Sarah Palin defended Rick Santorum's 2008 speech in which he referenced Satan. Palin: Media 'wee-weed up' about Santorum

Sarah Palin came to the defense of Rick Santorum for his “Satan” comments as she condemned “lame-stream media characters” for getting “all wee-weed up about” the candidate’s past remarks.

“They will attack any conservative who boldly proclaims their faith and talks about, there is good in the world and there is evil in the world, and that’s what Rick Santorum was talking about,” Palin told Sean Hannity of Fox News.


She continued, “This was a speech that he gave back in 2008 where he named evil as Satan. For these lame-stream media characters to get all wee-weed up about that — first, you have to ask yourself, have they ever, ever attended a Sunday school class even? Have they never heard this terminology before?”

The new scrutiny over Santorum’s speech at Ave Maria University in Florida from four years ago — in which the 2012 hopeful had warned about an unfolding “spiritual war” in America in which Satan was poised to attack the country — is simply a part of the narrative created by the leftist media that “runs the show,” Palin scoffed.

“They just got so whacked out about this speech,” she said, and recalled a speech she also gave back in 2008 about the need to pray for U.S. troops.

“They did the same thing to me. … They ran that tape over and over again in the vice presidential race, trying to make me sound like a wacko,” she said.

Palin also hit the media for targeting Santorum when President Barack Obama recently invoked the Bible in calling for tax hikes, in an apparent reference to the president’s National Prayer Breakfast speech earlier this month.

“The theology that [Obama] would adopt by reading the book of Luke results in him being able to say we need to increase taxes on hardworking Americans — that’s OK but Rick Santorum talking about good and evil isn’t OK?” she charged. “Mainstream media — they make me sick. They’re hypocrites, and we need to call them out on them.”

Asked what advice she would have for Santorum in dealing with the barrage of criticism over the Satan comments, the ex-vice presidential candidate said, “We would be disappointed in him if he backed off and all of a sudden changed his stripes and decided he didn’t want to talk about good and evil in the world, and America’s Judeo-Christian foundation. So he needs to stand strong on that.”

Chris Christie, a Mitt Romney supporter, also weighed in on the Satan comments.

“I think anything you say as a presidential candidate is relevant. I mean, it’s by definition, relevant. You’re asking to be the president of the United States,” the New Jersey governor said Wednesday on “Good Morning America. “I think people want to make an evaluation, a complete evaluation, of anybody who asks to sit in the Oval Office, so I think it’s relevant in that respect.”

Still, the outspoken Republican added, “Do I think it’s the things we should be as a party talking about and emphasizing at the moment? No.”

Santorum pushed back against critics of his 2008 remarks from the campaign trail Tuesday, saying, “It’s a joke, it’s absurd,” noting that he believes in good and evil.