Violating Our Values

NBC included most of America's Pledge of Allegiance in yesterday's coverage of golf's U.S. Open but conspicuously omitted "under God" not once but twice. This sort of mischief is par for the course not only for the dinosaur media in general but for the family of NBC networks with the exception of CNBC in particular. MSNBC is a Leftist cesspool and even in some of their sports coverage, NBC has tried to foist the Green (environmental) agenda down the throats of their viewers. The latest insult of an atheist pledge is particularly galling in a country where more than ninety percent of Americans are self-identifying believers. We are not doubters, agnostic about the existence of a higher power, or unbelievers in any significant numbers and altering the pledge only insults the vast majority of those watching. Of course, local stations mimic their national networks and many times, slap us in the face with equal vigor. One of the public affairs shows on my local CBS affiliate is a thirty minute program for homosexual advocacy in the city of Nashville that has aptly been called the "buckle of the Bible belt". In such cases, I think the offended viewer may best take umbrage by voting with their dollars and spending not with their advertisers but with those who comport with our own values.