Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got in trouble again for not falling prey to the lapdog media’s line of questioning.
For some reason the media is really, really interested to see if Scott Walker thinks President Obama is a Christian.This past weekend at a fundraiser, Walker was asked yet again if he he could confirm Obama was a Christian and once again, Walker responded:
“I’ve never asked him about that. As someone who is a believer myself, I don’t presume to know someone’s beliefs about whether they follow Christ or not unless I’ve actually talked with them.”
“He’s said he is, and I take him at his word,” he added.
This answer was unacceptable to the media elite who only want conservatives to have strong opinions on another person’s personal life if it is to trap them with a gotcha question.The Washington Post’s Op-ed columnist Dana Milbank wrote a scathing response to Walker’s answer, calling him a ‘birther.’
Milbank snarked, “The furthest Walker would go was to “presume” that Obama is what he claims — and not the Kenya-born Muslim we all know him secretly to be.”
Milbank called Walker’s statements part of the “GOP’s Calculated Crazy Talk” and implied Walker was mentally ill.
“Was he under the influence of Koch? Or was it evidence of a deeper disorder? Whatever the cause, something made Scott Walker give birther to another round of conspiracy theory over the weekend,” Milbank wrote.[emphasis mine]
This isn’t the first time the Post has made a hoopla over Walker’s innocuous response. Flashback to last February, when Walker was first asked this extraneous question: Dan Balz and Robert Costa hyped Walker’s boring answer with this headline, “Gov. Scott Walker: ‘I don’t know’ whether Obama is a Christian.”
His full answer was actually more interesting and less sensational.The Post reported:
“I’ve actually never talked about it or I haven’t read about that,” Walker said, his voice calm and firm. “I’ve never asked him that,” he added. “You’ve asked me to make statements about people that I haven’t had a conversation with about that. How [could] I say if I know either of you are a Christian?”
The Washington Post seems to have a particular obsession with trying to trap GOP candidates with this question. According to a report from The Daily Caller, The Post’s reporters have asked GOP candidates this question for over eight years.
Walker is the Post’s target lately, with no less than three articles by Dana Milbank, James Hohmann, and Amber Phillips in the past three days alone talking about his answer to the question. Janell Ross, a Post blogger, also referenced Walker’s comments on Aug. 3, saying that he had “an audience” in the birther crowd.
Phillips’ headlines hyped, “Why won’t Scott Walker say that President Obama is a Christian?”
“Yet again, President Obama's long-held Christian religious beliefs are a topic of debate,” Phillips alleged. She bemoaned,“Why does Walker continue going down this path?” [emphasis mine]
Well perhaps because her cohorts keep obsessively asking it.
Who really seems to be obsessed with Obama’s religion? The Washington Post or Walker?
