Satan & Obama controversy--> vote here:

[Lurker Dave]

92. My point is simply that...

...it isn't at all clear that the Ouazanni was cast because he bears a resemblance, or can be made to bear a resemblance, to the President, and that this is because there is some evidence that Mark Burnett is a supporter of the President. I thought I made that clear. I'm sorry if I left it ambiguous.

You post, as an ostensible counterpoint, claims that Murdoch's News Corp also donated money to the President's reelection campaign. But I fail to see how News Corp's political donations contradict the fact that Burnett donated money --and, if I understand the issue correctly, donated the maximum allowable contribution --to the President's campaign. Furthermore, I fail to see how the contributions of a multinational mass media corporation stand as counter evidence to the the proposition that the donations of a private citizen indicate that citizen's political support.

And I find this somewhat odd:

But hey thanks for the drive-by bump and your homage to the makers of The Bible. They don't really need your help. They've swamped the media & the net with their disclaimers and rebuttals and denials.

My post was hardly a drive-by. I just thought, in the interest of being helpful, that since I had taken an interest in this story a day or two ago, I'd share what little information I had found out about it. And I certainly don't see how my post is an "homage to the makers of The Bible," seeing as how I didn't mention the show itself. Nor do I see how making a post here on the DU can be interpreted as "helping" anyone, or even who "them" is.

Maybe it was all the smilies I used in the post? In hindsight, I can see how using all those smilies may have given the impression that I was trolling your poll. If you took that as my intention, please allow me the opportunity to apologize. I wasn't using the smilies to refer to the topic in any way; I've just always wondered where posters get those smilies from, and was interested in trying them out.