somebody be following this guy and figuring out what he was doing there?"

Bergen suggested, gently, that it was "possible" that this was just a "parody." As he pointed out, ISIS has gone to great lengths to persecute and often murder LGBT individuals, so it would be a little odd for them to show up at a London gay pride rally, though CNN had just spent the previous five minutes reporting that this is exactly what had happened."

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@NickNack1 wrote:

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@Smaug wrote:

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@evelomaddict wrote:

i think many are sensitive to flags with black and white flags. a gay pride event is something that they would love to have targetted. 

how many hours did cnn milk this for?

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I don't know how long they talked about it but it was long enough to cause embarrassment for CNN because they've removed the entire news video from their website. 

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I saw the segment.  It was five minutes or less.

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Thanks. 

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@Smaug wrote:

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@NickNack1 wrote:

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@Smaug wrote:

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@evelomaddict wrote:

i think many are sensitive to flags with black and white flags. a gay pride event is something that they would love to have targetted. 

how many hours did cnn milk this for?

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I don't know how long they talked about it but it was long enough to cause embarrassment for CNN because they've removed the entire news video from their website. 

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I saw the segment.  It was five minutes or less.

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Thanks. 

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I'm pretty sure they got told pretty quickly about what the flag was.  No time to milk it, which they would have.

My favorite part. Not an exact quote.

"I appear to be the only one who noticed"

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@debc wrote:

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I'm pretty sure they got told pretty quickly about what the flag was.  No time to milk it, which they would have.

My favorite part. Not an exact quote.

"I appear to be the only one who noticed"

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LOL yes!

One of the best twitter replies to Lucy Pawle said, "I would suggest making fun of yourself, turning off Twitter notifications for like a month, never looking at Facebook messages."

[KentuckyWoman]

CNN exploits a tragedy or crisis by turnng it into entertainment.  I can't abide any of the 24 hour cable news channels.  I just don't watch.