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<\/p>\nThe other day, a pack of the usual crowd of waxy yellow Leftyblog and Leftytweet buildup\u00a0 teased themselves to ecstasy over this photo:<\/p>\n
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It’s a group of “Trail Life” boys – from a breakaway sect of Boy Scouts that bars openly gay members – “giving a Nazi salute” as they recited their creed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Except it wasn’t:<\/p>\n
But it turns out that the boys were not saluting Hitler and contrary to the first Associated Press caption, they were not reciting a creed. The boys were singing \u201cTaps,\u201d a longtime Boy Scout tradition that the Texas Trail USA troop had adapted as their own.<\/p>\n
The boys had gathered in a circle with their hands raised straight into the air. They gradually lowered their hands as they sang the song. It concludes with their hands flush against their side.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really misrepresented what was going on,\u201d [John Stemberger, chairman of the board of Trail Life] told me. \u201cThere are children involved and that made it more outrageous. They were exploited and misunderstood.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The picture accompanied what was actually apparently a relatively fair story.<\/p>\n
But when it comes to the un-PC, “fair” isn’t part of the left’s playbook.\u00a0<\/p>\n