A six-and-a-half foot statue of President Obama as a 10-year-old boy has been commissioned in Jakarta, Xinhua reports.
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 president spent some of his formative years there as a boy, where he was educated at a school that was decidedly not a madrassa, despite some false reports pushed by conservative news outlets two years ago.
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:
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