Oh dear, this poor POLITICO reporter was just trying to bring home the Hot Afternoon Scooplet to please her psychotic editors yesterday and — oops! — ended up making the funniest POLITICO error since that time they impregnated a Jonas brother over WHCD weekend. Everyone’s making fun of you right now, reporter Donovan Slack, and we’re going to have to do it too, but everyone screws up this badly sometimes. Well perhaps not this badly. The point is, take the rest of the day off and treat yourself to a few bottles of red wine. And then maybe spend a little time on Wikipedia looking up state flags?
Here’s the cached version of the POLITICO article that was deleted shortly after it went online:
Yes, ye ol’ Wisconsin 1848 Local flag was ripping in the wind yesterday. And yet: Doesn’t that Union Flag sort of look exactly like the Wisconsin state flag at the top of the post, because it is the Wisconsin state flag and not a made-up union’s flag?
Who could’ve known?
[via Jason Linkins/HuffPo]
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My interest in this story is at half mast.
Definitely a hard story to fap to.
Time to re-dose?
♪ Yawn, Wisconsin! Yawn, Wisconsin! ♪
Ok. Can we stop celebrating stupidity now? PLEASE!!!!
American excepshunalizm lible.
We're not laughing at you, we're laughing with you. No. We're laughing at you.
I told you sochalizm!!! See, thar takin over our FLAGS now!!! NOBAMAAAAH!!!
That's an easy mistake to make; like thinking I'm the Bot model 1976.
Goddamned liberal media.
The aptly named Mr. Slack is apparently a dues-paying member of Hacks and Jornos Local 1848 AFL-CIO.
Better than a Schutzstaffel flag, I suppose.
Or this.
Is that Marie in her tumbrel?
It's also very clear whose side Politico is on. And not just in Wisco. Journalismz is so 2000.
YOU UNION SUPPORTER, POSTING FOR THE JOURNALISMZ LOCAL 2000!!!1
National Writers Union Local 1981, a subsidiary of United Auto Workers. No shit. But still no health insurance for the poor wordsmiths. That's why I quit.
I'm guessing he mistook it for a labor union flag because it has, like, actual tools on it. Everyone knows that 'Murica doesn't do actual work with actual tools anymore, 'cept maybe spatulas at McDonald's.
Industrial Midwest/Great Lakes Rustbelt Libel!
The guy on the left side of the flag is clearly holding a pink dildo. Forward, indeed!
Onward and Inward!
That's what we do here in Wisconsin. It's all white-tail deer, walleyes, Packers and dildos.
Derpa derp…
Well, according to all the right wing web sites and talk radio, Wisconsin is just one giant union that forces women to have abortions. At least until Scott Walker came along and save them all.
USA! USA! USA!
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union…"
Oh, sorry Rick. Never mind.
Flag Libel!!!! Obama always uses two flags – the hammer and sickel and of course the Nazi Blutfahne.
Don't forget the the official flag of the Socialist State of
OhioObama.And that Muslim thing with the star hanging over the crescent moon, which some days he even has projected onto the night sky.
On the reverse, which nobody ever sees, is the flag of Kenya. It's even got fucking spears on it!
And it should read Eat Cheese or DIE!
So, is that cheese-banging as opposed to headbanging?
Official Wisconsin motto: Come smell our dairy air.
Or: "Don't Spread on Me!" (Only works for Cheese Whiz).
Donovan,
Are you in a vodka haze at the moment?
Cheesehead libel!
You know, I'd expect it from some slack-jawed rube, but aren't journalists supposed to be somewhat educated?
Or at least know how to Google "derp, wut duz Wisskonnsinn phlagg looks liek? derp"
Did you miss the parts where it said he was a POLITICO reporter?
$arah is a jernolist major
OMG quick Scott Walker, I'm begging you, burn those union flags!!!11!
Where are the Saul Alinski banners???
And the statue of Emma Goldman pointing to the abortion booth?
Wait a minute, DRUDGE 2.0
printedput up something WRONG?On the internet?
