Self-described Sufi moderate Imam Rauf may prove to be an Islamic version of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The left kept insisting that the 2008 campaign-era outrage over Wright’s racist and anti-American remarks was itself incendiary and driven by a racist right-wing radio and Fox News. And for a while Obama sensed that the racism angle was a plausible narrative leading him to the pre-under-the-bus assertion that he “could no more disown Rev. Wright than…”—until Wright committed the mortal sin of insulting the elite media right at their embryo at the DC National Press Club.

So too Imam Rauf. The more one collates his vast record of quackery–the latest tidbit is his 2005 contorted assertion that Westerners have more blood of innocent Muslims on their hands than does al Qaeda of innocent non Muslims (e.g., “We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al Qaida has on its hands of innocent non Muslims), presumably because between 1991 and 2003 America tried to stop Saddam’s aggressions and WMD program through non-violent sanctions. Given Rauf’s long paper trail, and bad habit of talking in different personas to different audiences, much more, as in the case of Wright’s DVDs and occasional outbursts, will drip out each day.

And that might necessitate another correction of Obama’s grandstanding disingenuous remarks to his iftar Muslim audience when the president deliberately conflated legal right with ethical and moral sensibility and so earned a standing ovation for his distortion. Perhaps with two or three more disclosures from Imam Rauf’s apparently vast corpus of speeches, we will hear a stronger walk-back from the President—something analogous to his “The person I saw yesterday is not the person I met 20 years ago”.