South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley at 4 p.m. Thursday signed the bill which will legally take down the Confederate flag from the State House grounds and move it to a museum. At the accompanying press conference, she noted that the flag would come down as part of an official ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday. CNN, eager for any chance to put up a countdown clock, got right to work.
Really @CNN? A countdown clock? pic.twitter.com/Dxl2jIFdWH
— Miguel Del Norte (@Northside_Mike) July 10, 2015
No words: @CNN has a countdown clock for the Confederate flag coming down in SC pic.twitter.com/zHWdwFTayy
— Matt Laslo (@MattLaslo) July 10, 2015
A static flag and a red countdown clock – CNN really helping to build this one up. #SouthCarolina pic.twitter.com/LlrgnA9jQC
— Nick Harper (@NickHarperFSN) July 10, 2015
Is Don Lemon pitching ideas again?
— NICKinNOVA (@NICKinNOVA) July 10, 2015
@MattLaslo 4 words: smdh
— Anthony Rivera (@AnthonyJRivera) July 10, 2015
This is as exciting as watching CNN’s government shutdown countdown clock, but not as much of a nail-biter as the clock counting the seconds until an asteroid threatened to destroy the planet by passing within 3.6 million miles of Earth.
OK, I am in the media, but really, guys? Oy. https://t.co/0KTma3SJmX
— tomfitzgerald (@tomfitzgerald) July 10, 2015
When it hits 00:00 does "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" start playing? https://t.co/y8pEP7TZU0
— J.D. Prose Sr. (@jdprose) July 10, 2015
Why stop with a countdown clock? Get Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper out there to host this event. Fire confetti from civil war cannons.
— Miguel Del Norte (@Northside_Mike) July 10, 2015
How about a countdown clock for the nuclear negotiations in Iran? Not for us; for them.
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