Sarah Palin’s emails, released late last week demonstrating how she found strength and guidance in her Christian faith, are the latest target of the mainstream media.

National Journal included Palin’s prayer for God’s guidance on the Alaska’s budget in what it featured as the top 10 “revelations” from her emails Sunday. “I have been praying for wisdom on this … God will have to show me what to do on the people’s budget because I don’t yet know the right path … He will show me though,” Sarah Palin was quoted as saying in an email.

This was one of the 13,000 emails from her first 21 months as the governor of Alaska released last Friday.

Associated Press also found Palin’s prayer worth a special mention while portraying her in a negative light. “At least once, she prayed for strength,” the newswire exclaimed. “Other times, she fired off messages to her aides, most fierce when the subject was defending her record or her family.”

“They [the emails] also revealed that Palin, as the newly minted Republican vice-presidential nominee [in 2008], was dismayed by the sudden onslaught of questions from reporters, especially one about whether she believed dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time,” Associated Press said, alluding to her belief in creationism as a Christian.

In a story entitled “Sarah Palin asked God for guidance over Alaska state budget,” U.K.’s Guardian said Palin’s emails “reveal” pleas for “divine inspiration in aiding policies affecting allocation of funds in the state.” “Sarah Palin sought advice from an unusual source when she was deliberating over how to frame the Alaskan state budget in 2008 – she called on God for guidance, according to emails released under freedom of information,” the daily said.

Guardian admitted that there was nothing new about her faith in God. “The former Alaskan governor’s deep religious beliefs are well known.” She is an evangelical Christian who belongs to the Assembly of God in her home town of Wasilla, a church whose congregants have been known to speak in tongues, it added. So why was this featured as news?

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