Rep. Todd Akin screws up the Pledge of Allegiance, leaves out ‘indivisible.’
Rep. Todd Akin screws up the Pledge of Allegiance, leaves out ‘indivisible.’
Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) had the honor of leading the anti-health care protesters on Capitol Hill today in the Pledge of Allegiance. To show his fervent devotion to the Pledge, he gave a short speech about the importance of the phrase “under God.” However, when it came time to actually recite the Pledge, he was so excited about that one phrase that he forgot to say “indivisible” before “with liberty, and justice for all.” The crowd seemed to remember the actual words though, which threw Akin a bit off track. Watch it:
When right-wing radio host Mark Levin took the stage a short while later, the American flag fell over, and he exclaimed, “What the hell is this? Dare I say it? The flag drops. Hold up the flag and drop that [the health care bill]!”
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Reich-wingers desecrating the Flag….no one is surprised.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:46 pmHowever, when it came time to actually recite the Pledge, he was so excited about that one phrase that he forgot to say “indivisible” before “with liberty, and justice for all. (*)”
Considering he belongs to the party that’s divided the citizens of the country between “real americans” and “socialist traitors”, I’d say his gaffe is oddly appropiate.
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November 5th, 2009 at 1:47 pm(*) Void where prohibited. Not applies to anyone deemed “unlawful combatant” by the previous administration.
Maybe he “forgot” on purpose… Does he want Rick Perry’s dream of secession to become a reality?
November 5th, 2009 at 1:49 pmWhy wasn’t he booed of stage? If a Democrat screwed up the Pledge, the Righties would gather pitchforks and fire.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:49 pmWhat morons. drop healthcare? This is the problem with these guys, they simply don’t care that millions don’t have healthcare. They belong in the party of NO!
November 5th, 2009 at 1:50 pmFurther proof that the GOP and conservatives truely believe any and all problems can be solved by invoking a god and waving a flag.
Healthcare crisis? “Under God and the Flag, we don’t have a healthcare crisis. Anyone uninsured can just go to the emergency room”
Iraq War? “It was Divine Will and anyone who doesn’t think so hates the Flag and hates our freedoms”
Financial Meltdown? “God wants me to be rich and it’s an insult to America and the Flag to regulate the markets.”
November 5th, 2009 at 1:53 pmI thought Billy Mays died a few months ago? It sounded like this Akin character was gonna try to sell me some Oxy-Clean.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:53 pmRep. Todd Akin screws up the Pledge of Allegiance, leaves out ‘indivisible.’
– - Because indivisible means ‘incapable of being divided’ and if the GOP understands anything, it’s divisiveness.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:54 pmGlad to see teabaggers continue to politicize “God”. What a perverse group of scum.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:54 pmEnnu@6, Yeah, why do anything when GOD can do it? Why SOLVE anything when GOD can do it? I look at it this way, I was always taught that God helps those who help themselves.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:55 pmThere’s a simple explanation.
Teabaggers don’t recognize “indivisible” as a valid American principle.
How many teabaggers have argued for seccession since Obama took office?
November 5th, 2009 at 1:55 pmEye pwedge ahweginecnce to the United Fruit Company stands, one nayshun udder gawd mit corporate gweed fur all. All men.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:55 pmI guess we can add the Pledge of Allegiance to the things that Republicans read selectively (along with the Bible, the Constitution, CBO reports, etc.)
November 5th, 2009 at 1:56 pmSo Levin knew the flag was going to drop before the flag dropped? The “What the hell is this…” came before Old Glory fell. The symbolism just can’t be missed on that one.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:57 pm.
Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) quotes Lincoln…
… Let’s play ‘count the minorities’ in the crowd.
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November 5th, 2009 at 1:57 pmIf the nation really were “indivisible” the Republic Party would be out of business.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:57 pmRep. Todd Akin screws up the Pledge of Allegiance, leaves out ‘indivisible.’
– - Akin left it out because, much like Joe Wilson didn’t know what ‘dithering’ meant, neither did Akin understand ‘indivisible.’ Illiterate redneck crackers.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:57 pmIf they want to secede, let ‘em.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:58 pmOMG! Andrea Mitchell called Cantor to the carpet on the signs. He rolled out the same lame excuse. ‘We can’t control what the protesters do. The protesters aren’t elected officials’. Damn these Repugs are repulsive.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:58 pmhe forgot to say “indivisible”
No he didn’t forget, the reichwingers are trying to divide the country and start a civil war.
