First I must confess that I was reading Glenn Beck’s website. …I’ve done dumber things in my life. I just can’t think what they would be.
So, somewhere amid all the rancid piles of smegma that accumulate about his website, I stumbled across something called the Stu Blog, and in this Blog I found this wonderful little headline:
“The majority of people who believe Obama is a Muslim are not Republicans”
“Really?” I thought to myself. “I have to check this out!”
And thus I opened the article
The piece begins by talking about recent polls conducted in Alabama and Mississippi, polls showing (as Stu puts it) that; “a lot of Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi think President Barack Obama is a Muslim.” He faults Democrats and MSNBC for publicizing these polls. Stu dismisses these as biased polls and says we need a more neutral source on the issue. Next, he turns to a national poll conducted by Pew in 2010. Hence, we get the following paragraph:
Pew asked 2,811 people about Barack Obama’s religion. Approximately 536 of them incorrectly said he was a Muslim. Of those 536 people, 261 of them were Republicans, 275 were not. In other words, about 51% of those who believe Obama is Muslim are outside the Republican party.
So, you see, the title (piss-poor wording and all) is technically right. The Pew study does show that Republicans fail to constitute a majority of those believing President Obama is a Muslim.
But, I wonder, just what are the odds that any other political party has a higher representation?
None.
The poll results are right here.
Note that the highest percentage of people believing Obama is a Muslim are, according to that poll, conservative Republicans. Do they constitute a majority of the total population believing Obama is a Muslim? No.
So, if you add BOTH the Democrats who believe this to the independents who believe it, then those two together beat the Republicans by 14 people out of over 500. So one could not in fact say that Republicans constitute a majority of those believing Obama is a Muslim. One would have to be content to say that they are the largest group in that total population. But one could not say that they constituted a “majority.”
Which I suppose is the second most underwhelming fact of the day. The first being that Glenn Beck is a festering blood-fart. (Stu Burguiere is merely an emergent anal fistula.)
…and I really need to surf smarter corners of the net.
Photo by Gage Skidmore.
northierthanthou 
Is Stu a short form of Stupid?
And I beck to differ from Glenn. He’s taken splitting hairs to the next anal level. May be he should consider a wax job in that area …
Apparently, it is short for “Head Writer” of Glenn Beck’s show. …so, yeah, “Stupid.”
You know, I haven’t agreed much with conservatives for the bast couple decades, but I find it beyond belief that some of these folks could claim to be anything but circus clowns.
ETA: I’m sorry. Come to think of it, “Circus Clowns” would be far too generous a term for these guys, and furthermore, it is quite unfair to circus clowns.
I wonder why they think he’s a Muslim… could it be his father is Muslim? could it be he went to Muslim schools in Indonesia? Could it be His billion dollar Donations to muslim brother hood?… hmmmmmmm I wonder why.
Edited by nothierthanthou to add that the first two sentences of the above comment appear to be an unattributed quotation from someone named Bonnie Peterson. You can see her quote on the Glenn Beck website (which I have supplied below). Alien appears to respond a couple posts down.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/blog/stu/the-majority-of-people-who-believe-obama-is-a-muslim-are-not-republicans/
I think you should explain these fun facts to Stu and Glenn. They appear to be trying to distance themselves from the notion.
There is always a risk, I take that risk any day than buying oil from Arabs and compromise our Nations security. By the way you report is full of facts. I like it
I thought Obama’s dad was originally a Muslim, but later became an atheist.
you need a vaccination to read, watch or listen to Beck. I pray your’s was up to date
As much as I consider myself a conservative people like beck give us all a bad name. I say just ignore the man and hopefully he goes the way of the dinosaur(if his type believe in them)
Of course they do! The dinosaurs lived among humans, like on The Flintstones!
Heh, as I recall there is a Creationist museum somewhere that has pictures of humans and dinosaurs living together. …sadly I don’t think Raquel Welsh is in any of them.
Is Wilma Flintstone, then?
More and more, I think that’s the point. People like Beck, Limbaugh, etc. don’t actually advance conservative principles. they simply use those principles as packaging for a range of morbid fantasies.
This is one of those things that excite the Conservative ‘base’ but really turns off the Independents and moderates in this Country. And they are the ones that will decide this years election.
So while distasteful, the more this extreme right positions are exposed, the better not jsut for the Democrats, but for the Country.
We have to get back to compromise and that means having open discourse on policies not personalities.
And thanks. I’d forgotten about the ‘Stu’ blog.
I feel there could be logic in what Beck’s staffer posted but I’ll be damned if I could find it over the 5 page Pew article. Where’d the Beck site pull those declared political party of respondents from?
I think the more important question is why should it matter what his religious beliefs are…? But that’s just me and my individualistic quasi-libertarian craziness talking, I guess. Funny, this kind of banter was HUGE at my family’s Easter dinner yesterday, much to my dismay.
Anyway, thanks for the “like”, and back atcha. 😉