{"id":7192,"date":"2014-11-22T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7192"},"modified":"2014-11-22T12:45:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T12:45:11","slug":"how-dare-obama-quote-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7192","title":{"rendered":"How dare Obama quote Scripture!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You know, if I had given it a moment’s worth of thought, I might have been able to predict that one conservative mainstream media outlet would criticize the president of the United States for quoting Scripture.<\/p>\n

The thought didn’t cross my mind. Then I saw this item from Media Matters, an acknowledged liberal watchdog organization.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/21\/now-fox-amp-friends-is-upset-that-obama-is-quot\/201665<\/p>\n

(Check out the link where Elizabeth Hasselbeck says she “got goosebumps” when President Reagan cited Scripture back in 1981.)<\/p>\n

They chided “Fox and Friends” for criticizing President Obama for having the utter gall to quote the Bible when talking about his executive order regarding immigration reform. Why, those “Fox and Friends” talking heads just couldn’t understand how the president — whom they have criticized in the past for his alleged failure<\/em> to acknowledge his Christian faith — could do such a thing in this context.<\/p>\n

I need to stop hyperventilating.<\/p>\n

There.<\/p>\n

Let’s understand something about the 44th president. He’s declared time and again that he believes Jesus Christ is his savior. He reads the Bible and has been a Church of Christ member for, oh, a long time. Barack Obama also uses Scripture passages frequently when making some point, just as all of his predecessors — from both political parties — have done since the beginning of the Republic.<\/p>\n

May we stop applying these ridiculous double standards when analyzing the president’s statements on public policy?<\/p>\n

OK. I’ve made the request for fairness in covering these things. I’m quite sure no one at Fox News will give it any consideration.<\/p>\n

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You know, if I had given it a moment’s worth of thought, I might have been able to predict that one conservative mainstream media outlet would criticize the president of the United States for quoting Scripture. The thought didn’t cross my mind. Then I saw this item from Media Matters, an acknowledged liberal watchdog organization. … Continue reading How dare Obama quote Scripture!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[539,1787,1790,2858,2980,4017],"class_list":["post-7192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barac-obama","tag-fox-and-friends","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media-matters","tag-ronald-reagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}