Presumably, the inscription will read: “Didn’t you know I would be in my Father’s house?” I do want to take issue, briefly, with one sentence of the ABC report:
The madrassa story first showed up on conservative Insight Magazine’s website in mid-January of 2007, and was repeated by several conservative commentators, and some Fox News hosts. A senior vice president for Fox said on January 29:
But it’s worth mentioning that it was Hillary staffers and surrogates who were still pushing this story in December of 2007, almost a full year after the initial rumors surfaced and were debunked. A Clinton Iowa county chair was asked to step down over an e-mail he sent about the madrassa rumor. Also in December, Bob Kerrey dropped the word “madrassa,” “Hussein,” and “Muslim” about Barack Obama an awful lot of times, on TV and during public appearances. The Nation noticed a pattern. People are only dealing with half the history of the ’08 campaign when they report that only “conservatives outlets” or Republicans engaged in rumor-mongering. Some rumors were put to pretty good, cynical, and arguably more frequent use by our friends on the Left while they were tearing each other up in a long primary. Even the post-racial candidate himself was guilty at times.
