The hosts over at CBS Mornings couldn’t seem to decide how they felt about political flags. During the second hour of Thursday morning’s episode, they devoted a segment to an interview with Lynn Segerblom, one of the original creators of the rainbow Pride flag. However, only a few weeks prior, they denounced the Appeal to Heaven flag that flew outside of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s New Jersey home.
In a dutiful demonstration of their alliance with the LGBTQ+ movement, co-host Gayle King introduced the interview with an apologetic admittance of the fact that no one in the studio was aware of the rainbow flag’s origin:
While the flag is now a celebrated symbol for the LGBTQ+ community, the full story behind its creation has remained largely untold. You know what, I asked everybody in this studio–there’s a lot of smart people here, including…
