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Did Bachmann really say that?
« on: February 05, 2014, 09:24:06 AM »
someone posted on facebook that Michelle Bachmann said "If English was good enough for Jesus when he wrote the Bible, it should be good enough for Coke."  on Fox news on 2/3/14

I don't think Bachmann is much to brag about for conservatives, but she can't be that dumb?  Trying to disprove or prove she said it.
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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2014, 09:33:57 AM »
She has her moments when emotion clouds her verbal process. I'm glad she isn't president.
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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2014, 09:48:43 AM »
My automatic inclination when somebody posts something like that on FB is to say bullshit. Rarely am I wrong...most of the political crap posted on FB by the right or left is made up bullshit. I can find exactly zero credible sources that Bachmann said that. Its liberal made up bullshit.

By the way. A variant of that phrase, "If English was good enough for jesus its good enough for me!", was also claimed to be said by various right wing politicians.

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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2014, 09:43:00 PM »
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No news sources or transcripts contain the any of the aforementioned quotes from Bachmann, according to hoax-debunking site Wafflesatnoon.com. A search of Fox News’ website shows that she made no statements to the broadcaster this week.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/490064-michele-bachmann-bible-written-in-english-coke-meme-isnt-real/
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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2014, 10:41:33 PM »
Shades of "I can see Russia from my House," and the pi=3 hoax.

I wouldn't be surprised if we learned that she actually had said something like that, and someone took it seriously. Jokes like "the King James Version was good enough for St. Paul, so it's good enough for me," are not uncommon, but could take the ignorant unawares.
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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2014, 10:46:30 PM »
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most of the political crap posted on FB by the right or left is made up bullshit

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Quote from: fistful on February 05, 2014, 10:41:33 PM
"the King James Version was good enough for St. Paul, so it's good enough for me," are not uncommon, but could take the ignorant unawares.

unfortunately I know for a fact that some fundies believe the bible was written in English. a staggering overlap of ignorance to be sure

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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2014, 10:50:33 PM »
Quote from: Jocassee on February 05, 2014, 10:46:30 PM

unfortunately I know for a fact that some fundies believe the bible was written in English. a staggering overlap of ignorance to be sure


I'm going to assume you're talking about KJV absolutists who believe that translation was specially inspired, to the extreme that it trumps the original languages. Slightly different.
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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2014, 01:37:12 AM »
"No Coke, only Pepsi"
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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2014, 07:16:13 AM »
Quote from: Gowen on February 06, 2014, 01:37:12 AM
"No Coke, only Pepsi"

Now that I can get behind.
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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2014, 09:24:21 AM »
I did actually personally sit through a southern baptist sermon (granted by one of the deacons, not ordained minister) in Charleston circa 1991 that brought into hot and heavy declaration that "Jesus said Jonah was swallowed by a 'whale', not a 'great fish', therefore it was actually an air breathing mammal that swallowed Jonah, not a fish...."

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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2014, 11:25:59 AM »
Quote from: Jocassee on February 05, 2014, 10:46:30 PM
unfortunately I know for a fact that some fundies believe the bible was written in English. a staggering overlap of ignorance to be sure

posted from CSD's phone


Yeah, we met someone that really believed "if the KJV was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me"  ;/

But I think she was missing a couple chapters from her bible  ;)   =D
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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2014, 11:32:17 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heFkmvxZytY#t=1m12s

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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2014, 02:26:29 PM »
"94.2 percent of all quotes on the Internet and Facebook are made up." - Abraham Lincoln.
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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2014, 02:46:32 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on February 06, 2014, 02:26:29 PM
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“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’” - Joe Biden






Oh wait, unlike the made up ones about conservatives, Biden really is that dumb.
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Re: Did Bachmann really say that?
« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2014, 05:29:50 PM »
Quote from: makattak on February 06, 2014, 02:46:32 PM
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’” - Joe Biden






Oh wait, unlike the made up ones about conservatives, Biden really is that dumb.

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