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Why Is America Confused About Obama’s Religion? Bob Schieffer Blames The Internet

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A recently released Pew Research poll shows that an increasing number of Americans, especially Republicans, seem to believe that a self-described Christian President Obama is actually a Muslim. In a special commentary entitled “The Downside of the Internet” on CBS’ Face the Nation, anchor Bob Schieffer pointed to this news as an example of evils of the Internet, or as he describes it, the “only news delivery system that doesn’t have an editor.” In his eyes, its the “nuts, perverts and those who are simply looking to validate their prejudices” who rely on the Internet to get their news. Talk about intolerance!

(H/T Breitbart.tv)

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  • NORBIT

    You mean the same Schieffer that shilled for AG Holder, and claimed he didn’t have a clue about the panther case, or the Racially-Charged allegations against Obama’s DOJ? – that Schieffer???!!!

    - can someone just please leave this guy at a dog track somewhere, his Professional Left day’s are over!

    There’s a FOX on the watch these days!!!

  • Big Eddie

    All right , you mugs . So ,the only place to get the straight scoop is from Bob , Katie , Diane , etc . ? Bob is still ticked that the Pony Express riders were put out of work when the telegraph lines were finished .

  • The Real Royal King

    I’m not so sure I agree with Mr. Schieffer about this. It seems to me that the Bash Obama campaign at FOX, which began when it was clear that the Drop Out Governor had dashed any hopes, however slim, McCain might win, starting about 1 October 2008, is in large part responsible for this. The FOX racists, xenophobes and bigots, beginning with the Douchey and Gretchen O’Van Karlson and continuing through Greta O’Van Susteren, cynically and maliciously assumed that labeling President Obama a Muslim would have the effect of slurring and slandering him, and piled it on thick. Breitbart, Drudge and other xenophobic and racists internet sites, and Lard Limbaugh, O’Beckerhead and O’Hannity radio sites contributed as well. Yes, the internet played a part, but, in my opinion, FOX was the leader of the pack and remains so in this sordid, devious tactic.

    AT FOX:

    BIAS, INTOLERANCE WE DON’T ESCHEW.
    AS TO MUSLIMS, WE’RE PROUDLY BOLD ATTACKERS.
    OUR INFORMATION’S SKIM, OUR FACTS ARE FEW,
    WE JUST PANDER TO OUR DEVOUT CRACKERS.

  • The Real Royal King

    NORBIT said:
    There’s a FOX on the watch these days!!!

    Although, not in the newsroom after 19:00 Hours, as we all know from last week.

    AT FOX:

    BIAS, INTOLERANCE WE DON’T ESCHEW.
    AS TO MUSLIMS, WE’RE PROUDLY BOLD ATTACKERS.
    OUR INFORMATION’S SKIM, OUR FACTS ARE FEW,
    WE JUST PANDER TO OUR DEVOUT CRACKERS.

  • RTB

    When in doubt blame the internet, for every thing possible. ..
    I think the fact barrack can’t give a straight answer and basically plays to a crowd is the main reason for the confusion…
    * waiting for the fox news haters to chyme in/ put full blame *

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Scott/654124552 Jonathan Scott

    I blame stupid people.

  • BatBoy

    Bob…quit listening to what Obama says and what what he does….that along has given rise to this issue.

  • notsofast

    Bob, for God’s sake I will say it one more time: BHO is not a Muslim———— as far as I know.

  • felixw

    Once again Bob Schieffer offers commentary on the Internet. Not that he could even tell you what Google does. But this kind of lame-brained, politically correct drivel is exactly what we have come to expect from CBS News.

  • Pablo

    Why is Bob Schieffer so confused? I blame dementia.

  • lanquihue

    Schieffer ought to check out the internet sometime. Then he wouldn’t look like a retarded asshole while doing interviews.

  • JimBob

    Don’t ever retire, Bob! For the right, washed up senile old farts like you are the Gift’s that keeps on giving!

  • puck30

    If it’s not written in the ‘New York Times’ Bob Schieffer doesn’t know about it- Bernie Goldberg

  • redwriteblue

    Bob Scheiffer is an “old school” journalist that came-up through the system of high school and college English teachers grading every aspect of his writing and then the “News Editors” of the newspapers he worked for before he started working for CBS doing the same thing.

    Many of the oldtimers are appalled that the Internet and Facebook allows everybody to “publish” their own “newspaper” (Sarah Palin for example) if they have the time, or hire somebody to do it for them like many celebrities do.

