Obama misquoted the Bible in Dallas speech
It has been revealed that President Barack Obama misquoted the Bible in his Dallas speech, but he managed to escape widespread media scrutiny, unlike Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who was widely mocked by national media outlets when he mispronounced a book in the Bible earlier this year in January. Trump pronounced the Bible book 2 Corinthians, as "two Corinthians" instead of the regularly pronounced way of "second Corinthians".
"And so I'm reminded of a passage in John's Gospel: Let us love not with words or speech, but with actions and in truth," said the American president Tuesday, July 12 in Dallas, Texas during a memorial service for the five policemen killed at the Black Lives Matter protest July 7.
"But what is the precise passage from the Gospel of John to which he refers?" wrote Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist.
"You won't find it, because it's not from the Gospel of John but from an entirely different book of the Bible: The First Epistle of John," she corrected.
Hemingway, who teaches Sunday School to kids, said that the book Obama referred to is incorrect. She said even the four-year-old kids she teaches know the difference and where these books can be found in the Bible – at the opposite ends. There are also three epistles of John making up at least four books in the Bible with John's name on the title, excluding the "Revelation to John" or "Apocalypse of John."
"But also surprising is that the media didn't notice that President Obama had ascribed the passage to the wrong book of the Bible," continued Hemingway.
Newsbusters, a watchdog for liberal media bias, also reported that The New York Times initially included the transcript of Obama's misquotation but silently omitted it afterwards.
Hemingway quoted Gardiner Harris and Mark Landler for the New York Times, Jonathan Schuppe for NBC News and Jordan Fabian for The Hill, who all got caught up in the "error of religious literacy."
In contrast, the political commentator recalled when CNN, NPR and People all picked on Trump for mistakenly reading out "2 Corinthians" instead of the "Second Corinthians" during his speech at Liberty University in January.