Sometimes, Juan makes sense. And then there are times like this.
![250px-Gadsden_flag.svg[1].png](http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/images/250px-Gadsden_flag.svg[1].png)
On Monday's O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, NPR news analyst Juan Williams furthered the left's talking point about the tea party's supposed connection to militias, and even went so far to claim that the Gadsden or "Don't Tread on Me" flags used by the conservative grassroots movement is "the same imagery that was on Timothy McVeigh" [audio available here].
Would somebody remind Juan about this flag as well – and where it flies every day?
![250px-Naval_Jack_of_the_United_States.svg[1].png](http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/images/250px-Naval_Jack_of_the_United_States.svg[1].png)
That would be the First Navy Jack, and it flies on the USS Enterprise, the oldest ship active commissioned ship in the US Navy. It will pass on to the next most senior ship when she is decommissioned in 2013. It was also flown by all ships in the US Navy to commemorate the 9/11 attacks. To claim that the “Don’t Tread On Me” imagery and motto of the First Navy Jack are somehow unpatriotic is an insult to the men and women who have served aboard American fighting vessels under that carrying that banner – and to make that claim about the historic Gadsden flag adopted by many within the Tea Party movement is equally obscene. After all, it is one of the earliest banners used by the United States Marines, having first been authorized even before the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
Shame on you, Juan Williams! Shame!
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