OMG! Now we have only the Onion left. (And Wonkette, of course.)
~
And as we've seen recently, some members of Congress actually think The Onion is real.
Come to think of it, is Politico sure that is the Untied States Flag and not the Kenyan Flag on the left? Heck, with the red and the stars, it might be a old commie flag. Unless it is being flown off a hoverround, I don't see how we can be sure it is a real flag at all.
Hmm, stuff like that and people may begin to question their accuracy on other subjects.
HAVE TO TYPE THIS BEFORE BRAIN EXPLODEZ: If news has agenda and it's not liberal, WHAT IS IT THEN????
Wait, isn't the other flag the same one the Union used in the Civil War. I think that says a lot.
Ahem, I think you're referring to The War of Northern Aggression.
And it's not like Wisconsin tried to make it easier for out-of-staters to recognize their state flag by adding the friggin name of the state to it. Sheesh.
See! When you give States rights they immediately unionize!
FoxNews: Wisconsin State Flag (D-WI) found in motel room with Kenyan Flag and briefcase filled with cocaine
Update 14:58: Kenyan Flag discovered to be welfare queen.
cocaine and CONTRACEPTIVES!
Since the Packers went down, Wisconsin is closed.
But was there an "O" flag?
http://mediamatters.org/research/200810160022
I raise the O flag after making my O face!
Lordy, there are some morans in this country. Yeah, the first thing I do is scrutinize the room every time the Pres talks to see how he is socializing our America. I always think of Mr. Obama as a dictator. And he has green aliens up his cuffs.
I've got to give the wingers some credit. I thought they'd all just be looking for a crescent flag because he's a secret Mooslim. Apparently their brains can sustain multiple paranoid conspiracies simultaneously.
This reminds me of that famous quote 'When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.'
That, of course, would be an OHIO FLAG and a CROSS-TRAINING SNEAKER!!
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!
Sinclair Lewis.
That article just made my head explode.
The cool thing is, now that they're sensitized to it, Obama really can replace the stars on the American Flag with a big O and the wingers will too afraid of being outed as morans to say anything about it. That Kenyan Socialist sure can play the eleven dimensional chess!
Wait, you mean the other stuff in "Politico" is there on purpose?
Stupid is as stupid does.
Anyone remember in the '08 campaign when Obama held some event, and there was a flag with a big "O" on it on the stage next to the American flag, and some wingnuts went off over the arrogance of this guy, having flags like that made and giving them such prominence, and he hadn't even yet won the election. The bastard!
Needless to say, the campaign event was in Ohio, and the flag was the Ohio state flag.
I really need to stay off the internet.
Hell, shortly after the election, Pepsi made the decision to change their logo. The wingnut heads exploded over the fact that it kind of looked like the Obama campaign symbol.
You may need to stay off, but other people definitely need to use that nifty google feature more.
Run it up the pole and see who sucks it, oh wait, Politico sucks it.
Oh, yeah, Mr. Snarkypants Wonkette writer, if that's Wisconsin, where are the palms? [stretches back smugly and rolls tongue]
The palms are Scott Wanker's, and they're held out facing up in front of the Koch brothers.
I would have guessed the palms would be gripping their buttocks from the front, steadying himself for the explosion about to hit the back of his throat.
At this point, they should change that font to Comic Sans.
And play hamsterdance every time you click on a story.
So much attention on the flag, and no love for the teleprompter? Fail, Politico, FAIL!
I think that's an old, out-of-date version of the Wisconsin state flag at the top of the page here. I'm pretty sure after Scott Wanker got elected he issued an executive order changing the banner above the badger to say "backward".
And the tools were replaced by leveraged CDS certificates, with liens attached.
I used to be fertile, but then I took an aspirin to the knee.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/san…
Then shouldn't boys also stick an aspirin up their urethra? Don't want to violate their 1st Amendment right to stupidity.
If women need to have a camera stuck up into their vagina to get an abortion, then sexually active men should need one stuck up their penis too.
