A Newsweek article has me really steamed. The headline is in 1 1/2 inch type, and says

A New American Holy War

emblazoned across two pages.

What is this holy war? Well it describes an interview with Mike Huckabee, now the front runner in the polls. (Yay, by the way.) The interviewer is trying to get Huckabee to say that Mormonism is a "heretical cult" but he refuses to answer, claiming, essentially, he gets into trouble everytime he says anything. The interviewer is happy to oblige; he presses him on the canon of Scripture. Huckabee carefully explains that he doesn't have any evidence that God has given us any new books since 325 A.D. when the Bible was canonized (ok his history is a bit off), and "I don't know that there's any other books." This is enough for the writer of the article to conclude, "So it has come to this: The 2008 Republican Iowa caucuses have descended into a kind of holy war."

Whaaaa....?

Huckabee very gently and politely says -- says what? Essentially, says he's not Mormon. (Of course he doesn't agree with their canon. If he did, he'd be Mormon.) And all of a sudden, BAM, we have a Holy War worth 1 1/2 inch type.

To be sure there are more battles to the war they describe than just Huckabee, but they did specifically identify his declination to accept Mormon scriptures as Holy War.

I fully intend to write them the following Letter to the Editor:

Dear Editor:

Shame, shame, shame on Jon Meacham and Newsweek ("A New American Holy War", December 17th). You blame Huckabee for a "Holy War" (in 1 1/2 inch type, no less). Your sole apparent evidence? He politely declined to agree with the Mormon canon of Scripture. (If he did, he'd be Mormon.) Just because he disagrees with Mormonism doesn't mean he's launching a Holy War against it. It is the height of irresponsible journalism to bait Huckabee (as Mr. Meacham did) into saying something you can distort into "damning" evidence of whatever preconceived crime you want to blame him for. Shame!