Sarah Palin, who seemed for a while to be receding into obscurity, has come roaring back into the public eye, appearing on sundry talk shoes to shill her new book, a paen to Christmas as it is understood in the tribal reaches of rightwing Christianity. There are bills to be paid and somebody has to put the moose on the table - hence Palin's latest essay into the us against them "war" on Christmas that has become as inevitable a marker of the season as renditions of "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer," and evidently just as important in getting rightwing holiday juices flowing.
Consequently, it's not surprising that among Palin's numerous book tour bon mots is a funny little riff expressing her baflement over Pope Francis' efforts to move the Catholic church in a more inclusive and less dogmatic direction:
... He's had some statements that to me sound kind of liberal, has taken me aback, has kind of surprised me. There again, unless I really dig deep into what his messaging is, and do my own homework, I’m not going to just trust what I hear in the media.”She continued: "I'm kinda trying to follow what his agenda is. You know he came out with a couple of things in the media but again I'm not one to trust the media's interpretation of somebody's message but having read through media outlets," the former Governor of Alaska said.