The North Carolina Republican Party published a tweet on Wednesday criticizing vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) for wearing a “Honduras flag pin” during his Democratic convention speech, calling it “shameful” that he would wear another country’s flag without a pin representing America.
But there was one glaring problem with the North Carolina GOP’s attack: Kaine was actually wearing a pin bearing the symbol for Blue Star Families, a group for families with members who serve in the military. Kaine’s son Nathaniel Kaine serves in the Marines and was recently deployed to Eastern Europe.
Ben Amey, a reporter for WNYT, was the first to point out the mistake.
Here’s a screenshot of that @NCGOP tweet about @timkaine, since they deleted it. #DemsInPhilly pic.twitter.com/LbAywwnnob
— Ben Amey (@BenAmeyTV) July 28, 2016
The Honduras flag has two blue stripes and blue start, while the symbol for Blue Star Families is a white rectangle outlined in red with one star in the middle.
The North Carolina GOP did acknowledge their mistake.
@BenAmeyTV We appreciate you letting us know. Thanks for letting us correct our mistake.
— NCGOP (@NCGOP) July 28, 2016
A 15 second Google search will show there’s no similarity at all.
It’s like a swirling wormhole created by a singularity of concentrated pathetic with these people. I’m beginning to wonder if the only “news” that should be reported about them is when they manage to get something right. The wrongness is just pervasive status quo at this point.
They did not apologize to future VP Kaine and his family.
Typical GOP : shoot first, aim second
Another cringe!
The Republicans really are the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.