Another Horrifying Video, This One Starring Sarah



Be warned, if you watch the whole thing, it's five minutes and eight seconds of your life you will never get back. We watched it and then we watched it again to be sure it wasn't a Tina Fey parody. In this promotional video, we mean, interview with the Christian Broadcast Network - you know, the world according to Pat Robertson - Sarah Palin talks about Obama's connection to Ayers, abortion, gay marriage and her feelings. She defends her attacks on Obama but says that if anyone in the crowd suggested hurting him, she'd call a time out and tell them to stop. And if you weren't dazed and confused yet, SarPa hits the ear drum shattering, glass cracking high notes with this gem, "...faith and God in general has been mocked through this entire campaign and that breaks my heart."

We do our fair share of mocking here at BC so we are going to take this occasion to be very clear. We are not mocking religion. We are not mocking God. We are mocking you, Sarah Palin. Just you. We are mocking you for trying to reduce God to merit badge size, to campaign slogan length, to a tiny idol on the altar of partisan politics. SarPa goes on to say "people would misconstrue and spin anything that has to do with my faith or anybody else's and turn it into something to be mocked. That's very sad. I don't think there's anything I can do about it..." Well, let us help you out. First, no more Jeremiah Wright references, subtle or otherwise. Second, stop appropriating God for your campaign purposes or stop complaining that people criticize you for it. You were selected to secure the evangelical base of the party. Your own people acknowledge that. You are using your religion, your personal faith as a qualification for office. You openly talk in eschatalogical cliches and you constantly use Christian-ese. You only speak to certain constituencies and only answer certain questions yet you desire to govern the whole country. You refuse to engage with the world yet you want to be one of the people who leads it. And after all that you have the audacity to resent that other people have something to say about it. We don't know what comes after hypocrite, delusional? Whatever it is, look behind you, Sarah, you crossed that line a while ago. But that's just one more voice from the left, the "liberal blogosphere" taking a cheap shot at the "new face of feminism."