The mayor of Arlington, Tenn., told his Facebook friends this week that "our muslim president" scheduled Tuesday night's address to the nation about Afghanistan to knock The Charlie Brown Christmas Special off network TV, The Commercial Appeal reports.

Russell Wiseman wrote, the newspaper reports:

"Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch 'The Charlie Brown Christmas Special' and our muslim president is there, what a load.....try to convince me that wasn't done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it....w...hen the answer should simply be 'yes'...."

Only those who have been "friended" by Wiseman can see the post at his Facebook page.

The mayor, a Republican, told the Commercial Appeal that "you guys are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill."

During last year's presidential campaign, then-Democratic candidate Obama addressed several times the Internet-fueled rumors that because his birth father was a Muslim he was as well. At the UNITY Convention of Journalists of Color, he had this to say:

"This is a classic example of a no-win situation, right? So I have, repeatedly, on various occasions, said, I am not a Muslim, but this whole strategy of suggesting that I am is indicative of anti-Muslim sentiment that we have to fight against. So maybe you haven't seen those quotes, but they're out there and I've said them on more than one occasion. I just don't like the idea of somebody falsely identifying my religion. I suspect that you wouldn't appreciate that either."

The Charlie Brown special had been scheduled for that evening by ABC-TV. It's now set to be shown by the same network next Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET.

Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck also zeroed in on the bumping of Charlie Brown.

(H/T to NPR's Russell Lewis and Candice Ludlow of Memphis member station WKNO for spotting the Commercial Appeal's story.)