NBC apology on Pledge of Allegiance doesn't satisfy Family Research Council

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Source: CNN

The Family Research Council, a conservative Christian advocacy group, is turning up the heat on NBC after it edited out "under God, indivisible" - twice - during a taped piece of children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as part of last weekend's final round coverage of the U.S. Open Golf Championship.

The group wants to see the pledge recited on NBC, in its entirety, daily.

The criticism on social media over the golf gaffe came fast enough that NBC issued an on-air apology Sunday a few hours later during its coverage.

NBC lead golf commentator Dan Hicks told the audience, "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."

Read more: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/23/nbc-apology-on-pledge-of-allegiance-doesnt-satisfy-family-research-council/?hpt=hp_t2

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The same Family Research Council that is listed as a hate group by the SPLC? That Family Research Council? NBC is groveling to them? Ugh.

[alp227]

1. fuck the FRC, fuck religion, tough shit if you think it was offensive/scarring n/t

[66 dmhlt]

7. Fuck the FRC & FUCK Gregory, Todd, Williams, Lauer ...

They're all ass-licking right-wing Repubican sycophants who only shill GOP talking points!

(Did I mention to FUCK 'EM ALL?)

[tridim]

2. And thus NBC pledges allegiance to the FRC.

Screw both of you.

[kestrel91316]

3. If NBC caves and agrees to broadcast the Pledge every day,

I will NEVER watch them again.

FUCK THE FRC.

[alp227]

10. oh yeah, don't forget Comcast, but what about MSNBC, and Keith O's on Current TV now

[SoapBox]

4. I have a response to the so-called Family Rotten Organization...

*finger*

[InkAddict]

5. Additionally, another one-finger salute to NBC and its sponsors and

and subliminal divisive programming. Games are games; American lives--lost in useless war while fluffy news is distributed on orders from the corporate masters--another. Steven King got it--low men in yellow/green jackets.

[PatrynXX]

6. Family Research Puke can't have it both ways

the under God thing is the change. Not a serious problem really. can't have it both ways as in 1947 some part of land became Israel setting the stage for years of fighting. Someone will point to the Nazi's and say we must support Israel, but what about all the other jews who are pro palestine? Who actually see the country of Israel turning into nazi's. again can't have it both ways. Under God and Israel aren't even 100 yrs old yet.

[avebury]

8. As the original Pledge of Allegience did not include

the words under God I would tell them to take a hike.

[madrchsod]

12. they added it to the pledge because of the godless commies....

the same commies we trade with today...

50,000+ americans died in Vietnam so we can buy cheap t shirts at walmart

we sold our industrial base to china

the russians own a majority of of metal working and mining companies

but at least we still have "in god we trust"

[madrchsod]

9. hmmm ...let`s see...fuck the FRC

they give christ a bad name

[EC]

11. Oh, for crying out loud...

This is only the Family Research Council, so who cares what they want? How can they be a threat to NBC?

[Bake]

13. Well DUH! What did NBC freakin' EXPECT??

Somebody DECIDED to edit the pledge footage. If they were going to include it at all, which nobody forced them to do, they should have done it in its entirety, not edited.

Did they think the fundies wouldn't catch that? Did they think no one would notice?

That's just being DUMBASS.

Bake

[emilyg]

19. Agree 100%.

[snagglepuss]

20. It was patently clear what the reaction would be which makes me think this is

a piece of Kabuki theater, stunt to 'prove' Librul media hates amerika.

[Blacksheep214]

14. If I believed in a god

and that god was different than the frc god, they would still be pissed!

So much for religious freedom and acceptance.

[Ian David]

15. Whiney-ass tittybabies. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Apologies seem to mean dick to republicans nowadays.

Anthony Weiner apologized and that wasn't good enough.

What republicans and their ilk want is an unfair advantage or privilege granted to them when they come upon a transgression by their standards. Or public punishment and humiliation conferred upon their target.

[LetTimmySmoke]

17. Adam Carolla summed it up on the religious conservatives.

They just want to complain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Ygmd0Awws - start at about 2:40

[Grassy Knoll]

18. I asked God about this.......

but he/she is not talking, that's weird.

[Blue_Tires]

21. why are schoolkids saying the pledge during a pro golf tournament?

[robcon]

22. It was a mistake - probably a tiny one by an low-level editor,

The Repugs are just trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.

[JackRiddler]

29. Probably not a mistake. And if so, give that editor a medal.

Maybe s/he didn't have the power to block the nationalist mumbo-jumbo, but at least s/he cut out the part where we bow down to an imaginary superpowered monarch of the universe.

[fascisthunter]

23. I Figured this was all Theatre

now I know it is... religious right wing has more power than the majority of Americans in this country. Funny how a pathetically fanatical group can have that much control over the media huh?

[JackRiddler]

24. Long as we're on "fuck this" and "fuck that," fuck the Pledge of Allegiance.

Propaganda broadcast shows youth reciting a promise to blindly follow a piece of cloth.

Religious fascists outraged at omission of their imaginary super-monarch.

Eye-rolling rationalists left in double bind where they must support the TV network?

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[JackRiddler]

27. A pledge of allegiance to a flag is the opposite of citizenship.

Citizens take conscious responsibility as the sovereigns of a democracy.

A democracy does not impose an oath of obedience to a piece of cloth that any demagogue can hoist and wave. That's a totalitarian ideal.

[KansDem]

26. NBC should just say it was using the pre-1954 "Pledge"

...and tell the Family Research Council to go f*ck themselves!

[JackRiddler]

28. NBC should discover the 1787 constitution, which begins "We the People" and not "I the Flag"

Among the ironies here is that the pledge of allegiance was written as a Socialist idealist's means for making the children of all our immigrant tribes feel like they're part of one nation. Later it became a nationalist requirement and a conformity oath. Try sitting it out at school!

Free people do not pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth!

[Rockholm]

30. Indivisible was omitted. Guess we are easily divided.

And the FRC is great at dividing people.
There are a few of us in my Rotary Club who omit "under God" during the pledge.