From the I Could Have Guessed That Department

Still, it's good to have Fox News' conservative Christian bias backed up by someone formerly on the inside; via today's Studio Briefing:

FOX NEWS REPORTERS ENCOURAGED TO RAISE RELIGIOUS ISSUES

Fox News Channel Vice President John Moody has encouraged network anchors and correspondents to raise religious issues during interviews and to suggest that conservatives who have expressed strong religious convictions are unfairly attacked by their liberal detractors, a former Fox News producer and writer said Wednesday. In a letter posted on Jim Romanesko's message board at the Poynter Institute, a Florida journalism school and think tank, Charlie Reina, who spent six years at the news channel, observed that Moody, who reportedly writes a daily "editorial note" to the channel's staff, provides anchors "a clear blueprint of what's expected of them." Reina described Moody as "a scholar and biographer of Pope John Paul II ... a devout Catholic, who seldom holds back on matters of the church." One of Moody's daily memos suggested a question of the day: "Can a man of deep Christian faith be appointed to a federal job, or will his views be equated with racism, intolerance and mean-spiritedness?" After a bombing at a Baghdad hotel housing reporters, Moody's memo advised them to "offer a prayer of thanks for their safety to whatever God you revere (and let the ACLU stick it where the sun don't shine)." Such views from on high, Reina concludes, are part of a confrontational strategy by the network that includes its current attack on "the war against Christmas" conducted by "a shameless management willing to use even Christmas for its own political ends."