Kathleen Parker: “Media gives Obama a free pass on faith-based initiative”

Kathleen Parker writing in the Washington Post:

When George W. Bush introduced the concept of a faith-based office . . .  you’d have thought Bush was trying to install a caliphate. Indeed, most newspaper stories focused on the blurring of church and state.

By contrast, when Obama upgraded and renamed the program . . . Few, if any, headlines questioned whether Obama might be using his faith-based office to advance liberal policies, whereas Bush was under persistent fire for allegedly pushing (horrors) a pro-life agenda.

Parker references the recent Pew Study: Media Coverage of the Faith-Based Initiative in the First Six Months of 2001 and 2009