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Friday, May 09, 2008

i was talking to someone the other day

who struck me as being fairly intelligent (by that i mean they could finish a sentence, hold a conversation, walk and talk at the same time. NOT that they solved fermet's theorem* or anything) and THEY thought obama was a muslim...so it's STILL out there.

Leading Newspapers Perpetuated Obama-Muslim Myth on Day of IN Primary
Posted by Brad Jacobson
Media Matters posted a piece yesterday afternoon about how the right-wing Washington Times earlier in the day "quoted [an] Indiana man saying Obama is 'a Muslim' without noting the assertion is false."
A fine catch.
Media Matters also smartly showed how a responsible journalist reports such incidents:
By contrast, after quoting the same man in its own article, the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that "Obama has never been a Muslim, but bogus e-mails accuse him of being a Muslim who put his hand on a copy of the Quran to be sworn into the U.S. Senate and refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance."................


*one of my favorites by the way, as far as theorems go

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