In what may be the most MSNBC moment ever committed on live television, a panel recently found itself spiraling over Speaker Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not come from government but from God.
Katy Tur asked, with apparent sincerity, whether Johnson was somehow "putting God above the Declaration of Independence."
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Imagine accidentally discovering the premise of the Declaration of Independence on live television. That's why this is so tough to parody. The founding document of our country literally states our rights come from our "Creator."
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.
At this point you just half expect a breaking MSNBC news chyron:
"CONCERN GROWS AS FOUNDING DOCUMENT APPEARS TO CONTAIN RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE"
Perhaps someone should gently inform the panel that Mike Johnson was not unveiling radical Christian nationalism here. He was summarizing basic American political philosophy - the sort of thing once covered in middle-school civics.
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Contrary to the hand-wringing panic of the MSNOW/BC panelists, that is not extremism. It is the foundational, philosophical operating system of the American experiment.
That such a truth is lost on flabbergasted, gobsmacked journalists answers a lot of questions about the state of modern American media.
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