Creating “news” and then yelling about it
TIME ran a poll and then started yelling about it (much as the rest of the media are doing):
Are One-Quarter of Americans Freakin’ Morons?…That’s not a rhetorical question, although the way some people have reacted to yesterday’s TIME and Pew polls about the percentage of Americans who think Obama is a Muslim, I wouldn’t be surprised if they took it as such. Sure, it’s possible that one-in-four (or five, depending on the poll) Americans actually believe in their hearts of hearts that Obama is a Muslim, despite the fact that he became a Christian in his twenties, has spoken during the presidential campaign and since about his Christian faith — even referencing his belief in “our risen Savior” — and attends Christian worship services.
He is not, despite what Franklin Graham thinks, a Muslim who converted to Christianity. If anything, Obama was a secular agnostic by default who became a Christian once he reached adulthood and started thinking seriously about faith.
There’s something odd about the tone of this piece. Its author Amy Sullivan is so insistent and categorical in her writing. What’s up with that? And then there’s the matter of TIME creating the basis for a story — it ran the poll and asked the question after all — and then shrieking about the results. It’s like TIME had an agenda or something.
As for the issue at hand, we don’t care whether Obama is Zoroastrian — we just wish he knew as much about events in American history like the Berlin Airlift and D-Day as he obviously does about Islam. (Super fun bonus: American Jews leaving the Democrat Party in droves.)
August 22nd, 2010 at 9:26 am
Apparently she is unwilling to look at the evidence that is leading people to believe he is Moslem.
She is not the only member of the media vehemently defending 0bama. Even the acolytes can see the political danger for 0bama being identified as Moslem.
The MSM’s contempt for the serfs seems to grow by the day.
August 22nd, 2010 at 10:56 am
Rev. Wright used to be a Muslim, then ran the church that sure seemed to have sympathies with radical Islam. His teachings of black nationalism are hard to distinguish from Malcom X’s. they even put Malcom X on the cover of their church magazine. Was Obama sleeping in church for 20 years, or is he hiding the truth?
Gee … it’s so hard to figure why people might believe (rightly?) that Obama’s is more like a Muslim than a Christian. The political expediency of calling himself Christian is rather obvious. If I was given the choice of whether Obama is Muslim or Christian, I might judge he has more Muslim traits than Christian.
The you tube link is rather convincing that he is more comfortable praising and defending Islam than he is about loving America. He says Americans are bitter and cling to their (Christian) religion, yet Obama can’t say or do enough to honor Islam.
August 22nd, 2010 at 11:00 am
oh … it was Farrakhan on the cover of Obama’s Chicago church … not Malcolm.
August 22nd, 2010 at 11:11 am
This thought makes me so happy—BO losing more and more of the liberal-minded Jewish American voters as his true colors continue shining through. Hopefully it won’t take long for them to completely turn their back on this presiduncey. (spelling intentional). Now, If ‘we the people’ can prevent him from granting citizenship to all the illegals in the country (which would serve to supplant his support base following the exodus of those who voted him into office) we should have a great hope of seeing the White House door hit him in the backside in 2012. If only…
August 22nd, 2010 at 2:59 pm
On the subject of Obama’s religion, consider the following:
1.) Obama was born to a Muslim father, which makes him a Muslim, just as a child born to a Jewish mother is a Jew. The Koran allows no exception. It’s why the Koran mandates rape as a means of increasing the numbers of Muslims. The question should be: ‘Is he a practicing Muslim or apostate?’ His registration as a Muslim while an adolescent in school is contradicted by reports of his conversion to Christianity (I never seen any evidence of this, but it’s widely reported) later in life. He should therefore be considered an apostate Muslim. It would seem an extreme sin against Multiculturalism for Amy Sullivan to deny this.
2.) For 20 years Obama practiced ‘Black Liberation Theology’. The Vatican has ruled the Marxist-based Liberation Theology, with or without the black victimology component, to be a heresy. Is Obama a Christian heretic? I think his willingness to abandon the heretical ‘Church of Wright’ for political expedience suggests his membership was an equally calculated decision, having little to do with any faith including the heretical.
3.) Recall that Obama’s first foray into politics was as a candidate of the Illinois Socialist Party, although he was permitted to be listed as ‘Democrat’ on the ballot. I believe a faith in secular socialism (or any other fascist-based ideology like Marxism or Nazism) and Christian faith to be mutually exclusive.
4.) All of Obama’s important adolescent role models were Marxists, including his mother, which would suggest he was raised as an atheist.
I would submit the most likely conclusion is Obama is an atheistic apostate Muslim secularist.
August 22nd, 2010 at 3:26 pm
IF OBAMA REALLY WAS NOT JUST AN ADULT CONVERT TO BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY, BUT A CRYPTO-MUSLIM WOULD HE BE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY?
NOPE.
August 22nd, 2010 at 6:30 pm
One can only hope that in the near future Time will meet the same fate as Newsweek. Or worse.
August 22nd, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Surely the media mavens carrying water for Preznit Obamugabe realize that people are angry and scared. And if asked a loaded question like “Do you think Obama is a Muslim?” far more than actually believe so are going to reply in a way calculated to convey the maximum amount of
anger, frustration and suspicion.
People are tired of the MSM taking polls and spinning their findings as newsworthy.
September 29th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
If asked: “Is Bush a demon?” in 2006, how many would have answered “yes”? Likewise, this was a stupid poll question, designed to poll anger rather than belief.
September 30th, 2010 at 12:53 am
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