Not sure why I haven't seen more posting about this. Piggy decided to project onto some poor newswoman.
The whole notion of 'Murica borders on being a religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion
Boy howdy when I found this the first time I was in high school. What an eye opener! It explained so much of what I experienced in school and the beliefs my peers carried.
It looks like this article first popped up in 2006, that tracks, I first read it before 2011 and after 2007.