I think you’ve got the bulk of it right, but I’d question that Kristof piece being scrubbed from the web. I readily found it in the NYTimes archive this AM: http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?scp=1&sq=obama%20muslim%20call%20prayer%20prettiest&st=cse
You are surely right about this —
And:
was there indeed a radio show? Was it ever on the web? Can we really hear O saying or singing this?
I checked it quite a bit before I wrote what I did and found many diff people saying different things, so went with what I had heard previously -— I esp wondered about the radio show part and thought someone had had it confused with the NYT interview .......