With an eagle-tipped flagpole!

Telephone poles used to be plentiful. Now we need a lot more poles for holes.

"Up your hiney with a porcupiney!"

preferably a saguaro......

A rusty rasp.

shithole, administration, cabinet, republican party including the judges and law enforcement have -0- when it comes to patriotism.

Nothing more patriotic or pro-America than that.

they'd run a picture of the flag and play the national anthem before going to the test pattern.

Then the screen would show the 'Indian-head test pattern' until they began broadcasting again in the morning. Can't recall how many times I fell asleep during a movie and woke up to see he test pattern flickering away. Those were the days, eh?

It was totally the networks action with no push from the government.
The next step after what these jackasses are proposing is mandatory Pledges at workplaces every morning.

The notion that networks might be obligated to air "patriotic" programming is grotesque, especially considering what might be deemed acceptably patriotic.

guy that was granted immunity from the Espionage Act.................and from a guy that stood on a podium and said to all of the traitors near the white house that he was going to follow them into the house to commit treason on a election...........and police offers died...............and you, yes you want to silence the First Amendment .............November cannot get here fast enough...............

although I saw an article in POLITICO that suggesteed that Shady McMaybelline could be even worse, more isolationist etc. But at least we'd be spared the tantrums and the ketchup-throwing.

krasnov is merely the bright, shiny, distracting thing, and too f'n lazy to actually work. But we would be rid of the cult focus, and the daily infusion of the jim jones cocktail to which they are all addicted.

are twin sons of different mothers

Both are Denizens of Hell
Both are Faces of Evil

Patriotic is subjective so stick your flag pole where the sun doesn't shine.

They should have a HUGE all day and night LIVE music festival to celebrate
that day. Multicultural Democracy Love

I think they've got enough material to last the year, at one a day.

CBS station (think it’s owned by Gray media) started has been doing on this date (in United States) since last fall. Wonder if that’s rally round the flag enough for them. I like the local cbs news crew, but never watch their evening news or national news. Haven’t watched the national cbs news since Dan Rather and at that time, didn’t watch him much.

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I remember broadcast networks used to do this, back when we had the cute loopy UHF antennae and people pretended to fix the reception by smacking the TV on its wooden outer chassis. You used to have to get off your ass to change the channel or adjust the audio volume playing through a single 3" speaker. At midnight they'd play the anthem and go to test patterns before ending the broadcast and then you got static until around 5am when they anthemed again and went to a news show. Are we bringing back the "good old days" thanks to Mr. Carr?

All broadcast outlets would be required to show 24 hours of patriotic movies. My choices include, in no particular order:

1. The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
2. Bananas (Marx Brothers)
3. Casablanca (Bogey and Bergman)
4. All the King's Men (Crawford)
5. Schindler's List (Hanks)
6. Sophie's Choice (Streep)
7. Schindler's List (Neeson)
8. The Longest Day (Wayne, Fonda, Mitchum)
9. Seven Days in May (Fonda)
10. The Manchurian Candidate (Sinatra)
11. Dr. Strangelove (Sellers)

AND OF COURSE!!!

12. Downfall (Ganz)


Feel free to add to the list!

The Trial of the Chicago Seven
Malcom X
Erin Brockovich
12 Years a Slave
Mississippi Burning
Matewan
The Grapes of Wrath
Salt of the Earth
Lincoln (Spielberg)
Born on the 4th of July

On Edit:
Windtalkers - what could be more American than the story of Navajo Codetalkers in WWII?

Glory- Morgan Freeman
Harriet-Cynthia Erivo
It's A Wonderful Life-Jimmy Stewart
All The President's Men-Robert Redford
Norma Rae-Sally Field
Apollo 13-Tom Hanks
Triangle Fire-Tovah Feldshue

And, OF COURSE, THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT -Michael Douglas, Annette Bening

Three Days of the Condor- Redford

NO FUCKING WAY!!

When was the last time this guy watched broadcast tekevision?

Broadcast TV goes 24 hours now, although the late night material tends to be local or paid programming without a large audience. But there's no magic instant in the morning when the test pattern goes away and it's time for a program.

I just don't know what that would be.

if he can understand that.

yes INDEED

Loving America means being against Trump.

might include Lawrence Welk, Jim Nabors, Mantovani, Percy Faith, Andy Williams, Perry Como and certain ballads by Mr. Frank Sinatra.

The 4th Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

From the 5th Amendment these words: "No person shall be …………... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

The 14th Amendment: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same."

The 14th Amendment": All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

The 22nd Amendment: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."

What year does he think this is? 1976?

broadcasters would begin and end the day with this announcement.

"That concludes our broadcast day. [Station Name] is a service of [Company Name]. We will return with [Morning Show Name] tomorrow morning at [Time]. From all of us here at the station, have a wonderful night. This is [Station Name] signing off."

followed by the Star-Spangled Banner especially when the station would power off overnight.

Now that most, if not all, stations run 24 hours a day, this convention has fallen to the wayside.

I am not surprised that the Trump administration is pushing this as this was the norm back in the 1950s.

Don't give him any ideas.

Whatever day that is, we could have a had a fun heart warming celebration where we all came together loving our country.

Trump has ruined this country and torn apart so many things we have held sacred for hundreds of years. I am not a person to hate and I hate him with all my being.

everything that was ever good about this country and then they expect us to feel patriotic? I remember the bicentennial. No one told us what to feel, or the TV channels what to broadcast.

We were not long out of Vietnam and Watergate, and Civil Rights legislation was only about a decade behind us, so we had a lot of negative feelings, but I doubt they were even half as negative as we feel this year.

And of all the people you could pick to celebrate, you pick *THAT* guy? WTF.

What else can I do?