A Dem Convention Sign of Distress

We had the flag pin flap, the flag decal on the airplane flap, and now the upside-down flag design of the tickets to Obama's big speech in Denver (h/t Gateway Pundit):

Some viewers contacted 9NEWS Saturday, questioning the design of the credentials to see Sen. Barack Obama accept the Democratic Party's presidential nomination at INVESCO Field at Mile High.

The viewers say with the stars and blue field in the lower left corner, it looks like an upside down American flag. Published flag etiquette states the stars should always be displayed in the upper left corner. An upside down flag represents an international symbol of extreme distress.

Matt Chandler with the Obama campaign says the flag is not upside down. He says it is a stylized flag designed to blend the stars on Senator Obama's shirt with the flag blowing in the wind.

Natalie Wyeth with the Democratic National Convention Committee sent 9NEWS the following statement Saturday night: "The DNCC community credentials incorporate patriotic design elements. They do not depict an actual American flag. The DNCC has full and complete respect for the flag and all rules of display."

Boy, are these people at the DNC tone deaf. You'd think that they'd do everything they could to ensure that there was nothing about their convention that could be construed as anti-American, and then they print 70,000 upside-down flags on their big event tickets.

I can understand what they might have been trying to do with the design, but every American knows what a properly displayed flag looks like, and the blue field with stars is not in the lower left-hand corner. Whether intentional or not, this is a goof of monumental proportion.

Signs of distress - change you can believe in!