As we approach America’s 250th birthday, the liberal media is doing all they can to ruin the party. Whenever they mention the Founding Fathers, Declaration of Independence, or Constitution, they always have to shriek about those they view as ‘othered,’ – namely, women and minorities. CBS News Sunday Morning had a prime example of this America-hating delusion over the weekend, when 78-year-old correspondent Martha Teichner traveled back to the 1970s to lament the absence of the Equal Rights Amendment from the Constitution, despite women in modern America being afforded all the rights and privileges of their male counterparts. “250 years ago, Thomas Jefferson provided the moral justification for American Independence with the words 'All men are created equal.’ And ever since, Martha Teichner tells us, women have been fighting to make certain those words include us,” proclaimed host Jane Pauley. The E.R.A. “was based on justice and common sense and fairness,” Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a radical feminist writer and one of the founders of Ms. Magazine, told Teichner. She had been in the feminist movement since the 1960s, but remains unsatisfied with her view of women’s rights today.      Pogrebin’s wish was for “the country [to] wake up and we’ll have equality,” but she never defined what that word meant. She entered activism forty years after the 19th Amendment was certified, which guaranteed women the right to vote, but she still wanted more. What ‘more’ was, though, nobody seemed to know. Pogrebin’s daughter Robin and granddaughter Maya Klaris admitted to CBS that they didn’t grow up "conscious of barriers.” “My generation had the luxury of my mother's generation breaking down the doors for us. So we were not taking to the streets ourselves,” Robin, a New York Times arts reporter, said. “I never really considered the fact that I was a woman in the way I was living my life,” Klaris said. “A lot of women I know, really, their ultimate goal is to be wives and mothers.” By Pogrebin’s family’s own words, the fight for women’s rights had succeeded. No woman today feels oppressed by some ‘patriarchy,’ at least, until the liberal media and bitter feminists put that thought into their minds.  Women can vote, run for office, and serve in the military. Legally, they can do anything that men can. But if you asked those who still cling to their victim mentality, there’s still some mysterious force keeping women from true equality. Teichner reinforced that delusion: KLARIS: When I was, you know, told about, we were doing this, it was kind of like, do women not have equal rights under the law? TEICHNER, VOICEOVER: That's right. In 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the E.R.A., but the deadline was long passed. So, a Constitutional guarantee of equality for women – still non-existent. The E.R.A. last made headlines in January 2025, when President Joe Biden babbled about its passing to a crowd of whooping feminists. But the President had no authority to simply declare a constitutional amendment into existence. The E.R.A. was first proposed to Congress in 1923, with a passage deadline in 1982. The amendment didn’t gain enough state approvals to pass, so it was tabled.  Perhaps Biden just thought it was still 1982, and that’s why he attempted to speak the E.R.A. into the Constitution like some sort of legislative God. But a year and a half later, the E.R.A. has still not been added as the 28th Amendment, much to the chagrin of washed-up feminists like the ones CBS platformed. Even if the E.R.A. was passed, it would have no effect on American women. The useless amendment remains nothing more than a talking point for shrill, leftist harpies clamoring for our attention as they attempt to drag America through the mud on her 250th birthday. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CBS News Sunday Morning 6/28/26 9:45:25 a.m. Eastern JANE PAULEY: 250 years ago, Thomas Jefferson provided the moral justification for American Independence with the words 'All men are created equal.' And ever since, Martha Teichner tells us, women have been fighting to make certain those words include us. [Cut to mini documentary] [Cut to video] PEOPLE ON THE STREET: 'Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.' [Cut to mini-doc] MARTHA TEICHNER, VOICEOVER: That's all the Equal Rights Amendment says. No mention even of women. Just 24 words, fighting words, written by Alice Paul, a driving force behind the passage, finally, in 1920, of the vote for women.  Paul first submitted a version of the E.R.A. To congress in 1923.[Cut to video] PROTESTER: What do we want? CROWD: Equality! PROTESTER: When do we want it? CROWD: Now! [Cut back to mini-doc] TEICHNER, VOICEOVER: The fight to get it passed took nearly 50 years. Getting it ratified by three-quarters of the states was supposed to be the easy part. LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN: Why? Because it was based on justice and common sense and fairness. TEICHNER, VOICEOVER: 87-year-old feminist writer Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- L. POGREBIN: Here is a Ms. cover. TEICHNER, VOICEOVER: --one of the founders of Ms. Magazine and is a titan of the women's movement. L. POGREBIN: By 1975, the country will wake up and we'll have equality. TEICHNER, VOICEOVER: Wrong. The opposition was ferocious. Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, its loudest voice. [Cut to video] PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY: Women do have ambition and work hard, but most women choose to apply those energies to building their families. [Cut back to mini-doc] TEICHNER, VOICEOVER: Congress set a time limit for the ratification process until 1982. But the 'yes' votes stalled at 35, three short of the 38 states needed. (...) TEICHNER, VOICEOVER: Even without the E.R.A., change has come (...) Exhibit A, Letty Cottin Pogrebin at the beginning of her career in the early 1960s, compared to her granddaughter Maya, and daughter Robin. (...) ROBIN POGREBIN: It wasn't as if I grew up conscious of barriers. TEICHNER, VOICEOVER: Robin Pogrebin, 61, has been a prominent New York Times journalist for more than 30 years. R. POGREBIN: My generation had the luxury of my mother's generation breaking down the doors for us. So we were not taking to the streets ourselves. I just didn't feel like we were putting all our chips on the E.R.A. MAYA KLARIS: A lot of women I know really their ultimate goal is to be wives and mothers.(...) TEICHNER, VOICEOVER: 27-year-old Maya Klaris works in finance. She does intend to have a career, a big one.  But the Equal Rights Amendment? Not something that ever crossed her mind. KLARIS: I never really considered the fact that I was a woman in the way I was living my life.  When I was, you know, told about, we were doing this, it was kind of like, do women not have equal rights under the law? TEICHNER, VOICEOVER: That's right.  In 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the E.R.A., but the deadline was long past. So a Constitutional guarantee of equality for women - still non-existent.  Meanwhile, battles thought to have been decided once and for all over reproductive rights, equal pay, military service, and more are battles once again.