Woah!… The New York Times shills for the GOP… Reports that Obama was born a Muslim!
Yesterday, Newsweek warned the Obama Campaign to be aware of “GOP fearmongering” tactics against the Obamessiah in the general election:
The Republican Party has been successfully scaring voters since 1968, when Richard Nixon built a Silent Majority out of lower- and middle-class folks frightened or disturbed by hippies and student radicals and blacks rioting in the inner cities. The 2008 race may turn on which party will win the lower- and middle-class whites in industrial and border states—the Democrats’ base from the New Deal to the 1960s, but “Reagan Democrats” in most presidential elections since then.
It is a sure bet that the GOP will try to paint Obama as “the other”—as a haughty black intellectual who has Muslim roots (Obama is a Christian) and hangs around with America-haters.
Well, it didn’t take long for the minions of the GOP to unleash their attack machine.
This morning The New York Times actually reported that Barack Obama was born a Muslim, something that has been denied by the Obama Campaign in the past, via Little Green Footballs:
As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant.
Of course, as most Americans understand it, Senator Obama is not a Muslim. He chose to become a Christian, and indeed has written convincingly to explain how he arrived at his choice and how important his Christian faith is to him.
His conversion, however, was a crime in Muslim eyes; it is “irtidad” or “ridda,” usually translated from the Arabic as “apostasy,” but with connotations of rebellion and treason. Indeed, it is the worst of all crimes that a Muslim can commit, worse than murder (which the victim’s family may choose to forgive).
Who could have seen this coming?
The New York Times does the bidding of the GOP?
Pigs fly.
Maybe, Tom Maguire spoke too soon about the NYT’s soft focus on Obama?
-Via Instapundit.
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