2 commentsAn Essential Role
I watched (er, listened to) Glenn Beck’s hour-long interview with Sarah Palin. I’ll save you the time and tell you that it’s almost entirely uninteresting, but there were a couple of things worthy of comment. First, for laughs, my favorite part of the exchange was:
Beck: Who’s your favorite founding father?
Palin: All of them.
The other thing that struck me was her statement that “God played an essential role in the founding of this nation.” Couldn’t the same be said about any other nation? Actually, wouldn’t she say the same thing about literally everything? On a less pedantic note, statements like this attribute God’s favor on certain geopolitical entities. I don’t attribute this to malice on the part of the speaker, but I find it quite discomforting because it sounds too much like something a king or other leader would say to rally people into a war or crusade. Are we really less happy if we’re not “God’s Favorite Country”?
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Harkens back to her Katie Couric interview in which she couldn’t name a newspaper or magazine she read. Seriously. When someone asks you to name your favorite of something, “all of them” is not an acceptable answer.
Also, clearly God favors the USA, as opposed to the UK, where our founding fathers had to escape from the religious persecution of…a different branch of Christianity.
Yeah, it definitely reminded me of the Couric interview as well. To be fair, I cut out Beck’s response, which was “bullcrap, pick one” and he eventually cornered her into picking George Washington. What a controversial choice!
Good point about US/UK, too.
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