THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN BITS AND PIECES.
THIS IS A
TRADITION FOR NPR WHO HAS BEEN DOING IT WHO HAS BEEN READING
OUT THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
SOME PEOPLE SAID
THERE WAS SOME PROPAGANDA AND SOME BIAS.
LET'S GO TO TWEETS
FOR THE REACTION RIGHT NOW.
I THINK WE HAVE ANOTHER TWEET.
THEN MY FAVORITE, SOMEONE RESPONDING-
PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS CALLING OUT CURRENT
PRESIDENT TRUMP WHEN IT WAS CALLING OUT KING GEORGE.
THIS IS
NOT THE FIRST TIME SOMETHING OF THIS KIND HAS TAKEN PLACE.
SOMEONE ELSE RAN INTO A SIMILAR PROPAGANDA SCARED DURING THE RED
SCARE.
I THINK THIS IS KIND OF AN INTERESTING STORY.
THIS IS
JUST PEOPLE NOT KNOWING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
OR JUST LOOKING FOR PROPAGANDA AND SCARE TACTICS?
>>JUST TO FINISH UP AT 1951 CASE, THEY WERE NOT ALONE BUT
JOE MCCARTHY THE GUY DOING THE RED SCARE SAID IT WAS – HE
CONGRATULATED THE PEOPLE IN MEDICINE FOR NOT SIGNING A
PETITION AGREEING WITH THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND
THE BILL OF RIGHTS BECAUSE HE SAID IT WAS PUT OUT BY A
COMMUNIST EDITOR OF A COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER.
LET'S ENJOY THE IRONY
OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BEING COMMUNIST.
BACK TO TODAY, HERE WE ARE AGAIN BECAUSE TRUMP SUPPORTERS CALLED
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE QUOTE TRASH.
OF
COURSE THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
>>IT IS LIKE TRYING TO FIND THE
FIRST THOUGHT THAT MAKES SENSE
IN ALL OF THIS.
I THINK THIS IDEA IS STUPID AND TERRIBLE BUT
NOT FOR THE REASONS THESE PEOPLE ARE OBJECTING TO IT.
THAT WOULD
BE SO FRUSTRATING IF YOUR PHONE JUST KEPT GOING.
THAT WOULD MAKE
ME WANT TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM NPR'S TWITTER FEED.
BUT THERE IS
NO WAY YOU CAN GET MAD AT THEM FOR COMMUNICATING THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
>>IT IS A TRADITION FOR THEM.
INSTEAD OF READING IT ON THE RADIO, THEY ARE TWEETING IT OUT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE GET THEIR NEWS ON TWITTER.
I THINK THIS MAKES SENSE.
>>THEIR NEWS STRAIGHT FROM 1776.
>>INSTEAD OF APOLOGIZING PEOPLE WERE SAYING HOW MANY PEOPLE DO
KNOW THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?
IT IS LIKE CALLING
THEMSELVES OUT A LITTLE BIT.
>> IT IS NOT.
HALF OF IT I UNDERSTAND.
IF YOU JUST SAW THAT
BY YOURSELF YOU WOULD SAY WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
BUT I WOULD
NOT JUMP TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THEY WERE REFERRING TO DONALD
TRUMP AND TALKING ABOUT A PRINCE WHO IS A TYRANT.
AND IT SOUNDS
OLD-SCHOOL.
MAYBE I SHOULD GOOGLE IT BEFORE I TWEET IN A
RAGE.
BUT IF IT WAS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION I WOULD NOT HAVE
ASSUMED THEY MEANT THE TYRANTS WAS OBAMA.
THESE GUYS TOOK IT
PERSONALLY BECAUSE THEIR SENSE IS THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING.
>> I THINK THIS IS INDICATIVE OF HOW PEOPLE PERCEIVE NEWS
DELIVERING ORGANIZATIONS.
IT'S NOT THEY DISAGREE WITH – TAKEN
ANY BIT OF INFORMATION AND LOOK AT IT FOR WHAT IT IS.
INSTEAD IT
IS SOURCE FIRST.
THEY KNOW NPR IS ON THE OTHER TEAM, THEY ARE LIBERAL IN
THE MINDS OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS.
SO THEY LOOK TO DISAGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT NPR PUTS OUT.
I THINK THAT IS THE DYNAMIC THAT IS MOST TELLING.
>> I AGREE.
