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About that flag-pin question…
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 18, 2008 08:34am |
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| News Date | Friday, April 18, 2008 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Posted April 18th, 2008 at 8:30 am
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OK, one more thing about Wednesday night’s Democratic debate and then I’ll let it go. Determining which of the discussion topics was the most inane is tricky, but I’d have to go with the flag lapel-pin question.
Early on in the debate, Charlie Gibson said he wanted to offer a question that “goes to the basic issue of electability.” Gibson said, “[I]t is a question raised by a voter in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a woman by the name of Nash McCabe.” From videotape, McCabe then asked Obama if he “believe[s] in” the American flag, and why he doesn’t “wear the flag.”
For ABC, this offers a little distance from the trivia — the moderators didn’t ask about lapel pins, some regular ol’ person did. I had assumed that ABC went around western Pennsylvania, looking for voters with good questions, and thought McCabe’s was provocative. But that’s not quite what happened.
A couple of weeks ago, McCabe told the New York Times that she can’t back Obama. “How can I vote for a president who won’t wear a flag pin?” the recently unemployed clerk typist said. (Josh Marshall explained, “Presumably, a researcher for ABC or Gibson saw the piece in the Times, figured, hey, this lady hates Obama and is seriously ginned up about the lapel issue. Let’s send a camera crew and film her slamming Obama to his face. It’ll be great in the debate.”) |
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