Death of Outrage? Pledge of Allegiance Used to Promote PS2 War game

[stopbush]

Has anyone seen the advert for PlayStation's new "SOCOM" video game? The voice over used as background is a bunch of KIDS reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, including the "under god" phrase!

Where's the outrage from the RW - or, the LW, for that matter - that our sacred Pledge is being used in such a crassly commercialized way? Is there no outrage because it's a first person war game that had our glorious armed forces blowing away some (enter your favorite derogatory term for our *enemies* here ______)?

What if the Pledge was being used in TV ads to promote legalizing MJ, or to sell Viagra or Enzyte? Would they have a problem with that?

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. America is all about making money.

The Pledge is all about America.

So making money via the Pledge is as American as you get.

Viagra and Enzyte are about sex, which is un-American.
Real Americans don't have sex.
So using the Pledge to promote them is inappropriate.

The game in question involves shooting up swarthy terra-ists.
Shooting up swarthy terra-ists is the most American thing you can do.
Playing video games is very nearly the most American thing you can do.
So using the Pledge to promote SOCOM is a more than appropriate use of the Pledge.

Come back when you have a difficult question.

[Khephra]

2. You ever hear Lieberman complain about the first-person shooter

that the army put out as a recruitment aid?

Nope.

It's ok for violent video games to exist, as long as they promote "the American way"...of killing people we don't like.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. True. Also, it shows what Scum LIEberman is!

[Alex146]

4. First of all it's not Socom

and you have a good point about using the pledge to sell things. I guess America is just really screwed up sometimes.

[stopbush]

5. OK, it's not SOCOM. I was wrong about that one. What is it?

I know it's some military special ops game. Isn't it based on a Tom Clancey novel?

[TheWatcher]

6. Splinter Cell- Pandora Tomorrow.

And a mighty over-hyped piece of averageness it is.

Manhunt and Grand Theft Auto Vice City are much better. :)

[Bill McBlueState]

7. that commercial is creepy

even aside from the crass use of the pledge.