A quick word to the wise to gold medal winning snoboarder Shaun White: The flag aint no rag, son. If you didn't see him yesterday, he had a flag rag around his mouth and I even saw the little twerp wipe his nose with it at one point.
As Great American Charlie Daniels reminds us, that aint right:
This ain't no rag, it's a flag
Old Glory red, white and blue
The stars and the stripes when it comes to a fight
We can do what we have to do
By the way, that goes for wrapping yourself in the flag after you've won the gold medal too (ala Jim Craig). It seems to be de rigeur for every gold medal winner to do this now but it's still wrong.
From the Federal guidelines on the flag:
(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free...(j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform.
I don't think Shaun White wants to get on Charlie Daniels' bad side.
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