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The overwhelming majority of People are spending this Independence Day weekend taking pleasure of their nation as they have a good time the freedoms established by the Founding Fathers.

Nonetheless, there are some journalists who’re embarrassed by the USA. A few of them even appear to take pleasure in really shaming the nation.    

Over time, the Media Analysis Heart has caught journalists ridiculing and deriding America. The next is a countdown of the Media’s  Worst Anti-American Outbursts (as culled from the MRC’s archives):

 

27. People Who Dwell on “Stolen Land” Ought to Cease Griping About Crime Epidemic

“America is a sticky-fingered nation constructed on stolen land, and its present ethical panic is about shoplifting.”
— Washington Publish options reporter Maura Judkis in March 1, 2024 story.

 

26. Hope You Had A Pleased Fourth of July, Too

“Oh say, we’ve seen an excessive amount of. The Star-Spangled Banner pushes like a cough by way of America’s mouth and the twilight’s final gleaming is simply that, a sickly flash above our heads as we experience unsuspecting within the bellies of glossy trains, plop to our knees in church buildings, embracing truths that disgust us.”
— Boston Globe arts critic and poet Patricia Smith in The Nation’s “Patriotism” problem, July 15/22, 1991.

 

25. Respecting Anthem = Racism

 

 

“Among the phrases of the Nationwide Anthem are white supremacist….I feel it is a nation whose historical past is racist, whose historical past is steeped in white supremacy, and the anthem displays that in its very phrases.” 
— Detroit Free Press author Stephen Henderson on NBC’s Meet the Press, September 24, 2017.

 

24. Now Is the A part of the Debate The place You Ought to Dump on America 

“Governor Romney, Daniel Duchovnik [ph] from Walnut Creek, California desires to know, ‘What do you dislike most about America?’”
— On-line query chosen by The Politico’s Jim VandeHei to pose to the Republican presidential candidates at their Might 3, 2007 MSNBC debate.

 

23. Liberal Radio Host: It Pains Me to Chant “U.S.A!” 

“As I’ve grown older, I discover my ‘U.S.A.!’-chanting reflex more and more interrupted by pangs of discomfort, and never as a result of I’m ashamed of our nation or our Olympians….Missed within the ensuing red-white-and-blue hoopla, in fact, is the truth that we’re not so distinctive outdoors the Olympic village….We’re not gold, silver and even bronze medalists in terms of healthcare; sadly, we’re thirty ninth for toddler mortality, forty third for feminine mortality, forty second for grownup male mortal-ity….If we do stand atop a dais anyplace aside from at a sporting occasion, it’s for navy spending, carbon emissions and incarceration charges.”
— Colorado radio host David Sirota in an August 1, 2012 piece for Salon.com, “Don’t chant ‘U.S.A.!’ It’s liberal People’ Olympic dilemma: How do they root for his or her countrymen with out being jingoistic?”

 

22. Ringing the Bells of Jingoism 

“The professional-American strategy is one NBC hardly ever detours from. It’s within the DNA of Olympic broadcasting. Networks world wide with the rights to the Video games can toll their jingo bells once they please. And it’s simpler to interview your personal nation’s athletes, particularly if language obstacles exist. Nonetheless, there ought to be a greater technique to current these tales with out a lot American navel-gazing.”
— New York Occasions sports activities/TV columnist Richard Sandomir in an August 17, 2016 column.

 

21. Sunny Hostin: America is a “Sick” and “Racist” Nation

 

 

“I feel it’s ridiculous that folks don’t see what this nation was based on and what this nation nonetheless is sickened with. It’s a sick nation. It’s a racist nation.”
— ABC’s The View co-host Sunny Hostin on Behind the Desk podcast, November 18, 2025.

