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In what was seen as another gotcha moment from the interview, Gibson asked Palin to defend a statement she’d made at her former place of worship, the Wasilla Assembly of God. In an appearance caught on video, Palin told her audience that American soldiers in Iraq were performing “a task that is from God.” Nervously backtracking with Gibson, she said that she “would never presume to know God’s will or to speak God’s words.” A better answer might have been “What I said was no more crazy-ass than some of the shit our sitting president, George W. Bush, has said.” After his second inaugural as ...more
Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
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