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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHelp me out here...did Obama REALLY chant "in the name of Allah..." from the podium?
Seriously? FB person posted this nonsense. I don't want to call bullshit until I can confirm this. It sounds like total nonsense, but just in case, does anyone know the real story here?
Atman
(31,464 posts)I didn't know America People were missing.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)When "generic Republican who appeals to moderates and to Teabaggers at the same time" defeats Hillary "Benghazi" Clinton!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)That's their only hope: To get people to agree to frontal lobotomies.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)It would have been all over the liberal media.
Lex
(34,108 posts)It is the same GOD Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Noah, Jacob, Isaac, & all of the prophets worshipped.
Orrex
(63,201 posts)Bandit
(21,475 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)I DVR'd that shit!
panader0
(25,816 posts)than a frontal lobotomy
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)Cerridwen
(13,256 posts)by following their traditions and replying in their language in their conversations.
The r/wers of the blogosphere have taken events out of context, twisted them, assembled them in a Byzantine knot and presented them as truth with the usual toxic dose of paranoia and outrage.
NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/world/asia/obama-malaysia.html
LATimes: http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-obama-malaysia-20140426-story.html
NY Daily News changed the focus: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/president-obama-visits-malaysia-article-1.1770452
The r/w gets wind of it: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/imam-obama-end-oppression-muslims-obama-imam-pray-me
The rabid r/w takes it from there to your facebook.
How to manufacture outrage in 6 easy steps.
Edited: Oops. Sorry. I was replying to the wrong manufactured "outrage" of the moment.
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)Cerridwen
(13,256 posts)I started to count the steps and then decided they may have had to repeat a couple.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)And stand on a pile of rubble created by his own incompetence?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)And Obama is warming up the drones, so they better RUN!
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Dad did, in a weird mix of a statement where he said he needed to speak in Pashto because his son had forgotten English. But then he only said that, then moved back to English. Why recite the first line of most book of the Koran in Pashto, then say "I am your father" in English if you are trying to communicate with your son who hasn't heard you in 5 years?
I am kind of perplexed about his dad and his behavior.
I am even more perplexed that the crew at the White House didn't do a better job of handling the parents and getting a grasp on what they were going to say. They really should have had some idea that a guy in a scraggly beard reciting a line from the Koran in Pashto wasn't going to help sway public opinion toward this recovery being a good thing, especially knowing all the questions surrounding his sons disappearance in the first place. They should have advised him that it would probably makes things easier on his son coming back if he didn't do anything to stir up more controversy, even if contrived and fake.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Obama was actually chanting "prepare the FEMA camps,my work here is almost done".
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)The right wing nut jobs are nuttier than squirrel shit these days.
I wish he did have FEMA camps set up for these yahoos
betsuni
(25,462 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)So if you call everything they say BS you will practically never be wrong. But the easy way to go is simply to ask them for proof. Note: proof is not because Limbaugh said it! Or it was on FUX.
* shitheads, i.e. repiggies