NBC in their finite wisdom ran an edited version of the Pledge of Allegiance before their coverage of the US open last week. The words "under God" and "indivisible" are mysteriously removed from the NBC versions.
This has to be a sign of our fucked up politically correct, hope nobody gets offended, please don't have the ACLU sue us world we live in. How stupid is this?
Consider for one minute removing phrases of famous pop songs - Beat It would become just "Beat", and although Michael "pedophile" Jackson was never convicted - his career would have taken a different trajectory with a song called "Beat". The same could be said for "Billie Jean". Billie is not my lover - sure Mike. Little Billie probably is your pin cushion.
How stupid would the Ozzy Osbourne song Crazy Train be without the "crazy"? A song called train? Those connotations need no explanation.
I could go on and on but the point has been made - don't fuck with song lyrics. Vains of Jenna recently covered the Celo song "Fuck You" and omitted the word "nigger" from their version of the song. Stupid, and offensive to the songwriter, but the cultural rules for who can use what words is another topic for another day.
NBC is all about making money: samoleans, casholies, dollars. I know it's a stretch NBC, but feel free to look at ANY US paper currency and read the text. No, not the e plurbus unum part, the "In God We Trust" part. When you start running a non profit network, you can be stylish. Until then you are just a bunch of assholes - sorry, fucking assholes!
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