A London-based CNN reporter who called in - yes, there were multiple reporters on this, no one covers breaking news like CNN - pointed out with concern, "This man, quite distinctive from the rest of the crowd, he was dressed in black and white."
The segment went on to analyze the photo of the flag in great depth, zooming in especially on the man waving it. The word "unnerving" made several other appearances in the very long segment about a flag of dildos and butt plugs. "An unnerving sight today at a London gay pride celebration: an ISIS flag among a sea of rainbow colors," CNN anchor Suzanne Malveaux announced. CNN dedicated an entire six and a half minutes to covering, in a tenor of total seriousness and extreme gravity, what they said was an ISIS flag being waved at a gay pride parade, when in fact it was readily and painfully obvious that the "ISIS flag" was in fact a joke flag covered with images of dildos and butt plugs. I wish I were exaggerating here even a little but I am not. 1) Are you pulling my leg or did CNN really confuse a dildo-covered gay pride banner with the official flag of ISIS? The supposed ISIS flag was in fact a parody, bearing outlined images of dildos and butt plugs in place of Arabic script.įor the clarification of whatever unknown number of CNN producers and reporters who collaborated on this segment, as well as any CNN viewers who happened to catch it and may now need things cleared up, here is a brief explainer on the now-notorious ISIS gay pride dildo flag. According to the chyron on the bottom of the screen, "ISIS FLAG SPOTTED AT GAY PRIDE PARADE." On Saturday, during coverage of a gay rights rally, CNN ran a segment with an alarming message. The network has since deleted the clip, and Ms Pawle posted on her Twitter page that she "reported no such thing.This is a real screenshot of a CNN segment. Immediately following the gaffe, viewers were quick to point out the mistake, inundating the reporters' Twitter page with tweets correctly her mistake. Ms Pawle went on to say she appeared to be “the only person” to notice the extremist flag. The segment was billed as an exclusive and the network even lined up security analysts to discuss its appearance.īut to the broadcaster's embarrassment, the satirical flag was adorned not with Arabic lettering but with sex toys. Obviously satire.- Jim June 27, 2015ĬNN certainly thought so, running photographs of the flag above a banner headline, saying: “Isis flag spotted at gay pride event.”
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"If you look at the flag closely, it’s clearly not Arabic,, in fact it looks like it could be goobledegook, but it's very distinctive - the ISIS the ISIS flag at the Pride parade looked like gibberish because the "text" was actually outlines of sex toys. “This man dressed in black and white waving what appears to be a very bad mimicry of the Isis flag, but a clear attempt to mimic the Isis flag, the black and white flag with the distinctive lettering,” she said, adding that she had alerted the police to its presence. Mistaking the sex toys for the ‘Black standard’, reporter Lucy Pawle claimed the Pride parade banner was "a clear attempt to mimic ISIS". The American network reported on Saturday that a man was seen waving an ISIS flag at the parade, with one of its correspondents warning that “a man dressed in black” was flying the flag. News giant CNN is facing an online backlash after it aired an “exclusive report” which mistook a flag displaying sex toys for the banner of Islamic State at London’s Gay Pride parade.