Bravo!! I couldn't agree more.

I think you are an irresponsible journalist wanna-be with poor writing skills at best. I read you source articles before formulating an opinion. For your commentary, you took the most incinerary and divisive portions of the article and then ended with you own shallow, race baiting, and demeaning conclusion about one of the greatest men and NFL players of our time. As the source article mentions (and what you failed to include), was then this was the third time, since July that the flags had been lowered in tribute to a deceased member of the Packer organization. All while the war was still raging in Iraq.

“We did it for (former team vice president) Mark Hatley and (former assistant coach and scout) John "Red" Cochran. But we did it Sunday for Reggie and the e-mails and calls started coming Sunday afternoon, saying we were wrong, that we can't lower the flag like that."” exerpt from the Brennam article

Where were the complaints from the veterans? I guess in the same spot where you journalistic objectivity is stored. It is also apparent that you only mentioned Bush to cast an even deeper dividing line. Everyone in the public eye has bad and inaccurate press. Some of the things Mr. White said then, are some of the very things that got Bush re-elected.

Dave,

I ddin't mention the two prior flag lowering incidents in my post *because* I linked to those facts. By linking to those articles, I feel am I including those facts. I'm not trying to hide anything, if I were I wouldn't have linked to anything. That's the beauty of a blog.

In Ms. Brennan's article, where and when did these radio callers say that race might have had to do something with all of this? She doesn't say, does she? Did that happen in Wisconsin or somewhere thousands of miles away? Isn't that an actual example of irresponsible journalism?

My take, which I think is implied in my post, is that the lowering of the flag in White's case had a much higher profile. In Brennan's article, she considers this hypothesis as well, but then reaches for the race card. I should have been more explicit in my opinion.

I'd be willing to bet that most people didn't even notice that the flag was at half staff for these two lower profile men in the Packer family. Particularly when you think that if they died in July, the flag had already been at half staff for a month for Reagan's death.

Finally, I fail to see how anything I wrote rips on Reggie White. White was a great player and man. But, according to the US Flag Code, that doesn't mean you lower the flag for him. There are lots of other ways to honor him which the Packers and their fans will do.