THIS REMINDS ME OF PEOPLE BACKING INTO THEIR OWN
CORNERS AND BEFORE THEY CONTEXTUALIZE WHAT THESE
STATEMENTS WERE – IT IS STRANGE IT IS AN OLDER FORM OF ENGLISH.
THEY AUTOMATICALLY DISAGREED WITH IT AND TWEETED OUT A
RESPONSE.
A LOT OF THEM GOT PRETTY EMBARRASSED AND HAD TO EAT
THEIR OWN WORDS.
>>I THINK IT IS GREAT TO GO BACK AND REREAD THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE.
IT IS PRETTY AMAZING.
IT IS LIKE ALL RIGHT,
WE TRIED WITH THE SKY, WE TRIED WITH KING GEORGE.
HE KEEPS
AVOIDING US EVERY TIME WE TRIED TO CONTACT HIM.
THEN YOU PEPPER
IN LINES ABOUT HOW HE IS INCITING VIOLENCE WITH THE
MERCILESS INDIAN SAVAGES, WHICH IS KIND OF A LEFT TURN.
>>MAY BE A RIGHT TURN.
>>IT IS GREAT TO GO BACK AND REREAD THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE AND HOPEFULLY THE NEXT STEP FOR THEM AND FOR A LOT
OF PEOPLE WAS TO DO THAT AND SEE WHERE IT GOT. AND MARK IF YOU
THINK TRUMP IS THIS TERRIBLE TYRANT – IF YOU READ THE GRAPES
AGAINST KING GEORGE – TRUMP DOESN'T SEEM THAT BAD.
>> IT IS KIND OF A HIGH BAR.
>> HE WAS OBSTRUCTING LAWS OF NATURALIZATION, JUSTICE,
CREATING JUDGES WHO ARE INDEPENDENT TO HIS WELL.
>> BY THE WAY THAT IS WHY SOME OF THE PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS
ABOUT TRUMP.
>>THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT CALLING LEGISLATIVE BODIES TO
STRANGE PLACES THAT ARE INTENDED TO WEAR DOWN THE WILL OF THE
PUBLIC.
IT MAKES YOU THINK OF CONDUCTING STATEMENTS IN WEIRD
PLACES LIKE MARALAGO.
ALSO LIKE OVER TWITTER?
>> MY FAVORITE WAS THE IDEA THAT THIS WAS A CONSPIRACY BY
NPR THEY LAUNCHED 29 YEARS AGO.
>> YEAH.
>> WE WILL PRETEND WE CARE ABOUT THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
WERE 28 YEAR, AND WE WILL GET TRUMP ON THE 29TH YEAR.
AND THEY
SAY NOW YOU ARE PUTTING THIS OUT ON INDEPENDENCE DAY, I WONDER
WHAT MESSAGE YOU ARE SENDING?
IT IS INDEPENDENCE DAY – THEY ARE
SENDING THE MESSAGE THAT IT IS INDEPENDENCE DAY WHICH IS NAMED
AFTER THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
>>PEOPLE ARE NOT ALWAYS TRYING TO MAKE YOU ANGRY, SOMETIMES IT
IS INDEPENDENCE DAY SO THEY ARE COMMUNICATING ABOUT THE
DOCUMENT THAT TRIGGERED INDEPENDENCE.
>>ALSO THE UNITED STATES WAS FOUNDED ON A REVOLUTION, ON
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER.
READING FROM WHAT HAPPENED IN 1951?
–
WHY ARE WE SO AFRAID OF ACKNOWLEDGING THAT AT OUR CORE
HE WANTED TO REVOLTS ABUSE OF POWER.
I THINK IT IS BEAUTIFUL.
I AM VERY HAPPY NPR HAS THIS TRADITION BECAUSE WE TEND
TO FORGET.
>>CONSERVATIVES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN FAVOR OF THAT.
BUT DON'T
TREAD ON ME, AND I HAVE THE RIGHT, NOT GOVERNMENT.
AGAIN IF
YOU READ IT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS SAYING.
BUT APPARENTLY IT
MAKES YOU ANGRY THESE DAYS.
I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT FOURTH
OF JULY WHEN THEY FLIP OUT OVER INDEPENDENCE DAY THE MOVIE.
WHAT
IS WILL SMITH TRYING TO SAY ABOUT TRUMP?
IS HE CALLING HIM AN ALIEN?