Page 48 - Flag Burning News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Flags, mainstream liberals were asked to repudiate flag burning and they did. the naacp did not say the tea party was racist. they made a very careful statement where they said there's racism in the tea party and it ought to be repudiated. >> there's racism in the tea party, the democratic party, the republican party. >> look, there is a concerted conservative campaign, i'm part of the movement, minority of the movement to use race to split people. glenn beck says obama has a deep-seated hatred for what people. j. christian adams pushing this new black panther story says the obama justice depa...

>> reporter: the court's only gerald ford nominee, he arrived in 1979 was a moderate conservative, but eventually became the anchor of the court's liberal wing, so his replacement will probably not change the court's ideological makeup. he insists it has the court that has changed, not him. >> i still consider myself quite conservative. >> reporter: he voted to recognize legal rights for guantanamo detainees, and in favor of abortion rights, but decented when the court struck down laws against flag burning. >> john paul stevens, both through his persuasion and his relationship and his power as...

Mostly public men, in the late 20th century. john paul stevens is the last world war ii veteran in a position of great prom nance in american life. he's really the last member of the greatest generation to pass from the public scene. i don't mean that he's going to die by any means, but he is leaving his public post. and i think that just shows his perspective was different from a lot of people who are in public life now. you know, one of his uncharacteristic decisions during his tenure was in the famous flag burning case, because he tended to be more liberal, he tended to believe in freedom o...

Never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. it is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the law. and stevens has not been a slouch, writing the first drafts of his opinions, rare among many justices. in 1999 he wrote another powerful dissent breaking with the majority saying that flag burning was protected by the first amendment. stevens, the navy veteran disagreed. >> i don't think anyone who read that dissent with the passion that the flag meant for him, i don't th...

When you see flag burning, they ignore it because. >> laura: makes the left look bad. that's why they ignore it, bernie. it makes those people in the media who support the left look bad too by association, right? >> i will give you a specific person it makes look bad. after the election, after the inauguration, rather, my book a slobbering love affair came out. the theme of the book is that the mainstream media early on went into the tank for barack obama. so now you have tea party people who are not only against big government but they are against barack obama, so anything you could do to mak...