Amidst the liberal media’s long-delayed realization that perhaps their friends in the Women’s March are anti-Semites, CNN host John King leveled an attack Friday on Christianity through the lens of the Second Family, wondering if the conservative Christianity espoused by the Pence's disqualifies Second Lady Karen Pence from Secret Service protection.

Earth to John King — Joy Behar tried pulling a fast one like this almost a year ago on ABC’s The View and, if you’d ask Behar and her bosses, it didn’t turn out too well.

The Pence’s were the topic at the end of Friday’s Inside Politics in light of what King deemed “controversy over a new job for his wife Karen Pence” teaching art at a Northern Virginia Christian elementary school and the Vice President’s subsequent defenses of her decision.

Here’s King’s full comment about the Pence’s: “Does it matter that all taxpayers pay for her housing? That all taxpayers pay for her Secret Service protection? She, you know, it’s not her fault that she needs protection. This is the world we live in, but all taxpayers pay for, subsidize her life. Does it matter?”

Thankfully, Yahoo! News’s Olivier Knox seemed stunned by King and thus responded: “So, do you mean does her First Amendment — do her First Amendment freedoms, get somehow curtailed because taxpayers pay for her accommodations and her security? I don't know that a lot of people would sign on to that.”

Exactly.

Nonetheless, The Washington Post’s Karoun Demirjian knocked the Pence’s as somehow taken off guard by the left’s criticism.

Trying to end the show on a note of unity, Knox added that “this is criticism of the Pence’s doing this, it's not a blind criticism of Christian education.” Sorry, but not sure King’s questions were about that point, though.

King then ended the show by offering a pathetic defense, asserting that “[e]verything is fair debate” because “[w]e live in a democracy.”

Before King’s ugly smear, he began the segment by exclaiming that Pence was “defending his wife Karen’s new job, which is teaching art at a Christian art that bans gay students, parents, and employees” and that it’s triggered “an interesting debate” because while Mrs. Pence has her First Amendment rights, “this decision being made as we head into a reelection campaign.”

Demirjian agreed in questioning this announcement, fretting that “the First and Second Family do are viewed by people across the country as a model to look up to and this one, you know, I think there are even some people who are proponents of Christian education who would say, yeah, but not this kind.”

“So, they're making a play at a very slim part of the population that they count as part of their base but potentially offending a lot of people,” she added, showing quite the blindspot for just how many people who hold right-of-center theological beliefs about Christianity.

Associated Press D.C. bureau chief Julie Pace preceded King, arguing that people can have “core beliefs,” but “[w]hen you use your core beliefs in a public way, obviously it does open yourself up to criticism, and I think the Pence’s might be a little naive to think that wouldn't happen if she is going to make this decision.”

Ah, yes, so Pace offered up the suggestion that someone can hold whatever views they want so long as they don’t publicize it (and especially if it runs afoul of societal norms). Got it.

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s Inside Politics on January 18, click “expand.”