The nonsense level in the mainstream media is getting higher and higher as worries over the results of 2016 elections are taking hold. The media is going all out to pepper potential Republican candidates with meaningless questions that could serve as the basis for some phony outrage or another on the left. The latest round of this garbage centers on comments made by former New York mayor Rudi Giuliani in which he said that president Obama does not love America like past presidents. This morphed in the media into claims that Giuliani said Obama is unpatriotic. No matter what Giuliani actually said, the media went into a full feeding frenzy.
The latest bit of silliness is the questioning of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker about whether or not Obama is a Christian. Walker said he really did not know much about Obama's religion and also that the question had nothing to do with any relevant issue. After four or five attempts to get Walker to change that answer, the media moved on but still published articles claiming that Walker would not agree that Obama was a Christian. In other words, the media manufactured another phony "outrage".
Of course, I would like to have the media answer a few questions:
1. When Obama ran for president in 2008, his religion was a big problem. Obama had spent 20 years sitting in the pews of the church of Reverend Wright. Given the views put forward in the sermons in that church, many Americans wondered what that indicated about the views of Obama himself. The response of most of the media was to claim that a candidates religion was off limits. If anyone asked about Obama's religion, they were racist and going overboard. Why was Obama's religion off limits when the man himself was running for office but now it is an appropriate subject for inquiry when no one cares much about it anymore?
2. When is a similar question going to asked of Hillary Clinton? Does anyone ask her about the religion of others in her party or in the GOP? Of course not; that would be inappropriate and, no doubt, sexist.
3. There are a myriad of problems facing the USA. None of them concern whether or not Obama is a Christian. Why ask now? Is it just to stir up phony problems?
The latest bit of silliness is the questioning of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker about whether or not Obama is a Christian. Walker said he really did not know much about Obama's religion and also that the question had nothing to do with any relevant issue. After four or five attempts to get Walker to change that answer, the media moved on but still published articles claiming that Walker would not agree that Obama was a Christian. In other words, the media manufactured another phony "outrage".
Of course, I would like to have the media answer a few questions:
1. When Obama ran for president in 2008, his religion was a big problem. Obama had spent 20 years sitting in the pews of the church of Reverend Wright. Given the views put forward in the sermons in that church, many Americans wondered what that indicated about the views of Obama himself. The response of most of the media was to claim that a candidates religion was off limits. If anyone asked about Obama's religion, they were racist and going overboard. Why was Obama's religion off limits when the man himself was running for office but now it is an appropriate subject for inquiry when no one cares much about it anymore?
2. When is a similar question going to asked of Hillary Clinton? Does anyone ask her about the religion of others in her party or in the GOP? Of course not; that would be inappropriate and, no doubt, sexist.
3. There are a myriad of problems facing the USA. None of them concern whether or not Obama is a Christian. Why ask now? Is it just to stir up phony problems?
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