BREITBART DEFENDS SARAH PALIN

He tells Mediate that she is “very intelligent, well-read lady" despite all the evidence to the contrary.  Mediate also linked to a story about Palin telling Bill O'Reilly how the U.S. was a Christian nation and I found the transcript on LexisNexis¹.

O'Reilly is his usual ignorant self:

O'REILLY: All I have to do is walk into the Supreme Court chamber, and you'll see the 10 Commandments. And so we know that you're absolutely correct. The Founding Fathers did base not only the Declaration of Independence but the constitutional protections on what they thought was right and wrong. And what they thought was right and wrong came from the 10 Commandments, which is Judeo-Christian philosophy. That is beyond a reasonable doubt.

The Declaration of Independence is based on John Locke's Second Treatise on Government, not the Bible! But O'Reilly doesn't have as much political influence as Palin, so these remarks are a bit chilling:

PALIN: Well, that new kind of world view that I think is kind of a step towards a fundamental transformation of America that some want to see today, I think, again, that it is an attempt to revisit and rewrite history.

I think we should kind of keep this clean, keep it simple, go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 Commandments. It's pretty simple. I think what's missing in...

Palin also made an ignorant mistake:

PALIN: I have said all along that America is based on Judeo-Christian beliefs and, you know, nobody has to believe me, though. You can just go to our Founding Fathers' early documents and see how they crafted a Declaration of Independence and a Constitution that allows that Judeo- Christian belief to be the foundation of our lives.

And our Constitution, of course, essentially acknowledging that our unalienable rights don't come from man. They come from God. So this document is set up to protect us from a government that would ever infringe upon our rights to have freedom of religion and to be able to express our faith freely.

The Constitution allows the states to infringe on freedom of religion and many other freedoms.

¹Fox News Network
May 6, 2010 Thursday
SHOW: THE O'REILLY FACTOR 8:39 PM EST
Is U.S. a Christian Nation?
BYLINE: Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin
SECTION: NEWS; Domestic
LENGTH: 1029 words