And just what magical, invisible faerie God is he talking about?
Satan? That seems to be the conservatives god now days.
The Flag fell out of sorrow, because of what reichwinger scum have done.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:58 pmSad thing is that the people out there cheering these repub asshats on, don’t realize that these repubs do not have any of their best interest at heart.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:58 pmMore evidence that the reich-wing jihadists are aiming to create a truly theocratic party. The Constitution and Treaty of Tripoli be damned.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:59 pmHow many of those screwballs, apart from the congress critter slime, even have health insurance?
November 5th, 2009 at 2:00 pm(Akin)gave a short speech about the importance of the phrase “under God.”
shortly thereafter…
When right-wing radio host Mark Levin took the stage a short while later, the American flag fell over, and he exclaimed, “What the hell is this?
That’s exactly what this is.
I guess there is a god…
November 5th, 2009 at 2:00 pm;)
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Well, leaving out indivisible seems appropriate about now…
… Because America is quite divided ’bout now.
Texas and Alaska Separatist Parties on the rise. Hell, Alaska’s Governor was a member and continued to sleep with one!
Now, the Party of Lincoln has all but turned their back on Black Americans.
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November 5th, 2009 at 2:02 pmThere’s not a wingnut alive that has any “allegiance” to anything other than himself, money, and the abject blind hatred of people not just like him, skin color especially.
Personally, I quit saying the pledge many, many years ago and will never say it again until I sense something worth pledging allegiance TO has reappeared, reemerged from the darkness which today defines this nation. The Flag? Hardly. It stands more for imperialism, for aggressive war, for corporate business, and for Greed, power, and intellectual sloth than anything else. Why would anyone have any allegiance for that crap? I do pledge an allegiance to the Constitution, as amended, to the “idea” of a country that celebrates and is celebrated by “We the people,” but we lost that long, long ago. That a Republican Wingnut “forgot” (or ignored) the word indivisible in the pledge comes as no surprise to me. They’ve also, each and all, forgotten (or never knew) what once lay beneath those words. They should be ashamed of their hypocrisy, though I’m sure none of them are.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:02 pmI wonder if that clown or any of the sheeple in the crowd realize that the pledge was written by a utopian socialist in the late 19th century. Don’t think adding “under god” during the cold war is enough to overcome that taint.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:02 pmYes, secession is a possibility, but there’s also the Tenthers who wouldn’t like the “indivisible” phrase either.
Incidentally, the author of the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy was a Christian Socialist minister who was kicked out of one of his pulpits because of his socialist sermons. In his Florida retirement he stopped attending church altogether because of the racial bigotry. His cousin, Edward Bellamy, wrote the classic utopian socialist novel, Looking Backward.
He died in 1931, but his granddaughter said that as a staunch church-state separationist, he would have been appalled by the 1954 insertion of “under God.”
I doubt that he would have been at any tea parties.
(Another factoid: the original “Bellamy salute” was the same as the Nazi-Fascist salute–although it predated them. FDR and later statute mandated the current hand over heart salute.)
November 5th, 2009 at 2:03 pm18, They’ll need a name for their new country.
How about “The Patriotic People’s State of Rushlandia“?
November 5th, 2009 at 2:04 pmevangenital
Judging from the amount of white hair I see in the crowd I am guessing most of them have health insurance — socialist, government provided Medicare to be precise.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:05 pmTally me banana, then leave the country because you’re an undocumented immigrant and are draining resources from this country. Resources that could be going to rich, white people.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:06 pmSince the Faux Snooze video feed had such tight camera shots, we can only assume that they didn’t get the tens of thousands of teabagger wingnuts that they expected to show at this Bachmann from Batshittia cluster fcuk…
November 5th, 2009 at 2:06 pmAnd I also imagine this crowd is mostly old, white, and bitter. Guaranteed these sheeple don’t read, don’t travel and only listen to Faux News. What a ‘Base’ the Repugs have!
November 5th, 2009 at 2:06 pmI bet you that the guy who just won the marthon could recite the pledge and get it completely right.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:07 pmand think he`s not a real american just a ringer.
