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Artisanally Crafted Narratives – USA TODAY

Are you seriously trying to resuscitate this non-troversy?!

"The Nation's Newspaper" really thought it had a scathing breaking news report. Overt at the Department of Education building, it was discovered that the "controversial" Appeal To Heaven flag was displayed. That would be the flag seen as controversial to members of the press… and basically nobody else.

Flag linked to Christian nationalism, Jan. 6 hung at Education Dept.https://t.co/M09yfxqGf6

Journalist Zach Schermele has been rather confused over what makes this flag so dire. The article cites that this flag was flown on January 6 (of course), but is also claimed to be a symbol of White Nationalists, The Proud Boys, and insurrectionists, as well as Christian Nationalists. He also posted on Xitter that it was adopted by a fringe religious group in 2013.

The force behind this blistering exposé made him realize he had stepped in it, and he deleted his original post when shown the error of his ways. He then tried to defend his position by posting a paragraph from – we are not kidding – Wikipedia.

To illustrate........

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