The Horrifying Epidemic of American Patriotism
July 8th, 2006 at 8:58 am by Preston Taylor HolmesEvery Independence Day, Americans offend the entire world by wearing red, white and blue and brandishing their country’s flag in all manner of display. This particularly horrifies the cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys in Paris, who cower in the corner and wet themselves when they come within 100 yards of Old Glory.
Hitting an high point on the July 4 US Independence Day holiday, it is a genuine phenomenon of American national pride that, inevitably, gets a good but also sometimes unwanted boost from commercial exploitation.
“It’s a little strange, this obsession of the flag,” French author Bernard-Henri Levy wrote after traveling across the country.
“Everywhere, in every form, flapping in the wind or on stickers, an epidemic of flags that has spread throughout the city,” Levy wrote in “American Vertigo” of the riot of banners he saw.
This past Independence day, the Holmes clan went to an area celebration where there were Stars and Stripes in abundance. If you have the stones, you can see some of the evidence of this epidemic after the fold. I must warn you that these are graphic images and are not for the weak of Constitution.
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July 8th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
You see children and dogs, I see OPPRESSION of brown people.
July 8th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
You always see the truth, Cranky. Thank you for sharing your valuable perspective. Everyone’s perspective is important – even yours.
July 8th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
I don’t get the third pic. what is it?
July 8th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
“You see children and dogs, I see
OPPRESSION of brown peopletoads once again denied their proper place in American society.”There. Fixed that for you.
July 9th, 2006 at 12:59 am
Good question, Annika. They brought out a fire engine with a ladder & basket to give kids rides way up in the air. that’s the ladder part of the fire engine. not really patriotism related, but i liked it.
July 9th, 2006 at 8:53 am
OW! My eyes! It burns, it BURNS!
July 10th, 2006 at 9:44 am
[...] Stiknstein isn’t much of a soccer fan, but is proud of the French for holding up the great national tradition of the choke. He did watch the ” viscious head butt” by the great French player, Zidane. ….Yeah, you look tough here, but like most of your countrymen, know how to fold’em. 150,000 Italian fans watched in the “Circus Maximus”. As one pointed out ” Well there weren’t any chariots, and nobody was killed, but it was a party.” [...]
July 11th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
I bet that Euro-Trash whining puke didn’t complain about these Stars and Stripes..
http://snaps.snapsoid.com/~NORMANDY_AMERICAN_CEMETERY_AND_MEMORIAL_NEAR_PARIS#snapsbig
Since the only reason he is allowed to voice an expression regarding his disdain for American symbols is because of those very same “Start and Stripes” – Cowardly French (double negative?) P.O.S.
July 11th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
Don’t be so sure Mel. They certainly didn’t have a problem defacing British cemetaries in France after the start of the Iraq invasion: