-By Warner Todd Huston
In its intro to the 2011 U.S. Open golf tournament, NBC Sports had a heart stirring montage of Old Glory, school kids reciting the pledge of allegiance, all intercut with some of golf’s biggest contemporary stars. It had everything: resounding music, patriotism, and golf. But one thing it didn’t have… the whole pledge. It seems NBC sort of forgot the “under God” part of the pledge.
That’s right, NBC cut out the part where the kids say “under God,” as in “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
This was obviously done on purpose. The video of the kids saying the allegiance goes from “one nation” and skips ahead to “with liberty and justice for all.”
NBC absolutely, positively meant to cut out the reference to God in the pledge. There is but one reason they did this. NBC indulged a PC effort to expunge God from our national pledge of allegiance.
There can be NO other explanation.
NBC sportscaster Dan Hicks later gave one of those non apology appoligies, one of those “we are sorry if you were offended” deals later in the broadcast.
No American should accept this weak, last second apology. Everyone should contact these un-American cretins and complain. You can do so at http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/23071620.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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To: nbcsportshelp@nbcuni.com
Saw the “Patriotic” US Open intro and the removal of some words from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Sad that someone in your organization decided that deleting God from the pledge was a good thing. Even sadder that the same someone had the authority to do so. Unless the montage was put together by some geek that took it upon himself to remove God from the pledge and nobody watched it before it was aired. That would be hard to swallow.
The piddly apology given later in the show by Dan Hicks was totally inadequate but I guess it was the best you could do. I don’t blame Dan for it. Someone handed him a sheet of paper with the words on it and he is simply paid to read.
Don’t bother trying to explain it away. Any more words concerning it would not be heartfelt but instead be lies and simply an attempt at placating the majority of Americans which you feel are second rate to the comrades you serve. Just keep quiet and it will go away…
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Paul
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Paul Young