 

20. Embarrassed by the Star Spangled Banner 

 

 

“I imply, when you consider it, it’s ‘bombs bursting in air,’ ‘rocket’s crimson glare,’ it’s every kind of — you realize a number of nationwide anthems are that approach, too — every kind of navy jargon, and the land — there’s just one phrase ‘the land of the free,’ which is sort of good, and ‘the house of the courageous?’ I don’t know….Are we [Americans] the one ones who’re courageous on the planet? I imply, ‘all of the courageous individuals reside right here.’ I imply, it’s simply silly, I feel. I’m embarrassed, I’m embarrassed each time I hear it.”
— Former CNN and MSNBC host Invoice Press on his Full Court docket Press nationally-syndicated radio present, June 5, 2012.

 

19. Despising the Stars and Stripes 

“My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant Excessive Faculty solely blocks from the World Commerce Heart, thinks we must always fly an American flag out our window. Positively not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and struggle. She tells me I’m fallacious — the flag means standing collectively and honoring the lifeless and saying no to terrorism. In a approach we’re each proper….[The flag] has to bear a variety of meanings, from easy, dignified sorrow to the violent anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bigotry that has already resulted in homicide, vandalism and arson across the nation and harassment on New York Metropolis streets and campuses.”
— The Nation’s Katha Pollitt in an October 8, 2001 column.

 

18. Crimson, White, and Scary 

“A pal of ours, a distinguished member of the ‘liberal media,’ wrote to the pinnacle of our children’ college final week suggesting that college students spend extra time with the Pledge of Allegiance and The Star-Spangled Banner. The principal agreed. Our 10-year-old daughter requested her mom if we might put a flag on our automobile. My spouse reluctantly agreed, however hasn’t procured the flag but….My spouse primarily shares our daughter’s emotions. However for her, the image of the flag was appropriated in her youth by counter-protesters who used it to disclaim the patriotism of the struggle’s opponents. Flag-waving feels aggressive to her.”
— Former CBS Night Information producer Dick Meyer in a commentary posted October 1, 2001 on CBSNews.com.

 

17. CNN Celebrates America’s 250th Birthday: “There’s a Slur” within the Declaration of Independence

 

 

“There’s a slur in America’s founding paperwork….an inventory of grievances in opposition to the king. A sequence of causes the colonies needed to separate from the UK. And that is the ultimate one. ‘He has excited home insurrections amongst us and has endeavored to deliver on the inhabitants of our frontiers the cruel Indian savages whose identified rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and circumstances.’ ‘Cruel Indian savages.’ Phrases within the Declaration of Independence largely forgotten that line and Native People place within the celebrations of the 250 years since our nation’s founding.”
— CNN anchor Victor Blackwell on CNN’s First of All, June 27, 2026.

 

16. Ali Velshi: I Really feel “Deep Unease” About Celebrating 250th Anniversary of “Our So-Referred to as Democracy”

 

 

“In a single month, America will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding. Like earlier anniversaries, there’s a deep unease about this. I really feel a deep unease about these celebrations to which I’m invited to mark the 250th anniversary of our so-called democracy as a result of this 250th anniversary is going down throughout yet one more interval of deep and basic and existential unrest on this nation introduced on by the nation’s unresolved racial politics. That’s what that is. Girls and Black People have seen their rights taken away. The Voting Rights Act has successfully been gutted.”
— Host Ali Velshi on MS NOW’s Velshi, Might 31, 2026.

 

15. America Is a Nation “Primarily based on Racism and Slavery” 

“Due to my lived expertise as an afro-Latina, I’m in a position to have a look at this world with a special prism and I’m in a position to inform this nation and inform this viewers and inform my fellow co-hosts some uncomfortable truths. This can be a nation based mostly on racism and slavery and based in it. 
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, November 17, 2025.

 

14. Bakari Sellers: Not A lot Distinction for Black People In 1896 and 2026

 

 

“If someone fell asleep in 1896 and awakened at the moment in 2026, they’d merely say the one distinction is now negroes have a TV present, and we put on good fits. They’ve swapped out Klan hoods for Brooks Brothers fits.”
— CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers on CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, Might 11, 2026.

