Comments on: Recite the Pledge of Allegiance or I Will Kill You https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/ Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:53:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: bernarda https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525572 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:53:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525572 Don’t forget that Beck threatened to kill Michael Moore or to hire someone who would kill him.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525571 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:02:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525571 The Pledge of Allegiance, as it was originally written:
I Pledge Allegiance to the flag, and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. (I think there was something in there about equality too, but it was deemed to be too radical at the time.)

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525570 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:58:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525570 Glenn Beck: “Notice she had tzar in her last name.”
What an asshole.

]]> By: SimonG https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525569 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:08:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525569 Are the people making such a fuss about the Pledge the same ones who talk about “2nd ammendment solutions”?

]]> By: bernarda https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525568 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:56:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525568 Not only was the Pledge written by a xian socialist, he didn’t include the words, “under god”. As far as I know, the Pledge has no legal standing and is never required to be cited.

Glenn Beck managed to graduate from high school, but has no other qualifications, unless you count relating bullshit on radio which is the only thing he has done.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525567 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:43:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525567 P.A: Good point.

If I read this correctly, one of the debaters used his debating time to insist that everyone recite the pledge, instead of him discussing the issue.

Expect to see more of this tactic. In fact, expect the new way to say the pledge respectfully to be to slow it WAY down…

]]> By: Paholaisen Asianajaja https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525566 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:26:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525566 I am outraged – OUTRAGED – that Glen Beck just sits and smiles while there is a Pledge of Allegience going on on the viewscreen. I thought he loved America, but apparently I was wrong.

]]> By: Rich Wilson https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525565 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:06:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525565 “What good reason is there NOT to say it in this setting”

Hey, he’s right. And what good reason is there not to say it again? I mean, if once is good, twice must be better, right? So why not just recite the pledge all night and forget about the debate? Maybe if we add a few prayers, God will come down and pick the right candidate for us.

]]> By: Laurette Austin https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525564 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:09:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525564 That is the scariest nationalist witch hunting I’ve seen yet.

]]> By: Badger3k https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525563 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:28:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/29/recite-the-pledge-of-allegianc/#comment-525563 I think “Mary had a little lamb” might be a bit too challenging for some of them.

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