MSNBC Commentator Mocks Palin for Reading C.S. Lewis for ‘Divine Inspiration’
- Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:01pm by
Meredith Jessup
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First they mock her for not telling them what she reads. Now they mock her for telling them exactly what she reads.
But the fact that C.S. Lewis’ works have not-so-subtle Christian undertones is apparently lost on MSNBC commentator Richard Wolffe who mocks former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for claiming his books were a source of “divine inspiration.” (Perhaps Wolffe subscribes to this theory?)
Daily Caller reports:
Appearing on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews, Wolffe expressed incredulity, noting that Lewis wrote “a series of kids’ books.”
Matthews interrupted Wolffe: “I wouldn’t put down C.S. Lewis.”
“I’m not putting him down,” Wollfe responded. “But you know divine inspiration? There are things she could’ve said to divine inspiration. Choosing C.S. Lewis is an interesting one.”
Note to Richard Wolffe: Lewis wrote much more than “a series of kids’ books.” I suggest you read some of them sometime.
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Comments (172)
sing it out
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:49pmC. S. Lewis is an amazing genius whom I love and read regularly. His works – fiction and nonfiction –are absolutely fascinating and great literature, so why mock Palin for reading an author who is so respected and renowned? The man taught at Oxford and Cambridge, was extremely successful in his writings, and continues to influence many people today. It is senseless to denigrate Palin for reading C. S. Lewis!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:56pmi to have read many of his books and will continue for years to come, it is they only have george soros book clubs to choice from that is way they are stupid left wing nut jobs.
Report Post »Deutscher
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:46pmI hope she is reading a variety of literature. Her performance in interviews could use improvement if she wants to have the intellectual gravitas for national office.
Report Post »stage9
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 12:13pmIf she’s reading Lewis, she’s on the right track.
Report Post »American_Woman
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:44pmHow about Sarah Palen and Rand Paul ?
Report Post »Matthew
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 10:03amRon Paul my say the right things at times but at the end of the day he truly comes across as an aged crank. Sorry, he just doesn’t make a credible candidate.
Report Post »Vinny
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:40pmAdd your comments
seeker9
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:38pmCalling Al Sharpton… calling Al Sharpton. Is this an “impliicit” offense. Sarah is a woman, and this is offensive.
Report Post »Mytur_Bin_Isdirty
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:38pmThere is no hope for this country… With condescending homosexual atheists like these running around shooting off there mouths we are going to end up in a civil war eventually.
Report Post »Shaun_35
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 11:49amI think a lot of people would welcome that, FNC would be the first to go!!!
Report Post »Vinny
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:37pmMy belief is best summed up by talk show host Michael Savage: “Liberalism is a mental disorder.”
How about Sarah Palin and Rep. Paul Ryan in ‘12?
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:34pmuh, wait… wasn’t it just in the news…the Left thinks Narnia is all about how wonderful ISLAM is, actor Liam Neesom said so.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:34pmKids, you’d better hurry and get your copies of C. S. Lewis’ books before Ariana Huffington has them all burned.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 2:17amIt will come after the Constitution
Report Post »LOBOYESTHEREALONE
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:33pmGive me a break who are these idiots
Report Post »if someone doesn‘t have a clue it’s Barbra Walters an this make believe news crew
franknshadow
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:28pmObviously this idiot didn’t spend much time in literature class.. We should be ashamed of ourselves for allowing mental microbes like these people in public discourse, offering a public opinion.. What if a child sees something like that and realizes adults can be that ignorant.. Ill bet you this block headed fool has no idea of the significance of C.S.Lewis.. He’s heard of Narnia.. Is he so mind numbingly ignorant that that is all he knows about one of the most respected writers on Christianity in the World?
My God what have we done to give voices to people that are no smarter than that!!!
Report Post »bobmontgomery
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:58pmSarah Palin said “Party like it’s 1773″ and NOT ONE BUT SEVERAL liberals mocked her. Now We have them not knowing who C.S. Lewis is. Sarah Palin defeated his smugness, Joe R. Biden, in their debate. Sarah Palin exposed the Death Panels. Sarah Palin got a lot of Tea Partiers elected. Sarah Palin did, and is still doing, great things for Alaska. Sarah Palin made David Letterman look like what he is – a jack-assed idiot.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:24pmYou know you are doing the right things when the left attacks you at every angle and every step of the way, keep it up Mrs. Palin, keep driving the left nuts!
Report Post »modilly
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:19pmThis ranks up there with “Is Obama a Keynesian?”
Report Post »American_Woman
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:19pmWow, msnbc had a panel to discuss what books Sarah Palen reads. They ARE hard up!
But good plug for her book “America By Heart”. I‘m reading it now and it’s great!
Report Post »ak
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:18pmNow one can understand why did she refuse to anawer the question which news paper she read in 2008. If she would have cited any paper, next question could have been what was her comment on the article on page 7 column 3. Her instinct was right in refusing to answer that question.
