“A Nebraska high school principal caused quite a stir after he announced to students on October 7th that they wouldn’t be reciting the Pledge of Allegiance that day. The decision, he explains, was in response to the government shutdown. Alliance High School Principal Pat Jones says that his reason behind doing it was to educate the students about the shutdown and to get them talking about it.”*

Pat Jones, Principal of Alliance High School in Nebraska, cancelled the Pledge of Allegiance due to the government shutdown. What point did this even prove? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

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