Is Conservapedia's entry on Obama balanced? (user search)
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« on: May 26, 2009, 02:28:01 PM »

Haha, not at all. The jibes are funny, but sad that people would actually take this garbage as an honest article.

The problem is that Conservapedia's readership takes this deadly seriously. A cursory glance at Free Republic shows that around 90% of that site's membership believe Obama is a secret Muslim with a fake birth certificate.

The hilarious thing about the article is that the list of "proof" that Obama is a Muslim includes things that are absolutely silly, such as "Obama has chosen the Secret Service code name "Renegade". "Renegade" conventionally describes someone who goes against normal conventions of behavior, but its first usage was to describe someone who has turned from their religion. It is a word derived from the Spanish renegado, meaning "Christian turned Muslim" " and "On the campaign trail, Obama was reading "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria, which is written from a Muslim point-of-view" despite the fact that the book barely mentions Islam, and reflects a Muslim point of view only in the sense that Zakaria is a Muslim, and seemingly a quite secular one at that. The Kite Runner, a best-selling novel, was written by a Muslim American as well; does that mean anyone who read The Kite Runner is a Muslim? I mean it does reflect a Muslim point of view, far more than The Post-American World does.
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