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CNN was reporting an ISIS flag carrying man at a gay pride rally.

Sometimes it's a good idea to be certain of your story before you run with it.

Here's the story:

CNN journalist Lucy Pawle told viewers she had seen “a man dressed in black and white waving what appeared to be very bad mimicry, but a very clear attempt to mimic, the Isis flag – the black and white flag with the distinctive lettering.”

She added: “I mean, If you look at the flag closely, it’s clearly not Arabic, in fact it looks like it could be goobledygook, but it’s very distinctive – the Isis flag.”

Pawle said she was the only one to have spotted the “distinctive” banner.

She continued: “I seem to be the only person who had spotted this, and nobody seems to be raising any questions or pointing it out, so I immediately went to an events organiser who said he didn’t know anything about it.

  Guardian

The flag is actually not ISIS symbols but butt plugs and dildos.

And the latest Guardian headline on the matter:

CNN took down the video from its website, but as of now, it's still on YouTube.  Pretty funny stuff, as they are claiming a media coup, and voice-over reporters are seriously speculating why the man would be flying an ISIS flag at this event.  Perhaps, one reporter suggests, it's a warning, since it's known that ISIS is anti-gay, and in fact throws gays from roofs, one of their principal goals being to kill gays.  On the other hand, they suggest, maybe it's a gay person mocking ISIS.