Same business any of us have. Free country and all that.
Has he scheduled a hearing? Has he referred this matter to any relevant committees in Congress? Doesn’t look to me like he has.
NBC is free to respond to this letter any way it chooses - it could throw it away if it wants to. It could answer promptly. Their call. And let’s remember that the original apology was driven by feedback that came from lots of people who for the most part were not senators.
Would you say they had no business asking what was up?
He’s not acting as a private citizen, he’s acting as a agent of the government. If President Obama wrote a letter to Fox News demanding that they “explain their decision making process” and assuring him they would not do something again, the righties would be screaming their heads off.
As a matter of fact, no. It was not their fucking business.
You know, the really unclassy people here are the people who think that because they’re christian, everyone in the country should be christian and those who dislike that are immoral and base. I’m tired of people gasping and clutching their pearls any time someone ‘secularizes’ an aspect of american life and I feel no guilt or shame in calling them retards until they show some sign of understanding that it’s not all about them.
That would make it awfully hard for the company to make any money, then - since it depends on people to watch it’s shows and other companies to buy its ad time.
You do not need to say the pledge at all. It is not required - indeed, this case law came down even before “under God” was added. You can sit the whole thing out.
But if you as a broadcast network decide to show it, you ought to show the whole thing. That isn’t terribly hard to understand.
Those people are still retards, and it’s still not their business. Just because a customer can make a scene and harass a business doesn’t meanthey’re right to, and the government sure as hell doesn’t have a right to. It’s not a Christian country, dude. People don’t owe you or the government explanations for not worshipping your god.
I don’t understand it at all. Please explain. Why “should” a broadcast network say the pledge the way you want it? How are you harmed if they leave out the gratuitously religiose, anti-American part?
I was trying to think of a good way to respond to some of the posts in this thread but couldn’t think of a way to say it succinctly. Due to the above, now I don’t have to. Thanks.
No, you are wrong. Even if we concede the “under God” part, that still leaves the fact that NBC also edited out “indivisible” which nobody can explain.
And like I said before, who cares? Do you think they showed every second of that golf game without any edits? If not, do you think a US Congressman should start writing angry letters demanding that NBC explain its decision?
Why does it have to be explained? Who gives a shit? Hopw are you harmed by it.
It sounds like it was probably a time issue. You don’t actually think that NBC intended the editing to further some kind of anti-God, anti-American agenda, do you? Or do you?
Incidentally, nobody has less respect for the “indivisible” part than the right wing media.
