This story shows just how ridiculous the left’s hysteria over the Confederate flag has become. A writer living in Seattle contacted the Seattle Times to report a Confederate flag flying in her neighborhood. When the paper looked into it, it turned out to be the flag of Norway.
From the Seattle Times:
‘Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying’ in Seattle’s Greenwood area – well, not quite
A story about the times we live in, and assumptions we can make in our current political climate.
The news tip a few days ago said:
“Hi. Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying in front of a house in my Greenwood neighborhood. It is at the north-east corner of 92nd and Palatine, just a block west of 92nd and Greenwood Ave N. I would love to know what this ‘means’ … but of course don’t want to knock on their door. Maybe others in the area are flying the flag? Maybe it’s a story? Thank you.”
It was from Rebecca Morris, who is an author of The New York Times best-seller true-crime books.
So, of course, we drove to that corner.
There was no wind, and on a flagpole there was what obviously was the U.S. flag at the top, and below, a red flag with blue stripes.
Simply hanging down, not spread out, you could make some assumptions that it was the star-filled “Southern cross” of the Confederacy.
Darold Norman Stangeland lives at the corner house.
“That’s a Norwegian flag,” he says. “It’s been up there since the start of the Olympics.”
The author who made the report must feel pretty dumb right about now.
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