{"id":3333,"date":"2010-08-19T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-weeks-omfg-wtf\/"},"modified":"2010-08-19T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:25:09","slug":"this-weeks-omfg-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-weeks-omfg-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&rsquo;s OMFG-WTF?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20% of the American public is horribly, woefully, tragically \u2013 proudly and intentionally \u2013 dumb as shit. Are our pipes made of lead? Does HFCS decrease intelligence? Maybe global warming makes people stupid?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/645\/\">Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim: OVERVIEW &#8211; Pew Research Center for the People &amp; the Press<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A substantial and <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">growing<\/font> number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. More than a year and a half into his presidency, a plurality of the public says they do not know what religion Obama follows. <\/p>\n<p>A new national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that nearly one-in-five Americans (18%) now say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11% in March 2009. Only about one-third of adults (34%) say Obama is a Christian, down sharply from 48% in 2009. Fully 43% say they do not know what Obama\u2019s religion is. The survey was completed in early August, <em>before Obama\u2019s recent comments<\/em> about the proposed construction of a mosque near the site of the former World Trade Center. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The belief that Obama is a Muslim has increased most sharply among Republicans (up 14 points since 2009), especially conservative Republicans (up 16 points). But the number of independents who say Obama is a Muslim has also increased significantly (up eight points). There has been little change in the number of Democrats who say Obama is a Muslim, but fewer Democrats today say he is a Christian (down nine points since 2009).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/645\/\">Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim: OVERVIEW &#8211; Pew Research Center for the People &amp; the Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20% of the American public is horribly, woefully, tragically \u2013 proudly and intentionally \u2013 dumb as shit. Are our pipes made of lead? Does HFCS decrease intelligence? Maybe global warming makes people stupid? Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim: OVERVIEW &#8211; Pew Research Center for the People &amp; the Press &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-weeks-omfg-wtf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Week&rsquo;s OMFG-WTF?!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}