 

13. Taking Again the Flag  

 

 

“I made a decision to placed on my flag pin tonight — first time. Till now I haven’t thought it essential to show somewhat metallic icon of patriotism for everybody to see….I put it on to take it again. The flag’s been hijacked and was a emblem – the trademark of a monopoly on patriotism….Once I see flags sprouting on official lapels, I consider the time in China once I noticed Mao’s Little Crimson Ebook on each official’s desk, omnipresent and unread. However extra galling than something are all these moralistic ideologues in Washington sporting the flag of their lapels whereas writing books and operating Internet sites and publishing magazines attacking dissenters as un-American….I put it on to remind myself that not each patriot thinks we must always do to the individuals of Baghdad what bin Laden did to us.”
— Invoice Moyers on PBS’s Now, February 28, 2003.

 

12. America Must Be Sanctioned, “We Are the Unhealthy Guys”

 

 

“Our nation must be sanctioned; we’re the dangerous guys on the world stage. We’re a menace to not solely free individuals in all places, however we’re a menace to peaceable individuals in all places.….We now have to be stopped by way of the identical sort of signifies that we’ve that our nation and others have used to rebuke a North Korea or a China or title a rogue state, we’re the rogue state, and different international locations want to begin treating us like that.”
— The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal on The Pleasure Reid Present podcast, June 28, 2025.

 

11. Pleased Independence Day, America Sucks 

“We all know what July 4th is. What about July fifth? After the fireworks, the music, the rhetoric of freedom what then?…What sort of nation does our flag fly over now? Not a much less harmless one, as a result of American innocence was by no means the reality. Not one much less reluctant to go to struggle with no good purpose, as a result of we’ve foolishly credited dangerous causes prior to now. However now the nation lacks even that. As our President demonstrated final week, we’ve turn out to be a individuals who wage endless struggle killing and maiming our younger ones and theirs with out being remotely in a position to say why.”
— Columnist James Carroll within the July 5, 2005 Boston Globe.

 

10. Editor: I Need to Burn the Flag 

“If the U.S. Senate follows its foolish siblings within the Home of Representatives and votes for a ban on burning the American flag, I’m going to burn one. It by no means occurred to me to burn a flag — besides in some flag-retiring ceremony — however simply the concept that Congress has nothing higher to do than spend time on this nutty problem makes me wish to burn one.”
— Linda Grist Cunningham, Government Editor of the Rockford Register Star in Illinois, in a June 26, 2005 column.

 

9. Let’s Shred the Structure!

“The framers weren’t gods and weren’t infallible. Sure, they gave us, and the world, a blueprint for the safety of democratic freedoms — freedom of speech, meeting, faith — however additionally they gave us the concept that a black particular person was three-fifths of a human being, that girls weren’t allowed to vote and that South Dakota ought to have the identical variety of Senators as California, which is sort of loopy….If the Structure was meant to restrict the federal authorities, it certain would not say so.”
— Time managing editor Richard Stengel within the journal’s July 4, 2011 version, which featured an image of the U.S. Structure going by way of a shredder with the headline, “Does It Nonetheless Matter?”

 

8. Publish-9/11 Flag-Waving “Typically a Cousin to Intolerance” 

“The CNN movie [The Flag], based mostly on a guide by David Pal, focuses on the smudged American flag that three firefighters raised by way of the mud of the collapsed buildings at floor zero late within the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001. {A photograph} of the flag elevating taken by Thomas E. Franklin of the New Jersey newspaper The Document turned a heartening, patriotic image for a lot of on an in any other case terrible day….[But] the photographer rebelled at efforts to make him a celeb, and so did the three firefighters. A plan to show the {photograph} right into a sculpture turned a supply of controversy. Nationwide, flag-waving was generally a cousin to intolerance.”
— From New York Occasions critic Neil Genzlinger’s September 4, 2013 assessment of CNN’s The Flag.

 

7. Neglect In regards to the “Terse and Outdated” Founding Paperwork 

“The USA Structure is terse and outdated, and it ensures comparatively few rights….The Structure is out of step with the remainder of the world in failing to guard, not less than in so many phrases, a proper to journey, the presumption of innocence and entitlement to meals, schooling and well being care. It has its idiosyncrasies. Solely two % of the world’s constitutions defend, because the Second Modification does, a proper to bear arms. (Its brothers in arms are Guatemala and Mexico.)”
— New York Times Supreme Court docket reporter Andrew Liptak in a front-page February 7, 2012  “Sidebar” information evaluation, “We the Folks Loses Enchantment with Folks Across the World.”

