West Virginia Primary: Good Morning America Meets An Uninformed Voter

Good Morning America, on the scene in West Virginia, introduced their viewers to Janis. She's not a particularly enthusiastic Hillary Clinton supporter, but for her, Hillary has got one thing on Barack Obama: she's not a Muslim. Of course, neither is Obama.

[WATCH.]

KATE SNOW: Janis said she can't support Obama.

JANIS: He's Muslim and that has a lot to do with it. I just, you know, I just would rather have Hillary.

SNOW: Just for the record he constantly says he's a Christian -

JANIS: I know he does.

SNOW: You don't believe him?

JANIS: No.

Now, it's hardly newsworthy to learn that stupid people exist and they do, in fact, vote. I mean, we have this whole thing called "the Bush Administration" that more or less proves that. But it's a little astounding to hear Kate Snow, who, as a reporter, is ostensibly charged with informing the public, offer up the mealy mouthed, "Just for the record, he constantly says he's a Christian..." As Snow well knows, there's a reason that Obama constantly says he's a Christian: it is because he is a Christian. The correct response would have been, "I'm sorry, but you are mistaken." Or, failing that, at least show us a voter capable of making a passionate and authoritative case for Clinton.

Comments

[RaraAvis17]

Forrest Gump quote:

Stupid is as stupid does...These poor people haven't a clue. I wish I could send them all some CLUEPONS.

Watch this:
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1507&thisview=item&renewx=2008-05-14+17%3A19%3A41

[pessimisticoptimist1]

Thank you for the link, it showed the real face of ugly americans, the racist americans. No of course they are not racist or something but they would never vote for a black president. It literally made me sick watching it.

Nobody on TV really calls it by the name, west virginians are a bunch of redneck racist who love Hillary.

[hillarysupporter]

Anyone who's read these posts for the past couple months would have to agree there are a lot of nasty, evil, uneducated Obama supporters - all over the country.

[jp5472]

Wow...this really shows how little people get involved and spend any time learning about the candidates. Not a single person interviewed had any knowledge about any candidate positions, nor had done five minutes of research into who Obama is. They didn't even possess the grade school knowledge that he couldn't even run for President unless he was a NATIVE BORN American citizen..and the one going on and on about Hillary being able to sing the Star Spangled Banner and say the Pledge of Allegiance? Where do people get this stuff? This is what has driven politics for too many years - people not doing a minutes worth of work to find out anything about the candidate, just hearing nonsense and running with it....or is looking like a complete idiot a sure way of hiding ones blatant racism?

[PatrickforO]

Yes, but a new coalition is forming and we will overturn this ignorance. Lies only appear true in the darkness, but when they are exposed to the light of truth, they go away.

[obamanation31]

Some people just do change well. Change can be good.

[BluesDogLefty]

Any and I mean any candidate that the Democrats nominate SHOULD lose the racist/bigot vote to the Republicans. And be proud that they lost it. Period

[PatrickforO]

Hear, hear!

[jelly450]

Dick Cheney's daughter is a Lesbian, does that mean he and his wife are Lesbians? I mean he is close to his daughter, some of that Lesbian stuff may have rubbed off on them.

Hehehe

[Klingon]

Once again, to quote my "god" George Carlin: "Some people are just fucking stupid!"

And it's not the voter cause she's beyond that; it's the reporter!! She should be fired.

[Mikie]

This poor woman clearly shows the problems with inbreeding. Even in West Virginia they shouldn't allow you to marry your cousin.

[oafishcad]

I can't believe all the idiots who think Hillary is being unfair. Do you think McCain will play nicer? If Obama can't beat Hillary, he might not be able to defeat McCain. The GOP will play a lot more down and dirty than Hillary. And the media already has proven whose side they're on by the last 7 1/2 years of kissy face with Bush. Obama is going to have a very hard time winning, no matter how disgusted most of America is with the direction of the country. McCain is already labeling himself as an agent of change. Do you expect the media to call him on that lie? No way. I pray to ---- that America makes the right choice in November.

[deb3mscapecod]

2 wrongs don't make a right. Romney lost to McCain because of his negative crap and his phoney bologna. It you are a Democrat why do you hate Obama? Why? Honestly? Is it because he is a man, black, you think he is a Muslim terrorist? What? His views accept for ending dirty politics is nearly identical to Hillary's so what's the beef? You pray? McCain cannot be the agent of change. See, he already F'up by kissing GW's ass. We have the film clips and stills to prove it. He is a warmonger and everybody knows it. Joe Lieberman (his supporter) thinks we should go in to Iran. The only good Arab is a dead Arab as far as Joe is concerned. I don't know about you but I'm not sending my kids to Iran to have their heads blown off.
I do not think Hillay is unfair. I think she is a liar. That's different than being unfair. She is not the person I thought she was. Never has a candidate of the same party complement the candiate of the other party by saying he is better...get my drift. bad news for the party.......
Hillary and Bill have brought up race over and over. Regardless if it was a concious effort or not, they did it and they did not retract their statements. They gave some bull crap excuse.....yada yada yada ........ liar, liar liar.......

[BluesDogLefty]

"If Obama can't beat Hillary"?????

He has beat her.

[Turtleluv6]

Changing his Depend undergarment doesn't count....

