Another Reason to Hate Ze French!! (Again!)

A great gem, courtesy of Pennsylvanian in Exile:

US 'flag epidemic' reaches peak on Fourth of July
by Chantal Valery Tue Jul 4, 1:16 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - It's a true epidemic: the red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes banners are everywhere in the United States - on house facades, front lawns, cars and clothes.

Hitting an high point on the July 4 US Independence Day holiday, it is a genuine phenomenon of American national pride that, inevitably, gets a good but also sometimes unwanted boost from commercial exploitation.

"It's a little strange, this obsession of the flag," French author Bernard-Henri Levy wrote after traveling across the country.

"Everywhere, in every form, flapping in the wind or on stickers, an epidemic of flags that has spread throughout the city," Levy wrote in "American Vertigo" of the riot of banners he saw.

"Old Glory," as the US flag is affectionately called, can be seen in abundance through the year in the American heartland and the South, and to a lesser extent in cities like New York and Los Angeles.

The TrekMedic opines:

This is awfully funny, coming from a country more familiar with a full-on WHITE FLAG than their own tri-colored national insignia!

And notice where "Old Glory" gets the least exposure in the US?? I rest my case!