 

6. American Revolution = “Monumental Mistake” 

“American independence in 1776 was a monumental mistake….I’m moderately assured a world wherein the revolution by no means occurred can be higher than the one we reside in now, for 3 principal causes: Slavery would’ve been abolished earlier, American Indians would’ve confronted rampant persecution however not the outright ethnic cleaning Andrew Jackson and different American leaders perpetrated, and America would have a parliamentary system of presidency….Authorities spending in parliamentary international locations is about 5 % of GDP increased.”
— Dylan Matthews in a July 2, 2015 publish on Vox.com: “3 causes the American Revolution was a mistake.”

 

5. Triggered By the American Flag 

 

 

“We now have tens of thousands and thousands of Trump voters who proceed to imagine that their rights as residents are underneath menace by easy advantage of getting to share the democracy with others. I feel so long as they see Americanness as the identical as one with whiteness, that is going to proceed….I used to be on Lengthy Island this weekend, visiting a extremely pricey pal. And I used to be actually disturbed. I noticed, you realize, dozens and dozens of pickup vans with you realize, expletives in opposition to Joe Biden on the again of them, Trump flags, and in some circumstances, simply dozens of American flags, which you realize can be simply disturbing, as a result of primarily the message was clear: ‘That is my nation. This isn’t your nation. I personal this.’”
— New York Times editorial board member Mara Homosexual on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, June 8, 2021. 

 

4. Standing For Nationwide Anthem is “Affirmation of American Empire” 

“It’s a political assertion to pledge allegiance to the flag. It’s a political assertion to face for the singing of the Nationwide Anthem. The actual fact is, Colin Kaepernick and me and lots of different individuals merely have totally different politics. It’s not impartial to pledge allegiance or sing the Nationwide Anthem. It’s an affirmation of the American empire.”
— Political analyst Marc Lamont Hill on CNN Newsroom, September 23, 2017.

 

3. Elie Mystal: U.S. Structure Is a “Piece of Crap”

 

 

“When South Africa received over apartheid, did they only return to their Afrikaner racist structure…No! They threw the entire thing out and began once more….and so they got here up with a brand new structure. It’s one of many the reason why the South African structure is mostly considered among the best constitutions on the planet and ours continues to be a chunk of crap.”
— The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal on the syndicated radio present The Breakfast Membership, April 3, 2025.

 

2. “Uncomfortable” With Calling Veterans “Heroes” 

 

 

“I feel it is rather troublesome to speak in regards to the struggle lifeless and the fallen with out invoking valor, with out invoking the phrases ‘heroes.’… I really feel comfy — ah, uncomfortable, in regards to the phrase ‘hero’ as a result of it appears to me that it’s so rhetorically proximate to justifications for extra struggle, and I don’t wish to clearly desecrate or disrespect reminiscence of anybody that’s fallen, and clearly there are particular person circumstances in which there’s real and large heroism: hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow troopers and issues like that. But it surely appears to me that we marshal this phrase in a approach that’s problematic. However possibly I’m fallacious about that.”
— Host Chris Hayes speaking about “The That means of Memorial Day” on MSNBC’s Up With Chris Hayes, Might 27, 2012.

 

1. July 4th, MSNBC-Type: “Imperialism, Genocide, Slavery” 

 

 

“The land on which they [the Founders] shaped this Union was stolen. The fingers with which they constructed this nation have been enslaved. The ladies who birthed the residents of the nation are second class….That is the imperfect material of our nation, at instances we’ve torn and stained it, and at different moments, we mend and restore it. But it surely’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, additionally the liberation and the hope and the deeply American perception that our greatest days nonetheless lie forward of us.”
— MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry on her eponymous July 1, 2012 program, delivering what she known as “my footnote for the Fourth of July.”



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