Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Friday, August 20, 2010 2:00:55 PM
"Beliefs about Obama's religion are closely linked to political judgments about him. Those who say he is a Muslim overwhelmingly disapprove of his job performance, while a majority of those who think he is a Christian approve of the job Obama is doing. Those who are unsure about Obama's religion are about evenly divided in their views of his performance.
The media agree with those who approve of the job he's doing. The
Associated Press cites 'the proportion who correctly say he is a Christian,' and the
New York Times flatly states: 'The president is Christian.'"
I'm a bit uneasy about these defense witnesses. Having the Associated Press and the New York Times vouching for BO's Christianity is rather like having Billy Jeff Clinton testify to your fidelity.
BOTW again, same date:
"Bloomberg's
Margaret Carlson, meanwhile, can't even criticize Obama without insulting tens of millions of Americans:
How can President Barack Obama be so right about the mosque and yet get it so wrong?
Here's how: He is so supremely confident in his intellect that he forgets, on his way to the correct decision, to slow down and pick up not-so-gifted stragglers."
Is it too soon to nominate Margaret Carlson (the woman who subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge with every report she files) for the Diane Sawyer Award for Pomposity?
Burt Prelutsky of World Net Daily recently reminded us that Speaker Nazi Pelosi said a while back that if some proposal of the Democrats didn't become law, 500 million Americans might lose their jobs. (The whole country only has 300 million or so.) You haven't heard about that in months, have you? Now imagine what the coverage and "shelf life" of the story would have been if the author of that gaffe had been named George W. Bush or Dan Quayle.
Sorry -- out of time. Until we meet again, don't let the b*st*rds get you down. (Standards of decorum are slipping, aren't they? I even saw an "f-bomb" in a Jay Nordlinger Impromptus. I was shocked.)