DOVAHKIIN LIBEL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlC6Z0iRoOA
OY!!!
I've been thinking about this "method", since it was a joke in my family when I was growing up (humor knew no bounds in my mom's house), and I thought, some clown is bound to say this for reals.
Actually, inserting the bottle itself in the man's D-hole would be far more effective.
Wait, there's two dudes on that flag, and they aren't shooting each other. Teh gheys are taking over!!! Oh, wait, there's a beaver on there. Never mind.
I saw Wisconsin's Beaver!
Beaver? Badger? Marmot? Corgi?
That's a badger. And there are hardly any here at all. Saw one in my lifetime. Named after the old lead miners who burrowed into the hillsides.
Ignorantly leaping to unfounded conclusions driven by a powerful urge to condemn all things Obama is just how journalism is done these days.
… & ironically, both sides do it.
FAIR & BALANCED!
Facts are subjective, Katie.
I thought this flag was the motto from the Bush Ltd. regime:
W is con sin
I guess they haven't heard there are no unions in Wisconsin…
Can we talk more about the hotties on the United Brotherhood of Wisconsin Local 1848 flag? Hello pick-ax man!!
Hello pink dildo man.
The Politihoze – insight to the edjumacated Teatard's daily Drudgery.
Everyone knows that Unions in WI are given designations by types of cheese, NOT numbers. What a dumbass. I was a member of the he-man 12oz curlin' machinists local linberger.
That stinks.
The only flags that will be tolerated nowadays as Merkan are "don't tread on me" teabagger flags waved by grown men in tights.
God hates flags.
Local 1848 of the International Brotherhood of Teatard Costume Designers.
I'm old enough to remember when a journalist was a respected member of society that one could count on to be at least a little bit smarter than you were.
You are either the oldest person in the world or a mad scientist has tampered with your memories.
Not at all. I bet some of my fellow olds here feel the same way. Oh no…mass memory wipe?!
Edward R. Murrow…anyone?
Walter Cronkite would have been pulled from the air before the end of the commercial break for saying the Vietnam War was unwinnable.
Mission Accomplished.
1848? Oh, sure, that's the Wisconsin flag. Uh-huh, that's believable. Well I've got a surprise for you: That's what they want you to think. And the post just conveniently disappeared from Politico? As if – I don't know – somebody got to them? Wake up sheeple! It's obvious what Obama and his union henchmen were getting at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848
Don't let this get around…but I heard that reporter Donovan Slack is the namesake of Ray Donovan, Ronald Reagan's secretary of labor. Or maybe I just made this up. Who's to say?
Don't beat around the bush. Just say it straight out, "Donovan Slack is the namesake of Ray Donovan, Reagan's secretary of labor." But put a question mark after it to save you from teh lible.
They won the morning, afternoon and evening with that one.
Bwaahahaha….BWAAAHAHAHA…that's the biased media for ya
Go, unionized badgers!
OT this is unbelievable. Andrea Mitchell nearly did a spit take.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/santoru…
And for his next trick, he'll suggest women go home and have babbies to free up jerbs for the menfolk who really need them.
But she gave him a pass for saying that there are jihadist camps in Latin America?
Yeah, Repubs have dibs on Local 1848, since that's the year they'd like the country to revert to- gets the wimmins and coloreds out of your hair lickety split!
It is very clear that Politico is campaigning for Santorum.
Please note the story in which they go off half-cocked. Clearly any mention of diminutive penises is showing unabashed support for Rick Santorum.
Wisconsin is a right to blurt state.
This is all I have to add.
Ha! I never watch SNL but that was pretty cute.
Jeez. Every fool knows the Wisconsin state flag is the Honey Badger Flag.
This is worse than 9/11.
Donovan Slack's latest Tweet, "Michelle Obama's upbeat images counteract husband's political struggles." Some really insightful analysis there. One of her Tweet buddies is Jake Tapper, also, too.
Donovan is a… Gal? Or, maybe, just an hurdy gurdy man? (By which I mean, tranny.)
