Networks Yawn at Farrakhan's 'Put the American Flag Down' Diatribe

Matthew Balan | June 25, 2015
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

As of the morning of 25 June 2015, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to report on Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's Wednesday rant against the American flag at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. Conservative talk radio station WMAL recorded Farrakhan's diatribe, where the radical figure called for an end to that national symbol: "We need to put the American flag down, because we caught as much hell under that as the Confederate flag."

Brian Kilmeade spotlighted the Nation of Islam leader's remarks on the 25 June 2015 edition of Fox and Friends, and pointed out Rush Limbaugh's warning from two days earlier – that "the next flag that will come under assault – and it will not be long – is the American flag."