Anyone here remember all the lying and hoopla from Trump about Obama being a Muslim???

[Samrob]

The media hyped the possibility also, making almost a crime to be a Muslim, which Obama was NOT.

I am not ranting at all against Muslim but the hypocrisy and outright racism of the GOP and MAGA and THE MEDIA incense me!

Haven't even heard a whisper about this. It's not even about whether or not any man or woman of Islamic faith should hold any government office because I believe many are much more qualified and fit than some so-called Christians. But this the rub: That Trump would be the lying POS to endorse and fully support a real Muslim to hold any public official office is making me throw up as his MAGA base supports him in this:

" Oz grew up in a mixed Muslim environment where his father's family practiced more traditional Islam, while his mother's family were more secular Muslims.[22] As a child, he spent summers in Turkey[23] and spent two years in the Turkish army after college to maintain his dual citizenship.[24]" Wiki

[secondwind]

1. Oz could very well be a traitor to this country, for all we know.

[efhmc]

5. No doubt about that if Oz is a Trump supporter.

[sop]

7. Some people are saying that, for all we know it could very well be true.

[mopinko]

11. who else is old enough to remember the name sybil edwards?

or was it cybil? a whistle blower about turkish influence under w, iirc.

[calimary]

20. Vaguely. Yes.

[mopinko]

25. iirc she posted here?

or someone connected to her did.

[11 Bravo]

15. Which country is his?

[Moostache]

2. I'm still waiting for Trump's "findings"...

He said he sent investigators to Hawaii (LIE), and they were findings "things you wouldn't believe" (LIE) and that he would be divulging these "things" "soon"...(LIES AND MORE LIES).

When Trump started camapigning in 2015 I was constantly waiting for ANYONE to ask him to present his "findings" and no one ever did.

Trump is a catastrophe for this nation and the mass media addiction to using his brand of foolishness and hate to draw attention - all in service of ad revenues and power - disgusts me like nothing else on Earth.

Fuck Donald Trump.
Fuck ANYONE who supports him.
AND DOUBLE FUCK the media for continuing to breathlessly follow his every stupid fucking word.

If you are a 'journalist' and you write ANYTHING about Trump now, you are a craven hack and unworthy of holding trust as a true journalist. He needs to go the fuck away and the addicted media bosses are lazy, greedy fools to the last person. They won't let it happen and the American public as a whole is simply too stupid for its own good.

The lowest common denominator is here to stay, and they are remarkably similar the the howling yolkels in "Idiocracy". A nation dedicated to howling laughter while 'batin and watching "Ow! my balls!@!!"

When its all over and the USA is a smoldering pile of rubble on the ash-heap of history, I hope someone survives to get it right and be better next time - but even that hope of any "next time" is fading fast.

[hamsterjill]

12. Great post!

I enjoyed your post very much. You’re right!

Thank you.

[LittleGirl]

21. Yup, I'm that disgusted as well.

Spot on post. Should make it an OP.
Bravo.

[calimary]

22. I remember that. "They can't believe what they're finding."

And he kept repeating that. And yes, NOBODY EVER asked him a follow-up question. Coulda been TWO WORDS! “Like what?”

Nobody. NOBODY asked for names, dates, what kinds of “findings”, NOTHING!!!!!

He would have danced around it. But somebody needed to stay ON that.

And nobody did. They were too busy being “in love” with the new “shiny object du jour”.

[stollen]

23. Well said

We can't forget the recent past and all the lies and obfuscation.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Well sure, Obama was, depending on the week, a radical black christian, an atheist socialist...

or a Muslim.

They aren't going to out and out attack his religious past he is a Republican after all.

[rogue emissary]

8. +1

[jimfields33]

4. The further way from 9/11 we go, the less a factor.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. Can one spell HYPOCRISY ?????

TDFG is a HYPOCRITE first and foremost. But then, Oz is a Republican, so that must be okay.

[rogue emissary]

9. It wasn't about him being a muslim.

It was about othering him. It was and still is quite acceptable to be Islamaphobic. See Bill Mahers continued success.

Back then it was less acceptable to be openly racist against African Americans. Check post #3. They would and did call him just about anything to get "Moderates" to hate him.

[sop]

10. If Democrats had the same killer instincts as Republicans they would form a dark money PAC,

call it something rightwingy like "Americans Against Sharia Law," then devote the entire general election season attacking Oz from the right as a secret Muslim infiltrator.

[LeftInTX]

13. Exactly

There are also alot of Arab Republicans.....They are Christian, but they are Arab: Darrell Issa is one, John Sununu, is another one, Mark Esper is another one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Sununu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Esper

[Ladythatvotesblue]

14. Barack Obama

is a good and decent family man. He is not a cheater or a liar.
He loves his country, and his family.
I would like to see him appointed to the Supreme Court.

[Budi]

16. Same for politicians using "Jew" as their dogwhistle.

Yesterday one stepped to the camera with the same hate targeted wording, as voting was going on, they actually had the gall to say, "Jew Money", in blaming AIPAC for funding their opponant's campaign.

"Jew Money", exact words spoken.

And yet when Temples are defaced & burned, when people of Jewish faith are attacked, mocked & killed here in America for simply existing, these same perveyors of hate-speak manage a well scripted public statement of 'concern'.

[Budi]

19. Barack Obama:

Link to tweet

We need to repudiate in the strongest terms the Politicians and Media figures who — whether for political gain or to boost ratings — have used their platforms to promote and normalize “replacement theory” and other starkly racist, anti-Semitic, and nativist conspiracy theories.

"Politicians and Media figures" aren't only from the extremist Right.

[Polybius]

17. The time difference of 2008 and 2022 might have something to do with it

Just like Al Smith faced crazy discrimination in 1928 for being Catholic. JFK did too in 1960, but not nearly as much. By 2020, no one cared that Biden is Catholic.

[larwdem]

18. yes

I said that right away he's a real muslim and he's not an American.

[malaise]

24. And the foreign wife too

The panty model who still has problems with English.