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" I do not know how one can read the latest Pew poll and come to any other conclusion that the country is reaching critical mass on stupid. Nearly four years after he was sent to the White House, less than half of American voters know President Obama is Christian, a new poll has found. A survey by the Pew Research Center found that only 49 percent of those polled knew Obama is Christian, while 17 percent thought he is Muslim and 31 percent said they don&amp;#039;t know. Surprisingly, the percentage of voters who know Obama is Christian has declined since October 2008, when 55 percent correctly identified him as Christian. It is higher, however, than in August 2010, when just 38 percent knew his faith. This is not &amp;quot;surprising&amp;quot; to me in the least. There is an entire media universe dedicated to spreading just this kind of misinformation. That media universe has been doing that since at least the 2008 Democratic primaries and probably before that. There are politicians -- mainstream politicians -- who not only believe it themselves, but readily participate in the media universe where this is taken and preached as gospel. The longer he&amp;#039;s in office, the more of this poison is spread through the country so, quite naturally, the more people come to believe it. It&amp;#039;s really time for responsible people -- in politics, in the media, and in any combination of the two -- simply to stop participating in that media universe. It&amp;#039;s time to stop treating the various outlets of that media universe as though they were colleagues, good-faith actors who simply might have different opinions than your own. Everybody knows who these people are. Everybody knows what they&amp;#039;re doing. Everybody knows the reasons why these numbers are the way they are. It&amp;#039;s time to stop pretending that propaganda is news simply because there are enough suckers out there to believe it. Of course, as The Washington Post told us yesterday, it doesn&amp;#039;t matter if something&amp;#039;s true as long as it &amp;quot;works.&amp;quot; Believe that, and this is what you get, fool. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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