mediamatters.org - 12/8/2008
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On December 7, Politico senior political writer Ben Smith contrasted
President-elect Barack Obama and President George W. Bush's church
attendance in the weeks after their elections, but ignored numerous reports of
Bush's infrequent church attendance over the past eight years, as well as
Bush's ...
mediamatters.org - 12/8/2008
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mediamatters.org —
still focused on Obama's -- but not Bush's
-- church attendance Summary: Politico 's Ben Smith contrasted...
President-elect Barack Obama and President George W. Bush's church attendance in the weeks after their elections, but Smith failed to note ...
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Politico still focused on Obama's -- but not ...
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Obama's Sundays
Ben Smith's Blog —
John Judis and Media Matters make much of a short blog item I did noting that Obama's schedule hasn't included church visits.
Writes Judis:
This is the kind of reporting one would expect from the Christian Broadcast Network, whose editors and reporters presumably view less than weekly religious observance as an offense against God, and as a sign of moral depravity in a public official, but why is this presumably secular publication making such a big deal about it? I regard as an invasion of Obama’s privacy.
If nothing else, the tone ...
Obama's Churchgoing Habits Overexamined By Politico
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... to Martin's in that it was blessedly short.
Then John Judis wrote a short and overheated post on center-left nerd journal The New Republic's "The Plank" blog about how the Politico was all invading Obama's privacy, even though we bet a) Judis has probably complained about how secretive the Bush administration is, at least once in his life, and b) The Politico didn't really expose anything about Obama's private life.
And then, Media Matters tied it all together in one long litany of complaint, which subsequently ...
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