We have a lot of problems in this country, but NBC just keeps beating the “birther” drum instead of asking questions that matter to people’s lives.
Since David Gregory seems so intent on the ”facts”, lets look at some of them.
Outside of the left media and at some back yard get together, very few people in this country actually believe that Obama was not born here. Most that do are probably not well-educated and/or not too serious about it. Some may be only guilty of wishful thinking.
In fact, about the same amount of people think that George Bush (who they ironically think was so incompetent) was responsible for 9/11. I don’t remember NBC demanding Democratic political leaders to stand up against those allegations. In fact, I don’t see them doing it now, even as those allegations continue. Are those who have either of those views ignorant? That is not really for me to say, unlike Gregory I don’t presume to know everything and cast all those with differing opinions as being ignorant. But I will say that having those beliefs is not any more ignorant than Gregory’s support of Keynesian economics, or his support of a minimum wage, or his support of Obamacare.
His other point was that Obama is a Christian and that again Speaker Boehner must stand up to the ignorance of those who believe him to be a Muslim, and set them straight with the facts. What facts do we have? Obama’s words are not facts. Is spending 20 years in a “Christian” church that seemed to spread more hate and politics than religion a fact of his Christianity? Is leaving that church after the controversy proof that he is no longer Christian?
I personally don’t know what religion Obama prescribes to, nor do I care, but it is no more a fact that he is a Christian than I am. In face, just going to church does not make me or anyone else a Christian. Those who question his religious beliefs are not ignorant to do so and again it is not Speaker Boehner’s job to set them straight.
If David Gregory and NBC are so hell-bent on preventing ignorance from spreading, they might want to start by cancelling his show.
