Bryan has the details. Ryan Sagar of the NY Sun was sent out to Iowa to cover the straw poll. He starts off with an anti-Republican rant:

The face of the Republican Party in Iowa is the face of a losing party, full of hatred toward immigrants, lust for government subsidies, and the demand that any Republican seeking the office of the presidency acknowledge that he’s little more than Jesus Christ’s running mate. The pandering from the stage told the story. Mr. Romney promised not a chicken in every pot, but “a button on every computer” for parents to block obscene material. Anti-immigrant ranter Tom Tancredo nearly brought the house down decrying the fact that Americans sometimes have to “Press 1? for English. Mr. Huckabee earned his second-place finish in part by making the specious claim that farm subsidies safeguard America’s food independence. (You think it’s bad depending on foreign oil, Mr. Huckabee asked? “Wait until our country messes up and has to depend on foreign food.”) Senator Brownback of Kansas, the third-place finisher, declared as he often does in his stump speech: “All for Jesus. All for Jesus. All for Jesus. All for Jesus.”

Republicans aren’t anti-immigrant. We’re pro-enforcement of our country’s established laws. Pardon us for wanting this nation’s laws enforced and not trampled on. Sagar presents us as bigots who are against people who are different than us. Not the case at all. You want to come here legally, feel free. But don’t break our laws to get what you want.

Regarding Brownback, Sagar makes Brownback sound like, as Byran puts it, “a Christian cheerleader leading a chant”. However, the video of the event shows that those were not Brownback’s words. He was quoting Mother Theresa, who he met once when she visited Congress. Byron York writes:

Brownback explained that he met Mother Teresa once, when she came to Congress, and he was given the assignment of accompanying her to her car: “As I put her in the car, she grabbed my hand, she looked me in the eyes and said three words four times: ‘All for Jesus. All for Jesus. All for Jesus. All for Jesus.’ It was her faith that powered her to help millions. Faith is a good thing, not a bad thing.” Now, you can argue one way or the other about whether Brownback was saying a president should govern by Mother Teresa’s words. But “All for Jesus” was his quotation of her statement to him.

It was a recollection of a past event…not a declaration by Brownback, as Sagar wishes people to believe.

Bryan writes:

In his reporting Sager is consistently hostile to social conservatives and anything that even carries a mild whiff of Christianity. Along with that, Sager periodically announces the end of the libertarian/conservative alliance, though no one follows his one-man walkouts. In fact, reading his work over the past several years, one could reasonably conclude that he’s bigoted against Christians and would prefer a world in which Christians are uniquely disallowed from participating in electoral politics. If that isn’t his stance, he should feel free to email me what his stance on Christians in politics actually is. I do know for a fact that Sager is an unreliable chronicler of events he has witnessed because his worldview gets in the way.

So take his reporting this election season with a massive grain of salt.

Agreed.