We all know what a Freudian slip is. All of us except Barack Obama, that is. His slip in an interview with George Stephanopolous yesterday involved a huge slip – one that ought to land him a lot of hot water because it sure seems like he just admitted to being a Muslim.

In an interview Sunday with ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos, Obama tried to suggest that FOX News and others “closely allied” to Republicans are promulgating the notion that the Illinois senator is Muslim.

Asked about whether McCain himself has done anything to suggest he’s Muslim, Obama said, “Let’s not play games. What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you’re absolutely right that that has not come…”

“Christian faith,” Stephanopoulos interrupted, correcting Obama.

“… my Christian faith. Well, what I’m saying is that he hasn’t suggested that I’m a Muslim. And I think that his campaign’s upper echelons have not, either. What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith, something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time,” Obama said.

Sure, when reading it things sound like he might (just might, mind you) have accidentally misspoken. But when you listen to him talking, it’s the “my Christian faith” part that sounds like the part he was trying not to say.

Naturally, Obama says it’s a gaffe and has called news outlets printing the story “irresponsible”. But really, Senator Barack, who is the irresponsible one, here: the media, for letting the American public know that a presidential candidate can’t seem to keep the facts about himself straight, or the presidential candidate who keeps doing it?