Report Post »TRUTHSEEKINGAL
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 4:05amExactly..After all Sarah does hold a journalism degree. I’m quite sure she was savvy enough to pick-up on Cure-it’s *Katie) classic “gotcha moment”. Brilliant IMHO.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:18pmI don’t know why Sarah continues to go on these shows. It’s a waste of time. She answered the question well, but not well enough for Walters or the fools on MSNBC. Nothing she says will ever be “good enough” or respected. They will mock her words and treat her as though she is stupid. They showed their own ignorance & it is blatantly obvious that they do not read books of virtue.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:54pmI don’t get it either . She can be relevant without giving ratings to the lamestream media.
They need her more than she needs them.
BTW anyone remember when Bawbaw interviewed Fidel Castro and all throughout that interview she seemed to be in a looooooong o-g@$M , just sitting across Castro and looking into his eyes !!
It was like she was in company of her god .
Goldenyears22
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:18pmMy bet is he never read C.S. Lewis a very skilled, intellectual, Christian writer. Probably wouldn’t understand any of his works if he read them. They do make fools of themselves.
Report Post »cstcomputers
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:15pmThey’d find fault with her is she found the cure for Cancer…
Report Post »Alucard
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:15pmDo we really need anymore proof that these people have no clue what they are talking about? Seriously, maybe Al Sharpton should ask the FCC to pull msmbc’s ability to speak.
Report Post »urrybr
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 12:18pmThese people don’t speak, they babble. They don’t think. They don’t know their heads from their anal-sphincters. They’re ignorant, arrogant and incredibly assinine. They are irrelevant.
Report Post »cstcomputers
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:15pmC.S. Lewis is a very good source of divine inspiration. These people would find fault if she cured Cancer…
Report Post »misteryuck
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:12pmWould this guy know a source of divine inspiration if it fell on his head?
Report Post »Has he read any C.S. Lewis works?
nostromo
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:11pmSo Palin gets another liberal to reveal himself as a fool and an ignorant one at that. At least Matthews seems to have known something about Lewis.
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:10pmSee this is where they get most of their viewers, who wastes their time watching their crud?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:31pmSo another snotty anti-American marxist with a foreign accent makes fun of a conservative patriotic American woman ….whats new
Report Post »Nightstalker
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:05pmSo who really cares what they say about President Palin!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:39pmThey are mad at her because she didn’t name one,
Report Post »NOT ONE
hateful propaganda Soros controlled machine, like PuffyHo , the View or even PMSNBC .
You don’t do that and survive a beatdown by Sore-ass flunkies.
sportlock
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 1:15amAs Alex Pappas at The Daily Caller noted shortly after this aired, “[T]he acclaimed British academic and creator of childrens’ books [C.S. Lewis] was also a noted writer of works on Christianity.”
These included “Mere Christianity,“ ”The Problem of Pain,“ and ”Miracles.”
Report Post »IntheKnowOG
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 8:18amWhat a colossal ASS!. These elites claim that conservatives are dumb, yet, by their own actions and words prove they themselves are what they claim others to be. Wolffe’s ignorance of a literary giant proves, onbce again, these young liberals are simply being filled with ideology, not knowledge, in our institutions of higher learning.
Report Post »FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:04pmmsnbc…….and who are they??? Well we all know they are scared of Palin and that is why everyone one on the left is out to discredit her……She’s a winner in the end……….VICTORY OR DEATH
BetterDays
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:14pmMsNBC ought to read C.S. Lewis’s “Screwtape letters”, but they don’t have the right mind set and they would not come out of reading that work well at all, mentally or emotionally. Oh, they are already not well, then they’d get worse.
Report Post »ak
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:24pmIf she did not answer like newspaper question she would be criticised. If she answered now again they find fault. It seems her instinct was right in not answering the newspaper question. The follow up regarding an article on nth page of any paper she named would have resulted in more reaction.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:30pmAre they mad that she doesn’t read the communist manifesto like their charlatan effin president?
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:32pmIgnore the trolls of msnbc. they show their colors.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:43pmI laugh at the itellecual posers, whosomehow get tv time. You make the American people sick. Get a job that is worthy. Shame on your parents….
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:48pmsorry for the typo. I know how to spell. Just a human mistake
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 11:59pmThey could always just rent the movies, though a lot of the religious value is gone.
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mossbrain
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 12:19amHa truthhater,
That’s pretty funny, misspelling intellectual. Of all the words to misspell that’s one that no one wants to misspell. I do stuff like that all the time so I’m not putting you down. It’s like the protester who had a placard saying some group were morans, misspelling morons.
You better believe I used a spell checker for this post and wouldn’t you know it, I had misspelled every misspell, leaving out an s.
Report Post »sportlock
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 1:16amAs Alex Pappas at The Daily Caller noted shortly after this aired, “[T]he acclaimed British academic and creator of childrens’ books [C.S. Lewis] was also a noted writer of works on Christianity.”