Well or COURSE that's not a union flag. It's hard at work. A union flag would still be on break for 5 more hours, amiright??
Brain-dead fuckasses. Brain-dead fuckasses everywhere.
And the flag with all those stripes and stars looks a little suspicious, too.
Other state flags with hidden agendas:
Indiana: The Olympics http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/flags/in_flag…
Arizona: Red Chinese commies http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/flags/az_flag…
Maryland: NASCAR http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/flags/md_flag…
Well..it's not a state flag but it has a marijuana leaf and a cookie…
Ohio State Univ: Drug use http://www.statestreetproducts.com/scart/public/s…
I'm told that the original Bear Flag Republic flag had naked peoples on it, but they cleaned it up…and realized it should have been Bare Flag Republic anyway. Those crazy Californianites!
This reminds me of '08, when the Cincinnati Idiot Bil Cunningham accused Mr. Obama of flying a special flag made just for him.
Turned out to be the Ohio state flag – Cincinnati, of course, being north of Kentucky and therefore located in the state of Ohio.
slack is a hack….too easy
The continent of Wisconsin was an island
Which lay before the great flood
In the area we now call Flyover Country.
So great an area of land, that from her midwestern shores
Those beautiful liberals journeyed to the South
And the North Americas with ease
In their unions with ugly flags.
To the east, Sarah Palin was a neighbor,
Across a short strait of lake miles….
My anti-union baby, oh yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah,
I see the right wing media is incompetent. Watch 3 minutes of Fox and you would realize that straight away.
Even by right wing hack standards this is pretty sad. High school newspapers have better fact checking and more intelligent commentary than this schmuck. He should be in congress instead of this gig. Too dumb for journamalism, but a perfect fit for say, Oklahoma, North Dakota, somewhere isolated where they never heard of Politico.
Guess we know at least one Politico staffer who cowers at the sight of the rare Newspaper Guild member on staff.
that flag doesn't have any laid off state workers on it!
FLAG LIBEL
Could this possibly be the same Donovan Slack who refused to stand with her union colleagues at the Boston Globe, whining that any planned job action might threaten her ability to pay her mortgage on the over-priced condo she purchased with a seven year, interest only Countryside loan? The same Donovan Slack who made her whine pathetically public in an August 23 2009 piece in the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine called “My Personal Mortgage Crisis”, wherein she complained at embarrassing lengths not about her judgment in taking out what she called a “sketchy” loan to buy a property that began to decline in value before she put her key in the front lock but about President Obama and The Making Home Affordable Program’s failure to speedily bail her out of her mess? THAT Donovan Slack? Couldn’t be.
I just want to say — and I don't want to mention my employer — but as a proud member of Wisconsin Local 1848 we truly make the best one-gear transmissions on the market.
I can't wait until Barry speaks in South Carolina and Politico reports on the banner for the local Islamic group fluttering away behind him.
New at 11: Sharia Strikes South Carolina!
What makes this funnier and all the more sweet is that it was supposed to be a 'gotcha' article. lol
The Politico: Sucking Pachyderm Dick Since 2007.
Needz moar dumbness.
How stupid.
Joe Lunchpail, Business Manager Michigan Local 1837
Apparently Masterlock is still using our old Wisconsin state flag. They should have been flying the new state flag adopted in 2011:
http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/welcome-fitzwalk…
yeah, well you pay "journalists" $9 an hour and it's no wonder they are stoopid. The talented students all took jobs with mexican drug cartels and Goldman Sachs.
So if I'm looking for a job then the Mexican cartels are hiring? I couldn't go to Goldman Sachs – I have moral standards.
Hey, Politico reporter! Friendly PSA here. Union flags usually have more information on them than their local number. For instance, they will generally tell you what union they are affiliated with. "Pipefitters local 597" is an example. Every flag that has a number on it is not a union flag. Future reference and all. Thanks for the laffs.
That has got to be the shit-ass ugliest, worst-designed flag I have ever seen.
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