Last year, Bryan Fischer openly declared that Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith “ought to be an issue in 2012” and that Romney should be forced to publicly declare whether he embraces Mormon teachings that conflict with the Bible so that voters can decide “whether they want somebody with those convictions sitting in the Oval Office.”
Since then, Fischer has repeatedly attacked Romney over his faith, calling him a “spiritually-compromised candidate” and declaring that a Mormon president represents a threat to the “spiritual health” of the nation.
But Fischer has also realized that openly attacking Romney’s faith in this manner might be problematic even at the American Family Association, so he has settled upon a trick whereby he continues to do so while pretending that is really the media which is attacking Romney’s Mormon faith.
Fischer announced this trick a few months ago when wrote a piece claiming that if Romney became the Republican nominee, “the winger-left media” would not hesitate to highlight “the more unusual aspects of Mormon theology.” And he has been using this framing ever since as he launches repeated attacks upon Mormonism while thinking he is avoiding responsibility simply because he is pretending that it is the media that is really attacking Romney’s faith.
Yesterday, while discussing Hilary Rosen’s comment about Ann Romney, Fischer demonstrated exactly how he does it, using the flap as cover to engage in a long attack on Mormon theology while saying that the media needs to ask Mitt and Ann Romney about it because the media once asked Michele Bachmann about her theology:
So, based on nothing more than a random comment made about Ann Romney, Fischer is now demanding that the Romney’s publicly address the specific tenets of their faith … while blaming it all on the media.
As we have said before, if Fischer actually thinks that he is fooling anyone with this pathetic charade, he is even less self-aware than we ever could have imagined.
