{"id":31655,"date":"2017-09-28T14:52:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31655"},"modified":"2017-09-28T14:52:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:52:26","slug":"the-media-continues-to-misinform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31655","title":{"rendered":"The Media Continues To Misinform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/cortneyobrien\/2017\/09\/28\/chuck-todd-roy-moore-comment-n2387883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Townhall<\/a> posted an article today about some &#8216;news reporting&#8217; done by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chuck Todd\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chucktodd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"twitter noopener\">Chuck Todd<\/a> on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"MSNBC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">MSNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Chuck Todd thought he had caught <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Roy Moore\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roy_Moore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Roy Moore<\/a> in a hot mic moment and sought to expose his ignorance of the Constitution. The MSNBC anchor shared the following soundbite, in which Moore, fresh off of his win in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Alabama Senate\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.3766666667,-86.2988888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=32.3766666667,-86.2988888889 (Alabama%20Senate)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Alabama Senate<\/a> primary, told a reporter that &#8220;rights don&#8217;t come from government, they don&#8217;t come from the Bill of Rights, they come from God.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Declaration of Independence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Declaration of Independence<\/a> states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>We hold these truths to be <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Self-evident\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-evident\">self-evident<\/a>, that <a title=\"All men are created equal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_men_are_created_equal\">all men are created equal<\/a>, that they are endowed by their <a title=\"Creator deity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creator_deity\">Creator<\/a> with certain <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Inalienable rights\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inalienable_rights\">unalienable Rights<\/a>, that among these are <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness\">Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Constitution builds on this concept.<\/p>\n<p>The article at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Townhall\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Townhall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Townhall<\/a> concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Thankfully, Todd doesn&#8217;t teach U.S. constitutional law in college. But, he does have a dangerous platform of millions of viewers to espouse his arrogant, elitist views.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chuck Todd&#8217;s statement is one of many reasons we need to teach our children about the Declaration of Independence and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Constitution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">U. S. Constitution<\/a>. Our freedom will only endure if those who inherit it understand what they have inherited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall posted an article today about some &#8216;news reporting&#8217; done by Chuck Todd on MSNBC. The article reports: Chuck Todd thought he had caught Roy Moore in a hot mic moment and sought to expose his ignorance of the Constitution. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31655\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11128,1016,11127,4771,285,7748],"class_list":["post-31655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chuck-todd","tag-msnbc","tag-roy-moore","tag-u-s-constitution","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-declaration-of-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31656,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655\/revisions\/31656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}