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** The Karl Marx quote is very hard to find in Acts 2. I still haven't found it. If anything like that is in a bible passage, it must have been heavily re-interpreted by Louis Blanc. [[The Other Wiki]] attributes the quote to Blanc with no biblical source cited.

** This leads to people of every position on the Bible and Christianity to accuse everyone with other positions or interpretations of taking things out of context for every quote.

** In the [[South Park]] episode, ''Damien'', Stan gives Jesus this quote to encourage him before his fight with Satan. When Jesus asks who said it, Stan tells him he (Jesus) did. Stan later admits that he just heard the quote on Star Trek.

* Edward R. Murrow did this against Senator McCarthy, as seen in ''[[Good Night and Good Luck]]'', regarding a quote from ''[[Julius Caesar]]''.

* There was an episode of ''Tales from the Crypt'' wherein the antagonist, a corrupt mortician, is ''constantly'' doing this with the Bible. For example, at one point he says, "Like the Bible says, 'Penny saved, penny earned.'" He is told that the quotation is actually from [[Benjamin Franklin]]. Later in the episode the same formula is inverted by the same character against him in a cruelly ironic way.

** There was another episode with a young thug (who may be undead) who does the same thing with the quotes of ''various'' religions. For instance, at one point he attributes "first come, first serve" to Buddha Guatama.

'''Jacobs:''' 18:22<br />

'''Bartlet:''' Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says that he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town ''really'' have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about these questions, would you? One last thing: While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.]] }}

* Real-life new-media example: [http://www.snopes.com/glurge/twoquest.htm A popular chain e-mail] offers the reader a choice in leaders between a pair of lazy, womanising drunkards and a chaste war hero. After you read further along, you discover that the drunkards were [[Franklin D Roosevelt]] and [[Winston Churchill]], and the war hero was [[Adolf Hitler]]. This is actually inaccurate, as Hitler had a girlfriend and Churchill was extremely loyal to his wife. (But he ''was'' [[I Take Offense to That Last One|a drunkard]].)

** There's also the anti-abortion argument in the same link, which paints a squalid picture of a mother of a huge family riddled with health problems and no father mentioned, and then "reveals" that the last potential child is [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]]. Beethoven was the third child of professional-class parents, wealthy enough to give him an extensive musical education, and only a few of his siblings even survived infancy.