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NBC and the "Pledge of Allegiance"

esmith

esmith

Veteran Member
Well by now I am sure that most people have heard of NBC's blatant disregard of the Pledge Of Allegiance during the US Open Golf programing by purposely editing out "under God" not once but twice. NBC says that they apologize for the "regrettable" editing. Yeah right. As far as I am concerned it is time for heads to roll at NBC.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
doppelgänger;2497215 said:
Personally, I think pledging allegiance to a flag is ridiculous to begin with.
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Perhaps, some people feel their loyalty is worth only a bit of cotton. Good thing we have flags and words like "god" for them.
 
Draka

Draka

Wonder Woman
esmith said:
Well by now I am sure that most people have heard of NBC's blatant disregard of the Pledge Of Allegiance during the US Open Golf programing by purposely editing out "under God" not once but twice. NBC says that they apologize for the "regrettable" editing. Yeah right. As far as I am concerned it is time for heads to roll at NBC.
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Why would trying to keep it original be disregarding it? I mean, "Under god" was never in there to begin with. It was an add-in. Nothing "regrettable" about it...good on them.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
They should just replace the darned thing with the Revoltstanian pledge....
"Do what's right & don't burn the bacon."
It's easy to remember, fits all religions & doesn't require a flag....or even a country.

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TheKnight

TheKnight

Guardian of Life
Interestingly enough uniformed service personnel (in accordance with 4 USC 4) don't say the pledge but rather stand at attention silently.
 
Engyo

Engyo

Prince of Dorkness!
Draka said:
Why would trying to keep it original be disregarding it? I mean, "Under god" was never in there to begin with. It was an add-in. Nothing "regrettable" about it...good on them.
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Added circa 1954, I believe.
 
Gunny

Gunny

Semper Fi
I seriously doubt this was an accident. It looks very much like this was on purpose. And if so I feel this is disrespectful. Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned or spent too many years in the Corps but I take things like the flag, Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem, my country and other similar things very seriously.

Thank you for posting this, esmith.
 
Many Sages One Truth

Many Sages One Truth

Active Member
esmith said:
Well by now I am sure that most people have heard of NBC's blatant disregard of the Pledge Of Allegiance during the US Open Golf programing by purposely editing out "under God" not once but twice. NBC says that they apologize for the "regrettable" editing. Yeah right. As far as I am concerned it is time for heads to roll at NBC.
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Who cares if they edit out "under God"? "Under God" should not be part of the pledge of a secular nation anyway, and originally it wasn't. Better go read some history.
 
Kilgore Trout

Kilgore Trout

Misanthropic Humanist
Gunny said:
I seriously doubt this was an accident. It looks very much like this was on purpose. And if so I feel this is disrespectful. Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned or spent too many years in the Corps but I take things like the flag, Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem, my country and other similar things very seriously.
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Yeah, none of those things have anything to do with god(s).
 
SageTree

SageTree

Spiritual Friend
Premium Member
Well.... I STOPPED saying the pledge for religious reasons on my own accord when I was in 6th grade.

Pledging allegiance to a flag seemed like idolatry to me.
Later on the, once I defined 'liberty' and 'justice' in my life later on in school I stopped saying it because I felt like I was lying... and then I learned what 'irony' was.... and I continued to not say it for all those reasons.

Looking back.... history will show that the pledge didn't always look the way it did today.

Sound different?
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YouTube - ‪Children Pledging Allegiance 1940s 1950s‬‏
 
Vendetta

Vendetta

"Oscar the grouch"
Gunny said:
I seriously doubt this was an accident. It looks very much like this was on purpose. And if so I feel this is disrespectful. Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned or spent too many years in the Corps but I take things like the flag, Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem, my country and other similar things very seriously.

Thank you for posting this, esmith.
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Nice to see a jarhead here...
 
Skwim

Skwim

Veteran Member
A small bit about the pledge from Wikipedia (much is left out)

"History

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855–1931), who was a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist, and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (1850–1898). Bellamy "viewed his Pledge as an 'inoculation' that would protect immigrants and native-born but insufficiently patriotic Americans from the 'virus' of radicalism and subversion."[2] The original "Pledge of Allegiance" was published in the September 8 issue of the popular children's magazine The Youth's Companion as part of the National Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. The event was conceived and promoted by James B. Upham, a marketer for the magazine, as a campaign to instill the idea of American nationalism by selling flags to public schools and magazines to students. . . . . . .


Addition of the words "under God"

. . . . . . . . Louis A. Bowman (1872–1959) was the first to initiate the addition of "under God" to the Pledge. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution gave him an Award of Merit as the originator of this idea. . . . . . .


. . . . . . The phrase "under God" was incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance June 14, 1954, by a Joint Resolution of Congress amending §7 of the Flag Code enacted in 1942."

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