Oh look, here's Sarah Palin receiving special protection from witches in a laying-on-of-hands ceremony at the Wasilla Assembly of God, apparently during her gubernatorial campaign in 2005. The hands in question belong to Pastor Thomas Muthee, who incidentally made another appearance at the church this past weekend. The ceremony — including a prayer that Palin be protected from "every form of witchcraft" — begins after Palin steps up to the podium at around 7m10s. Before that, starting at 4m58s, Muthee explains how it's all part of a grand plan to reinsert God — or rather, his particular version of God — back into American public life:



We need God taking over our education system... If we have that in our schools, we will not have kids being taught how to worship Buddha, how to worship Mohammed. We will not have, in their curriculum, witchcraft, and sorcery. Is anybody hearing me? The other area is in the area of media. We need believers in the media. We need God taking over the media in our lands... And the last area is in the area of government. Hello? We need believers there. We need men and women of integrity. You know, as the secretaries of state. We need them right there. People that are born again, spirit-filled; people who know God, and who are serious with God.

And then, as the ceremony draws to an end, the video cuts out. Before the part where Muthee performs an exorcism on Palin to rid her of the spirit of a demonic moose. What an anti-climax!

