'Desecrated flag' video is DNC finalist

[ken]

One of the 20 finalists in health care video contest run by Barack Obama’s campaign arm features a mural of an America flag splattered with health care graffiti until it’s covered completely by black paint.

In the video – which is accompanied by the sound of a heart monitor pumping and then flat-lining – words such as “pre-existing conditions,” “homeless” and “death panel” ultimately obliterate the flag, which reappears on screen seconds later with the words “Health Will Bring Our Country Back to Life” on the blue field where the 50 stars usually are.

According to the Organizing for American Web site, the 20 finalists in the “Health Reform Video Challenge” were chosen by a panel of “qualified” Democratic National Committee “employee judges.”

A contestant whose video didn’t make the final-20 cut complains that a video “defacing the flag” won’t do much to help President Barack Obama or the Democrats sell health care reform.

“They should never pick that,” said the contestant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It makes the Democrats look really, really bad.”

A spokesman for Organizing for America said the group was not prepared to provide immediate comment on the video, which, according to the OFA Web site, was produced by Daniel Lahoda and Saber.

According to the OFA Web site, the 20 finalists will be judged by the public and a panel of experts that includes DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, Obama campaign chief David Plouffe, Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), singer will.i.am and Hollywood stars Rosario Dawson and Dule Hill.

Daniel Libit contributed to this story.
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'Desecrated flag' video is DNC finalist - Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com

[gtmofflin]

So let me get this straight...

A video (which I have watched) that 'defaces the flag' is a finalist in the “Health Reform Video Challenge” which is a nation wide competition, made by Americans and chosen by Americans.

There were two posts made recently here, one about not being allowed to fly the flag freely, the other about stickers on a locker with subsequent posts of disgust.

Right?

[DXBDavie]

I was a recent poster on the topic of the Flag Sticker being removed from the locker, and I was against it, I felt that it was a permanent message to remove a symbol of patriotism. Something that I feel we Brits have lost a fair bit of...

The video that depicts the temporary defacement of the flag, only to have it re-appear, and the overall message of the video (Healthcare Reform) does not in itself cause offence.

There is no presumption that the defaced flag is an act of vandalism or that some loony has decided it offends their over-sensitive beliefs, but that it (the video) was used as a depiction of the video makers message on how a lack of healthcare reform would affect America, and what is the most prominant symbol of America? Old Glory of course.