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Pride parades are a great place to show off your clever banners or signs, and one made it onto CNN today for cleverly mocking a nefarious flag.
CNN reported on the "unnerving sight" at London's pride parade on Saturday, even dragging their poor "national security analyst" Peter Bergen out of bed to comment on what was obviously a flag of dildos. Correspondent Lucy Pawle, in her most serious voice, called it a "bad mimicry... of the ISIS flag."
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"It's clearly not Arabic, in fact it looks like it could be gobbledygook," she said of what are silhouettes of buttplugs and suction cup dildos. "Nobody seemed to be raising any questions or pointing it out."
To her credit, Pawle retweeted a few people who pointed out her gaffe. Does she even know what a dildo looks like? Bless you, Lucy.
CNN pulled the video of the segment from their website.