In a column posted January 14 at Townhall.com and January 16 at conservative news website WorldNetDaily about the role of religion in presidential campaigns, former Los Angeles Times humor columnist Bert Prelutsky said of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL): "To be fair, I acknowledge that he has a pleasant smile and speaks better than most politicians. The truth is, he sort of reminds me of David Duke." Duke is a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and former Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
In the column, Prelutsky asked, "Why is it, I wonder, that nobody is asking Barack Obama about his religious convictions?" and, referring to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, asserted that Obama is a "member of a black church that apparently feels it owes greater allegiance to Africa than to America." The latter statement echoes a January 11 entry on the Media Research Center's NewsBusters blog, in which Media Research Center director of communications Seton Motley questioned Obama's allegiance to the United States and claimed that Obama's membership in Trinity -- which is predominantly African-American and professes to "remain 'true to our native land' " -- "seems to stand in diametric opposition to ... the oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States," as Media Matters for America documented.....
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