This weekend, during its golf coverage, NBC committed the most heinous act ever before televised. This act caused both of the viewers to react angrily with their facebooks and their twitters. The act? Showing a man having sex with an underage child. No wait, that wasn’t it. This was an offense against God. A man wiping his rear with the bible. No wait, that wasn’t it either.
They showed a montage which spliced pieces showing kids reciting the pledge of allegiance. And the splices did not contain the words “under God” which was added sometime in the 1950s. Wait, that couldn’t have been it. Was that it? I guess it was.
The Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Washington, D.C. based Department of Irony, said:
“Sadly, we are seeing an erosion of expressions of faith from the public square. It is critical as a nation we do all that we can to promote freedom of speech and expression. This is includes religious freedom.
“Who ever dreamed that a major American television network would ‘censor’ and remove the mention of God in a public broadcast. Sadly, this shows how the public mention of God is under attack in our nation.”
A caller on the Rush Limbaugh show added that “golf is one of the last bastions of honorable sports in America. It does represent everything that’s good about America”, which translates to “golf is the only sport left without the coloreds. Except for that nice half-oriental boy.”
Teams have long been sporting retro jerseys. The way I look at this, NBC was sporting a retro pledge. You don’t see anyone having a piss fit when the Detroit Lions play without the lion on their helmet. Or when the Philadelphia Eagles played with those powder blue and yellow…OK, those were horrible. I admit that I wrote an angry letter.
These whiners need to go over to Darfur or Tibet to see what real religious persecution is like. I guess if I had a job that depended on sustaining a belief in an unseen creature that I would take every opportunity to suggest it was constantly “under attack in our nation.”
Well, I wasn’t one of the two who were watching golf. I heard about it on the radio where they talk about football and basketball.
I suppose I should have made that a reply. THIS, TOO, IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!
When I heard the first news reports, they made it sound as if they showed kids saying the pledge of allegiance and they bleeped out the words Under God, and I thought that was tacky. Turns out, that was wrong. Then, I was mad because that phrase was not added until the cold war era to show the Russians that we got God and they don’t, and I thought adding that phrase was a stupid thing to do. Throughout all the confusion, I knew one thing and that was that you would write about it and so glad you did.