{"id":19705,"date":"2014-07-12T03:19:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T10:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=19705"},"modified":"2014-07-12T16:08:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T23:08:39","slug":"so-fking-what-fox-news-freaks-out-over-american-muslims-support-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=19705","title":{"rendered":"So F**king What? Fox News Freaks Out Over American Muslims Support For Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Gallup poll<\/a> surveyed the job approval rating for President Obama broken down by various religious groups. It’s a mildly interesting batch of data candy for polling nerds to suck on when they’re bored. The overall results average out to about the same level of approval (43%) registered in most other recent surveys. But leave it to the panic-peddlers at Fox to find something worthy of acute hyperventilation.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

The numbers that sent Fox into a tizzy were those that put Muslim approval of Obama’s job performance at 72%. In their defective minds that surely means that Al Qaeda is pleased with the President’s performance in office and they are not ashamed to admit it. To make sure that their block-headed audience didn’t miss the point, Fox illustrated the article with a photo of Obama “bowing”<\/em> down to his Arab master.<\/p>\n

Everything about this posting is designed to stimulate the already excited racism follicles that cover the Fox viewer like an invisible furry hate-detector. But a cursory analysis reveals that there is nothing worrisome or surprising about the results in this poll.<\/p>\n

First of all, the respondents in this survey are all Americans. They are not Islamic extremists in unfriendly Middle Eastern nations looking to the U.S. president for inspiration. They are not members of the Muslim Brotherhood seeking to form an Islamic Caliphate with Obama as their Supreme Leader. They are certainly not terrorists, unless the Gallup organization has partnered with Al Qaeda sleeper cells to find participants for their survey operations.<\/p>\n

Secondly, who do you think American Muslims would be most inclined to support? Would it be Republicans who regard all of them as potential suicide bombers; who oppose the construction of new mosques and advocate surreptitious surveillance of existing ones; who push for racially profiling people with dark-skin and full beards? Muslims, like every other minority in America, recognize that Democrats are the tolerant party that believes in equality and values diversity. Obviously Obama is going to benefit from that in polling.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the not-so-subtle inference that broad support among Muslims indicates an affinity for Islamic extremists is ludicrous. After all, Obama is the man that executed Osama Bin Laden. There is no one on the planet who is responsible for the demise of more high-ranking terrorists than our current president. If the Muslim respondents in this survey were aligned with terrorism they surely would not be expressing support for Obama. And for a little contrast, Jews also gave Obama a resounding vote of confidence with a 55% majority approval rating.<\/p>\n

Returning to the photo that Fox deliberately chose in order to fan the flames of bigotry, it should be noted that they had to reach back to June of 2009 to find a scary Muslim pictured with Obama. The other figure in the photo is the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, a key American ally. He is awarding Obama the King Abdul Aziz Order of Merit, the highest honor that the Saudis can give to a foreign dignitary. And, yes, Obama is lowering his head so that the King can put the award around his neck.<\/p>\n

\"bush-king-abdullah\"This is precisely the way the ceremony was conducted in January of 2008, when George W. Bush received the same award (IOKIYAR). Of course, none of this is revealed by the myth-makers at Fox News who, by the way, are partially owned by the Muslim Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, the second largest shareholder in the corporation after the Murdoch family.<\/p>\n

The comments by readers of this article at Fox Nation provide clear evidence that Fox is achieving their goal of stirring the racist pot. So we’ll leave you with a few of those thoughts that so perfectly sum up the Fox mind set. If you want a collection of more than 50 documented examples of Fox Nation blatantly lying, be sure to check out our ebook, Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Community’s Assault On Truth<\/a>. It’s educational, entertaining, frustrating, humorous, and downright scary. You’ll love it.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new Gallup poll surveyed the job approval rating for President Obama broken down by various religious groups. It’s a mildly interesting batch of data candy for polling nerds to suck on when they’re bored. The overall results average out to about the same level of approval (43%) registered in most other recent surveys. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"So F**king What? Fox News Freaks Out Over American Muslims Support For Obama","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,8],"tags":[183,527,167,1143],"class_list":["post-19705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-propaganda","tag-barack-obama","tag-fox-nation","tag-george-w-bush","tag-racism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-57P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1317,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1317","url_meta":{"origin":19705,"position":0},"title":"Fox Pimps Fake Rasmussen Poll Index","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/30\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Be sure to see Rasmussen's previous fake index wherein he invents new classes of \"Mainstream Americans\" and \"Political Elitists.\"Last week I wrote about the latest index invented by the notoriously deceptive Rasmussen polling firm. Rasmussen's Presidential Approval Index actually distorts the President's approval by leaving out huge chunks of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5743,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5743","url_meta":{"origin":19705,"position":1},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: On Obama And History","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/7\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"See Fox News Update Below The latest mutation of reality by the folks at Fox Nation presents another fun house ride through Fantasyland. Check out the headline posting on Sunday night: The posting links to an article at the Moonie Washington Times that purports to have analyzed presidential elections and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5108,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5108","url_meta":{"origin":19705,"position":2},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Obama And The Tea Party","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/5\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again, Fox Nation outright lies in a headline article. The arrogance of the Fox Nationalists is astonishing in that they will brazenly lie even while providing a link to the source data the exposes them as liars. Here we have Fox Nation headlining that President Obama is more unpopular\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5713,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5713","url_meta":{"origin":19705,"position":3},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: On Angry, Unpopular Michelle Obama","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/31\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"For today's episode of Fox Nation vs. Reality, we've got a twofer. The Fox Nationalists are reviving an old and insipid insult directed at First Lady Michelle Obama. Right-wingers are obsessed with portraying her as angry, but the op-ed to which Fox Nation links goes even further. Joseph Curl, for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5455,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5455","url_meta":{"origin":19705,"position":4},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Obama And The Jews","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/26\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here we go again. Fox Nation posts another item whose only purpose is to mercilessly twist the truth until it chokes to death. The item posted on Fox Nation features a headline with ominous tones for President Obama's acceptance in the Jewish community. As you can see from the comments,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9439,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9439","url_meta":{"origin":19705,"position":5},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Obama Takes A Dive Within The Margin Of Error","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/8\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox News seems not to understand the meaning of common figures of speech. It's another way that they manifest their departure from the real world that the rest of us inhabit. For instance, in a posting today on Fox Nation, they reported the results of a poll conducted by CNN\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-poll-muslims.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19722,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions\/19722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}