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Ashcroft Supports Kentucky Woman in Rebel Flag Flap
Soon-to-be-former Attorney General John Ashcroft heartily endorsed a lawsuit filed by a 19-year-old Kentucky woman after her school district refused to let her attend her senior prom while wearing a Confederate flag dress.
"This coming year marks the 140th anniversary of the end of the Civil War," Ashcroft said. "Some of us, er, some of the American people just haven't gotten over it yet - nor should they.
"What's the harm in honoring a big part of our country's heritage? It's not as though she wanted to wear a Ku Klux Klan sheet, or dress like some of those tramps on Desperate Housewives, or anything like that.
"It was a very tasteful rebel flag, just like the ones that used to be waved at Ole Miss and high school football games in Georgia and Alabama - until everybody got all politically correct," Ashcroft added.
"It wasn't as though she wanted to wear a Confederate flag and show her bare midriff, like those tramps Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears would - or get naked in an NFL locker room while America looked on in horror.
"Why, a radio station in Kansas City just got fined over $200,000 by the FCC because one of its DJs had strippers playing Naked Twister - on the radio. What's next? A naked breast at the Super Bowl? Wait, that already happened. Never mind."
Ashcroft said the comment from the woman's lawyer about her only dance at the prom was by herself outside with a song from the car radio sent tears streaming down his face.
"I've heard nothing that sad since President Bush tried to say the alphabet backwards. He got stuck after X. He should have known the next letter in the backwards alphabet was W.
"Since I'll have a ton of time on my hands after I leave the Attorney General's office, I'm willing to spend oodles of hours and money defending that woman's rights. I know Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis would be proud of her for standing up for her heritage and for what's right. I'm proud of her too."
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