(LOL!!!) Inside The Pew Poll: Most (60%) of those who think Obama is Muslim learned it from media

[kpete]

an amazing nugget buried in the poll's internals: A solid majority of those who believe that say they "learned" it from the media. The poll asked this question of those who maintain he's a Muslim:
http://pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Issues/Politics_and_Elections/growingnumber-full-report.pdf
Poll: Most of those who think Obama is Muslim learned it from media

And how did you learn about Barack Obama's religion?

60 Media

11 Obama's behaviors or his own words

7 Things heard or read (non-specific)

7 Internet

6 Things heard or read during presidential campaign

4 Views of family or friends

4 Obama's ancestry -- family background, name, appearance

1 My own opinion

1 Obama's policies towards Muslim countries or religion in the U.S.

more:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/08/poll_most_of_those_who_think_o.html

[Beetwasher]

1. I Wish I Could Laugh At This, But It's Really Not Funny, In Fact, It's Frightening

And dangerous.

[Subdivisions]

2. And today MSNBC has been busy trying to re-define 'media' as

including "other" sources. Presumably "other" sources are called "media" but really aren't.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Too bad they did not get more specific about WHICH media.

I bet FAUX NOISE would be at the top of the list.

[activa8tr]

4. that and Limbaugh. Limbaugh reaches a lot of idiots right between

their ears, where there's NOTHING ELSE TO FILL THAT SPACE!

[BrklynLiberal]

8. ROTFLAMO!! So very true!!! Nature..no matter how dumb, abhors a vacuum.

[Subdivisions]

6. It's VERY hard to get someone to say they got their info from fox snooze.

Whenever someone comes at me with something I know they could only have gotten from faux, I ask them "Where did you get that bullshit from, LOL!" And they just say I saw in on teevee or read it on the web and they conveniently cannot remember the source.

Indeed, my BIL and I are not talking because of this very thing. He wouldn't admit he was getting some erroneous info from faux and I told him he was being an gullible idiot watching that racist shit and that was that. Haven't spoken in a month.

[BadgerKid]

5. Demonstrates "media" has significant influence; equal time rule needed. n/t

[blm]

10. Exactly....media power is so great it needs to be held to some standard of accuracy.

And if they hop on a story and make mistakes, then they need to spend an equal amount of time CORRECTING their error. Like with the ACORN story that they pushed and then ignored when it was proven to be a heavily edited video.

[tridim]

7. I just heard Rush say..

"Now why would 1 out of 5 people think Mullah Obama is a Muslim?"

Duuurrrr...

Yea, I know, bad on me for listening to this asshole for 2 minutes while getting lunch. It's a habit.

[slackmaster]

9. Another good reason not to pay too much attention to the media

No surprise here.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Of course, there is no distinguishing between 'news' and 'blathering of

RW opinionators' in "the media".

Even on Fox itself there is a difference between the news segments and the opinion segments (most of the time). To an unfortunate degree, however, the audience doesn't see the difference. If Beck says it, it is no less fact than if (whoever the reigning news reciter on Fox is) says it.