# Dear Media, Obama did not "walk back" his Mosque comments **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 16, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448 "2010-08-16T20:16:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/41 "2010-08-16T23:40:02Z")
> [@ghardester](#): > > So I ask, is Obama thonging on this issue? No, he doesn’t thing very well. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/42 "2010-08-16T23:53:06Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Well, sure, but them are _Baptist_ mosques. Totally not the same thing… Well, sure, if they’re Baptist (Judean People’s Front) mosques. Hey, there’s a mosque in Victoria! How can people be so understanding of their neighbors, of their co-workers and their friends, and yet turn around and say to the news camera, “You just can’t trust them.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/43 "2010-08-17T00:35:39Z")
> [@choie](#): > > So I ask, is Obama thonging on this issue? We’ll probably never know as he has denied repeated requests from journalists citing his promises for transparency in government demanding he “Let me see that thong”. The closest to an answer was when Gibbs allowed “Thong thong thong thong thong”. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/44 "2010-08-17T00:46:04Z")
Fine, he isn’t walking back on the community center issue. He was always a complete and total pussy with absolutely no spine. That better? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/45 "2010-08-17T00:46:56Z")
Speaking of the media, anyone catch the NY Post’s headline about it? [Stay classy, Post.](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/hamas_nod_for_gz_mosque_cSohH9eha8sNZMTDz0VVPI) ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/46 "2010-08-17T00:53:48Z")
If it were sacred ground why was a Burlington Coat Factory There? Do retail establishments sanctify the ground? It was closed for 9 years. Crap the city did well to get someone to build on the land creating jobs. It is a 19 story building that will employ a lot of people. Constructing it will employ people too. This whole discussion is stupid. It is a pile of dirt 2 blocks from where a large building dropped. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/47 "2010-08-17T00:54:23Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > For the people who are out there protesting? I’d say they advocate a no-Muslim zone, THEN blowing up the building, and then deporting the Muslims back to their home country of Islamia. Tea-bagger #1: [the whole gang holds the mosque hostage] I say we kill it! Tea-bagger Gang: [shout] Yeah! Tea-bagger #2: I say we hang it, _then_ we kill it! Tea-bagger Gang: [shout] Yeah! Tea-bagger Gingrich: I say we stomp it! Tea-bagger Gang: [shout] Yeah! Tea-bagger Gingrich: Then we tattoo it! Tea-bagger Gang: [shout] Yeah! Tea-bagger Gingrich: Then we hang it…! Tea-bagger Gang: [shout] YEAH!'! Tea-bagger Gingrich: And then we kill it! Tea-bagger Gang: [shout] YEAH!‘!’! Mosque: [tries to throw voice without moving lips] I say we let it go. Tea-bagger Gang: [shout] NO!!! Tea-bagger Palin: [whistles] I say ya let me have it first! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/48 "2010-08-17T01:01:22Z")
Harry Reid, lion of the Senate, comes out against the Mosque. How’s that anti-mosquey thingy workin’ for ya, Harry? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/49 "2010-08-17T01:08:54Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Harry Reid, lion of the Senate, comes out against the Mosque. When you say lion, you mean [a brown furry thing with short stumpy legs and a great long nose](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOmB1q8W4Y), right? I can see a resemblance between Harry Reid and one of those kinds of lions. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/50 "2010-08-17T01:45:42Z")
If you live in New York, or the greater New York metro area, you know Muslims. They’re your friends, neighbors, business associates, they sell you newspapers, groceries, gasoline, they’re pretty much all over the place. Are these anti-mosque New Yorkers seriously looking these people in the eye and saying “We still blame you for September 11th?” ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/51 "2010-08-17T01:58:41Z")
By the [Slimey](http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/16/scotus.birther.lawsuit.fine/index.html) [Bat-Head of Hannity](http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/13/red-bearded-monkey-discovered-but-risks-extinction/), can’t the media find some _[Real](http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/16/gulf.oil.environment/index.html?hpt=T2)_ news to report…!? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/52 "2010-08-17T02:08:04Z")
> [@cuauhtemoc](#): > > If you live in New York, or the greater New York metro area, you know Muslims. They’re your friends, neighbors, business associates, they sell you newspapers, groceries, gasoline, they’re pretty much all over the place. " With all our problems I guess that’s _one_ thing we Don’t have to worry about in the Detroit area. It would be pretty ridiculous to protest another Mosque. If you refuse to deal with Muslims you would pretty much have to move out, as you will be unable to get gas, smokes, or dentistry. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/53 "2010-08-17T02:24:45Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Because he is also a leader. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/54 "2010-08-17T02:28:36Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > > [@Giraffe](#): > > > > I think most people, and particularly most New Yorkers, accept the _right_ to build a mosque, they just question the _judgment_ to build it on such hallowed ground. If you’re not from New York, you probably can’t understand how important Burlington Coat Factory is and what it means to people. Losing their resource for designer mens wear at factory direct prices is going to leave a hole in people’s lives that something like religion simply can’t fill. While it may technically be their right to build a mosque, the respectful thing to do would be to give people more time. > > The strip club “New York Dolls” is within a couple of blocks of this “hallowed” ground. > > I am sorry, but the WTC is not hallowed ground. And . . . that’s how you ruin a funny joke. Thanks GO. This is why we can’t have nice things. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/55 "2010-08-17T02:47:31Z")
And then you made it worse. You truly are worthless. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/56 "2010-08-17T02:57:47Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > And then you made it worse. You truly are worthless. You talking to me? You sure seem to be pissed at me lately. Did I piss in your whiskey trough or something? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/57 "2010-08-17T04:46:39Z")
I saw a guy on Facebook going on about how Obama was giving them the mosque. He wasn’t just being tolerant of religion, he endorses it and is FUNDING the mosque. I think I might have my first person to block on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/58 "2010-08-17T12:54:25Z")
Going to Facebook for political opinions is like going to the Dollar Store for fashion tips. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/59 "2010-08-17T13:27:50Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > > [@MeanOldLady](#): > > > > And then you made it worse. You truly are worthless. > > Did I piss in your whiskey trough or something? Yes. Please stop doing this; it makes it taste funny. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448/60 "2010-08-17T13:59:21Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > > [@Chefguy](#): > > > > I’m completely baffled as to why an otherwise savvy guy with a lot of political astuteness, who is surrounded by people even more savvy than he is would come within a hundred yards of the subject. What the fuck was he thinking? The righties must be stunned by their good fortune. > > Who knew that the First Amendment was so controversial? I’m baffled that anyone can argue with the constitutional right of any religion to build a temple/church/etc. anywhere that they own the land and the zoning allows the building. Because it’s clearly only meant to apply to Christianity. It’s also why those who bleat about it the loudest are the ones to most loudly demand certain books be banned or burned. -Joe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-media-obama-did-not-walk-back-his-mosque-comments/550448.md?page=4)