Senator Dan Coats of Indiana isn’t too happy about the network omitting the words “Under God” in one of its broadcasts and is now demanding that NBC provide a “full written account of its decision-making process in this matter, including an explanation of why these specific words were omitted, and what actions NBC intends to take to prevent such inappropriate edits from occurring in the future.”
Here’s the story:
And here’s the letter that he sent:
I apologize on behalf of my fellow Hoosier taxpayers for this clown. I didn’t vote for him, but I clearly wasn’t vocal enough and active enough in my support for his opponent.
Can I vote for NBC in this election?
25+ years ago, when I joined the USAF, we were given the option to omit the words “under God” from all pledges and oaths. I guess what is good enough for our Armed Forces is not good enough for the good Senator.
And by good I mean ‘bloody venereal disease ridden douche-bag’. And that is being kind.
Did he have the same problem when Republicans selectively edited the reading of the US Constitution? (On the floor of the House no less.)
So, I guess he never read the original Pledge of Allegiance, which did not include the phrase “Under God”. It was added in the 1950s.
It’s a socialist pledge anyway. Coats must be a socialist if he believes in it. Which means Coats was probably born in Kenya. Anyone seen his birth certificate? What is he hiding anyway?
I am displeased to see my tax dollars wasted in this way. Well, ok, I am not in Indiana, and this ain’t my Senator, but still…there are more productive ways he could spend his time.
I’m with the Republicans on that one. If a passage has been amended out of existence, there’s no reason you should have to read it. Also, it was a little weird to see the act framed as anti-black or revisionist — it makes more sense as a way of emphasizing the importance and the authority of the amendments.
(Sorry for the hijack.)
I hope that NBC just ignores his demand for a further accounting.
I kinda wish they’d respond with a special prime time edition of Saturday Night Live devoted entirely to ridiculing Senator Coats. Perhaps the writers could be properly motivated by reading Hustler Magazine v Falwell before they start work on the script.
But they probably won’t do that.
I always understood the “under God” part in a sexual sense anyway – some find it objectionable?! Come on, He’s had a hard day! Be reasonable, it’s not that hard, go to church, get on your knees, smile and think about your canning, it’s over in an hour.
A prime time documentary on the origins of the Pledge, complete with an exposition of the political views of its author sounds to me like it would be the appropriate response to Coats.
Dear Senator,
We left it out because we’re Commies.
Regards,
NBC
Stressing that Bellamy was, at the same time, a capitalist trying to sell flags, and a socialist trying to spread a message.
More Americans need to learn to stretch their minds around things.
And it should also highlight the Bellamy Salute. 
altering the pledge of allegiance of the first ever SECULAR government founded on planet earth? who would even think of committing such sacrilege?
Wait! You’re telling me the U.S. is not a Christian nation? :eek:
Whilst we See What You Did There, I expect the good Senator will not (‘good’ as defined upthread).
The difference between the two cases: NBC altered the existing Pledge. The Constitution was not altered; what was read was the current operative version of the document.
There’s no point in reading the Eighteenth Amendment if the subsequent Twenty-First simply says, “The Eighteenth Amendment is hereby repealed.”
There was no point to standing there reading it at all, actually.