So the rally should end by 4:30, then, right? Just in time for the early-bird specials and Matlock reruns.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:09 pmoh darn you #28, I was going to ask many of the people at this rally even know “under God” was added in the 50’s!
November 5th, 2009 at 2:10 pmRep Todd Akin was the first in a long line idiots you will see today if you choose to watch Fox “News”.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:12 pmSo were there 20 or 40million people there this time?
November 5th, 2009 at 2:12 pmToo concerned with ‘under god’, they totally ignore ‘with liberty and justice for all‘. The final phrase didn’t need to be inserted later because it the real the foundation of the country.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:13 pmthey start a media assault over a lapel pin.. and this goon doesn’t even know the pledge of allegiance?
This defines them so well.. goose stepping around claiming they are patriotic when they haven’t the foggiest idea what it even means.. claiming the bible when they’ve never read it – claiming the constitution when they don’t understand it – claiming an interest in democracy – only when they are the ones in power.
It’s a great joy to me watching these fascists fail.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:14 pmPledge of Allegiance FAIL
November 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pmeyeswideopen1 says:
So were there 20 or 40million people there this time?
I heard it was over 58 million, everyone who voted for McSame/Quitter.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:17 pmeyeswideopen1 says:
So were there 20 or 40million people there this time?
All I’ve seen so far is “thousands”, which could just be the industry’s lobbyists.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:18 pm“Rep. Todd Akin screws up the Pledge of Allegiance, leaves out ‘indivisible.’”
And you would think that Akin would have the common decency and a brain to recite the Pledge of Allegiance correctly but then again we are talking about the GOP party without a brain. Somewhere a village of GOP idiots have lost their village. Another nail in the GOP coffin for 2010 and 2012.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:19 pmHe didn’t screw it up. This is the New Republican™-Approved [NRA] version. Divisiveness is not to be shunned, rather extolled.
Cheers,
November 5th, 2009 at 2:20 pm“indivisible” is a commie word? The things you learn at a Teabagger rally.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:21 pmQuick, Rep. Akin, your Freudian slip is showing.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:25 pm#36 Anita says:
oh darn you #28, I was going to ask many of the people at this rally even know “under God” was added in the 50’s!
… and the pledge originally written by … <*ummm-ahem*> … a Socialist.
Cheers,
November 5th, 2009 at 2:25 pmMy online dictionary defines the word indivisible as:
Therefore – is it any wonder that a member of the political party which has been threatening to have their states secede from the union since Obama won the Presidency might deliberately omit that word from their Pledge?
Just saying . . .
November 5th, 2009 at 2:27 pmOh, man. These nutters are pathetic.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:28 pmDoes anybody have a number of the people there? Nobody on MSM is giving me a number. And I REFUSE to watch Faux news.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:29 pmSo GOD doesnt want his nation healthy unless it enriches wall street?
November 5th, 2009 at 2:30 pmI hope Akin was at least wearing his flag pin.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:31 pmIrony at its finest.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:32 pmJust imagine if a Democrat was holding a rally and the Flag fell to the ground. Drudge and Faux would have blaring headlines and giant photos. The fake outrage would be heard for weeks.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:32 pmThe other night some jackass ridiculed Tweety for saying ‘Tea-Baggers’. Even my husband said, “Didn’t the Repugs start saying ‘Tea-Baggers’ and I said yeah. They had a idiot on Faux News with his own teabags. How the Repugs love to rewrite history,
November 5th, 2009 at 2:32 pmObama talking to schoolchildren is indoctrination but the Pledge isn’t?
November 5th, 2009 at 2:32 pmIt surprises me that Akin left out “indivisible” from the Pledge, because just about every American I know can recite the Pledge perfectly, even if they’re drunk or half asleep. Most of us rattle it off without even thinking about the words.
We were programmed to do so when we learned the Pledge in kindergarten and didn’t know what most of the words meant.
Maybe Todd really doesn’t know the Pledge — except for the “under God” part. Sort of like how many of the rabid righties fight fervently to get the 10 Commandments placed in every school and every public building, yet only know about two or three of them by heart.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:33 pmLiz Morrison says:
They’ll need a name for their new country.
