Obama as Muslim and the new rules of spin | Michael Tomasky

It doesn't surprise me, really, that the number of Americans believing Barack Obama is a Muslim has gone up in 14 months from 11% to 18%, according to a survey out today from Pew (Time magazine got 24% in another poll released today).

Here we have a case where a group of people is quite vocally arguing that he is, while no one is bothering to argue the opposite case, that he isn't. There are two reasons for this. First, it's just self-evident to those of us who believe (know) he's not a...