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book_worm

(15,951 posts) Fri Jul 4, 2014, 12:16 AM Jul 2014

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Red Skelton: The Pledge of Allegiance

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Red Skelton: The Pledge of Allegiance (Original Post) book_worm Jul 2014 OP

I believe the Founders wrote the Pledge... Bucky Jul 2014 #1

The original pledge was written by a socialist and contained no mention of God. MohRokTah Jul 2014 #2

And CBS airing it nationwide in Jan of '69, the year the My Lai story broke, the week... Smarmie Doofus Jul 2014 #5

"Patriotism is the most foolish of passions and the passion of fools." Schopenhauer Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2014 #3

Love Red Skelton. longship Jul 2014 #4

jingoistic crap mwrguy Jul 2014 #6

ick. Luminous Animal Jul 2014 #7

Bucky

(54,065 posts)

1. I believe the Founders wrote the Pledge...

Reply to book_worm (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2014, 12:21 AM

Jul 2014

in order to promote tax cuts for heroic job creators, by which they meant big corporations

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)

2. The original pledge was written by a socialist and contained no mention of God.

Reply to book_worm (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2014, 12:22 AM

Jul 2014

The Godifying of the pledge was McCarthyism.

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)

5. And CBS airing it nationwide in Jan of '69, the year the My Lai story broke, the week...

Reply to MohRokTah (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 4, 2014, 12:48 AM

Jul 2014

Nixon was inaugurated, was its way of saying "fuck you" to the tens of thousand of Vietnamese who were about to die that year and to the millions of Americans who struggled and sacrificed that year to end that war.

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

3. "Patriotism is the most foolish of passions and the passion of fools." Schopenhauer

Reply to book_worm (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2014, 12:40 AM

Jul 2014

longship

(40,416 posts)

4. Love Red Skelton.

Reply to book_worm (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2014, 12:42 AM

Jul 2014

The Pledge... not so much.

mwrguy

(3,245 posts)

6. jingoistic crap

Reply to book_worm (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2014, 02:49 AM

Jul 2014

Luminous Animal

(27,310 posts)

7. ick.

Reply to book_worm (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2014, 03:07 AM

Jul 2014

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