A press we blindly follow in a political stupor.
In keeping with my last article, I've decided the following is a law of nature:
If you repeat something often enough, people will decide it's true. Even smart people. People like the reporters at the Washington Post, who reported yesterday Barack Obama is a closeted muslim.
THAT urban legend has made its rounds through the world wide web, even prompting brain- dead CNN to run a spot in January saying, No, Obama was not educated at a Madrassa school while living with his parents in Indonesia.
Originally, Insight Magazine, owned by the same company as the conservative Washington Times and a competitior to the Washington Post, reported the allegations. They based the story on "anonymous sources" at the Clinton campaign. CNN then investigated, found the story had no merit, and ran their piece in January. That brings us to yesterday, when the Washington Post published a story claiming Obama was a closeted muslim, based on rumors and, you guessed it, more "anonymous sources".
Where the hell is professional reporting? When I worked for my college newspaper, if I would have written an article based soley on sources I couldn't name, I would have been FIRED. And, the Retriever, isn't exactly the Boston Globe. Do these people just sit at their desk and make this crap up? Incidentally, the Post's website today makes no hint of their own story.
Even if Obama was a Muslim, have we become so racist that we can't see the difference between fanatical anything and religion? I'm not suggesting America is ready to elect a black, muslim President: I am suggesting that even if a person is a practing Muslim that makes them no less scary in my mind than any other fundamentalist religion -- let's say -- EVANGELICALISM. But all this doesn't matter -- Obama isn't muslim. Period.
Facts, once again, have no meaning in people's brains. They hear what they want to hear, believe what they want to believe, and facts be damned.
I'm not even an Obama supporter. More and more this democrat likes McCain. I'm not fond of Obama because of his liklihood to withdrawl troops prematurely from Iraq. That opinion is based on what Obama has said, not made up crap passed off as investigative journalism.
The Post should be ashamed.