Back in February, David Barton released a document declaring that President Obama was “America’s Most Biblically-Hostile U. S. President” and today, on his “WallBuilders Live” radio program, Barton credited that document with pressuring President Obama to release a “powerful Easter address.” Barton claims that the White House Press Secretary was asked about his document and suggests that it was that “embarrassing situation” that forced the administration to issue the Easter greeting earlier this month:
Barton: A few weeks ago we put out a piece through WallBuilders that was entitled “America’s Most Biblically-Hostile President.” And unbeknownst to me, that actually made it to the White House. And so at the White House press conference, they actually asked the Press Secretary about it … and asked “what do you have to say about this list?” What list? And they went down the list and the Press Secretary [said] “I didn’t realize all those things had happened.” And they said “so, does that mean no comment?” [And the Press Secretary said] “I’ll have to look more at this.”
And so that was a few weeks ago. And so lo and behold, what happens this past Easter was that President Obama came out with a powerful Easter address, I mean a Jesus Christ, Bible .., this was like Billy Graham … We haven’t had that in three and a half years.
Green: Amazing how, in an election year after being called on the carpet for how anti-Christian they’ve been …
Barton … I don’t care why it came, it came. And the reason is, a hundred years after you and I are dead, if the Lord hasn’t come back, this is going to still be there in the presidential records for other generations to read and see about Jesus Christ and the Resurrection and what it means on Easter … It is good news and if it took an embarrassing situation in a press conference to do it, who cares.
Like so many other claims that Barton make, he rarely provides any evidence or details to support his assertions, which makes them difficult to verify. Not surprisingly, we have been unable to find any reports or transcripts to support his statement that the White House was ever asked about his document, much less commented on it. That, of course, doesn’t mean it never happened, so if anyone out there happens to have any evidence that it did, we’d love to see it, so drop us a line or send us a Tweet.
