Posted on 02/22/2015 6:13:26 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
It’s all fun and games until someone gets smacked down
The Washington Post’s Robert Costa and Dan Balz interviewed Scott Walker yesterday. Of everything they had opportunity to ask, they chose to ask Walker whether he thought Obama was a Christian.
How Walker’s opinion on the matter is remotely relevant or newsworthy is unclear to normal people, who expect the press to do that whole “truth to power” thing.
Walker, seemingly unamused by the obscure religion question, responded appropriately, saying he “didn’t know.”
[BIG SNIP]
Because Walker did not play by their rules, he was isolated (rhetorically isolated, anyway) from the pack of other Republican candidates who have issued official statements. It was a lame attempt to paint Walker as a less than adequate candidate, but an attempt nonetheless.
Vilifying those who question authority is a wildly successful headline generator and a fantastic way to create faux controversies that detract from actual controversies like, for example, Hillary Clinton’s foreign sugar daddy problem. Clinton, by the way, doesn’t believe the rumors that Obama is a Muslim, “as far as she knows.”
And so our national press falls yet another rung in their slow, sad, descent into irrelevance. There is a silver lining though: maddening as the interview was to read, it’s abundantly clear Scott Walker will not be presshandled.
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Which would be the perfect answer “Why don’t you ask him yourself?”
No lowered standards. That is the ComPost.
The idiots at the Washington Post stumbled into a modified Streisand effect.
They were trying to pull a ‘gotcha’ moment on Walker, when instead they have created a mini media storm where people all over the world are questioning whether Obama loves America, whether he’s a Christian, and whether he’s fit for the job.
Too bad Walker couldn’t respond with the “NO” that I am sure he really believes.
Agreed, but, as WaPo reports, then his spokesperson dialed in to dial it back:
After the interview was completed, Walker spokeswoman Jocelyn Webster telephoned The Washington Post to say the governor was trying to make a point of principle by not answering such kinds of questions, not trying to cast doubt on Obama’s faith.And here I was thinking his words were enough by themselves without her clarification. Oh well...“Of course the governor thinks the president is a Christian,” she said. “He thinks these kinds of gotcha questions distract from what he’s doing as governor of Wisconsin to make the state better and make life better for people in his state.”
Tells volumes that a question like that even could even be asked.
Who knows how many of the previous Presidents were not really Christians but just pretended to be? It's always politically safer to have people think you are a Christian (except perhaps in a few Congressional districts where it may be equally helpful to be Jewish or Buddhist).
Whether Washington was a believer is disputed. I read somewhere that in all of his surviving writings he never once mentions Jesus by name. We do know that in one year before the Revolution he attended church 15 times, but went foxhunting 49 times (the golf of 18th-century Virginia?). Jefferson was a deist. Lincoln seems to have been one too.
Obama has professed his Christian faith which should be sufficient for other Christians. His veracity in this matter is obviously in question.
It is clearly unfair. Just because Obama constantly lies about everything else whenever it is to his advantage to do so, people think he might be lying about being a Christian when it would be to his advantage to have people think he was.
Robert Costa USED to be a good reporter.
>> it’s abundantly clear Scott Walker will not be presshandled
This ability is crucial for a Republican candidate.
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