How about “The Patriotic People’s State of Rushlandia“?
– - Rushia works just fine.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:40 pmWe must always remember that these are the people who think they are being oppressed because it’s illegal to burn witches, Muslims, homosexuals, communists, “libruls”, and atheists at the stake. I’ve pretty much given up hope that the poor creatures will display any sign of rationality or decency.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:41 pmThe phrase “under God” was inserted in a place in the pledge that separates “nation” from “indivisible” in word. The assimilation of church and state accomplishes that separation in deed. I have not said “under God” in the pledge for many years. Akin obviously has a different priority.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pmI sorta like: Teabagistan
November 5th, 2009 at 2:44 pmNot less expected from the Theocratic Party.
All about gawwwd and nothing about real justice.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:46 pmPLC @61 – that makes two of us.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:47 pmIndivisible ? Remember Texas and other 10th amendment groups.
And is this the million folks that Bachman was promising ? From the sound, it seems like it isn’t even a thousand.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:53 pm62, Teabagistan? That’ll work.
They’ll need a pledge of allegiance:
Teabagistan. Shoot first, ask questions last. Under God.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:55 pmWow, that’s hilarious because he is so pompous in his speech at the beginning.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:56 pmIf Jesus of Nazareth (Palestine) were alive today, Republicans (Bush and Cheney) would take Him into custody, strip Him naked, electrocute Him, waterboard Him, beat Him and spit on Him, and when He has just an ounce of life left inside Him, they would nail Him to a cross.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:56 pmThese idiots that think we don’t need health care reform? I certainly hope this doesn’t happen to them.
Mucking Forons.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:02 pmAnd they would have called him a Marxist, librul, socialist hippie.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:10 pmHe’s jus’ like dumbass GA Rep Lynn Westmoreland, who wants the 10 Commandments carved in stone at the Capitol, but can’t name more than 2 of them.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:10 pmWhat drives liberals nuts about the Pledge of Allegiance is the GOP yutzes who wrap themselves in it but forget the words contained in it.
But he got the “under God” part right, the part that was added in the hysteria of the McCarthy era, and that’s what counts most with the D-Bag Teabaggers.
When I was in the Army and was the Color Guard for our Commanding General’s change of command ceremony, my Command Sergeant Major threatened to “tear out my throat” if I let the U.S. Flag I was carrying touch the ground. That flag represents those fools’ right to speak their nonsense, yet they treat it as a prop. They should be ashamed they knocked over the flag.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:12 pmA sign from God if I ever saw one. God summoned the mighty wind to show his displeasure. Can’t these people ‘read’ real signs?
November 5th, 2009 at 3:13 pm#64 Dave N says:
PLC @61 – that makes two of us.
Three. And I don’t insist that my students include it either.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:15 pmSimple Freudian slip, that’s all.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:20 pmelliottut@72: that sounds about right — when I was in the Army, my first CSM threatened to tear out my throat for a lot of stuff — and I was an O1!
November 5th, 2009 at 3:20 pmHere are the Ten Commandments:
ONE: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.’
TWO: ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image–any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.’
THREE: ‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.’
FOUR: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.’
FIVE: ‘Honor your father and your mother.’
SIX: ‘You shall not murder.’
SEVEN: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
EIGHT: ‘You shall not steal.’
NINE: ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.’
TEN: ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.’
Identify one that is observed by neocons!
November 5th, 2009 at 3:35 pmAkin loves to “drive the liberals crazy” then cannot even get the pledge correct. This butt plug is about as patriotic as the faded yellow ribbon on the back of his truck. The zealot rethugs whine about the anger and split between the two parties and then they spew crap like “this drives the liberals crazy” The thugs are the party of hate and greed.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:39 pmpegging the lameness meter, these folks.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:49 pmThe FOX talking points memo for today probably said to be sure the say the pledge–they think it makes liberals crazy, but Fox forgot to write the words down for them.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:00 pmMurdoch and Koch, two of the riches men in this counrty sponsoring this nightmare–must be so proud.
Even the flag was too ashamed to be seen with this group of slugs.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:43 pm#74 gully foyle says:
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#64 Dave N says:
PLC @61 – that makes two of us.
Three. And I don’t insist that my students include it either
I’m four.
November 5th, 2009 at 5:52 pm