"Perhaps the most imbecilic article in the history of journalism on ABC.com."

"Muslim Roots"? Jake the snake bites again. Obama spent maybe a month of his whole life in the presence of his "Muslim" father. He lived in majority Muslim country for a few years as a child. This is something everyone knows, he wrote about it in his books. The reason the campaign downplayed his middle name and connections with the Muslim world is because of the mud they knew the other side would throw at him about it. Not by McCain per say but the Rushs, Hannitys and Levins of the world. Anyone not trying to doom his campaign knew all about his father being from Kenya and muslim though he was not involved in Obama's life and that he lived in Indonesia before going to live with his grandparents in Hawaii. Those are his Muslim roots? Sounds more like a kid born to a woman who married two men who happened to practice Islam.

True, but you can't just blame Jake, can you?

I mean, he's really just another DC weasel that spends far too much time on sites like Drudge Report and wants very, very much to be liked.

Look at the enormous amount of love Jake Tapper gets these days from Limbaugh, Beck and the Drudge because he falls for their little petty Obama jabs.

What's even more frightening is to read the Troglodyte comments following Tapper's article. We got some sick puppies in this country.

So, Gawker is OK again after their recent heresy about the Mancow/Olbermann deal?

I don't give a damn whether President Obama is a Muslim or a Christian or an atheist or gay!

He became the best possible choice (after Kuchinich) dropped for us to lead our country in these troubling times. McCain would have been simply another 4-8? years of Bush Redux.

The only reason Obama's Muslim heritage is brought up by the right-wing freaks is to undermine the president at every turn, instill fear in the weak-minded, and aid in allowing their corporate masters to lead them by their nose.

As long as we have idiots out there that reads and takes this crap as gospel, they will keep on hating America while wrapping themselves up in the flag claiming incessantly that they are Fair and Balanced!

I am not saying there is an evil Jewish conspiracy. I am saying, however, that Israeli affairs in the middle east is an understandably emotional issue among many Jews. I am also saying that Jews don't "control" the U.S. media but are certainly over-represented considering their population size.

Don't be surprised to see extreme attention to and a highly critical stance toward anything Obama does involving Israel and the Middle East in general.

Pro-Israeli hard-liners will be interviewed all over TV and will be quoted throughout print media.