Washington Post On Faith contributor Danielle Bean -- who has repeatedly suggested that President Obama is not really a Christian and written that “every American citizen can and should ask the legitimate question: President Obama, where do your loyalties lie?” -- now accuses the president and his wife of “anti-Americanism”:

Prominent conservatives who declare America exceptional today, however, don't do so with the hopes of abusing power. They do so as a defensive measure against the anti-Americanism of those in positions of power on the left.

Our current president, for example, is married to woman who claims she never felt patriotic pride in being an American before Obama ran for the presidency. “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” Michelle Obama said two years ago. A proud and patriotic response, pointing out the overwhelming good that the United States has done in the world during Mrs. Obama's lifetime and before it, seems only reasonable.

We find an even more egregious example of anti-Americanism, however, in the man who married the Obamas and baptized their two daughters -- their friend and pastor of many years Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

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While the left offers American guilt trips and sheepish apologies, the right encourages American pride, gratitude for our many blessings, and a greater commitment to the global responsibilities with which they come.

The Post has previously described implications -- like those made by Bean -- that Obama is not a Christian as “slander.” And yet it continues to provide her a platform for her relentless, ugly attacks on Obama -- and it continues to promote her as a “distinguished” participant in a “intelligent” and “respectful” conversation.