IT ALL DAY LONG.
MADELYN, WE APPRECIATE IT.
TURN TO THIS NOW.
CELEBRITIES ARE RECEIVING PUSHBACK AFTER TAKING TO SOCIAL
PUSHBACK AFTER TAKING TO SOCIAL
MEDIA BOYCOTT INGING INDEPENDENC
DAY.
KATIE PERRY, WOMEN HAVE FEWER
RIGHTS THAN AN ACTUAL SPARK LER,
SHAKE MY HEAD.
>> Griff: AND ACTOR JESSICA
CHASTAIN. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO --
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO --
CANCELLED FOLLOWING SHORTAGE OF
INDEPENDENCE, SINCERELY, WOMEN.
>> Ashley: NOT A HAPPY 4TH,
DR. KEVIN ROBERTS IS PRESIDENT
OF HERITAGE FOUNDATION.
DOCTOR, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF
THIS?
>> I THINK ALL THOSE PEOPLE
SHOULD GO TO THE COMMUNIST
CHINESE PARTY AND SEE HOW THEY
LIKE CELEBRATING THEIR NATIONAL
HOLIDAY, IT IS INFURIATING FOLKS
AS WE SIT HERE, DAY AFTER
INDEPENDENCE DAY ISSUE RIGHT OF
THOSE PEOPLE TO SAY THOSE THINGS.
THEY DON’T APPRECIATE MAKING THE
MONEY
MONEY.
SAY WE ARE GRATEFUL TO BE
AMERICANS AND THEY COULD SAY HOW
WE COULD BE CLOSER TO PERFECT.
THEY CAN’T DO THAT, IT IS ABOUT
VIRTUE SIGNALLING.
WE ARE FED UP WITH THE HOLLYWOOD
NONSENSE
NONSENSE CHLTZ
>> Griff: WHAT IS IMPACT ON
YOUNG PEOPLE?
I HAVE TWO YOUNG DAUGHTERS KATIE
PERRY SAYS THESE THINGS, WHAT DO
YOU THINK THE IMPACT IS?
>> THE IMPACT IS SIGNIFICANT.
MY WIFE AND I HAVE FOUR KIDS, AS
WELL, WE TRY TO SHIELD THEM FROM
THE EFFECT OF POP CULTURE ICONS
BECAUSE THERE IS NOT A LOT OF
SUBSTANTIVE THINKING THERE, WE
CAN’T DENY FOLKS ARE
INFLUENTIAL, I WILL MAP THE
POLICY SOLUTION AND I’M A FIFTH
GENERATION EDUCATOR.
WHATEVER SCHOOL OUR KIDS ATTEND,
WE WANT THEM TO GET A FAIR SHOT
AT UNDERSTANDING THE PRINCIPALS
OF THIS COUNTRY.
WE ARE THE LAST BEST HOPE FOR
THE WORLD.
IF WE CAN INCULCATE THAT TO OUR
KIDS TO READ PORTIONS OF THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
THAT GIVES THEM A BALANCED VIEW WITHOUT DOING SOMETHING
WITHOUT DOING SOMETHING MILLENNIALS AND GENERATION Z
MILLENNIALS AND GENERATION Z
ABHOR, WHITE WASHING OUR
HISTORY.
WHEN WE HAVE BALANCED OPINION,
YOUNG AMERICANS UNDERSTAND THIS
IS A TERRIFIC COUNTRY.
>> Ashley: N.P.R. DITCHED
33-YEAR-LONG TRADITION OF
READING THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE TO FOCUS ON THE
DEFINITION OF EQUALITY.
LISTEN CHLTZ
>> MANY DEBATES TURN ON WHAT
EQUALITY MEANS WHAT VOTING RULES
GIVE EQUAL ACCESS TO BALLOT, DO
ABORTION LAWS GIVE A WOMAN EQUAL
CONTROL OVER HER BODY?
WHAT POINT IS FETUS ENTITLED TO
EQUAL RIGHTS?
>> Ashley: DR. ROBERTS, YOUR
TAKE ON THIS?
>> N.P.R. DOESN’T REPRESENT THE
MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WHO ARE
GRATEFUL FOR WHAT WE HAVE IN
THIS COUNTRY AND PERHAPS WE NEED
TO REVISIT THE FEDERAL FUNDING
THEY GET AND SAY THEY CAN’T LIVE
WITHOUT.
IT IS THEIR RIGHT TO DO THAT
TYPE OF THING.
WHAT IS THE HARM IN REREADING
THE DEATIONCLARATION OF INDEPEND
ALL AMERICANS ACROSS THE
SPECTRUM UNDERSTAND WHAT THE
DECLARATION GAVE US IS EQUALITY
OF OPPORTUNITY MORE THAN ANY
OTHER CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE
HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND I DON’T
UNDERSTAND HARM IN REREADING THE
DOCUMENT ON INDEPENDENCE DAY.