Confederate flag at Cheney's hunting club

Vice President Dick Cheney went hunting on Monday for eight hours just about 70 miles north of New York City.  What caused a commotion was not the fact that Cheney was hunting again.  Instead, it was of a photo taken by the New York Daily News:

Although a heavy police presence kept the media and curious localresidents at a distance, Cheney's visit did stir up a bit ofcontroversy when a New York Daily News photographer snapped a pictureof a small Confederate flag hanging inside a garage on the hunt clubproperty.

The photo was shown to New York City civil rights activist, the Rev. Al Sharpton ,who issued a statement demanding that the vice president "leaveimmediately, denounce the club and apologize for going to a club thatrepresents lynching, hate and murder to black people."

The photo is here.

Comments

[S.W. Anderson]

I can understand Sharpton or any other African American's resentment of the Confederate flag. I also think Cheney is a creep and a crackpot.

Even so, Sharpton comes off sounding like a hotheaded jerk and publicity seeker here.

If the hunting preserve was known for being some kind of center for racists it would be different. There's no indication that's the case. Cheney couldn't know about every potentially controversial thing at this private property, nor could anyone else.

This is really non-news nonsense, and we're all being presented too much of it.