MSNBC has become an absurdly radical network in short order.
They spent the entire Donald Trump presidency trying to tear him down.
Now a top MSNBC host went on an insane anti-American rant you won’t believe.
Far-left MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, who once described himself as a socialist, is in competition for the worst take at his network.
Anti-Americanism is inextricably linked to leftism, and O’Donnell made that clear when he criticized Woody Guthrie’s famous folk song that was once cherished by radical leftists, This Land Is Your Land.
Guthrie – who at worst was a communnist, and at best was a fellow traveler – wrote the song as a rebuke to Irving Berlin’s patriotic “God Bless America.”
Apparently that wasn’t good enough for O’Donnell, who said:
“This Land Is Your Land. This patriotic, inclusive, and seemingly innocuous song is actually a testament to America’s violent, unjust, and systemically discriminatory past.”
O’Donnell’s assault on America strategically comes at a time when the southern border is being flooded by illegal aliens coming into the country.
He continued, “[W]hen I was kid learning that song, I never wondered how the Navajo people felt about that, or the Sioux, or the Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts where I was growing up. This land was made for you and me. When I was a kid, I never wondered how the Mexican people felt about that song, since California was once Mexico, and Woody Guthrie’s Gulf Stream waters were not always the southern border of this country. We purchased Louisiana in 1803 from the people who stole it from the tribes who were there before them…So no…this land was not made for you and me.”
O’Donnell’s commentary is bizarre.
Because of Guthrie’s communist sympathies, he did not believe in property rights, which was the whole point of the song.
So supposedly O’Donnell only believes in property rights for the people who inhabited the land before Americans.
World history is filled with conquest.
Indigenous tribes in the Americas (and everyone else) conquered and pillaged other tribes.
But leftists want people to believe that conquest magically began in the west.
Countries have borders, Mexico included.
In fact, Mexico is more hawkish on border control than the United States.
Immigrants can be thrown in jail for sneaking into the country, and the Mexican constitution forbids the demography of the country to be altered.
America has the most generous legal (and illegal) immigration system in the world, but leftists like O’Donnell leave out such inconvenient details.
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