Media Again Stoke Fears That Obama Is Too Close To the Muslim World

Mr. Ected

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Thu Jun-04-09 05:49 PM
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Media Again Stoke Fears That Obama Is Too Close To the Muslim World

Edited on Thu Jun-04-09 05:50 PM by Mr. Ected

In covering President Obama's second overseas trip to Europe and the Middle East, the media have used the trip to stoke fears that he may be too close to the Muslim world or harbors a secret, anti-American agenda. For example, on the June 4 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh stated of Obama's trip: "e pretty much told them today that he's one of them, he's got Muslim roots, he grew up -- three different countries with Muslim people, relatives and so forth. Then he says he's gonna close Guant�namo. 'We're gonna stop the torture. I've made it unequivocally illegal, and we're gonna close Guant�namo Bay.' Of course, that's -- we're harming ourselves. That's why they love him."

This theme follows a series of baseless smears from the presidential campaign intended to stoke fears about Obama's background and sow suspicions that, as ABC News' senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper noted, Obama was "some sort of Muslim Manchurian candidate," including that he was educated in a radical madrassa and that he is a Muslim and not a Christian. <snip>

http://mediamatters.org/research/200906040045

If it isn't fear they're mongering, it's hate. Hate and fear. Fear and hate. How many people still slop this up?

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Boojatta

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Thu Jun-04-09 05:52 PM
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1. At least he's not so close to Russia as to be able to see it from his house.

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aquart

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Thu Jun-04-09 05:56 PM
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2. Like they don't kiss Saudi ass? Please.

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customerserviceguy

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Thu Jun-04-09 06:16 PM
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3. Sorry, losing count here

I can understand his upbringing as a child in Indonesia (Asia) and his living for years among Illinois Muslims (North America) but where's the third continent? Unless you count that brief visit to his father's ancestral home in Kenya, I really don't see where it is.

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