The right’s Confederate flag conspiracy theories

[struggle4progress]

Monday, Oct 14, 2013 5:45 PM UTC
When an Obama protestor unveiled a Confederate flag, right-wing tweeters knew who was to blame: liberals
By Elias Isquith

While Sunday’s protest rally against the closure of Washington, D.C.’s WWII memorial was seen as a stirring victory to those on the right, most other observers were instead struck by the unhinged vitriol directed at President Obama and, most of all, the unfurling by one protestor of a Confederate flag ...

... in the right’s telling, the conspiracy went deeper than just media bias: the flag-bearer, who has now been identified as Michael Ashmore of Texas, was likely a secret liberal, trying to make conservatives look bad ...

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/14/the_rights_confederate_flag_conspiracy_theories/singleton/

[NYC_SKP]

1. If he's a fake, he's a terrific fake. Here's his Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/michael.ashmore.31

[dflprincess]

2. They're calling him "Skeeter" at Stephanie Miller's FB page

https://www.facebook.com/michael.ashmore.31#!/stephaniemillershow

This picture is posted on Stephanie's page - thanks to Rocky Mountain Mike.

Wonder what the Marines who guard the White House think of him mixing the corps' flag with one that represents treason.

[Bolo Boffin]

3. A couple of more things about Ashmore

He was on disability for PTSD he got in Afghanistan. His check had stopped because of the shutdown, so he got to Washington from his home in Hooks, Texas.

His father also died in April.

[TheCrankyLiberal]

4. Well I guess,

That explains his anger but not his ignorance.