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AUSTIN, Tex. -- The media’s fealty to Barack Obama was the big joke on “Saturday Night Live” last night, but it sounded like reality today when Obama spoke of a cable news report as though his campaign runs the network’s assignment desk.

“If anyone is still puzzled about the facts, in fact I have never been a Muslim,” Obama said to a gathering of Jewish community leaders in Cleveland, according to a transcript released by the campaign. “We had to send CNN to look at the school that I attended in Indonesia where kids were wearing short pants and listening to iPods to indicate that this was not a madrassa but was a secular school in Indonesia.”