July 21st cover of the new yorker

[Undertoad]

Yeah here's how the different sides wind up with different "facts".

Headline: "33% American voters believe Obama is a Muslim"

2nd paragraph: "...almost one-third of American voters 'know' that Barack Obama is a Muslim or believe that he could be."

4th paragraph: "A Pew Research Center poll of survey released a few days back found that only half of Americans accepted that Mr. Obama was a Christian. Meanwhile, 13% of registered voters thought that he was a Muslim, while 16% were not sure about his religion."

The actual report from the highly-respected Pew Research: "When asked to identify Obama's religion, a small but consistent minority of voters say that Obama is a Muslim. Currently, 13% assert incorrectly that Obama is a Muslim, which is virtually unchanged from June; in March, 10% said that Obama was a Muslim."

13% morphs magically into 33%. As long as it fits the narrative, people don't give a shit about the truth.