An AmP shout-out to CBS News ...

Specifically, Melissa P. McNamara who quoted a recent comment of mine about Hillary Clinton's latest fashion craze on today's CBS News Blogophile column (which "samples the best of the blogs") :

"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has appeared several times in public recently with a cross around her neck, and it's been riling up her enemies in the blogosphere. An image of the senator, from the chin down, wearing a black suit with a cross dangling from her neck, has been making its away around various blogs this past week.

While the senator is, in fact, religious — Ben Smith of The New York Daily News points out that Clinton's faith has been part of her public character since she taught Sunday school as the first lady of Arkansas and was an active member of a Washington church as first lady — many bloggers doubt her religious sincerity.

Many say Clinton's cross is merely a political accessory. "I guess it's only a matter of time before she rediscovers her faith-based roots sometime before election day, 2008," Thomas at American Papist blogs.

Russell Shaw writes at The Huffington Post that he does not "begrudge anyone's right to believe in what they believe in" but wonders "how much of Hillary's cross-wearing is consultant-driven, as opposed to driven more by belief."

Well, it's nice to know I'm being read. :-)