Idiocracy

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We all know that media newsreaders are not selected on the basis of their knowledge or intelligence — in fact, those are disqualifying criteria — but this little snippet from one of them interviewing an “expert” may really represent a new low in what’s laughingly referred to as journalism.

MSNOW Host Katy Tur Displays Stunning Ignorance on the God Given Rights of Americans

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.

“The idea that we have certain inalienable rights that come from God can be read in a fairly benign way”. Really? Fairly benign? Benign? You complete, utter idiot; the King of England certainly didn’t think so, because the idea that human rights come from God, and not him, was literally revolutionary. How can you not know that?

“Putting God over the Declaration of Independence”? This twit pseudo-journalist has never even read the Declaration of Independence, so she never reached its second paragraph:

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, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Wow.