    That so many Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim is not surprising considering that he spoke in favor of “Freedom of religion for Muslims” at a White House “Ramadan dinner.”

    Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department is continuing to bring thousands of Middle Easterners to be “resettled” in the U.S. as “Political Asylum” refugees. If even a small percentage of them have the desire to inflict mass casualities on New Yorkers in a crowded Times Square on a Saturday night they are disaster waiting to happen:

    http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/profiles/blogs/palestinians-have-missle

  • chucken

    Joseph Farah editor of worldnetdaily that does endless Obama birther stories and Obama is a Muslim was a featured speaker at the Tea Party Convention.We know that birthers and Obama is a Muslim believers are complete fucking idiots.That is a fact without any qualification.And now you see what Bob Schieffer is talking about.

  • writer

    I think the confusion comes in because Muslims don’t like Jews, and Obama’s black liberation theology church doesn’t like them either.

  • MichelleF

    Am I the only one who finds it ammusing that even Colby is getting his news from Breitbart now?

    Consider me checked!

  • MichelleF

    I meant amusing, before the all-knowing Royal Race-Baiter/Religious Bigot points it out.

  • writer

    Good catch, Michelle. The King is hell on those typos.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Lindhartsen/704548889 Chris Lindhartsen

    *sigh* Even though he’s right, the truth of the internet is that it’s a purely free marketplace, and anyone can post whatever they want, and if it’s like millions of websites out there, people will never see it. The thing is people need to learn to source materials, and not just trust something they see in font on a screen. E-mails can be lies, as can websites, and many here would claim traditional media is, and I wouldn’t take anything you see as clear fact unless you can get multiple sources to confirm it.

  • The Real Royal King

    writer said:
    I think the confusion comes in because Muslims don’t like Jews, and Obama’s black liberation theology church doesn’t like them either.

    Giddyup.

    AT FOX:

    BIAS, INTOLERANCE WE DON’T ESCHEW.
    AS TO MUSLIMS, WE’RE PROUDLY BOLD ATTACKERS.
    OUR INFORMATION’S SKIM, OUR FACTS ARE FEW,
    WE JUST PANDER TO OUR DEVOUT CRACKERS.

  • The Real Royal King

    MichelleF said:
    Am I the only one who finds it ammusing that even Colby is getting his news from Breitbart now? Consider me checked!

    A link to a video clip is getting the news from the Über Liar and Tape Editor Breitbart? In what part of the world?

    AT FOX:

    BIAS, INTOLERANCE WE DON’T ESCHEW.
    AS TO MUSLIMS, WE’RE PROUDLY BOLD ATTACKERS.
    OUR INFORMATION’S SKIM, OUR FACTS ARE FEW,
    WE JUST PANDER TO OUR DEVOUT CRACKERS.

  • juan

    CBS = CLUELESS BROADCASTING SYSTEM!

  • writer

    “Giddyup.” Good answer. Survey says……

  • TfT

    Poor old Bob…..he just doesn’t like that the general public is not only smarter, but much more aware than he is. He plays in the small media bubble of elitism and doesn’t open his ears or eyes to what is really going on.

    Juan: I like it.

    Bob Schieffer or BS for short.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Latest poll on RRK……..51 thumbs down………4 thumbs up… RRK is one of the least credible phony liars posting here.

  • The Real Royal King

    juan said:
    CBS = CLUELESS BROADCASTING SYSTEM!

    FOX = Full Of Xenophobes!

    AT FOX:

    BIAS, INTOLERANCE WE DON’T ESCHEW.
    AS TO MUSLIMS, WE’RE PROUDLY BOLD ATTACKERS.
    OUR INFORMATION’S SKIM, OUR FACTS ARE FEW,
    WE JUST PANDER TO OUR DEVOUT CRACKERS.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Latest poll on RRK……..51 thumbs down………4 thumbs up… RRK is one of the least credible phony liars posting here.

    You seem to care about those thumbs more than anyone else.

  • greg454

    If Obama wants me to think of him as a Christian then he should act like one instead of being such a Muslim lover. What is this crap about covering the cross at Georgetown University? Where’s the nativity scene at The White House? Why refer to the Quran as “our holy quran?” How come he doesn’t go to church like every other president did? These are not the actions of a Christian. His private Christianity is a copout, anyone can claim to do anything in private, but actions speak louder than words.

