# Time to Pit the Political Media

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 22, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-the-political-media/760611 "2016-07-22T18:35:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-the-political-media/760611/16 "2016-07-24T23:06:39Z")

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Derek, are you guy who refers to Barack _Hussein_ Obama? If so, may I ask why?

Just for giggles I clicked View Recent Posts…

> [@The Democratic National Convention](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/50):
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> Certainly, the 15% who sympathize with the Palestinians are indeed not real Americans. I’ll leave the undecideds/both/no opinion people alone tho. But given that the I:P ratio is 4:1 in that poll, I think we know which is the AMERICAN viewpoint.

I myself am strongly in the pro-Israel camp, yet find this post bizarrely dogmatic.

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