Erik 
Will CNN or MSNBC report on the American flags being thrown away with the trash at the DNC?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/06/mccain-camp-uses-discarded-obama-flags/
Background:
Boy Scouts have arrived with 84 trash bags full of bundles of flags at the site of a McCain rally scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. local time in Colorado Springs.
The campaign says the flags were recovered from Invesco Field after the Democrats concluded their convention there, and they are going to be used as part of the warm-up ceremonies before McCain takes the stage for the rally.
FOX News has been told a vendor at Invesco Field found the flags, which were going to be thrown out, and turned them over to the McCain campaign.
Veterans in Colorado Springs are expected to distribute the flags to the audience at the rally.
US Flag Code. TITLE 4 > CHAPTER 1 > Sec. 8(k). It states:
"The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning"
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ladylara: Rats. CNNjust reported about the flags... 
destry: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/06/mccain-camp-uses-discarded-obama-flags/
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This from the people who complain that "someone is questioning their patriotism!"
I agree with Notable.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/214283.php
According to a article just out from Huffington Post, the story about flags from the Democratic National Convention being thrown away is simply false. The story was jumped on and apparently authored by the McCain campaign. But the real tell is down in the Huffpo piece where it traces the story to none other than Fox News' Carl Cameron.
Longtime readers of TPM will remember that back in October 2004 this site caught Cameron publishing a series of fabricated quotes attributed to John Kerry on the front page of the Fox News website.
After I placed a series of calls to Fox News inquiring about the story, the story was eventually pulled, and Fox was forced to issue an apology and retract the fabricated story. Fox spokesman Paul Schur told TPM: "Carl [Cameron] made a stupid mistake which he regrets. And he has been reprimanded for his lapse in judgment. It was a poor attempt at humor."
(maybe it's time for another question, "Will the "DNC American Flag 'story' turn out to be not true?")
In response to the accusations, DNC spokeswoman Karren Finney released the following statement:
"American flags were proudly waved by the 75,000 people who joined Barack Obama at the Democratic Convention. John McCain should applaud that, but instead his supporters wrongfully took leftover bundles of our flags from the stadium to play a cheap political stunt calling into question our patriotism. On the same day he agrees to join Barack Obama at Ground Zero on September 11, John McCain attacks the patriotism of Obama supporters who so proudly waved the American flag at our historic event in Denver just days ago."
<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/06/mccain-camp-uses-discarded-obama-flags/>
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The relevance of US Flag Code to the question is to show the accepted way of disposing of a flag of the United States of America.
"If I had found another view on the subject I would have ran it, or possibly not have even created the market" --> Thanks, I think this kind of sensitivity is required not to spill the election fever here into Hubdub.
The troubling thing for me is not your question to be honest. I think it is a legit market even it may disturb some Democrat hubdubers. What makes me disappointed is McCain campaign's using this kind of attack. First, I put the blame on Fox but McCain campaign provoked this so I guess it was fair for Fox to cover it. This is just a ploy to get comments like we have above while at the same time claiming "The McCain campaign has denied questioning Obama’s patriotism". Too much hypocrisy for me.
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