Palin's Prayer Not Complete

ABC Misrepresents Palin Quote in ‘Holy War’ Question

Some of you have seen this. Last week, Palin was on ABC's Charlie Gibson
show. He asked her this.

In the interview, Gibson asked Palin: “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’s response, which appears in the transcript but was edited out
of the televised version, was:

“You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.”

“It’s exact words,” Gibson said.

---Except that Gibson leaves out a very important bit she said just before that. And after helps with the context.

“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 them
out on a task that is from God. 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.”

The edited televised version included a partial clip of that quote, but
not the whole thing.

“Gibson cut the quote — where she was clearly asking for the church TO PRAY
THAT IT IS a task from God, not asserting that it is a task from God.

“Palin’s statement is an incredibly humble statement, a statement that
this campaign stands by 100 percent, and a sentiment that any religious American
will share,” Bounds wrote.

In the rest of the segment that aired, Palin told Gibson that she was
referencing Abraham’s Lincoln’s words on how one should never presume to know
God’s will. She said she does not presume to know God’s will and that she was
only asking the audience to “pray that we are on God’s side.”

A promo posted on Yahoo! News Friday continued to misrepresent the
exchange. It displays Palin’s image next to the words, “Iraq war a ‘holy war?’”
implying that Palin — not Gibson — had called the War on Terror a holy
war.

---Praying that you hope that what you are doing is God's will is different than saying THAT it is God's will. As a religious person, I can see the distinction, so I can accept the explanation. I can also understand the misunderstanding because it seems that is could be unclear. Much ado about nothing? Or another Palin attempt to form a theocracy? Media bias?