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Conservapedia on Obama
Thursday, October 16th, 2008We all know that you can search for about anything left of the centre or non-religious on Conservapedia and come up with gut-wrenchingly hilarious results. But with that laughter comes a loss of faith in humanity’s ability to reason clearly. Usually I just brush off the pain that comes with reading utter stupidity, but this one was too much.
Whoever wrote this article must have been jumping at the gun to get it off their chest that they think Obama is a Muslim. It comes in the first paragraph. Usually on a Wiki negative remarks like this are left for the criticism section, and then there’ll be something about how it’s only speculation. Not Conservapedia. They’ll throw all honesty and objectivity out the door to accomplish their goal – in this case to slander Obama.
At least they try to back up their claim that Obama is a Muslim with this list of weak evidence:
As if perpetuating the myth that Obama is a dangerous Muslim isn’t enough, this Conservapedia article goes on to attack another enemy of contemporary conservatism, elitism.
It says alot for the status of bigotry, racism, and stupidity of some people in the United States that people would actively contribute filth to such a widely read Wiki. But hey, a spades a spade – it isn’t called Conservapedia for nothing. Anything they don’t like they consider anti-American, and they’ll twist facts any which way to fit their perspective. Just look at the first picture of Obama in this article:
Stupid Conservatives, you think that the reason Obama isn’t holding his hand over his heart for the pledge of allegiance is because he’s not American.
Wrong answer.
The correct answer is….
Muslim’s don’t have hearts. Jeeeezzzzzzz. Get it right Consveratives.
Tags: conservapedia, conservatism, islam, Obama, stupidity
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