Posts Tagged ‘Pledge of Allegiance’

NBC apologized in the wake of an avalanche of protest phone calls, emails, tweets and Facebook posts, saying it was an accidental omission.

But, seriously, how can it be accidental if you are editing something out?

I can understand forgetting to include or add something in — like forgetting to add surgar to the cake you’re making or forgetting to thank someone when you are on stage accepting your Oscar.

But to edit something out requires an affirmative act. You have to do it. That’s very different than forgetting to do something.