Pattern Recognition

The White House is in total freakout mode, furiously mocking the comments made by the evangelical David Kuo on 60 Minutes and in his new book Tempting Faith, who was deputy director of President Bush's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives until 2003.

No way, Tony Snow says, how DARE you suggest such a thing! Look at the nice letter he wrote!

You can read all about it around the web, but I noticed this little reminder at the bottom of the AP story. Are you seeing a pattern here?

Kuo's account of how the faith-based office has been regarded inside the White House recalls that of another high-level alumnus of the program. John J. DiIulio Jr., the faith-based office's first director, who quit in 2002, told Esquire magazine that "Mayberry Machiavellis" led by Rove based policy only on re-election concerns. After his comments caused an uproar, DiIulio apologized for making what he said were rude remarks.