UPDATED UPDATE: Tapper has now said that he was saying that construction workers took the flag down at the end of the day. Certainly not what it sounded like he was saying, but we’ll take his word for it.
NOTE: Is this story correct or not? It appears debatable. Michelle Malkin says it’s not true, but Jake Tapper has not retracted. This leaves us with a very strange situation where a conservative is defending the President and a liberal reporter is dinging him. How about if we straddle the middle by saying take it with a grain of salt until we hear from Tapper.
ABC’s Jake Tapper was so surprised that he tweeted the news that team Obama had the American flag removed from the shot just moments before the TV cameras began rolling at his Osama Bin Laden Victory Tour 2011.
Can you imagine any other president removing an American flag from a site like Ground Zero?
OK, let us reword that. Can you imagine any president other than Jimmy Carter removing an American flag from a site like Ground Zero?
What excuse could there be? The old favorite: We didn’t want to enflame Muslim passions? Or maybe the President didn’t want to find himself in a situation where he’d have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Or maybe …
You tell us.
Source: Jake Tapper