[PatrickforO]

Oh, sorry there Oafish Cad - in case you haven't noticed, Obama is WINNING! That's right! In spite of all the smear campaigns unleashed against him, he leads in popular vote, pledged delegates and superdelegates. Maybe just this once, the nice guy will finish first. I know that I and tens of millions of other Obama supporters will do everything we can to help this happen. We will contribute to his campaign, volunteer for him, post yard signs and be outspoken for truth on these blog sites.

[xmw]

He was wise not to spend a lot of time where he would not have won even if he had walked on water. It's sad they cannot make an educated vote. People argue that all the 67% of the black vote he won in MS was racism is no different than the 66% of the white vote Clinton won in WV. There is huge difference...blacks have always voted for the white democrate and MS blacks will vote Clinton in Nov. if she gets the nomiation. Those 66% WV whites will not vote for him in Nov. He needs to spend that time making it up elsewhere. It is what it is.

[smc01]

It is really sad that there a few states who remain ignorant, uneducated. No wonder they are behind the times. WAKE UP! My husband even said WV, Kentucky would never vote for Obama. What a shame, here is our opportunity to change how our government is run and we still have people like this running around with no clue of what is going on. Although Obama was badly beaten in WV, I am proud of the 29% of the WV people who voted for Obama and was able to look past the race factor. I am white and I am proud to vote Obama this fall when he is the nominee. For the rest of you ignorant people who choose not to vote as a democrat this fall because of his skin color, I hope McCain makes your life miserable and you should be ashamed of yourselves when you send more sons/daughters off to war and they come home in a coffin. Are you going to tell your neighbors you were wrong to vote McCain, I didn't think so. I hope and pray that you will bear this burden of guilt.

[javaman]

there isn't a wall big enough or hard enough for me to bang my head against.

[xmw]

I MEAN REALLY!!! IS THIS NOT PATHETIC??? WHAT'S SAD IS THAT SHE'S PROBABLY ONE OF THOSE THAT SAID REV WRIGHT MATTERED. SHOULD NOT HAVE IF HE IS MUSLIM.

[Myshkin57]

The problem really is not that people think he's a muslim. What is really troublesome is that it matters to people whether he is. There are many good Muslims and many bad Christians, just like there are many bad Muslims and many good Christians. So what? Good and bad are not divided along religious lines.

[Nolawi]

How can a muslim have a racist christian pastor?

[floydknight]

Even more perplexing, how can a christian pastor, using his freedom of speech to suggest that there is racism in parts of our Government, be a racist?

[BillyCioffi]

NO ONE EVER WENT BROKE UNDERESTIMATING THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC
H.L>MENKEN

[bb1234]

How do we truly know what he believes in? The Reverend Wright brought him to Jesus, but we discovered the he was preaching racist and anti-US sermons.

Obama is a blank slate with no record in the Senate and a lot of feel good speeches. He does seem quite comfortable associating with a terrorist and his racist pastor.

[trbone]

Why is the media hiding that he is close with his muslim family in Kenya?

[Maewest35]

KEYWORD:FAMILY he has the right to be close to them..Stupid!!

[Myshkin57]

???? I am an atheist and am close with my Hindu girlfriend and many Christian friends. What does that mean? And why should it matter?

[floydknight]

Why are you hiding that you jack off in rush hour traffic, while thinking of ignorant things to say on the blogs about Obama

[bxmask]

What religion does John McCain practice? Who is his Pastor? What does he truely believe in? I'll tell you one thing, he's not really looking out for "Blue collar white people." I'm sure since he's white, it makes no difference to you. How has George Bush, a White Christian helped you in the last 8 years? Bush, a white christian, ran on "compassionate conservatism" and party unification, then liquidated the surplus, helped the rich get richer, and divided the two parties like never before. But since you believe he's Christian you think he was better for America than a Barack Obama?

I think part of this Obama-Muslim rhetoric simply masks the fact that people like you only want a white person in the White House. Please just admit it so we don't waste our time chasing these decoy arguments.

Obama is not a blank slate, it's just that you haven't made ANY efforts to learn more about the man. If you just listen to the main stream media, you won't get the full story. I wish the uninformed, bigoted people just wouldn't vote. I don't just blame thhe Bush administration for messing up this country. The blame goes to people like you who only vote for people who appear to look and act like them.

[floydknight]

Considering the fact that you are more unknown than Obama's high school janitor, I hope you don't take what you say seriously either.

[LiberalBuzz]

BB just who is this terrorist that he is associating with? OH YEAH someone who was a member of an organization 40 years ago who changed his ways became part of the mainstream and began to work with in and just happened to be on the same board as Obama??

Seriously this is the best you can do?

And some nutjob comments made by a pastor from a church? Seriously?

That is the best you can do?

Must suck to be that unable to come up with real arguments instead of having to revert to the same old tired swiftboating tactics.

You DO KNOW that swiftboating is now synonymous with LYING don't you?

[Turtleluv6]

No funny thing is that same terrorist and racist pastor were accepted by the Clintons one pardoned and one praying for Bill cause he was playing with the cigars and Monica....Too funny

[trbone]

Hey Huffpost thanks for not allowing my posts . Stifle debate way to go . YOU SUCK!