Rachel Sklar’s eagle eye picks up a bizarre repetition on Katie Couric’s blog of the debunked Obama madrassa smear, and more generally, a troubling detachment from both objectivity and reality in its description of Obama’s religious background. Go Rachel Go. (And yes, Rachel is coming to mesh.)
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Recycling discredited information is bad enough, but I’m also troubled by the way Couric seeks to exploit fear.
She begins: “Is America ready to elect a president who grew up praying in a mosque?”
According to CNN which cites his two books, Obama says that while he lived in Indonesia as a child he attended a Muslim school for two years and a Catholic school for two years.
So an alternative to Couric’s intro could have been:
“Is America ready to elect a president who grew up with experience of two of the world’s largest religions?”
But people might actually answer “yes”.
My reaction exactly. Hard to understand how the blog commentary was a reasonable perspective. And not clueless, but spun quite deliberately.