Posted on 09/01/2012 3:50:20 PM PDT by servo1969
MSNBC's Touré Neblett Reacts to Ryan's Speech: For Women and Minorities, 'Our Rights Do Not Come From God or Nature'
Near the end of his Wednesday night speech at the Republican National Convention, vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan told his audience and the nation that "sometimes, even presidents need reminding, that our rights come from nature and God, not from government."
John Hayward at Human Events noted that MSNBC's Touré Neblett did not handle Ryan's self-evident assertion very well. In fact, Thursday morning, Toure went into a bit of a tirade:
“He loves this line of ‘our rights come from God and nature’, which is so offensive to so much of America,” pontificated the MSNBC personality. “Because for black people, Hispanic people, and women, our rights do not come from God or nature. They were not recognized by the natural order of America. They come from the government and from legislation that happens in relatively recent history in America. So that line just bothers me to my core.”
One cannot prove it, but it actually seems possible that MSNBC is employing a commentator who may not have know that the source of our rights ("endowed by our Creator") was identified by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence. At a minimum, Neblett is in essence claiming that the recognition of the source of our rights in the Declaration was an irrelevant piety that did nothing for anyone except I suppose the now-dead white men who wrote them.
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Actually Act II of Puccini’s “Tosca” with Neblett as Floria Tosca and the great basso James Morris as Scarpia.
From La Scala, 2004
So MSNBC thinks there are no natural human rights? We are all slaves of the state’s whims? Actually, it was the government (and Democratic Party run governments I would add) that enforced the chains of slavery and the discrimination of Jim Crow. Through Civil War and the Civil Rights movement, to paraphrase Martin Luther King, we as a nation fleshed out the full meaning of our creed that all men are created equal. This guy wants to destroy the foundational principle of our nation. Utter fascists...
We know that liberals don't really believe that though. Otherwise they would be fine with a nation wide popular vote on issues like abortion, "gay" marriage and illegal aliens. IOWs their ethics are entirely situational.
Very true.
Talk about the easiest job in the world, all you have to do is say, "This Sucks!"
Liberals would be happy enough with a “new slavery” as long as it was based upon the mores they liked. All the popular media flouting of traditional families and white people would never be happening if they stood on divine principle rather than upon perpetual class warfare.
The ironic thing is that it is government that restricted blacks and women from many rights in our history. This douche thinks government is some sort of pure, benevolent force, when it is quite the opposite.
Easiest job? I dunno....
Dissing some “artist’s” album might have some rapper come gunnin’ fo’ ya....
You have a point there.
I thought so but wasn’t sure.
GMTA
At least this Neblett OWNS her name.’
“TOURE” was probably chagrined that ANYONE referred to
him using his real last name.
Seems that people like him try to create an unbreakable
mystique by giving themselves an iconic single name.
It’s a marketing technique.
There’s nothing wrong with the name per se, but “Toure Neblett” is sort of like, oh, say,” Apollo Goodfellow”,
ultimately deflating for an ego such as his.
Dear Mr. Stupidhead Toure, Did it ever occur to you that if ‘’government’’ gives you your rights it can also take them away at anytime? The Nazis were a government and they took away a lot of peoples rights.
Exactly why he and those that think like him will ALWAYS be slaves.
This guy has been saying some very stupid stuff lately.
For those who believe in God, guns are a deterrent to those who would take what God has given from us...
Good.
5.56mm
Thank you. I meant on TV, by his “peers”.
Failed at that, and became a race-pimp? I could see it.
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