Which Cable News Host Asked Guests If They Thought There Was 'Anything Offensive' in Ben Carson's Speech?

World-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson grabbed headlines early this week when he gave a speech in front of President Barack Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast attacking political correctness and many of the domestic policies that have expanded the federal government over the last four years. The 25-minute faith-filled address tackled issues from education to personal responsibility, with video of the event quickly going viral leading to praise from conservative audiences and column in the Wall Street Journal titled 'Ben Carson for President.' Among most publications considered to be left-leaning though, the buzz-worthy speech went underreported or ignored. Left-of-center Fox News commentators Bob Beckel and Kirsten Powers called the speech "disgraceful," and "incredibly rude to the president."

On CNN's State of the Union Sunday, host Candy Crowley went so far to ask guests if they found "anything offensive" from Carson's speech considering the venue where he gave his remarks.

“I think that there is a political correctness that he was trying to use to appeal to a conservative audience,” Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky responded. “I think it’s really--not really an appropriate place to make this kind of political speech, and to invoke God as his support for that kind of view.

"But, I think most of all the kind of message that he was giving shows a real empathy gap of where the American people are right now, and I think it's reflective of where many of the Republicans and Tea Parties are right now in that--we need to have an economy that works for everyone."

Earlier in the segment former Republican Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson compared a Carson speech clip where he discussed taxation through a Biblical view, to a prayer breakfast in the 1990s she described as "uncomfortable" when Mother Theresa spoke out extensively against abortion in front of Bill and Hillary Clinton. However, Hutchinson said Carson's point on political correctness was "a great message." Watch a clip of the segment compiled by NewsBusters below: