Charlie Gibson is Utterly Alien

Conn Carroll / September 12, 2008

Speaking at the Voters Values Summit, Newt Gingrich lit into Charlie Gibson and ABC News for their “stunningly distorted interview” of Gov. Sarah Palin last night. Gingrich focused his criticism on Gibson’s butchering of a Palin quote about U.S. policy in Iraq. Here is how Gibson butchered Palin’s quote last night:

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?

Here is what Palin actually said:

Pray for our military. He’s [Palin’s son Track] going to be deployed in September to Iraq. Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do also what is right 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 we are praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.

When Palin explained that she was paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln, Gibson was flummoxed. Gingrich told the audience, “It is another sign of just how bad things are in elite media and how utterly alien they have become to the rest of America.” (more…)