The right’s Confederate flag conspiracy theories [View all]

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/