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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 850791" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><strong>FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:</strong></p><p></p><p>A 22-year-old from Northern Ireland won the U.S. Open Sunday at Congressional Country Club outside Washington. It was a stunning performance. It's too bad the same can't be said about NBC, the network televising our national championship.</p><p></p><p>At the beginning of the telecast, NBC aired a patriotic montage featuring video clips of national monuments and soldiers raising an American flag, cut around a group of school-aged children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Only during the pledge, the phrases <a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/20/nbc-apologizes-for-cutting-under-god-from-pledge-of-allegiance/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #004276">"under God" and "indivisible" were edited out</span></strong></a>, twice. The piece was supposed to play up the whole patriotism theme with the golf course hosting our national championship so close to our nation's capital and all. But a lot of people couldn't get past the missing lines. Who does this?</p><p></p><p>Angry viewers immediately took to Twitter bashing NBC and suggesting a boycott of the network. Others called into their NBC affiliates to complain. And before the broadcast ended, announcer Dan Hicks issued an on-air apology of sorts, saying the omission was not meant to upset anyone and that the network was sorry to those who were offended. It wasn't nearly enough.</p><p></p><p>Today, NBC went one step further, releasing a statement:</p><p>"We are aware of the distress this has caused many of our viewers and are taking the issue very seriously. Unfortunately, when producing the piece - which was intended to capitalize on the patriotism of having our national championship played in our nation's capital - a decision was made by a small group of people to edit portions of the Pledge of Allegiance. This was a bad decision."</p><p></p><p>The network also said if disciplinary action is taken, it will be handled internally and not be made public.</p><p>The original Pledge of Allegiance, of course, did not include the words, "Under God." They were added by Congress in the 1950s. As a result, they are as much a part of our salute to our flag as the rest of the words in the pledge. And it boggles the mind that a bunch of morons at NBC can take it upon themselves to decide which part to include and which part to omit. Those responsible ought to be fired on the spot.</p><p></p><p><strong>Here’s my question to you:</strong> Why would NBC edit out part of the Pledge of Allegiance before the U.S. Open?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 850791, member: 1246"] [B]FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:[/B] A 22-year-old from Northern Ireland won the U.S. Open Sunday at Congressional Country Club outside Washington. It was a stunning performance. It's too bad the same can't be said about NBC, the network televising our national championship. At the beginning of the telecast, NBC aired a patriotic montage featuring video clips of national monuments and soldiers raising an American flag, cut around a group of school-aged children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Only during the pledge, the phrases [URL="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/20/nbc-apologizes-for-cutting-under-god-from-pledge-of-allegiance/"][B][COLOR=#004276]"under God" and "indivisible" were edited out[/COLOR][/B][/URL], twice. The piece was supposed to play up the whole patriotism theme with the golf course hosting our national championship so close to our nation's capital and all. But a lot of people couldn't get past the missing lines. Who does this? Angry viewers immediately took to Twitter bashing NBC and suggesting a boycott of the network. Others called into their NBC affiliates to complain. And before the broadcast ended, announcer Dan Hicks issued an on-air apology of sorts, saying the omission was not meant to upset anyone and that the network was sorry to those who were offended. It wasn't nearly enough. Today, NBC went one step further, releasing a statement: "We are aware of the distress this has caused many of our viewers and are taking the issue very seriously. Unfortunately, when producing the piece - which was intended to capitalize on the patriotism of having our national championship played in our nation's capital - a decision was made by a small group of people to edit portions of the Pledge of Allegiance. This was a bad decision." The network also said if disciplinary action is taken, it will be handled internally and not be made public. The original Pledge of Allegiance, of course, did not include the words, "Under God." They were added by Congress in the 1950s. As a result, they are as much a part of our salute to our flag as the rest of the words in the pledge. And it boggles the mind that a bunch of morons at NBC can take it upon themselves to decide which part to include and which part to omit. Those responsible ought to be fired on the spot. [B]Here’s my question to you:[/B] Why would NBC edit out part of the Pledge of Allegiance before the U.S. Open? [/QUOTE]
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