I’m a damn Yankee who doesn’t care for your rebellion myself but even if I did, it’s just plain retarded to use that symbol at a tea party rally. You gotta deal with reality, the reality is that flag is more hated than loved and is an easy target and you are not going to change that. We don’t need to be making things hard on ourselves doing favors for the media.
The only ones doing favors for the media are those of you running around in circles trying to appease and no matter how much you try to conform it will never be enough.
No, what's "retarded" is helping your enemies to label your friends.
What flavor of idiot actually believes any contemporary American not on lithium advocates slavery, or believes contemporary "civil rights" activists are interested in equality?
Concurring bump.
At events like this that garner national attention, the Confederate battle flag is a distraction which dilutes the Tea Party message when unity and focus should be the over-riding objective.
That said, I don't see anything particularly sinister about the young man in the photo. He's obviously proud to be an American, which is a lot more than you can say about the vast majority of protesters on the left.