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Interesting - no comments about NBC's Pledge of Allegiance edit?

formeraa said:
But why would a large, very conservative corporation like NBC Universal/Comcast intentionally edit the Pledge of Allegiance? When I was growing up in the 70's, there were certain RELIGIOUS groups that didn't allow their children to say the Pledge and others that told their kids not to say the "Under God" part.

I'm not sure who decided to edit the montage. Maybe a rogue MSNBC editor who was filling in? But, seriously, I don't even think MSNBC would be against the "Pledge of Allegiance".
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A Conservative Corporation? Hard to square that after spending even five minutes tuned to MSNBC.
Here in Pennsylvania, Comcast has always had the reputation of being deep in the pockets of the
Philly Democratic machine.

I personally agree the cut was done deliberately. Just stating the historical fact that under God
was not in the original pledge.
 
Darth_vader said:
"I pledge alleigance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation (pause) indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." That's how I always said it in school, despite the looks of horror on some of my peers' faces when I'd omit the compulsory "under *" part.

Nothing wrong with that. I don't think I'm any less an athiest than I would have ended up had I left the "under *" part in!
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By the time I went to High School in the late 1960s, the Vietnam War protests and "hippie" era were going strong. Though I lived and went to school in a very conservative Republican town, there were a number of students who engaged in silent protests by refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Some would stand respectfully, a few others would insist on remaining in their seats.

Nobody, including the most conservative teachers - objected to this, or demanded that they recite the Pledge.
 
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