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?
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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.
Bad taste in men and politics.
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.
That sounds more like Mordechai Kaplan than like Emmanuel Levinas.
Ancient texts would disagree with that. The “why” one would have ethics is in no small part that there was a payoff or a penalty for not having a god. If there were no lasting value… the sky is the limit as to what one could, should and would do.
If that isn’t the dumbest take on the Constitution I’ve ever read it’s pretty close. You show a stunning lack of understanding about our Nation’s very founding and the documents that were written by the Founders.
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.
“What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government?”
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KT are you just too stupid to comprehend the truth when you hear it ?–who the hell raised you ?–you are the poster child for an adage that was scrawled on the blackboard above the urinals in the oldest and most famous bar in austin: ” no matter how pretty she appears, no matter how alluring she may be, no matter how compelling your own desire, just remember that somebody somewhere is tired of her bullshit. “
A good quote.
If Olberman kicked her to the curb what does that say?
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.
We have no such right, whether given by God or by anyone else. Nothing in the Bible indicates such a right; nor does anything in the US constitution, or in any US statute.
“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.
Huh?!
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.
It’s ridiculous to claim that Islam is not a religion, just because its teachings don’t always resemble those of most other religions. And there have been many religions that didn’t teach forgiveness or love. Islam, meanwhile, does teach those things in certain limited contexts. So the fact that it’s overall a cruel religion doesn’t disqualify it from being one.
I think the claim is more in line with the same claim made against religions like Scientology — that the religion part is just a social shield to enable a larger political or financial scam.
Yes, I understand that, but it’s obvious garbage. Islam is a genuine religion. Not a nice one, except in certain limited contexts.
The vile, stupid and evil communist/Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist Dhimmi-crat Party will condemn and use as slanders an utterly contrived and phantom “Christian nationalism,” and unfairly demonize “Zionism,” while simultaneously gleefully promoting Islamofascism and Muslim supremacism, and seeing nothing wrong or contradictory, in that posture.
That’s how utterly hypocritical, stupid and wretched, the Dhimmi-crat pukes are.
First of all, of course God is above the USA’s Declaration of Independence, as He is above all human endeavors. How could it possibly be otherwise? If one believes in a Creator at all, then He, She, or It must be above everything.
That said,
Not the constitution. It carefully avoids any religious propositions at all, because it was deliberately designed to be completely secular, and thus equally acceptable to people of all religions.
The Declaration’s assertion that all humans have been endowed by their Creator with “certain unalienable rights” was merely the opinion of the individuals who signed it, not a universal statement by the whole nation, as the constitution was meant to be.
That’s why our 1796 treaty with Tripoli asserted that “the government of the united states of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion”.
But none of that is relevant here, since Tur specifically referred to the Declaration, which explicitly asserts the Divine origin of certain of our rights (obviously not all of them, since some of our rights do derive from human legislative acts).
“Not the constitution. It carefully avoids any religious propositions at all”
No argument BUT… it (more specifically, the BOR) was also carefully written never to imply that rights were something GIVEN by government, only that government was forbidden to violate them.
Indeed. The constitution was carefully drafted in a way that would be offensive to the fewest people possible.
Anything that makes President Trump and the Republicans look bad is ok by the Democrats. Doesn’t matter what it is. Trump could cure cancer and they would protest the destruction of cancer cells. That’s how demented people like Tur and all Democrats are.
Katu Tur’s stupidity is “news”?
Comment of the thread.
The belief that rights even exist and that they are God-given dates to the 17th century.
It’s nowhere to be found in the Bible.
As a practical matter, rights are both created by and allowed by human beings.
If enough of your fellow human beings decide not to let you exercise your “rights”, for all practical purposes, they don’t exist.
I’m pretty sure that the greatest political theorist (and practitioner) of the 20th century would agree.
Mao Tse Tung.
I disagree with your first premise. For example, God gave the Israelites a RIGHT to certain desert property pretty early in the Bible.
The rest is just an observation about the tension between de jure and de facto government, which is a well-understood issue.
This is true. But it’s what the USA’s founders believed, and it’s the basis on which the USA was founded.
Katie Tur is entirely unqualified for her job or any job that isn’t centered on an OnlyFans account. She got the gig by having sex with Keith Olbermann, and only kept it because 10% of MSNOW’s audience consists of angry lesbians along with a smattering of effeminate yet straight men who wonder what she looks like naked.
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