Should NBC apologize over Pledge controversy?

NBC apologizes for omitting ‘under God’ from pledge before U.S. Open

[QUOTEIn case it's been awhile since you said the pledge in elementary school, the first version left out the words "under God" and "indivisible." The second went even further, knocking out "one nation" as well.
The outcry on Twitter was immediate and almost universally negative. Perhaps this style was an artistic choice on the part of the segment producer, interweaving the pledge with military and golf-related sound bites, but the decision to leave out "under God" is a curious one at best, and a highly controversial one, without doubt.
Later in the telecast, host Dan Hicks read the following statement during coverage: "It was our intent to begin our coverage of this U.S. Open championship with a feature that captured the patriotism of our national championship being here in our nation's capital for the third time. Regrettably, a portion of the pledge of allegiance that was in that feature was edited out. It was not done to upset anyone and we'd like to apologize to those of you who were offended by it."
Of note: "under God" was not in the original pledge from 1892, which read, "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." The words "under God" were not added to the pledge until 1954, when President Eisenhower signed Congressional legislation to that effect into law.][/QUOTE]

My firsts thoughts went like this:

Is it Comcast/NBC policy to not mention God?

Is it the Judeo-Christian God only that is to be omitted or all religions?

In their desire to not offend a few people did they not understand they would offend even more people?

Why did they simply not have a pre-taped segment of the Pledge, in order to avoid an obvious controversy?

Now should they apologize? Or should they just be criticized for being stupid.
Or even both.

 

Well it has happened, so at this point apologizing is a little useless. Don't think anyone died over it. lol

However, I think it's a shame that they went so far as to omit stuff that has to do with the history of our country. Now I'm not implying that all the founding fathers were christians, yada yada yada so I hope no one gets their panties in a bunch. I just think you can't be patriotic in America anymore, especially when it comes to stuff that suggest America was in some way a little more unified on certain issues of the past, like religious affiliation and loyalty to one's country, it's like if it doesn't fit a mold by today's standards of 'anything goes' then it's deemed as offensive, outdated and controversial. It's not like they were hanging a nazi flag high and saying a pledge that suggested genocide, it was the freakin' pledge of allegiance to America while in America, if people don't like it they can leave, get earplugs or hide under a rock.

 

They don't need to apologize. Not at all. The Pledge of Allegiance didn't have "under God" in it when the country started. The only ones pissed off are the conservative, right-wing dingbats who don't know anything about United States history, except the fabricated ones concocted in their head.

In other words, this controversy is based on sheer stupidity. We're a nation that believes in the freedom of religion, as well as freedom FROM religion. We're not bound by any religious doctrine and our morals aren't based off of any religious jargon. Rather, we're a secular nation that allows all beliefs to be practice and our government shan't favor any one idea.

Certainly, the words "...our Creator" in the preamble speaks some volumes, but even that can be interpreted in numerous ways besides something of dualism.