{"id":49122,"date":"2025-06-14T02:39:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T02:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=49122"},"modified":"2025-06-14T02:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T02:39:50","slug":"politico-article-about-democrats-and-the-american-flag-is-a-perfect-example-of-how-the-media-carries-water-for-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=49122","title":{"rendered":"Politico Article About Democrats and the American Flag is a PERFECT Example of How the Media Carries Water for the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/flag-riot-la-1200x630.jpg?resize=640%2C336&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/flag-riot-la-1200x630.jpg?resize=640%2C336&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-facebook wp-image-1404286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have been watching the news for the last week, you have seen tons of footage of leftists flying foreign flags, mostly in Los Angeles and mostly the flag of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The only time you saw an American flag is when someone was spitting on it or lighting it on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats know how bad this looks and someone even got into the ears of the rioters and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2025\/06\/report-la-rioters-now-distributing-american-flags-after\/\" target=\"_blank\">urged them to start passing out American flags<\/a> to wave.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tgp-post-inline-1\">\n<div class=\"adcovery-postinline-01\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The liberal outlet Politico has tried to come to the rescue with a new article about how Democrats have \u2018reclaimed\u2019 the American flag:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democrats reclaim the American flag <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m9dTYsEzOC\">https:\/\/t.co\/m9dTYsEzOC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 POLITICO (@politico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politico\/status\/1933464032775663723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/13\/dems-rally-flag-00402458\" target=\"_blank\">the article:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Democrats\u2019 newest approach to win back voters is a fresh embrace of the nation\u2019s oldest symbol.<\/p>\n<p>Two days ahead of Flag Day, when President Donald Trump\u2019s military parade will run through the streets of Washington, Democratic Reps. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) and Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) fanned out Thursday afternoon to give a gift to their colleagues to unite them.<\/p>\n<p>It was a 4-inch-by-6-inch American flag, which they passed out at almost the exact moment, unbeknownst to them, that Sen. Alex Padilla was getting forcibly removed and handcuffed at a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles \u2014 an act House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries would later call \u201cunpatriotic.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatriotism does not belong to one party,\u201d the letter read. \u201cThe flag, and the values it stands for, belong to every single American.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, as bad as this already is, it gets worse.<\/p>\n<p>The entire theme of this article traces back to another Politico article from April, in which a Democrat suggested that her party needs to retake the American flag.<\/p>\n<p>Look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/slotkin-has-a-war-plan-to-beat-trump-dont-be-weak-and-woke-00308176\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> (emphasis is ours):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Elissa Slotkin, the former CIA analyst turned battleground senator, will on Thursday start road-testing what she calls a \u201cwar plan\u201d to \u201ccontain and defeat Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the first of a series of speeches about the Democratic Party\u2019s path out of the wilderness, the Michigan senator said she will span everything from strategy to tactics and tone, acknowledging public perception of the party as \u201cweak and woke\u201d needs to change. S<strong>he is urging Democrats to \u201cfucking retake the flag\u201d with appeals to voters\u2019 sense of patriotism,<\/strong> to adopt \u201cthe goddamn Alpha energy\u201d of Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and to embrace an \u201cairing out\u201d of potential 2028 presidential candidates in a broadly contested primary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, a Democrat lays out a plan for her party and two months later, Politico declares that Democrats have accomplished said political goal.<\/p>\n<p>If you think that\u2019s a coincidence, there\u2019s a certain bridge in Brooklyn you might want to buy.<\/p>\n<p>Politico is trying to save the Democrats from themselves because of images like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"> BREAKING: Protestors from the group \u201cMinneapolis ICE Watch\u201d are seen shining shoes with the U.S. Flag.<\/p>\n<p>The group is also calling for the release of a woman who assaulted federal agents carrying out a drug and human trafficking raid.<\/p>\n<p>Just sick people.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vXMH0LLYOJ\">pic.twitter.com\/vXMH0LLYOJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrageDustin\/status\/1933646039069688109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What Democrats &#8216;reclaiming&#8217; the flag looked like this week: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kgXagvrOBO\">https:\/\/t.co\/kgXagvrOBO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1oVfVedD4l\">pic.twitter.com\/1oVfVedD4l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Petersen (@bennpetersen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennpetersen\/status\/1933497682707849400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What the media does for Democrats goes beyond bias. 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