You do realize, at the staging of both the RNC and the DNC, they employed large digital displays as backdrops for their speakers. The U.S. flags on view behind the speakers at the RNC convention were digital renditions and not physical flags. The digital backdrop at the RNC changed throughout the proceedings, and at times it appeared just as flagless as the DNC's supposedly did.  Con web sites cherry-picked photographs in order to make it appear that no U.S. flags (in either physical or digital form) were on display at the Democratic National Convention. And the Daily Caller must not have looked very hard, as the scene at first day of the DNC exhibited a healthy share of red, white, and blue patriotism, in both digital and physical form. Fox News, at least, eventually admitted their error in reporting that there were “no American flags” in the convention hall.