How Many Isolated Incidents

Does it take before it becomes a real issue?

You can despise conservative attack dog blogs like that one (but who else was going to show you that?)

You can say things like flags and lapel pins are just symbols, and are abused by those who flaunt them hypocritically or jingoistically as well as by those who spit on them

You can say you don't judge a man by what his friends have done in their spare time

You can say maybe the photographer told him to pose like that (who is this? Miley Cyrus?)

But how often can you keep saying all that?