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Media Matters debunks Obama’s alleged Bible misquote

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Fox News recently accused President Barack Obama of misquoting a passage from the Bible during his address this week at the National Prayer Breakfast. However, a liberal media watchdog group pointed out that Fox Nation failed to realize that ”there is more than one version of the Bible.”

“Obama was quoting from the New International Version,” Ben Dimiero of Media Matters for America wrote Friday, “while Fox Nation was pointing to the King James Version to ‘debunk’ him.”

Fox Nation blasted Obama’s reading of Isaiah 40:31, stating that the passage is, “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

Obama’s version stated, “Those who wait on the Lord will soar on wings like eagles, and they will run and not be weary, and they will walk and not faint.”

Dimiero said that this volley was the latest attack aimed to discredit Obama’s Christian upbringing and identity. “This would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic,” he said.

However, the overall smear campaign has worked. A Pew polling report last year showed that only 34 percent of Americans think Obama is Christian, while roughly 18 percent think he is Muslim.

The stage for this latest smear — the annual National Prayer Breakfast — is steeped in controversy. The breakfast’s organizer, The Family, is a group of secretive right-wing evangelical Christian politicians that aims to spread its strict beliefs abroad, as noted by church-state separation advocates.

“Unlike other Christian right groups, they don’t really believe that you’re in power because you’re a good person,” Jeff Starlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power told Democracy Now of The Family’s members in 2009.

This video is from the White House, broadcast Feb. 3, 2011.

 
 
 
 
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  • http://twitter.com/Shamrocker Morgan

    Yes, there are thousands of ‘Versions’ out there, but they ALL have carry the same ‘line’ that it is the “Infallible Word of God….’

  • http://twitter.com/Shamrocker Morgan

    Yes, there are thousands of ‘Versions’ out there, but they ALL have carry the same ‘line’ that it is the “Infallible Word of God….’

  • Anonymous

    To paraphrase an old indian expression. Conservative God speak with forked tongue. Conservatives then speak in babble.

  • bob915

    http://bible.com/ click on the ‘translation’ window and you will see how stupid and narrow the ‘Family’ looks……ignorance knows no zipcode

  • Anonymous

    Gee, will Fox admit their mistake?

    Ever notice how liberals, atheists, and the not-so-fundamentalists christians know more about the bible than the hard core Jesus-freaks?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JDONZQ76VAV2S3TGANLBVCH3BI s

    Can you quote the exact line of scripture where “infallable Word of God” is used?

  • http://twitter.com/Covert4Liberty Brimstone Hill

    Really……..we have representatives in congress belonging to ‘secretive clubs’ calling themselves “The Family”?
    Is it the Gambinos, or the Gottis?
    These devil worshiping fanatics should be ousted and prosecuted for sedition and dereliction of duty.
    The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. JFK

  • Anonymous

    So which translation of a translation of a translation SHOULD he have used?

  • P Matthews

    McLean, Virginia — Anyone who studies the Christian Bible would know the New International version and very likely remember the King James version as well. The surprise here might be that Fox News would risk being exposed as ignorant of the facts. On the other hand, why would I be surprised that Fox News is ignorant of any facts …

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JDONZQ76VAV2S3TGANLBVCH3BI s

    Can you quote the exact line of scripture where “infallable Word of God” is used?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LJMNZL5KJFX2H5CKWK2S75HU7I Kevin

    A War-criminal quoting the Bible…how quaint.

  • Anonymous

    yup. the pew research center proved this a few months ago. http://bit.ly/gNC3eK

  • Anonymous

    Oh my Dog, what a transgression. What next, misquoting Lord of the Rings? Who fucking cares?

  • http://www.rawstory.com/ hounddogg

    no,no,no…Obama is using the Muslim version of the Babble…it’s printed in Kenya…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dorothy-Banks/100001470098554 Dorothy Banks

    Will this stupidity ever stop? These muckrakers are incapable of enlightenment. They need full spiritual help from the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. They are blissfully unaware that their souls are tainted, and their tongues are twisted lies.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    Never trust the scribblings of any people who can’t master the application of fire to bacon…and who live in fear of a shrimp salad.

  • shinyorbs

    whatever troll.

  • Anonymous

    The behavior of fox noise propaganda machinery gives the impression that they are unaware of a book called the bible, whether the King James version or the NIV. Their criticism of the quotation by the President is hypocritical but not surprizing.

  • Anonymous

    There are as many versions of the Bible as there are versions of almost any account of seminal events. The truth is in it but we see through a glass darkly.

  • Anonymous

    They didn’t complain when Chief Justice Roberts deliberately “misquoted” Obama’s oath at the inaugural. They didn’t complain when bu$h “misquoted” reports of WMDs in Iraq. Everything FUCKEDNOOZ says speaks for itself: These christian patriot Nazis simply cannot tolerate having a n****r president.

  • http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/ Craig

    Here is another story about the hypocrisy of the tea-baggers and the danger their religious extremism presents to our Republic. They are just as warped and are as great a threat to America here and abroad as the Muslim fanatics who pervert Islam and the Jewish fanatics who pervert their faith.
    http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/148795/how_republicans_and_their_big_business_allies_duped_tens_of_millions_of_evangelicals_into_voting_for_a_corporate_agenda?page=entire

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IBOBXKMYUN25IDK7BVB2ACU244 Matthew

    King James I was a Protestant monarch, emistruth; the KJV was produced by the Church of England, which at that time had a strongly Protestant identity.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IBOBXKMYUN25IDK7BVB2ACU244 Matthew

    Isn’t it interesting how stories touching on religion always bring out the “rational” in droves?

  • Anonymous

    Dear Matthew: It seems that despite his Scottish roots, you are correct. Many thanks!

  • http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/ Craig

    Fox “news” would do well to consider the 9th commandment (Exodus 20:16)
    King James Bible
    Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

  • Ma’at

    TeaBaggers don’t care. Facts are meaningless to them. If Faux News tells them the sun doesn’t shine, they will swear to their grave it doesn’t.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JTFRQEKODXEDIF6UKOLGDEIPAA Eric

    Are you serious? “The surprise here might be that Fox News would risk being exposed as ignorant of the facts” — No the surprise would be the day Fox News would care about being ignorant of anything. Being ignorant of things is their hallmark.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=530821179 Risa Bear

    Given the nature of his audience, I think he should have quoted the Spanish version.