MSNOW Host Katy Tur Displays Stunning Ignorance on the God Given Rights of Americans
“What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government?”
In a recent clip that is getting a lot of play on Twitter/X, Katy Tur of MSNOW (formerly MSNBC), criticizes House Speaker Mike Johnson for saying that our rights as Americans come from God and not the government.
She actually follows this up by asking one of her guests if Johnson is ‘putting God over the Declaration of Independence.’
Has anyone at MSNOW actually read any of America’s founding documents? They’re pretty explicit on this issue.
Tim Graham of NewsBusters shared the clip and provided a transcript:
Katy Tur: What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government? They come from you, our creator and heavenly father. Is this him putting God over the Declaration of Independence?
McKay Coppins: I actually think that that idea is not wholly uncommon. I mean, the idea that we have certain inalienable rights that come from god can be read in a fairly benign way, which is basically that we have innate human rights, that our constitution and our government, our democratic government are meant to codify. Right. That idea is not totally abnormal.
Watch the clip. This is just stunning:
God talk is SO foreign to MS NOW. Katy Tur: What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government? They come from you, our creator and heavenly father. Is this him putting God over the Declaration of Independence?
McKay Coppins: I… pic.twitter.com/sfpykN5bYc— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) May 18, 2026
What is actually happening here is that MSNOW is having an ongoing meltdown over an event that happened at the White House over the weekend, which included (GASP) Christians.
Naturally, they’re trying to frame this as a takeover of the government by Christian Nationalists.
From MSNOW:
Mike Johnson rejects ‘new term Christian nationalism’ as ‘derogatory’
Ahead of an all-day prayer event backed by the White House on Washington’s National Mall Sunday, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson doubled down on Christianity as a core part of the American identity — over the objections of religious freedom advocates.
“The naysayers who have created this new term ‘Christian Nationalism’ as a pejorative, a derogatory term, are trying to silence the influence and voices of Christians,” Johnson said in an interview with Fox News before the event commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary. “And I think that’s wildly inappropriate.”
In addition to the speaker, the evangelical-style festival — dubbed the “National Jubilee of Prayer” — featured Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and several conservative Christian leaders and right-leaning pop-culture figures. They included Franklin Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham, Jonathan Falwell, son of the late Liberty University founder Jerry Falwell, and Sadie Carroway Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” fame.
The White House, in a statement posted to social media Sunday, said “thousands of Americans are gathering on the National Mall TODAY for a powerful day of prayer, praise, and patriotism as we chart the course for America’s next 250 years and rededicate ourselves to ONE NATION UNDER GOD.”
Hundreds of millions of Americans just thought to themselves: Yeah, and?
Setting aside MSNOW’s obvious contempt for people of faith, is it too much to ask that the people who are paid to talk about politics on TV be familiar with American civics and our country’s founding documents?
Featured image via YouTube.
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
Tur is an AWFUL’s AWFUL. A really, dumb bitch like all the AWFULs and simps on PMS Now.
She did date Keith Olbermann for three years, so that should tell you a lot. As an aside, she was certainly impressively endowed by her creator.
God though is a legendization of human ethics. God is merciful is an imperative – be merciful like him. So the declaration is about building in ethics. The Constitution is rules about how we treat each other.
Draw the Prophet if you want. Not a universal cultural precept but an American one. Probably no longer British.
the lefts god is inhumane politics towards their fellow humans
they have proven that as fact
fight back or perish
and by fight back of course I mean in a pleasant manner
Katy Turd the Ignorant.
how about our god given rights to know wtf the pd and the rest are hiding about the note that the trans?? shooter from san diego left to us
the pd says it was hate filled but not about islam
come on
the good people have a right to know
There is no such “god given right.”
You cannot find any such right within the Constitution, any religious text, or any Supreme Court decision.
In fact, what you will find is the exact opposite.
Furthermore, most states of which I am aware have exceptions to “open records” laws in instances where the case is ongoing, as is the San Diego Mosque shooting case.
“Naturally, they’re trying to frame this as a takeover of the government by Christian Nationalists.”
Just as when Charles came to visit, they tried to frame it as a takeover by Kings.
Coppins’ response was incredibly weak. He should have called out her phenomenal ignorance and quoted the Declaration itself: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights …”
Actually it starts with the other guy having inalienable rights and you called on to protect them. By symmetry is relaxes back to a contest of wills with rules but then it loses its moral component.
I was very disappointed that he did not jump in her s— on that lack of knowledge. You would think that a business whose stock-in-trade is political commentary would make certain that their workers knew the basics of the government they would be commenting on.
In 1958 we had to memorize the Declaration (not the listing of grievances, thank goodness) as part of the civics instruction to get out of 8th grade.
Pretty certain that inalienable rights from your creator is mentioned in our founding documents somewhere.
Guess what else puts God before the Declaration of Independence? That would be the Declaration of Independence.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men”
It could hardly be any clearer Katy, You Ignorant Slut.
I am not a religious person but to me the words of our founding documents when the word God is used means natural law or laws from religious teachings. I have absolutely no issue with any religion except Islam, which is not a religion, because most teach forgiveness and love. I prefer to live among religious people who practice the laws of their religion but do not impose any of it on others. Islam does.
Leave a Comment