The mainstream media just loves manufacturing nontroversies, something we saw, for instance, in the New York Times hit pieces in 2024 on Justice Samuel Alito’s wife, Martha, over her once briefly flying the U.S. flag upside down at their home, and for flying the “Appeal to Heaven” flag at their beach home in New Jersey in the summer of 2023.
In the “Appeal to Heaven” flag article, the authors made sure to do the same thing they did in the inverted flag stories: to “link” it to the events of January 6, 2021, and Christian nationalism.
“Also known as the Pine Tree flag, it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity until recent years,” the Times proclaimed, “and is now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms.”