Christianity, Muslims, Resident 0bama

Townhall.com ^ | September 23, 2015 | Brent Bozell

[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?

[alloysteel]

Where was the Current Occupant now squatting in the Oval Orifice born? NOT in Hawaii, as often presumed, but as an unrecorded birth in Washington State, then spirited to Hawaii, where a totally faked-up “Certificate of Live Birth” and another faked-up so-called “long form” were created AFTER the fact.

In fact, Stanley Ann Dunham might not even be the birth mother, but a half-sibling. Daddy “grandfather” Stanley Dunham had an illegitimate child with an unidentified female of African descent, and the child had no genetic relation whatsoever to the presumed “father”, Barack Hussein Obama Senior, a post-graduate student from Kenya, who entered a fake marriage (bigamous, as he was already married back in Kenya), and another son, also named “Barack Hussein Obama II” born about the same time, was just a patsy lined up to complete the fiction.

I want to see some DNA evidence.

[lostboy61]

Any U.S. citizen news reporter that holds back the truth to the cost of the American people is a traitor. We are coming soon to the time of tall trees and short ropes.

[old curmudgeon]

There still are unanswered questions.

How did “African-American” get on the birth certificate?

Not generally in use until more than ten years after his birth.

[tuffydoodle]

Why don’t you hear muslims denouncing homosexuality, even though it’s against their religion? Because homos don’t breed. They keep silent on abortion, because abortions are predominately other races and religions. (they aren’t having them, increasing their population much faster than anyone else). They rally around muslims like the Texas “clock” bomb making kid so teachers and cops will think twice before reporting, since they will be embarrassed and scapegoated in the media. Even the president got in on the attack, likely because he’s on the side of Islam.

[CPT Clay]

He IS a muslim. He was born in Hawaii. Real father, Frank Marshall Davis, hence the birth certificate fraud.

[Pelham]

I say he’s from Planet Kolob.

[RipSawyer]

African-American was NOT on the birth certificate, his race was listed as simply African which of course is NOT even a race but a designation of continent of ancestry. The term African would not have been used in 1961, it would have been Negro.