Just a few minutes ago, I was "flipping." I landed on CSPAN (or maybe CSPAN 2), and they were rebroadcasting a program from Germany's Deutsche Welle channel. I can't tell you the name of the interviewer, nor of the interviewee. But I was struck by a question that the host asked of her subject, that seemed straight out of Fox News. I'm paraphrasing here, so don't take the "excerpt" tag as gospel.
But it was something like this:
The African-American politician Barack Obama was able to be elected president of the United States. Do you think something like that is possible in Germany, where an immigrant could be elected to such a position of power?
The answer was in the affirmative, but the person being interviewed never for a second questioned the premise of the question.
Is there really a strong birther base in Germany, or in Europe generally?
I realize that Deutsche Welle is intended primarily for an outside audience, but do Germans, or Europeans generally, really believe that Obama is a foreigner in relation to the USA? I was kind of shocked by this. Does Murdoch own DW?