HotAir has a partial transcript of the soon to be aired interview of Sarah Palin on ABC’s World News Tonight. If the remainder of this interview is as poorly researched, and clearly biased as this question is, Charlie Gibson may soon be joining Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews on the sidelines for the remainder of the election.

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?

PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.

GIBSON: Exact words.

PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln’s words when he said — first, he suggested never presume to know what God’s will is, and I would never presume to know God’s will or to speak God’s words.

But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that’s a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God’s side.
That’s what that comment was all about, Charlie.

GIBSON: I take your point about Lincoln’s words, but you went on and said, “There is a plan and it is God’s plan.”

Charlie Gibson, with this one question, has just reassured the American people that ABC News lacks the journalistic integrity necessary to report on an election. Gibson used a truncated quote in order to give people the impression Sarah Palin believed our soldiers are on a task from God.

Here is what she actually said:

“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 [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “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.”

She was asking for our prayers that our leaders were sending our soldiers out on a task that is from God, as in pray that our leaders are making the right decision. Gibson, much like the lefty blogs have been doing all week, attempts to insinuate that Palin is claiming that our soldiers are doing Gods work. While I would expect such a misrepresentation coming from the likes of The Nation, the American people should demand better from a National News Network.

But then again, the American people have probably come to expect such drivel from ABC and the other networks by now, which would explain why Fox News has such a high rating.

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Election 2008, Features, John McCain, Liberals, Media, Religion, Sarah Palin