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:
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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