  • writer

    greg, I think part of the confusion comes from the crossover. Trumpet, the magazine run by the daughter of Obama’s former pastor, gave an award to the leader of the Nation of Islam. Her dad and the leader are tight, so mistaking one for the other is understandable.

  • FearMonger

    writer said:
    Good catch, Michelle. The King is hell on those typos.

    You mean like this one?….

    The Real Royal King said:
    Breitbart, Drudge and other xenophobic and racists internet sites, and Lard Limbaugh, O’Beckerhead and O’Hannity radio sites contributed as well.

    Funny thing about ‘spellcheck’… an ‘s’ added to the end of a word like racist is still technically a correctly spelled word, even if not appropriate for the context of the sentence.

    Whether it’s a ‘typo’ or just a good ol’ fashioned grammatical ‘mistake’ is up for TRRK to clarify.

    And btw… don’t start with me on ‘typos’ or grammatical ‘mistakes’…. I admit right up front that I screw up details all the time.

    What I try to get RIGHT (punny huh?) is my interpretation of The Big Picture. In the case of Good Ol’ Bob… knowing that he CERTAINLY wouldn’t be talking about Mediaite…. I’d say when he refers to these people…

    “nuts, perverts and those who are simply looking to validate their prejudices”

    he’s clearly talking about the NYT’s website, WaPo’s website, and MSNBC’s website.

    I wonder what his own personal ‘trusted sources of news’ are…..

  • KMLake

    Good Lord (and I DO mean THE Lord). Since when do others get to question us or “take us at our word” regarding our faith? What is this another inquisition? My relationship with God is none of your business. It is the most vital, important, intimate and private thing in my life. Keep your sticky fingers out of my spirituality. But, if you do insist on “inquiring,” please ask the pseudo-christian hate mongers like Tom Emmer or his buddies in “you can run” whether or not they are actually Christian. They want the destruction, even murder, of American Citizens who are not like them (YCR states this disgusting belief openly… Emmer simply donates to them). How is it that this evil became one of the public “faces” of my faith? As a devout, life-long, Christian I resent this speculation about, Obama’s or anyone’s love of God and/or acceptance of Christ as their saviour. That’s between them and their maker (and I am certain He doesn’t like meddling fools). Most (the VAST majority of) Muslims are not the real “bogey man” here. I am far more leery of my fellow Christian, “grand inquisitors” who set themselves up to take the measure of another person’s relationship with God. My own ancestors were Quaker martyrs, whose only crime was standing up to puritans who objected to resistance and the Quaker belief that the light of God exists in everyone… and that we should try to see it. The Baptists (I was baptized in a Four-Square Baptist Church almost 40 years ago) hate the Catholics, the Catholics hate the gays as do the Mormons (and they hate each other more), Methodists don’t accept them, the “peace churches” are a threat to the control of the “party line” of the church in general, fundamentalists (of every variety and faith hate everyone different from themselves) …. oh yeah and ALL Muslims are against America (making a joke here folks). When does it end? Who is perfect enough to pass the test? People who think they can assess the depth and quality of another person’s love of God … are the “bogey man” and we should all be afraid…. very, very afraid (and really angry too… angry enough to return our churches to places of love, acceptance and faith). Take back the church from hate mongers.

  • ned racine

    first of all, bob s is right. the web has no editor. the users are the editors … the only medium where that is true. which is why we get such interesting reading! and which will inevitably force the web to change drastically in the future.

    secondly, pres obama does go to church, unlike gwbush and john mccain! i haven’t heard of sarah palin’s pastor … so i don’t know. nor newt gingrich’s. kind of makes me laugh when all the worried souls of the right are crazy about the atheists running their party. probably pure racism … who knows?

    lastly, as a devoted member of the independent party and a backer of bloomberg for pres/2012, i am amused and ashamed at both sides very day!

  • TfT

    Just so that everyone can put this whole conversation to bed, let us never forget that Chuck Todd (of NBC) reminds us constantly that Obama gets his daily prayers in email or tweets. Now, that is investigative journalism if I ever saw it. I presume that since we now the WH emails MSNBC hosts directly (as stated on air by Mika) we must assume that Obama has shared these daily devotionals he gets on his blackberry every day with Chuck todd himself.

    What other way would Todd know about this, and be able to verify it as a factual report?

  • Laker

    I doubt Schieffer even knows how to use a computer let alone knows anything about the internet. It is time to put this dodo out to pasture along with his buddy Larry King.

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