Sometimes we need to be reminded that, while ABC News is usually more accurate than other MSM outlets, it’s still mostly a lefty outfit. Gibson, assuring Palin that his quote are her “exact words”, leaves off the key part of the actual quote.
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?
PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.
GIBSON: Exact words.
PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln’s words when he said — first, he suggested never presume to know what God’s will is, and I would never presume to know God’s will or to speak God’s words.
But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that’s a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God’s side.
That’s what that comment was all about, Charlie.
GIBSON: I take your point about Lincoln’s words, but you went on and said, “There is a plan and it is God’s plan.”
Her actual quote, as reported by the Huffington Post of all outlets?
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
She wasn’t asserting that this is God’s will. She was asking people to pray that this is what God wants. As Allah wrote at the time:
It’s the difference between me saying “McCain will win” and “I pray McCain will win.” The first is an assertion of fact/secret knowledge, the second is an expression of desire/hope. The AP actually stoops to picking up the quote mid-sentence to make it better fit the stereotype of the holy-roller yokel claiming divine inspiration for Bush’s Crusade.
And the media will stop at nothing, will stoop to any level, to get that meme ground in.
12. September 2008 at 1:45 am
MuuuuuuuuuuuHaHaHaHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Try all you want, Charlie gave her the exact quote and she sounded like miss north carolina trying to answer the map question
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
12. September 2008 at 11:47 am
Hey, genius? He didn’t. In fact, liberal columnist Kirsten Powers ripped him for it today.
“Sorry, Charlie – let’s go to the tape.
In the video of her remarks, Palin says “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [US soldiers] out on a task that is from God.” She is clearly praying for wisdom for our national leaders – praying that they are following God’s will.
This is Christianity 101, not some fundamentalist plot to wage a holy war. Presumably, Obama, as a Christian, utters similar prayers for our country as well. ”
Even the Huffington Post knows that Gibson didn’t read the full quote — they had the right one. Oh, and ABC News edited out the bit for the west coast broadcast from what I understand.
16. September 2008 at 7:14 am
I’m a`liberal Democrat, and a more than liberal Catholic theologian. I believe that BOTH SIDES in any divisive struggle must strive for the truth and acknowledge their mistakes and deliberate distortions of the truth.
I watched the interview and became righteously indignant at Palin’s narrowness. Watched it again,along with a video of her remarks,a few days later. I was` stunned to realize how badly her words had been distorted by taken out of context; and by how well I thought she handled the situation. I’ve written to one big newspaper about it; and am working on an op-ed piece to send my local, which occasionally uses my stuff.
25. October 2008 at 11:32 am
I think what she is trying to say, is that prophesy is coming true…Read the Bible. It tells us what exactly will happen in the end of times.