These included “Mere Christianity,“ ”The Problem of Pain,“ and ”Miracles.”
Readers are advised this ignorant display occurred on “Hardball,“ a program that according to the host is ”absolutely nonpartisan.”
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 1:16amThey are mad because she can read. If it was up to them, women would be barefoot and pregnant. What a bunch of losers.
Report Post »sportlock
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 1:17am[C.S. Lewis] was also a noted writer of works on Christianity.”
These included “Mere Christianity,“ ”The Problem of Pain,“ and ”Miracles.”
Report Post »adjams
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 1:23amWow. just wow. This guy should be torn apart for his naivety on this subject. He says it with such conisending conviction that makes for one of the best “harder they fall”‘s I’ve seen in a very long time.
He just mocked “Mere Christianity” as a children’s book. From wikipedia:
Report Post »In 2006, Mere Christianity was placed third in Christianity Today’s list of the most influential books amongst evangelicals since 1945. The title has influenced Touchstone Magazine: A Journal of Mere Christianity and William Dembski’s book Mere Creation. Charles Colson’s conversion to Christianity resulted from his reading this book, as it did to Francis Collins, Josh Caterer and the philosopher C. E. M. Joad.
NoDaDAZone
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 1:36amThese people hate God and humanity. They have no faith. Read “Finding Noah” at http://www.marcrubin.com/noah-index.ivnu and listen to the historic interview of Marc Rubin on Israel National Radio where he lays out the factual history of humanity from Noah’s time on.
See the civilizations that descended from his sons Shem, Japeth and Ham . Step by step.
Its ALL in the archeology,. It just took an artist/archeologist/architect to have the clear vision to cut through 5000 of Progressive BS and SHOW YOU WHERE THE BS STARTED
The world was peaceful for 7000 years until the predecessors of Obama, Pelosi, Soros and the rest of the modern version of teeming-vermin-brainwashed-idiots-and-cowards-and-evil-scum made common cause.
How did they get control? A low angled meteor (recorded – Planisphere tablet) over Mesopotamia in 3123 BCE hit the Tyrols, near the Austro-Bavarian border and caused world-wide CLIMATE CHANGE. Chaos and destruction ensued.
Report Post »*************************
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 2:01amMSNBC commentator Richard who?
TOURIST [on the Grauman's Chinese Theater sidewalk]: “Look, Irv. I‘m in Hedy Lamarr’s shoes.”
Report Post »HEDLEY LAMARR [correcting as he runs past]: “HEDLEY!”
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longhorn mama
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 2:56amWolffe is just showing off his ignorant a$$. And we and Palin are the stupid ones?
Report Post »DogTags
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 3:03amIf Wolffe was a little bit more read like Palin is he would have known C.S. Lewis wrote more than a kids series. If he actually read The Chronicles of Narnia, (if he could even understand it) he would see that this allegory is for deep thinkers. Apparently Wolffe is not a very deep thinker.
Report Post »79USMC83
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 5:51amWe had a cpmplete unknown running for the president in 2008. The media tried to hide or bury EVERYTHING about the “Speech Giver”. MSNBC as far as I am am concerned is the Howard Stern of TV. It does and says anything to get people to watch. Shock TV. The NEWS worthy story is why are many in the so called media OBSSESED with the Palins? Why are they so HATEFULL to a teenage girl whose mother was the one that ran for office. The real NEWS stories of the day can only be told so often in the 24/7 time slots of cable news. So alot of the time has to be filled with Olbermans and Maddows. The big difference in Fox and MSNBC is that MSNBC is very HATEFULL. Sure Fox has a couple of shows that are definetly Right leaning but they are tastefull and NOT about hurtfull attacks on people but attacks on POLICY!!! So why to you think the ratings are so onesided. The majority of Americans can smell rude, HATE and obnoxious a mile away!!!
Report Post »GEW
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 9:15am@sportlock, thank you, you said it well. Might be that more people ought to read CS Lewis’ greater works.
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 9:18amC.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors. His clear and concise writing is always illuminating. “Screwtape Letters”, “God in the Dock”, “The Abolition of Man”, “Miracles”, “Surprised by Joy”, and more are all excellent reading. They inspire me, too.
Report Post »ClassicalLiberal
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 11:37amC.S. Lewis was a great Christian intellectual philosopher.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience”. C.S Lewis
Report Post »urrybr
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 12:14pmHave you ever noticed that lib-chicks are ugly as heck? And the men look like they slept in their clothes? Chris, we all know that Sarah Palin turns you on, but you realize that you’ll never measure up to her standards, so you criticize her. Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg want to climb your frame. Go play with them . . . you’re in good company.
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 4:23pmI guess they expect that just everyone reads “Rules for Radicals” and the other commie trash. How do these people stay on the air spewing all their dribble?
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