Breitbart – by BEN SHAPIRO On Sunday, with throngs of veterans marching through Washington D.C. to protest President Obama’s closure of war memorials, the media focused on one man in particular: a random dude with a Confederate flag at the White House. In the apparent belief that they had found the conservative Professor Moriarty standing behind the current government shutdown, media members descended as one on the flagman:
https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/statuses/389456583765159936
The presence of a Confederate flag at WHouse protest is a good time to remind you to read @zackbeauchamp: http://t.co/JgVuERf5NZ #shutdown
— Emily L. Hauser אלה אסתר (@emilylhauser) October 13, 2013
I know, I'm always bringing race into everything, but I didn't bring the Confederate flag to the White House: pic.twitter.com/avXiBME6Xd
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) October 13, 2013
Pro tip: If you want to express your love of US Army & its monuments … leave the Confederate flag at home. pic.twitter.com/dyByu9av51
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 13, 2013
https://twitter.com/jesseberney/statuses/389453652059889664
To recap: House Rs believe optics of a protest that includes confederate flags at WH inhabited by 1st black president is a "game-changer?"
— Meredith Shiner (@meredithshiner) October 13, 2013
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Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America” (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013).
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/10/13/Media-jump-man-confederate-flag