I Think I Might Be Wee-weed Up

I’m sitting in the Salt Lake City Airport, surrounded by Mormon assault troops in white shirts and ties, and I’m about to do something I never thought I would do (no, I’m not converting...one wife is enough). I’m about to agree with and quote Sarah Palin. From FOX News no less.

Her brilliant and insightful comments were in response to attacks on Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, after the Drudge Report published a message he gave in a church during the 2008 presidential campaign. Here is an excerpt from that message:

"This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age?"


"Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition. He attacks all of us and he attacks all of our institutions."

Now if you are one of the Christians that make up roughly 82% of the U.S. population, you probably have little trouble with that statement. Even if you are just one of those folk who believe in Satan, even if you don’t believe in God (I know that doesn’t make much sense, but they are out there), then you probably have blamed Satan for the economy, terrorism and reality television.

But if you are in the mainstream media, Santorum’s statement…in a church, no less…make him a wild-eyed radical threat to all that make our nation great. And in the blogosphere, comments like the following abound:

From cqtestk4xs...Ooooh, do you believe in the great big bad Satan. He has his sights set on America. Does this sound a bit like some wild eyed fanatical religious jihadist Moslem to anyone besides me? The only thing is, it's some wild eyed religious Christian zealots who would like to be president. Scary, isn't it?

So why am I suddenly in agreement with Palin? No, this is not an endorsement for Santorum, Palin or FOX News. That said, I have to agree with Palin’s comments, even if I find her use of the English language a bit disturbing. So here we go...

"They will attack any conservatives who boldly proclaims their faith and talks about there is good in the world and there's evil in the world and that's what Rick Santorum was talking about," explained Palin. "And this was a speech that he gave back in 2008, where he named evil as Satan. And for these lame-stream media characters to get all wee-weed up about that, first you have to ask yourself, 'Have they ever attended a Sunday school class even? Have they never heard of this terminology before?" And that's why they got so, you know, just whacked out about the speech."

So there you have it...lame-stream media strikes again, and I’m wee-weed up. But I see a restroom sign just down the concourse, so I think I’m ok.