Flag hypocrisy

Commenting on Sarah Palin's bus tour, Martin Bashir says, "It all sounds like a wonderful commitment to American values and American history, but it's nothing of the kind. In fact, the whole thing could be in breach of a federal law because the United States Flag Code establishes important rules for the use and display of the stars and stripes, the flag of the United States. Under standards of respect and etiquette, it's made clear that the flag of the United States should never be used for any advertising purpose whatsoever. Yet that's precisely what Sarah Palin is doing. She's using the flag of the United States for her own financial purposes."

Mr. Bashir may have contempt for the way Sarah uses the flag, but I would bet a year's pay that he would defend her right to burn a flag.