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Network, Under Secular Elitism
Posted by hogan (Profile)
Sunday, June 19th
UPDATE,
NBC “Apologizes” (Fairly
pathetic one I might add - notice what is missing from the “apology?”):
The NBC
crew (I believe it was Dan Hicks) just announced that “We began our
coverage of
this final round just about 3 hours ago, and when we did, it was our
intent to
begin the coverage of this U.S. Open Championship with a feature that
captured
the patriotism of our national championship being held in our nation’s
capital
for the third time - regrettably a portion of the Pledge of Allegiance
that was
in that feature was edited out. It was not done to upset anyone. And,
we would
like to apologize to those of you who were offended by it.”
*******
Just
as I thought that the primary
reason a father who loves golf as much I do would have to boycott NBC
Sports
and it’s recently acquired Golf Channel is the inundation of frigging
Viagra
(and similar) commercials, the geniuses at NBC decided to use their
considerable wisdom and virtue to edit the Pledge of Allegiance for the
rest of
us, for they consider us dupes.
This
morning, before the final round
of the United States Open - a Father’s Day tradition for golfers in
this
country and beyond, and arguably the most grueling test of golf in the
world -
NBC produced one of those little lead-in montages… You see, the Open is
being
played at historic Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland,
right
outside of Washington, DC, and the montage was a little patriotic deal
showing
pictures along with clips of kids reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
Only - the
fine producers at NBC decided that it would be much better for the
viewers not
to be subjected to the phrase “under God,” not once - but twice.
This,
of course, is not all that
surprising - but then it happens. And we just let it happen. You see,
the
network is right that we are dupes, but not for the reasons they think
- that
is, that we are backwards, hayseed, Bible-thumpers in flyover country.
Rather,
we are dupes because we just keep watching and keep letting it happen.
We want
to watch sports, so we just gather ’round the TV for the latest
erectile
dysfunction commercial or teenage-targeted, sexed-up “Axe” commercial.
We wait
for the creative geniuses on Madison Ave. to give us another Go-Daddy
clip
while we bow-down to pink-clad athletes on the field promoting Susan
Komen (and
the money the organization gives to Planned Parenthood), all while
watching the
“green” broadcast from NBC where they praise each other for being
planet
friendly - no doubt having eschewed the limo for the Prius en route to
the
studio.
Just
like the countless other things
we do every day endorsing, either overtly or silently, the downgrade of
God,
marriage and most things virtuous - we just keep on watching.
I
wish I thought there would be a
“fix” beyond DVR. But then, that’s not really my point. My point is
that the
secular elitists continue to own it all and to push their view of the
world
into every aspect of our lives while we are forced to retreat to the
corners of
our churches and houses and pretend we are not supporting this nonsense
when we
watch and when we buy the products of the advertisers.
Oh
- and Rory just birdied the first
hole to go to minus 15… just in case you wondered how my glass house is
doing…
Read
it at Redstate
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