CNN mistakes dildo flag at London pride parade for flag of ISIS

In breaking news, CNN crack national security analysts took snapshots of this terrorist flag at the London pride parade today.

Lucy Pawle, CNN London correspondent, had this to say:

This man dressed in black and white was waving what appears to be a very bad mimicry but a clear attempt to mimic the ISIS flag, the black and white flag with the distinctive lettering. If you look at the flag closely, it’s clearly not Arabic, in fact it looks like it could be gobbledygook.

Pawle goes on to say: “I seem to be the only person who has spotted this.

I suppose it’s an easy mistake. Both flags are black and white. One simply has Arabic symbols and one has pictures of dildos.

Except you’re a news organization. And the anchor talks about having CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen on the phone.

Maybe they should have consulted their national security expert beforehand? Or anyone at the parade.

When did CNN change their motto from “The Most Trusted Name in News” to “Holy Crap, We’re All Gonna Die.”?

Cross posted at Daily Kos.

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David Akadjian is the author of The Little Book of Revolution: A Distributive Strategy for Democracy. Follow @akadjian