massornament

Somehow I stumbled across this website once again and it brought with it a few laughs. I had mentioned the lapel pin and its political symbolism in the U.S. to students taking the propaganda course I am teaching at the moment. It is interesting how the lapel pin came to symbolize ones patriotism (or lack of it if that person… such a Obama… didn’t where it) and it even was used by members of the Conservative Party in Canada in similar ways. Of course, its meaning was forced so that it also came to mean… at that time at least… that the person was supportive of then President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. (Wow, am I glad that he is gone.)