Bear@Melb

American Flag Blog

This is a right-wing American website aimed at preserving the US flag from “left wing punks”. A punk is someone of low character. Often the US flag is under attack from flag burners and from other acts that seek to desecrate it. Really, the blog masquerades as a vent for right wing attacks against the liberal left in the US. The construct of the blog is simply and typical. It lists opinion masquerading as fact vertically which must be scrolled down. Still colour press photographs are added to illustrate text. At the bottom of the blog entries is a YouTube download (April 17, 2007) of Senator John Edwards primping during a campaign ad out-take. This plays upon a controversy of him having $100 haircuts and being superior to the American public. The use of the YouTube download format on blogs to convey political messages as streaming video has become widespread since the sensational campaign distributed by the Obama camp on the Internet (which they denied) of an authoritarian Hillary Clinton in the Apple Computer “1984” ad campaign.