Yesterday morning, President Obama hosted an Easter prayer breakfast at the White House with more than 100 Christian leaders. The president spoke openly and honestly about his personal faith, and how “"I wanted to host this breakfast for a simple reason – because as busy as we are, as many tasks pile up, during this season, we are reminded that there’s something about the resurrection ... of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective,"
Yet neither the Washington Post or New York Times (unless I missed a one-liner somewhere in the small print) even mentioned it. Perhaps some might say that’s because a Christian prayer breakfast isn’t really news. But it seems to me that with the mythology about the president being Muslim still swirling around, the most recent Pew poll showed that only about a third of Americans believe he is a Christian, the media has a responsibility to report the president’s own words that correct the lies. This time, they didn’t.
