Sarah Palin: press 'wee-weed up' over Santorum Satan speech. Is she right?

Sarah Palin has criticized the 'lame-stream media' for making too much of Rick Santorum's 2008 statement that Satan is attacking America. But the media aren't the only ones concerned.

Sarah Palin says the lame-stream media are getting all wee-weed up about Rick Santorums Satan speech. By that, we believe she means the mainstream press is making too much of it. Is she right?

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Well, well note here that the media gets wee-weed up about many subjects, because if they dont, it can be very hard to stay awake during a slow news day. Mr. Santorums remarks were made four years ago, in a different context than a presidential race, and are easy to misinterpret if you have a dissimilar religious background.

But still lets examine what Palin said in detail. On Sean Hannitys Fox News show last night, she said that the lame-stream media is taking things out of context and trying to subscribe to [Santorum] that traditional type normal negative narrative that they want to pin on any conservative.

Then she added: This is a speech he gave back in 2008 where he named evil as Satan. For those lame-stream media characters to get all wee-weed up about that, first you have to ask yourself, have they ever, ever attended Sunday school. Have they never heard this terminology before?

This is similar to the approach Santorum himself took yesterday. He, too, talks as if the issue is simply the use of the word Satan.

You know, Im a person of faith, Santorum said following a ! rally ye sterday in Phoenix. I believe in good and evil. If think if somehow or another because youre a person of faith [and] you believe in good and evil [that] is a disqualifier for president, were going to have a very small pool of candidates who can run for president.

Heres the problem with that: lots of members of the mainstream media went (or still go) to Sunday school. So did tens of millions of US voters. We are among them well stack our Sunday school attendance against any former Alaska governor. The use of Satan as a symbol is something were heard many times before.

But what Santorum said is that academia had been overcome by Satan, as had the culture, politics, and mainstream American Protestant churches. He said those churches were in shambles.

That is a statement Santorum will find difficult elide. Former Bush political director Karl Rove picked up on that right away during an appearance on the "OReilly Factor."

Does he really think every Presbyterian, ever Methodist, every Lutheran, is really as a mainstream Protestant no longer a Christian? Mr. Rove said to Fox News host Bill OReilly.

Meanwhile, Santorums campaign staff is getting worked up about reporters investigating aspects of their guys religious statements, while giving a pass to Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul.

Why is [Mr. Romneys] Mormonism off-limits? a frustrated Santorum aide says in good piece on this subject by Washington Examiner political correspondent Byron York.