Ding Ding Ding!!! Mark the calendar, truth told on Fox.

Dave Weigel has an excellent post up about CNN’s consistent top notch reporting (sarcasm), starting with their chyron, “W.H.: PRESIDENT OBAMA ISN’T MUSLIM”. I’ll give you a tiny sample, but to post more wouldn’t be fair. Just hop over and read:

W.H.: PRES. OBAMA ISN’T GIVING NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODES TO KENYA

My earlier post on the topic here. Dave’s is funnier.

Earlier, Paddy posted about a poll which showed, once again, America isn’t listening, doesn’t care to listen, is gullible, and/or gets their so-called “news” (if at all) from ClusterFox or their equally ill informed friends. In that post was the following quote:

Americans increasingly are convinced — incorrectly — that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, and a growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion.

What does it take, people? And why is that message not being stifled by the factual one?

The Rushpublics are making every effort to push lies to energize their base. They cater to the worst in people by fear-mongering. “He” is one of “them”, not us! He’s “different”! He’s bad and evil and a Kenyan terrorist! Be afraid. Vote Republican!

And so, once again, President Obama has to state the obvious:

Jen Psaki, White House deputy communications director:

President Obama is a committed Christian, and his faith is an important part of his daily life. He prays every day, he seeks a small circle of Christian pastors to give him spiritual advice and counseling, he even receives a daily devotional that he uses each morning. The President’s Christian faith is a part of who he is, but not a part of what the public or the media is focused on everyday.

The poll’s findings are not surprising given the scope of the issues we are focused on-a recovering economy, bringing troops home from Iraq, putting healthcare and financial reform implementation in place. The President’s strong Christian faith is what guides him through these challenges but he doesn’t wear it on his sleeve.

And he shouldn’t have to wear it on his sleeve, or anywhere else for that matter. His religious beliefs are irrelevant and they should be private.

Of course, should President Obama ever display the frustration I’m feeling at the moment, he’d be labeled, again, an “angry black man.” Therefore, the “I am a committed Christian” statements will be repeated and repeated.

But so will the “Obama is not one of us” baiting.

Here’s an idea, media: Emphasize the truth, over and over and over. Dispense with the sensationalism. Hammer away at the propaganda, calling it out regularly. Stick with the facts. Wouldn’t that be refreshing?

I’m so weary of the giant Wurlitzer just cranking out the bullshit day after day. Much more at the link.

WASHINGTON — Americans increasingly are convinced — incorrectly — that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, and a growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion.

Nearly one in five people, or 18 percent, said they think Obama is Muslim, up from the 11 percent who said so in March 2009, according to a poll released Thursday. The proportion who correctly say he is a Christian is down to just 34 percent.

The largest share of people, 43 percent, said they don’t know his religion, an increase from the 34 percent who said that in early 2009.

The survey, conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center and its affiliated Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, is based on interviews conducted before the controversy over whether Muslims should be permitted to construct a mosque near the World Trade Center site. Obama has said he believes Muslims have the right to build an Islamic center there, though he’s also said he won’t take a position on whether they should actually build it.

In a separate poll by Time magazine/ABT SRBI conducted Monday and Tuesday — after Obama’s comments about the mosque — 24 percent said they think he is Muslim, 47 percent said they think he is Christian and 24 percent didn’t know or didn’t respond.

In addition, 61 percent opposed building the Muslim center near the Trade Center site and 26 percent said they favor it.

The Pew poll found that about three in 10 of Obama’s fiercest political rivals, Republicans and conservatives, say he is a Muslim. That is up significantly from last year and far higher than the share of Democrats and liberals who say so. But even among his supporters, the number saying he is a Christian has fallen since 2009, with just 43 percent of blacks and 46 percent of Democrats saying he is Christian.

God I detest Mitch Daniels.

That my friends is the headline from some winger site called “Gateway Pundit” (not gonna link). I saw this early this am and wondered how long before the meme hit the mainstream. See above, that would be from the first hour of Beck’s radio show. Then I wondered how long until Media Matters debunked it? Within an hour of Beck’s bs. Unlike most other winger sites, Media Matters actually has links and evidence to prove what it says. I know. Another one to add to the Without Precedent — Except For All The Other Times list.

Obama commemorations similar to Bush’s

Obama delivered speech at Normandy for D-Day 65^th anniversary in 2009. President Obama traveled to Normandy for a June 6, 2009 ceremony honoring the 65^th anniversary of D-Day. He delivered a speech honoring the troops, saying in part, that victory “came down to the men who landed here – those who now rest in this place for eternity, and those who are with us today. Perhaps more than any other reason, you, the veterans of that landing, are why we still remember what happened on D-Day. You are why we come back.”

