We were among the first to bring you news yesterday that the the mayor of a suburb of Memphis, Tenn. had written at Facebook that President Obama is a Muslim and had scheduled his big Afghan escalation speech at a certain time to knock out a replay of the annual "Peanuts" Christmas special. Amazingly, the mayor's name is Russell Wiseman. A poll at the Memphis Commercial Appeal this morning shows that 43% of the visitors to the site back Wiseman on this, even though he also suggested that Obama's supporters move to a Muslim country. The paper has a long wrapup today, noting the coast to coast hellstorm that broke out on the Web, even as Wiseman deleted his Facebook account after accusing critics of being unfair in even quoting from it. Two new pages have sprung up there -- "Support Russell Wiseman" and "Tell Russell Wiseman To Respect Charlie Brown And Our President."
"You would think a mayor would have a little more tact -- even on Facebook -- but that's just not reality," said Michael Crispino, on the anti-Wiseman Facebook page, according to the paper. "Today politicians are allowed to be arrogant and ignorant and are not even held accountable for it. Parties don't attack ideas, they attack people."
Someone known as proud2livenarlington backed the mayor: "I'm proud to have a mayor that speaks his mind. The last time I checked, it was not against the law to have an OPINION. Unless you were on the (Facebook) thread (and I was), you have only part of the story. God gave us the ability to JUDGE right and wrong. Thanks Mayor Wiseman, you are right!!" On the other hand, sgtutvols#230217 found the mayor's comments another example of the Republican Party going "off the rails."
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