Dear Norway, It Happened Again

This is getting embarrassing.
From WILX-TV, Lansing Michigan:

Flag removed from Saint Johns bed and breakfast over Confederate confusion 

Nordic Pineapple removes Norwegian flag after dozens of people confuse it for the Confederate flag

Bed and breakfast Nordic Pineapple in Saint Johns has removed their Norwegian flag after dozens of people confuse it for the Confederate flag.

Greg and Kjersten Offbecker moved into the historic mansion two years ago and turned it into a bed and breakfast. As decoration, they hung a Norwegian flag next to the American flag at the front entrance of the inn, but dozens of guests and people driving by have accused the couple of flying a Confederate flag.

“They are the same color, but there are no stars on the Norwegian flag, and the Confederate flag is a big ‘x’ and the Norwegian flag is part of the Nordic countries, they’re all crosses,” Offbecker said....

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Here's their statement on Facebook.

People see what they want to see and just as when they hear dogwhistles and other secret code in speech it says more about the person hearing than about the speaker, so seeing racism everywhere you look just means you see the world through a racial prism.

Thus sayeth mom.

Previously, during the 2018 Winter Olympics:

See Something, Say Something...
...expose yourself as a dimwit.

From TIME:

A news tip earlier this week that reported a Confederate flag flying beneath an American flag in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle, Washington was discovered to be a mistake...

...The Seattle Times received the following tip from New York Times best-selling author Rebecca Morris after she believed that she saw a Confederate flag flying in her neighborhood: “Hi. Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying in front of a house in my Greenwood neighborhood. It is at the north-east corner of 92nd and Palatine, just a block west of 92nd and Greenwood Ave N. I would love to know what this ‘means’ … but of course don’t want to knock on their door. Maybe others in the area are flying the flag? Maybe it’s a story? Thank you.”

However, a more thorough examination revealed that it was actually a Norwegian flag was flying at the house of Darold Norman Strangeland, who raised it at the start of this year’s Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea as an homage to his Norwegian-American background — his parents emigrated to the states in the mid-1950s....MORE

The Seattle Times story is now ten hours old. At the time they reported the mistake Norway's Pyeongchang Medal count was 13/11/9 GSB.
It is now up to 13 gold, 12 silver, 10 bronze so at least the flag-flyer, Darold Norman Stangeland is probably happy although the French nudging the Norwegian women's biathlon relay team into fourth place may have been hard on Mr. Stangeland.
Still though, the 35 total medals for Norway far outdistances second-place Germany's 25, Canada's 24 or the USA's 21.

Stangeland said his father practiced the very Norwegian  profession of tugboat captain after emigrating. Here's the picture used to illustrate the original story although I'm not sure that is Mr. Stangeland's home:

Credit—Seattle Times

And finally, the really, really embarrassing story of the U.S. Ambassador-designate to Norway:

Dear Norway, We Are So Sorry
First I completely forgot to mark the anniversary of the April 9, 1940 Battle of Drøbak Sound when a couple old coots found it their duty to stop the Nazi invasion of Norway with some antique artillery and raw recruits, sank the most modern ship in the German Navy, saved the Norwegian King and government from being taken captive and pulled Churchill's fat out of the fire-keeping the path open for him to assume the premiership of Britain and thus save Western Civilization.
I forgot to post the story.
Sorry.

And now it appears the nominee to be the U.S. Ambassador to Norway is a moron.*

Warning: this is  truly cringeworthy.
From National Public Radio:

...Tsunis' January Senate confirmation hearing started innocuously enough. "I am both honored and humbled to appear before you today as President Obama's nominee to be the ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway," he told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. But almost right away, the wealthy New York businessman started flailing.

It turns out the man who wants to be the next ambassador to Norway has never even been to Norway.

And anyone who's been called on in class when he wasn't prepared can probably sympathize with this moment:

"There are a lot of markets that will continue to open up. Uh ..." said Tsunis, trailing off amid a statement about U.S.-Norwegian trade.

"Let me just ask, as ambassador, how you promote those trade cooperations?" interjected Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican.

"Thank you for that save, Sen. Johnson," Tsunis said.
Then it went even further downhill.

Tsunis said Norway has a president. It doesn't — the country has a king and a prime minister.

Tsunis then described one of Norway's major political parties — a member of the current coalition government — as a "fringe element" that "spewed hatred."....