Some RSS feeds, such as those provided by CNN, actually render the <image> tag
with a src equal to a file or URL on their server. I'm able to render this
HTML using the "htmlText" attribute of an mx:text tag, but it seems Flex
doesn't like to actually render the <image src=""> properly (in fact, maybe it
ignores it all together?).

I understand the Flash security restrictions at play here - but is there any
way that this might work? Maybe it's not a security issue but something that I
can resolve myself?

Thanks.