The hits just keep on coming about this fundie John McCain is publicly sucking up to. When is Tim Russert going to ask John McCain about some of these beliefs of John Hagee? The Arizona senator said that he was “pleased to have the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee,” who condemns Catholics, gays, women, blacks and more from the pulpit at the 17,000-member Cornerstone Church.
This film by Troutfishing of DKos, highlights some of the batsh*t crazy writings of Hagee.
Read the whole well-documented diary. Take a look after the jump at what Hagee has to say about the Holocaust to Max Blumenthal at a Christians United For Israel conference when confronted about his opinion that Jews are to blame for the Holocaust.
The video is full of jaw-dropping interviews with fundies awaiting the Rapture, with a guest appearance by Holy Joe Lieberman.
And from From Right Wing Watch’s “The Maverick and the Armageddon Advocate“:
And how about this tidbit of Hagee’s “slave sale”?Last year, when John McCain’s presidential campaign was floundering, we noted that he was making in-roads with fringe right-wing figures like Armageddon advocate John Hagee, who harbors a not-so-secret desire for the US to start a war with Iran in order to bring about the subsequent return of Jesus Christ.
At the time, there didn’t seem much to worry about because McCain’s campaign appeared dead-in-the-water and though, over the coming months, McCain continued to court Hagee, the pastor appeared content to stick to his rabid theologizing and warnings to the United States.
A March 7, 1996, article (accessed via the Nexis database) in the San Antonio Express-News reported that Hagee was going to “meet with black religious leaders privately at an unspecified future date to discuss comments he made in his newsletter about a ’slave sale,’ an East Side minister said Wednesday.” The Express-News reported:
Hagee, pastor of the 16,000-member Cornerstone Church, last week had announced a “slave sale” to raise funds for high school seniors in his church bulletin, “The Cluster.”The item was introduced with the sentence “Slavery in America is returning to Cornerstone” and ended with “Make plans to come and go home with a slave.”
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You have got to be kidding me. I won’t say it couldn’t get worse, because the next thing you know, McCain will stage a photo-op with the KKK.
Wake up, people.
What’s wrong with a little racism, Antisemitism, and other forms of intolerance among “friends”? Or some other bogus justification…
The kind of Right Wing Authoritarian Cultists that make up the Koolaid Drinkers in the Reichwing are probably MORE likely to stick with McCain if the Left is pointing out problems with Hagee and other McCain supporters.
Logic, intelligence, self-reflection, consistency - none of those things are prominent among wingnuts…
*snicker*
Reichwing…I like that
“Reichwing…I like that”
One of my favorites because it seems to capture some of the more repulsive wingnut aspects well. There seems to be a pretty
healthyunhealthy dose of fascism bubbling just beneath the surface of many “conservatives”…Silly Mike, everyone knows liberals are fascists.
“…everyone knows liberals are fascists.”
I keep forgetting.
…and, naturally enough, that must make “conservatives” communists, right?…
What really bothers me is that certain elements in Israel keep encouraging the “let’s pick up the pace toward Armageddon” religious-right crackpots. They should learn that it’s not a good idea, in the long term, to ally yourselves with people who think you’re going to languish in fire for eternity.
“What really bothers me is that certain elements in Israel keep encouraging the “let’s pick up the pace toward Armageddon” religious-right crackpots.”
There really seems to be some kind of weird political dance involved.
The FundNuts think they are smarter than “those people” in Israel, and so they think they are manipulating Israel into doing the FundNut’s bidding without the Israelis recognizing they are being used.
Likewise, the Israelis probably think they are smarter than the FundNuts (probably correctly), and use them for Israel’s own political advantage in the Middle East.
And some level, I think both sides realize the other side is trying to use them, so the whole thing is like an elaborate sham…
“Slave sale?” Slave. Sale.
Okay, these guys don’t need any help from us- they’re imploding just fine on their own.
What really bothers me is that certain elements in Israel keep encouraging the “let’s pick up the pace toward Armageddon” religious-right crackpots. They should learn that it’s not a good idea, in the long term, to ally yourselves with people who think you’re going to languish in fire for eternity.
Tell me about it. You’d think we’d have learned from that whole kerfuffle with Martin Luther, but I guess it didn’t stick.
I guess the ideology doesn’t matter when you are dealing with psychopaths. There are psychopath democrats, psychopath republicans (known as “Right Wing Authoritarians” nowadays), psychopath capitalists and psychopath communists. Not to forget the psychopath Nazis and Zionists.
So, what’s in a name? They are all deviant pathologicals under the skin. Read: Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes.
http://www.ponerology.com/
You guys are pretty ignorant to equate Wright to Hagee. Hagee was never McCain’s pastor and McCain didn’t sit in his church for 20 years listening to hate speech.
McCain wasn’t aware of some of the views that Hagee held because he didn’t go to his church nor did he know him well. Once McCain was aware of Hagee’s views he distanced himself from the guy.
Obama sat in Wright’s church for 20 years listening to the hatred that was spewing from a pastor’s mouth. He continues to support Wright to this day even though he knows of the hate American, bigotry and racism that the pastor displays.
Have a little intellectual honesty and acknowledge the vast difference between the two. It is one thing to be endorsed by someone and not know their views, it is another to be endorsed by someone for whom you know their views and yet still embrace them as a supporter.