Bank of What???

Have you seen this video of Fox's Meghan Kelly interviewing a Bank of America flack?  This was concerning the actions of a BoA branch manager in Gaffney, South Carolina, who removed American flags that were being placed, by a family friend, along the route of the funeral procession for Lance Corporal Christopher Fowlkes, a United States Marine who was killed in Afghanistan.  As I understand it, the reasons the manager gave were:  it was against bank policy and, some of their customers might be offended by the flags.

I deeply admire Meghan Kelly.  In fact, I think she is the best in the news part of the business.  She asks tough questions and routinely pushes for answers literally until the time allotted for an interview runs out.  Her style is decidedly different from the tendencies of many other Fox news personalities to pander to the interviewee after a good question or two.  I just wish she had drilled into this even further in nailing this BoA scum's hide to the wall.

The idiot that Bank of America sent out to do damage control very carefully kept to his talking points, even in the face of the fact that his points were, at best, poorly conceived, and at worst, reflective of a corporate policy of anti-Americanism.  But, maybe they just want to go along with Obama's view of where we should go as a nation.  After all, he does have America's interest at heart, right?  And, there will have to be banks, right?  Well, why not BoA?  They won't even need to change their name (except maybe to change the "c" to a "k").

I have a seething anger about this, because it was much more than dis-respecting the flag. One expects all leftists to do that. But, one would hope that some of them would have the decency to respect the dead, especially one who gave his precious life to protect the freedoms that allow them to be successful in their crass, greedy, stupid and insensitive politically correct behavior.   This was not the funeral of just another old white person trying to help Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd's belief that whites should step aside and allow blacks to move into power.  This was in honor of a United States Marine who died in the service of his country!  Who died to protect the right of BoA's idiot managers and smooth talking spokesmen to commit such despicable acts!  BoA is no better than the Associated Press creeps who, in the interest of either greed or propaganda, showed utter contempt for our military and their families just a couple of weeks ago in showing the death of Lance Corporal Joshua "Bernie" Bernard, in total disregard for the family's wishes.  Anything for money and political gain, huh, AP?

See if this litany of his vacuous BoA bromides, in response to Meghan's pointed questioning, makes you feel better about the unspeakable insult to Lance Corporal Fowlkes and his family and friends:  "gonna respect the family's privacy"; it shouldn't have happened; this doesn't represent any policy of the BoA; reiterated to our branch managers our policy; we encourage branches to fly the flag; not acceptable and people know that; should use better judgment, and a few more, just as empty of real meaning or understanding.  Man, you sure convinced me!

Obviously!  Obviously!  Obviously!  This guy may have set a record for the use of that shallow catchall word which in reality, just points out that, if it were so obvious, this mind-numblingly stupid incident would not have occurred in the first place.  Have you got that, BoA?

Also, I'm sorry to have to tell you that it is not so obvious that you care about anything other than damage control.  What is obvious is that BoA has failed to educate its spokesmen in the most important maxim of public relations:  that the most important thing is sincerity - once you learn to fake that, you've got it made!  This guy failed, not only through his over-use of callow attempts at deflection, but also in the fact that, in his remarks, he never acknowledged that this was a direct  insult to our Marine, but just kept insisting that there is no BoA corporate policy to dis-respect the flag. 

No corporate policy against the flag? Indeed! How about a corporate policy requiring allegiance to the flag as a condition of employment, with special emphasis on total support FOR THOSE WHO DEFEND OUR FLAG?

I am deeply ashamed to admit that my house mortgage and car note are held by this bunch of blowhard anti-American opportunists!  I am considering paying them both off immediately or re-financing through some other institution, and I vow to never deal with this bunch again!

How about you joining me?