They editorialize:
Her efforts to explain some previous statements were lacking in candor. She claimed, implausibly, that she was merely channeling Abraham Lincoln when she described the war in Iraq as “a task from God.”
She simply did not say that. Look media, get it through your thick skull: praying for rain is different from asserting that it’s raining.
As far as Lincoln goes, I can’t say what Palin was thinking when she said that, but I can say what I thought when I read it. Reading that, I immediately thought of Lincoln’s prayer. (That was when the AP first started this bogus story, nearly a week before the Palin interview might have planted the connection in my head.) It’s a matter of cultural literacy that I guess the Washington Post simply doesn’t have.
(Via the Corner.) (Previous post.)
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