Posted on 09/23/2015 12:21:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Obama years may be winding down, but our President Obama-loving media never stops being hypersensitive about the man. CNN's latest poll asked respondents "Do you happen to know what religion Barack Obama is?" and "Where was Barack Obama born, as far as you know?"
A major American media outlet asking these basic biographical questions after Obama's been president for six and a half years seems to be asking "How inadequate are we?" But what they're actually fishing for is a "crazy conservative fringe" argument now that Donald Trump is on top of the GOP presidential race.
Seventy-five percent correctly identified Obama's American birth, and 12 percent expressed "no opinion." The religion question is much more divided: 39 percent picked "Protestant," 29 percent picked "Muslim," and 11 percent correctly surveyed his upbringing and policies and said "No religion."
The primary subject of CNN's poll was the Iran deal, where they found that the American people were deeply skeptical, with 60 percent saying Iranian cheating was very likely. Obama drew a 59 percent disapproval rating on handling Iran. CNN buried that result.
But CNN's John King ran out with the birther/Muslim results on the Sunday show "Inside Politics" on Sept. 13, comparing the Republican breakdowns on those questions and then the Trump-supporter results. Seventy percent of Republicans accept Obama's American birth, and 61 percent of Trump fans.
On religion, King said "43 percent of all Republicans -- don't ask me why -- 43 percent of all Republicans say they think the president is a Muslim; 54 percent of Trump supporters say that. Again, so they are -- to use polite language -- let's just say more anti-Obama than even most Republicans."
Fifteen percent of Democrats said Obama was Muslim, but King didn't mention it.
This Obama-coddling tendency grew dramatically on Sept. 17 when liberals objected to a town-hall questioner in New Hampshire insisting Obama was a Muslim, and Trump failed to correct him.
Ask yourself this question: Have the media ever objected to a questioner at a Democratic campaign event smearing a Republican candidate? Has there never been a 9/11 truther embarrassing a liberal politician? The media couldn't and wouldn't locate such a person. They're a missing person on an ideological milk carton.
Journalists should be fact-checkers on any president's biography. But with Obama, the ardent advocacy spills over everywhere. On "Reliable Sources" on Sept. 20, CNN host Brian Stelter challenged Newsmax host Steve Malzberg, "Doesn't every responsible journalist and every responsible opinion analyst type have a responsibility to say, loudly and clearly, every time they talk about this, 'The president was born in the U.S., the president is a Christian'?"
Stelter lectured "I think it does damage to our country, damage to the viewers at home when Trump sows doubt in this way, doesn't just explicitly answer the question." When Malzberg shot back that Obama called his opponents "crazies" and compared them to Iranian Muslim "hardliners," Stelter complained "I don't think it's the same as delegitimizing the president of the United States."
These media liberals didn't screech when Hillary Clinton said Republican views on women were like Muslim terrorist groups. They actually hailed it as "coming out swinging" with "tough talk." These journalistic "professionals" didn't blink in 2012 when Sen. Harry Reid maintained, with no evidence, that Mitt Romney didn't pay taxes.
Most importantly, none of these "fact checkers" could be bothered in 2012 when liberal Washington Post assistant editor David Maraniss blew up Obama's fairy-tale memoir on his birth story, that his father stayed with him until he was 2. In real life, his mother left Hawaii within a month. But who cares about that kind of inconvenient truth?
Correctly Brent? And just how do you know for sure? Because he said so? There is a forgery of a BC that they themselves released you know?
As far as I can tell it is probably Muslim or Black Liberation.
"Where was Barack Obama born, as far as you know?"
As far as I know he was born. That is all that I "know".
The Democrat Party is no longer a political party; it has become an Obama Cult. The closest historic parallel we have to this Obama Cult is the followers of the James Warren (Jim) Jones Cult who, at the behest of Jim Jones, willingly killed themselves with cyanide laced Kool-Aid, and, of course, both Jim Jones and Obama were “Community Organizers,” and both were/are avowed Marxist Communists with membership in the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The only difference between the Obama Cult and the Jim Jones Cult, other than the enormous size of the Obama Cult, is that Jim Jones offered his followers poisoned Kool-Aid at the end, and Obama is offering his followers revolution, but the end result is the same: their followers perish.
If Obama is pretending to be Christian — he sure isn’t trying very hard.
According to the Harvard Law Review he was born in Kenya.
How could he have possibly let that pass?
Obama has done more to show that he is Muslim than he has done to show that he is Christian. It’s his own fault people believe they way they do about his faith.
If they honestly believe there is nothing wrong with being a muslim then why are lib-prog-dems so obsessed with denying that Barack Obama is, or might be, muslim?
Everyone in the MSM is demanding we all believe Obama is a Christian.
What does Obama say?
You MSM hacks simply don’t have the stones to ask the right questions:
1) Why did you sequester virtually every written document about your past?
2) How did you qualify for aid as a foreign exchange student?
3) How did you obtain your social security number?
4) Why is it that the name of your birth hospital didn’t exist at the time you were born?
Seems to me a real reporter would like to have an answer from Obozo about this, NOT from his spokespeople, and without a teleprompter being available.
He keeps his Christianity well hidden behind an immense wall of Islamophilia and universal snark.
Bookmarked. Good find.
Did Brent ever explain how he knows?
Either way he's a lying sack of Shiite and has been for many, many years.
That's one thing nobody has mentioned. When he filled out his college applications did he put that he was born in Kenya or the USA. If he put that he was born in Kenya in order to receive preferential treatment and now he says he was born in the USA could they revoke his diplomas for lying on the applications. Of course the media will never look into this but there must be groups out there that look into this stuff.
It's as absurd as the chuckleheads that try to make you believe that Hitler was Christian just because he said he was.
Both men have shown by their actions that they are the complete opposite.
Note to those that still believe:
“Sometimes the words that come out of the mouths of liars are not true.”
I have great respect for Brent Bozell, the Conservative author of this post.
But he completely blew it when he claims that Washington Post liberal David Maraniss exposed the Obama lie about his father and mother living together for two years.
ALL the work on that story was done at World Net Daily!
The MSM completely ignored that story until Maraniss stole it from WND and published the story in his book.
By their fruits [not words] shall ye know them...
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