I pledge my allegiance

This is the funniest thing I read all weekend. I pledge my allegiance -- er, um -- to the tshirt of Gene, the patriotic citizen of America. Seriously, a GOP leaders meeting in Illinois discovered they didn't have a flag in the room to pledge to, so they had some guy wearing a tshirt with a picture of a flag stand up and they pledged to that.

I'm pretty sure that violates at least a couple of the rules of etiquette regarding flag use. Not to mention, being incredibly weird.

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