U.S.News: Claims Palin Supporters Are Smearing Gov. Jindal as 'Secret Muslim'

Publius' Forum ^ | 2/26/09 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

One has to wonder about the thought process of some people. Dan Gilgoff, Faith reporter with U.S. News and World Report and Huffington Post writer, is a perfect example of what I am talking about. After a February 23 posting on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's Catholic faith, Gilgoff followed up the next day with a post claiming that Sarah Palin fans were smearing Jindal over his supposedly "secret Muslim" faith. Where did Gilgoff get such a ridiculous idea? Why, from just two commenters that posted on his entry of the 23rd, that's where.

That's right, just two people claiming in the comments section of his U.S. News post that Jindal was a secret Muslim was enough for Dan Gilgoff to decide that Sarah Palin's entire support base is smearing Bobby Jindal as a secret Muslim. Just two people. Two nuts is enough for U.S. News and World Report to slander Sarah Palin and all her followers as crazy, racist, hatemongers.

In his February 23 posting Gilgoff was saying that Governor Bobby Jindal is the "future of religious conservatives in the GOP." Gilgoff spoke to Jindal's Catholic beliefs and at the same time he mentioned Sarah Palin's "evangelical base" of support in the GOP...

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[calex59]

Horse sh**. There is some disagreement between Palin and Jindal supporter, but most people support both. I do. I love Sarah, but think that Jindal has great ideas. He has great speeches, but he can't articulate them very well. Sarah can. I want them both to be campaigning towards 2012. There are more Jindal supporters who are dead set against Palin then the other way around.

This whole article is just another hit piece on Palin, the person the left fears more than anyone conservatives can field in the next election!

[rintense]

Not horseshit. All any liberal needs to do is look at the infighting here to make stuff up. And it doesn’t matter if MOST would take both. Liberal focus on the most discontent and make stuff up.

[pillut48]

I am married to an Indian Hindu, and he and his family have absolutely ZERO tolerance for all things muslim!! I have to caution him around the children when we pass a local mosque—sometimes he forgets and the air turns blue, if you know what I mean! :-O

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’ll say.

[Impy]

Break me off a piece of that kit kat bar.

[Impy]

Interesting but we don’t know his positions or if he’d made a good candidate.

[Jacob Kell]

“Not at all. I would like to see a solid Conservative who also has the personality and presence to win over a majority of the squishy middle.

Obomba did it while pushing a socialist agenda, certainly a Conservative could do the same”

Well, the reasons why ObUma won were a bad economy, the Iraq war (at least because of the way the Communist Media protrayed it), McCain failed to motivate conservatives, plus he looked like yesterday, while Barry looked like today, and because Bush was the proverbial albatross around McCain’s neck. Partly because Bush wasn’t all that conservative, and partly because he foolishly let the CLAMs (Communist Liberal American Media) have their way with him. Also, it’s rare that a party wins three elections in a row.

[ModelBreaker]

“I am married to an Indian Hindu, and he and his family have absolutely ZERO tolerance for all things muslim!! I have to caution him around the children when we pass a local mosque—sometimes he forgets and the air turns blue, if you know what I mean! :-O”

I don’t think people here realize how disliked Muslims are in parts of the world where there are a lot of them and they have been interacting with non-Muslims for centuries. Basically, Muslims have a terrible historical record of being good neighbors unless they run everything and you are a dhimmi.

We are still caught up in a fuzzy multicultural haze still hanging around from the 60’s. Eventually the Muslims will correct that notion. The question is whether people wake up too late to stop them.

It kind of makes you more sympathetic to the Serbians, who got bad press for being really intolerant of Muslims.