Wingnuts and their flag fetishism* ...

Kathryn Jean Lopez of the National Review has found her latest excuse for fake outrage: the newly redesigned U.S. Mission to the United Nations website no longer has the vague U.S. flag-themed banner it used to.

First of all, here, compare for yourselves: here's what the site used to look like ...

Whereas, here be the new design:

Any reasonable person looking at these pics would think, "Okay, so they changed the site's layout a bit, including the banner". No big deal. But when you're a wingnut, you enter full-fledged demagogue mode and write stuff like this:

The United States Mission to the United Nations has a new look online. If you check out the redesigned site, you see it’s decked out in United Nations blue, with the U.N. logo prominently displayed.

[Pic of new design]

Fine, the U.N. logo is there. But where is the United States flag? And where did the red, white, and blue that used to introduce the site go?

In Barack Obama’s America, we don’t just apologize for the past, we erase it?

I assume with a little uproar, the U.S. flag will, at least, make a return. If nothing else, members of the European Union, who have already made strides in surrendering their sovereignty, should do the job. Currently, their Mission websites put ours to shame.

It's always both amused and perplexed me to see how people can get so attached, and outraged over, what happens to a mere piece of cloth with pretty colors on it.

* Sorry, just had to steal that from Ed.

(via Dispatches from the Culture Wars)
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