One would have hoped for a more objective description from Reuters than that. I do not doubt that Dean was being heckled. That is the price of being a controversial candidate. But Reuter's dismissal of a long respected symbol of a large section of America, in this manner, is contemptible to say the least.
I am on my way out of here to go to dinner, or I would take the time to hatch some examples of how one could trash British symbols by a similar technique, not that I would blame Great Britain for whatever collection of Reuter's staff hatched this piece.
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