Cruz/Rubio
Feb. 23rd, 2016 05:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacSo I'm following the very bizarre story of how Marco Rubio either did or did not say, regarding the Bible, "Not many answers in it" or "All the answers are in there" to a Cruz staffer when passing him in a hotel lobby.
If all the answers are in the Bible, the question I have for it is: Why would anyone think Rubio would denigrate the Bible to a passing stranger, especially just after calling it "a good book"? Isn't "all the answers are in the Bible" one of the standard lines of Bible-thumpers? I've certainly heard it before.
According to the original story with the false quote, the staffer "was visibly taken aback" by the comment. However, the Cruz campaign director who was fired for re-tweeting the story said in his apology that "According to the Cruz staffer, the Senator made a friendly and appropriate remark."
I watched the video several times, and all I can hear Rubio - whose voice is not particularly powerful or clear even from a debate podium - saying is "good book ... answers ... especially". Afterwards, the staffer is just sitting there, not looking aback or much of anything else, while voices offscreen say "This is, this is a lot" and what sounds like "Why are we being naked?" (Perhaps Selina Rosen was there.)
If all the answers are in the Bible, the question I have for it is: Why would anyone think Rubio would denigrate the Bible to a passing stranger, especially just after calling it "a good book"? Isn't "all the answers are in the Bible" one of the standard lines of Bible-thumpers? I've certainly heard it before.
According to the original story with the false quote, the staffer "was visibly taken aback" by the comment. However, the Cruz campaign director who was fired for re-tweeting the story said in his apology that "According to the Cruz staffer, the Senator made a friendly and appropriate remark."
I watched the video several times, and all I can hear Rubio - whose voice is not particularly powerful or clear even from a debate podium - saying is "good book ... answers ... especially". Afterwards, the staffer is just sitting there, not looking aback or much of anything else, while voices offscreen say "This is, this is a lot" and what sounds like "Why are we being naked?" (Perhaps Selina Rosen was there.)
