ED MORRISSEY: The audacity of the media’s Obama worship.

By “audacity,” I of course mean “utter shamelessness.” Over the past week, media reporters have tried to hold Republicans accountable for any personal attacks by anyone on Barack Obama, going out of their way to demand that GOP candidates defend Obama’s honor — especially Scott Walker, who has emerged as a top-tier candidate in the early campaign. This trend reached its nadir when two reporters from the Washington Post, Dan Balz and Robert Costa, demanded that Walker answer whether he thought Obama was a Christian — despite the fact that Walker has never brought up that topic. When Walker scolded them for their irrelevancies, the media instead took it as Walker “othering” Obama.

The big losers in this are Balz and — especially — Costa. Voters won’t remember this incident in two weeks, but activists on the right will never forget. It’s especially bad for Costa because his selling point was supposed to be that he had credibility on the right.