{"id":2251591,"date":"2024-05-23T19:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T23:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-bolton-unloads-on-wolf-blitzer-over-alito-flag-brouhaha-just-over-the-line\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T23:22:26","slug":"john-bolton-unloads-on-wolf-blitzer-over-alito-flag-brouhaha-just-over-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-bolton-unloads-on-wolf-blitzer-over-alito-flag-brouhaha-just-over-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton Criticizes Wolf Blitzer for Alito Flag Incident: &#8216;Crossed the Line!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-bolton-unloads-on-wolf-blitzer-over-alito-flag-brouhaha-just-over-the-line%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2251591&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former National Security Advisor John Bolton confronted CNN&#8217;s Wolf\u2062 Blitzer for promoting a New York Times attack on Justice Alito. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-the-uk-resistance-to-transgender-activism-is-fueled-by-socialized-medicine-and-feminist-wine-moms\/\" title=\"In the UK, Resistance to Transgender Activism Is Fueled by Socialized Medicine and Feminist Wine Moms\">controversy arose<\/a> from a Times article about an upside-down flag at Alito&#8217;s home. Bolton criticized\u200d the narrative that linked the flag to political unrest, denouncing the attempt to tarnish American symbols. Blitzer pushed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">back<\/a>, but Bolton stood \u200cfirm on defending patriotism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Former National Security Advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/john-bolton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Bolton<\/a> gave CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer an earful when the longtime broadcaster attempted to push a New York Times-based attack on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy began last week with a New York Times \u201cexpos\u00e9\u201d revealing that an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/justice-alito-gives-his-side-of-story-on-the-neighborhood-spat-behind-nyt-flag-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upside-down American flag<\/a> had been spotted at the Justice\u2019s home in Alexandria, Virginia. Despite the fact that Alito explained what had happened \u2014 his wife had hung the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-better-pray-to-god-i-dont-find-him-mexican-world-champion-boxer-threatens-soccer-superstar-messi\/\" title=\"\u2018He Better Pray To God I Don\u2019t Find Him\u2019: Mexican World Champion Boxer Threatens Soccer Superstar Messi\">flag amid<\/a> a dispute with a neighbor \u2014 the Times immediately concluded that because the flag was spotted in late January of 2021 and Capitol rioters had also carried upside-down flags, the only possible explanation was that Alito had supported the riots.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a week later, a follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-times-targets-alito-again-this-time-its-for-revolutionary-war-era-flag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYT report<\/a> revealed that Alito also had an \u201cAppeal to Heaven\u201d flag \u2014 a flag designed by George Washington\u2019s private secretary and commissioned for use in the Continental Navy in 1775 \u2014 at his beach house in New Jersey. And because some of *those* flags had also been spotted on January 6th, the Times naturally ran with that as well.<\/p>\n<p>But when Blitzer attempted to present that narrative to Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. quickly called him out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI first heard of the upside-down American flag as being a Jan. 6 symbol when I read about it in The New York Times about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-skips-fact-checking-to-run-with-nurses-unverified-story-about-covid-patients-last-dying-words\/\" title=\"CNN Skips Fact-Checking To Run With Nurse's Unverified Story About COVID Patients 'Last Dying Words'\">week ago<\/a>. I had no idea what was going on in Justice Alito\u2019s wife\u2019s mind when she flew it, but if somebody hadn\u2019t told me that they thought it was a symbol of the Jan. 6 people, I wouldn\u2019t have guessed it. I would have thought maybe she was giving the finger to one of her neighbors, and that may not be appropriate, either,\u201d Bolton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s getting to a point where people trying to take symbols of American patriotism and turn them against Supreme Court Justices is just over the line!\u201d Bolton continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut should a U.S. Supreme Court justice be using these flags that clearly, right now at least, have some political implications, as well as some history there. But, currently, they have political implications,\u201d Blitzer pushed back, parroting the narrative.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do not! That\u2019s just wrong! That is just wrong!\u201d Bolton protested.<\/p>\n<p>Blitzer was insistent: \u201cWell, they do have political implications, both of these flags.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t \u2014 you \u2014 well, they don\u2019t have political implications to me!\u201d Bolton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they\u2019re involved in Jan. 6,\u201d Blitzer said, as if that was the deciding factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of things were used by Jan. 6!\u201d Bolton observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurning the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-canadians-issue-morse-code-sos-signal-across-u-s-ontario-border-to-protest-new-restrictions\/\" title=\"WATCH: Canadians Issue Morse Code \u2018SOS\u2019 Signal Across U.S.-Ontario Border To Protest New Restrictions\">flag upside<\/a> down was used by those who supported the insurrection, as you know, and this other flag \u2014\u201d Blitzer tried again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo! I did not know that! I didn\u2019t know that \u2019til I read it in The New York Times!\u201d Bolton said again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, a lot of people <em>did<\/em> know that, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s controversial,\u201d Blitzer kept hammering the point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it\u2019s controversial for liberals! No, listen, Wolf! It\u2019s controversial for liberals who have it in for Sam Alito,\u201d Bolton turned the argument on the CNN anchor. \u201cIt\u2019s not controversial for me, and I\u2019m as against Donald Trump as anybody I know in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, bottom line, as far as you\u2019re concerned, he should not recuse himself for the sake of the country?\u201d Blitzer repeated Democrat calls for Alito to recuse himself on any case related to January 6th \u2014 something they had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/clarence-thomas-according-to-the-washington-post-is-the-black-justice-whose-rulings-often-resemble-the-thinking-of-white-conservatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attempted to accomplish<\/a> with Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harlan-crow-hits-back-slams-yellow-journalism-and-political-hit-job-on-his-friend-clarence-thomas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clarence Thomas<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWolf, that\u2019s an unfair question. He should certainly not recuse himself; there\u2019s no indication it was intended to support January the 6th, and I\u2019ll tell you, those who are using this tactic against Alito now, it will come back to haunt them,\u201d Bolton warned. \u201cIt\u2019s an American patriotic flag. I support the right of anybody to fly it, period!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former National Security Advisor John Bolton strongly rebuked CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer over a New York Times-led attack on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The turmoil started when the Times exposed an upside-down American flag at the Justice\u2019s residence last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2251592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1164522871.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1164522871.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}