Thursday, June 30, 2011

The anti-religious media

Earlier this month, NBC launched its coverage of the final round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship with a generally patriotic video montage
Interspersed with this patriotic footage was video of children in a classroom reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Talk about creative! Juxtaposing the innocence of children’s voices speaking the words of the pledge against the dramatic and intentional act of raising the colors with military precision, wordlessly communicated the message, “Our military protects us and keeps us safe.”

There was only one glitch, evident to every golf lover tuned in June 18, as well as the millions of folks who have since watched the video on the Internet. The audio of the pledge - repeated during the 100-second video - was edited twice to exclude the words “under God” and “indivisible,” and on the second pass, to also exclude “one nation.”

Three hours into the event’s coverage, commentator Dan Hicks, perhaps revealing the volume of calls that deluged NBC’s telephone operators, interjected into his golf riff, “It was our intent to begin the coverage of this U.S. Open Championship with a feature that captured the patriotism of our national championship being held in our nation’s capital for the third time. Regrettably, a portion of the Pledge of Allegiance that was in that feature was edited out. It was not done to upset anyone, and we’d like to apologize to those of you who were offended by it.”

Plenty of Americans were offended. As Dan Gainor, vice president of business and culture at the Media Research Center notes, “NBC has unquestionably committed an act of religious bigotry. … Removing ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance … was absolutely not accidental. It was brazenly deliberate. NBC’s pathetic apology did nothing but compound the offense by refusing to admit what they had done.”

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was "delberately brazen" that the offensive words "under god" were forced into the Pledge by religious zealots around fifty or sixty years ago. I pledged my life when I enlisted in the army in 1945; I no longer feel any need to repeat the approved altered version of the Pledge.

Anonymous said...

I'd love to see the list of other words the offend Anon 6:20. Hazarding a guess, the entire country, it's founding documents and just about everything that is not part of the uberleftists constant whining and moaning is found offensive by Pfc. Anon.

Anonymous said...

I am Anon. 6:20. I have very low respect for any liberals and most of the media. I say to you religious types, live your religion to the fullest, but do not push it onto me.


I suggest that you should not jump to false conclusions just because you are in doubt about your own religious identity.

Jub jub Bird said...

Like them using terms like BCE(BEFORE COMMON ERA) and CE(COMMON ERA) instead of BC and AD as if their afraid of offending some silly atheisats pissiepants wacktard

Anonymous said...

The world has more groups than christians and atheists. What about jews, muslims, hindus and numerous others who do not wish to have a christian-related calendar imposed on them. Would you want to have your year numbered after Mohammed's lifetime or the ancient Hebrews' timescale? Surely "Common Era" is globally fair and reasonable while still keeping the year-number the Christ-related one.