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To: American Spirit who wrote (322288)	1/22/2007 8:20:28 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) of 1586541

2008: CNN debunks Obama smear by kos Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 04:00:11 PM PST Not that it'll stop wingnuts from repeating the smear incessantly for the rest of Obama's political career. Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate, according to CNN reporting [...] The Insight article was cited several times Friday on Fox News and was also referenced by the New York Post, The Glenn Beck program on CNN Headline News and a number of political blogs. But reporting by CNN in Jakarta, Indonesia and Washington, D.C., shows the allegations that Obama attended a madrassa to be false. CNN dispatched Senior International Correspondent John Vause to Jakarta to investigate. He visited the Basuki school, which Obama attended from 1969 to 1971 [...] Vause reported he saw boys and girls dressed in neat school uniforms playing outside the school, while teachers were dressed in Western-style clothes. "I came here to Barack Obama's elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa ... like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Vause said on the "Situation Room" Monday. "I've been to those madrassas in Pakistan ... this school is nothing like that." Insight Magazine is a right-wing rag owned by the same people who own the Washington Times. And the story was a two-for -- they were able to smear Obama with the false "Madrass" charge, but they were also able to hit Hillary's camp by claiming the source was a researcher in the Clinton campaign. All of it bullshit.

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