there are times when sheer weeping isn't enough

[realthog]

Today Pam had another mammoth session at the dentist. As she was having her teeth ultrasounded, the technician mentioned something about Obama being a Muslim. Bollox, said Pam, or as best she could render that sound with her mouth pried open.

The technician followed up with this bit of reasoning: "Once a Muslim, always a Muslim."

So the asshole lies the Palins of this life produced aetat 2008 are current still in 2010, despite having been comprehensively debunked by every nonpartisan news source on the planet and even disavowed by the likes of FAUX News. The Muslim/non-Muslim nature of Obama's education isn't a point up for debate: the indisputable fact of the matter is he was brought up as a Christian. Anyone who says otherwise is either a liar or someone so stupid they believe the kind of liars who in earlier ages sold snake oil.

It makes me weep to think of the long-term damage the media people and politicians who spread these lies are doing to my adopted country, all the time dressing themselves up in this hypocritical cape of "patriotism". They should be ashamed of themselves.

Please excuse the rant.

LATER: PZ Myers discusses a very similar issue here.

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

What I cannot understand is WHY Obama is so HATED by so many of the general public.

Presumably because (a) he's black and (b) he's being misrepresented to them at every conceivable turn by people to whom truth is just something they once heard about but decided they didn't like the sound of. The Obama that's described by the Faux News wackaloons is unrecognizably different from the man himself: not just a caricature but a caricature of someone else.

For people who don't have the brains or the gumption to get their information from an (as near as possible) unbiased source, or even to consider that their sources might have biases, Obama must seem like a very strange creature indeed: his politics are both extreme left and extreme right, he's a Muslim but must be attacked because of the words of his Christian pastor, etc., etc.