Fake Soldiers, Staged Funeral Used In RNC Video

It was a video that was supposed to elicit soaring patriotism and real emotions about the Pledge of Allegiance. But to do that, it used fake soldiers and a staged military funeral instead of the real thing.

On Tuesday night, 15-year-old Victoria Blackstone, a sophomore at the St. Agnes School in St. Paul, led the crowd at the Xcel Energy Center in the Pledge of Allegiance. The audience heard her 434-word essay, "Pledging myself to the Flag of the United States of America," an essay she'd entered it in the "Wave the Stars & Stripes" essay contest and won. The RNC turned that essay into a three and a half minute video, a visually stirring montage rolling over Victoria's words about sharing the Pledge with Americans who have stood at important moments in history.

There's the Continental Congress...A real WWII vet...Photos of workers at Ground Zero. A close-up of a folded flag presented to a grieving widow at a military funeral... profiles of soldiers swelling with pride in slo-motion.

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Comments

[dragonprism]

Would you rather they had filmed an actual funeral for this? Would that appease you more? This was the most tasteful way to go about putting something like this into the Pledge of Allegiance without intruding upon a loved one's final goodbye.

[dragonprism]

Would you have rather they filmed an ACTUAL funeral for ACTUAL soldiers just so they could edit it in? Then it would be "disrespectful to the soldier's final rights ceremony." The whole ploy of putting this into the Pledge of Allegiance was a little tacky, but this was the most respectful way to go about it without intruding on a loved one's final goodbye.

Christ, I'm a DEMOCRAT and I can see this. -_-'

[mnash]

How disgusting and how low can these people go????

[AlteSoldier]

See how this warrior stood up to the GOP and McCain!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOaz7WhkFuo

[Liberoservative]

As disgusting as that is.....

How would we think that there is any new level of LOW that the Rethugs will go to????????

NOT THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN

[lohy]

Only more of McSame....McRove.....All fake.....All fakers....

[helpmeunderstand]

Fake funeral
Fake resumes
Fake foreign experience
Fake bi partisanship
Fake respect for their opponent

Why are we not shocked?

[kcam44]

fake change

[enlighteninglad]

Listening to Eminence Front while reading this. How perfect is that?

[highburygoon]

"It's a put on."

[Bitsko]

No wonder her son looked embarrassed last night. He was the only one in the hall who seemed to have any gravitas. I guess the idea of being sent to a worthless and costly debacle will do that to a young person. Or perhaps I am just fantasizing again that there must be at least one republican with a lick of sense.

[j0em0mma]

None on the National Stage. John Dean seems okay.

[Bitsko]

Well, that's the end of that list.

[j0em0mma]

Perfectly exemplifies the Republican way. Wouldn't know a true patriot if they saw Thomas Jefferson himself.

[enlighteninglad]

They would call him a traitor and lock him up for "conspiracy to riot".

[j0em0mma]

And get the money lenders to throw Jesus out of church

[lthuedk_1]

http://www.light-to-dark.com/the_joy_of_a_dictatorship.html

[BluesDogLefty]

Fake patriotism

Fake video

Seems appropriate

[VeroucaSalt]

With the number of American soldiers' bodies being returned in caskets, WHY would there be a need to stage a fake burial?

Truly reprehensible.

[Superb1]

I t is because dubya has made taking pictures of the returning dead unlawful. MINI-bush AKA MINI-b AKA mccain is comfortable with that decision.

[BarackMan]

because they can't take pictures of the real deal.....makes it too real for the masses!

Obama - Biden '08/12!

[ritenow]

I think it plays well with fakin' Palin, don't you?

[Zox]

Fake? I'm not surprised. Her marriage seems fake too.


Palin had an affair with her husbands business partner. Just your ordinary hockey mom.

[BarackMan]

Drill here...drill now!! Drill baby drill!!

Obama - Biden '08/12!

[Heavenhelpusall]

May I borrow that? Halftime might be interesting tonight!