Bush administration commemorated D-Day in 2001 and 2004, but spent others in meetings and at least one concert. White House archives of June 6 for each year President Bush was in office only show Bush commemorating D-Day in 2001 and 2004. In 2001, Bush dedicated a D-Day memorial in Virginia, and in 2004, he went to Normandy to mark the 60^th anniversary of D-Day. There are no “news” references to D-Day in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, or 2008.

On 2005 D-Day anniversary, Bush hosted a concert celebrating Black Music Month and did not recognize the holiday. While Hoft and Fox criticized Obama for attending a “party” instead of recognizing the anniversary of D-Day, on June 6, 2005, Bush held a concert at the White House celebrating Black Music Month. According to the White House archives, Bush also did not commemorate the D-Day anniversary.

Heh, Media Matters compiled a pretty long list of people on Fox saying exactly what Billo says they didn’t.

Wow, real journalism. h/t mistermix. Article here.

By GottaLaff

Barry Blitt

Frank Rich:

Dana Perino, the former White House press secretary, declared that “we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.” Rudy Giuliani upped the ante on ABC’s “Good Morning America” in January. “We had no domestic attacks under Bush,” he said. “We’ve had one under Obama.” (He apparently meant the Fort Hood shootings.)

Now the revisionist floodgates have opened with the simultaneous arrival of Karl Rove’s memoir and Keep America Safe, a new right-wing noise machine invented by Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz and the inevitable William Kristol. This gang’s rewriting of history knows few bounds. [...]

[S]omeone will have to remind our amnesia-prone nation who really enabled America’s enemies in the run-up to 9/11 and in its aftermath. [...]

Rove and his book are yesterday. Keep America Safe is on the march. Liz Cheney’s crackpot hit squad achieved instant notoriety with its viral video demanding the names of Obama Justice Department officials who had served as pro bono defense lawyers for Guantánamo Bay detainees. [...] As if to underline the McCarthyism implicit in this smear campaign, the Cheney ally Marc Thiessen (one of the two former Bush speechwriters now serving as Washington Post columnists) started spreading these charges on television with a giggly, repressed hysteria uncannily reminiscent of the snide Joe McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn. [...]

When even the relentless pursuer of Monicagate is moved to call a right-wing jihad “out of bounds,” as Starr did in this case, that’s a fairly good indicator that it’s way off in crazyland. [...]

In this spectrum, the Keep America Safe crowd is a fringe. But it still must be challenged. As we’ve learned the hard way, little fictions, whether about “death panels” or “uranium from Africa,” can grow mighty fast in the 24/7 media echo chamber. [...]

What could yet give some traction to the Keep America Safe revisionism is the backdrop against which it is unfolding: an Iraq election with an uncertain and possibly tumultuous outcome; the escalation of the war in Afghanistan; and an increasingly cavalier Iran. If any of these national security theaters goes south, those in the Rove-Cheney cohort will claim vindication in their campaign to pin their own failings on their successors.

Obama may well make — or is already making — his own mistakes. And he will bear responsibility for them. But they must be seen in the context of the larger narrative that the revisionists are now working so hard to obscure. The most devastating terrorist attack on American soil did happen during Bush’s term [...] The ensuing Iraq war allowed those who did attack us on 9/11 to regroup in Afghanistan and beyond — and emboldened Iran, an adversary with an actual nuclear program. [...]

If we are really to keep America safe, it’s essential we remember exactly which American politicians empowered Iran, Al Qaeda and the Taliban from 2001 to 2008, and why. History will be repeated not only if we forget it, but also if we let it be rewritten by those whose ideological zealotry and boneheaded decisions have made America less safe to this day.

Much more here.

By GottaLaff

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Dee-lish! David Corn offered to bet former Bush spokesman Brad Blakeman $1000 that he and Rove were lying about the WMD inspectors being denied access to inspection sites. Right there on the Tee Vee Machine.

March 20, 2003:

Bush urged journalists to leave the country in his television address late Monday. “For their own safety, all foreign nationals — including journalists and inspectors — should leave Iraq immediately,” the president said.

Bush ordered the inspectors out. Blakeman owes David Corn $1000.

By GottaLaff

BlahblahblahLIESblahblahblahCLUSTERFOXblahblahblah:

Rep. Matheson issued a statement to Fox, stating, “The Weekly Standard’s piece is rubbish.” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today that the right-wing allegation is “very silly.” Still, in a sign of its eminent “fairness,” Fox News is willing to “balance” the truth with a heavy dose of gossip.

Republican Sen. Robert Bennett also disputed the right-wing allegation:

“Sen. Bennett has heard of all kinds of pressure being applied and offers being made to Democrats for votes on health care, but Scott Matheson’s nomination is not one of those because it has been in the works for a long time,” spokeswoman Tara DiJulio said.

The GOP is feeling threatened, because health care reform, such as it is, is about to become a reality. They’re reverting to default mode: Smears, fears, and acting like rears.

These people are a twisted, dangerous joke.

More at Think Progress.