The NYC Mosque- A Purposely Manufactured Controversy Created By Desperate Politicians

[KittyWampus]

and then stoked by the Mediawhores happy to further anything that might benefit Republicans.

The Republican party is shrinking fast. It's outdated and increasingly unviable as it currently exists.

Pretty much all they have left is appealing to Americans' Reptilian Brain and creating as much fear and division as possible amongst the working class.

Oh, and Election Fraud when feasible.

But it seems they are running with fear and division. They definitely want to ride their Mosque-crap to November.

Today's NYTimes had an article about polls showing about 25% of Americans think Obama is Muslim and/or not an American citizen.

At this point, I don't understand why ANY Democratic politician would even talk about this or offer and opinion. Shouldn't the rebuttal be "what does this have to do with unemployment or housing or whatever issue the Republicans are refusing to move forward on in Congress"?

[dkf]

1. I didn't hear about it until we were laughing at Sarah Palin's "refudiate"

[unpossibles]

2. Well, to be honest I agree but this is also not a bad opportunity to explain why religious freedom

IS American.

That said, while this is going on, there's bigger news in Iraq and in Fox donating to itself.

[Kaleko]

3. Exactly.

[marginlized]

4. Agreed

and, it's another argument, but, another DU thread worried about Faux News spreading this hate propaganda. We need to bear in mind that Ruppert Murdox is American by business decision only. He has holdings all over the planet. It may suit his purposes to be seen as American, but he's not. The Corporatists are global.