A highly controversial San Antonio evangelical pastor has endorsed John McCain. Notice in Elisabeth Bumiller’s piece—she fails to bring up anything about Hagee’s core beliefs. I guess they are all the same to her.
McCain: I was pleased to have the endorsement of pastor John Hagee yesterday.
McCain is happy as a clam. Looks like the pastor had a bit of a problem with the IRS and Hagee’s not too fond of the Catholic church either. From his book Jerusalem Countdown:…
Adolf Hitler attended a Catholic school as a child and heard all the fiery anti-Semitic rantings from Chrysostom to Martin Luther. When Hitler became a global demonic monster, the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XII never, ever slightly criticized him. Pope Pius XII, called by historians ‘Hitler’s Pope,’ joined Hitler in the infamous Concordat of Collaboration, which turned the youth of Germany over to Nazism, and the churches became the stage background for the bloodthirsty cry, ‘Pereat Judea’…. In all of his [Hitler’s] years of absolute brutality, he was never denounced or even scolded by Pope Pius XII or any Catholic leader in the world. To those Christians who believe that Jewish hearts will be warmed by the sight of the cross, please be informed—to them it’s an electric chair.
This is the kind of hate that permeates the extreme wing of the religious right. Bill Donohue is freaking out over Hagee and McCain. Glenn Greenwald interviewed him today:
The Catholic League demanded that McCain repudiate Hagee and his endorsement, just as Barack Obama did earlier this week with Louis Farrakhan (despite the fact that Obama, unlike McCain with Hagee, never sought out or accepted Farrakhan’s endorsement) In the interview, Donohue made some extraordinary statements. He compared Hagee both to Louis Farrakhan and Bob Jones, but noted: “Hagee is far more powerful than Farrakhan is today. . . . Hagee is a major player. There’s no end to his money. He has an empire down there.” Regarding the intense 2000 media controversy when then-Gov. George Bush spoke at Bob Jones University, Donohue said:
Why were they so exercised about Bob Jones? This is worse. . . . If someone said to me: who is the biggest anti-Catholic bigot in the evangelical community, I would say: hands down, John Hagee.
The entire podcast interview, which lasted roughly 15 minutes, can be heard here.
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Bill Dononhue freaks out every time someone uses a toilet-
“That’s pure EVIL comming out of you.”
Isn’t Rev. Ted Haggard in Arizona now? THAT would be a great endorsement for McJesus.
Wow, the phony Christian snakes really are consuming each other, aren’t they? I love it!
Scooter @ 2:
I’m waiting for Fred Phelps and his band of merry, inbred psychopaths to announce they’re backing McCain.
My first question is:
Why did Greenwald interview Donahue in the first place.
Oh man, the religious right is even eating ITSELF now.
The GOP has seriously metastasized.
Hitler’s religion: http://nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm
He’ll never get independents with endorsements from freaks like this.
Three trueisms:
McCain will suck up to anyone.
Senator Lieberman loves Rev, Hagee too.
Donohue is a thug and a putz.
Thanks, I’m here all week!
LOL you “Christians” have fun now, ya hear?
Wow one psychopathic Christianist calling another psychopathic Christianst a bigot. The ability of Christians to make them selves into victims is sometimes overwhelming. All of them are a waste of skin.
It is amazing that in 2008 people still listen to religious leaders like Donahue. Sad.
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WHY is Glenn Greenwald giving legitimacy to that shit, Bill Donahue!?
There isn’t enough popcorn in the world!
I love the smell of religiofascist head explosions in the morning.
so when do the irs start their audit?
That’s because Hagee is into that whole End of Times, Armageddon thing, and he knows McCain will keep the conflict going in Iraq. I’ve seen the guy talk before. He’s a serious nut job. This is the group that’s all about converting the Jews to Christianity when all the born again Christians are raptured. The Jews that don’t convert will burn in hell. It’s all part of their master plan.
Hagee and Donohue sound like a pair of dicks.
Real Christians want nothing to do with jerks.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bjFFJl4c7JI
“He compared Hagee both to Louis Farrakhan and Bob Jones”
Hmm. Hard to tell who is more offended
Being a bigot against a religious group is like being a bigot against a political party.
Aaaahahahahaha! For a guy who is bigoted against just about everything that isn’t Catholic or fits his world view, this is bloody hilarious, crybaby stuff.
‘Fanks, Bill, you tremendous douche.
:)
I was going to take some time on this most foul day in this septic year of our lord (Note the clever juxtaposition: one should pump their septic tank every 8 years - get it?) to address the failure of local religious leaders and other totally disconnected conserve pinheads to put a sizable dent in a problem that has ballooned to monstrous proportions recently. Undoubtedly you’ve probably caught the faint sulfur dioxide olfactory aura of this pressing problem whilst engaged in fighting off sleep in the midst of the latest television slagger assault on our collective senses by pendejos, snails, and slugs collectively known under the more than generous moniker “ the media” and their bend-over buddies, the political pundits – and don’t forget those proctologists in the making, the evening “news”. Yes the city fathers, Arthur Schopenhauer, and the Archbishop Ned of Smegma have gotten the panties in a twist over an embarrassing plague that threatens the very loose and thin fabric which barely contains the dregs of civilized discourse and real stopping power, if you follow my meaning. Undoubtedly, you’ve seen the signs at every outdoor aquatic facility. And it’s getting worse. Recently a well renowned public figure was forced to confront his own frailty of human nature, as he was forced by public pressure to directly atone for his grave and disgusting social faux pax and admit to all assembled in the name of the never-forgotten exploited that he really isn’t that interested in picking up stray litter in your local hotspot/airport men’s restroom lavatory. As John McCain was forced to admit today under the relentless piss storm of the media suck circus, “It’s enough to make you want to eat some brains!”
But as Mr. McCain will tell you, consuming the brain and other nerve tissue of animals is not without risks and discomfiture, especially if you like to wear the occasional Hagar all-white slacks. The first problem is that the makeup of the brain (and most Republicans) is 60% fat due to the myelin (which itself is 70% fat) insulating the axons of neurons and glia. As an example, a 140 g can of “pork brains in milk gravy – chunky style”, a single serving, contains 3500 milligrams of cholesterol, 1170% of the GOP recommended daily intake. Because of the risk of being infected by prions (that’s what got Huckabee) one should always wear gloves when handling brains, especially your own. It is also well known in the hunting community that the brain of wild animals should not be consumed, due to the risk of chronic wasting disease, but the irony is that anyone that takes an interest in hunting usually is wasted anyway. The brain is still useful to hunters, in that most animals have enough brain matter for use in the tanning of their own hides.
Man it’s quite funny and satisfying to watch religio-facists do a combination of imploding, head exploding and eating their own…
Keep it up, fellas. It’s priceless.
Ya I find it absolutely hilarious that McCain will ultimately get a pass on it by the big, bad “liberal” media. Flip this around, think if Obama not only “accepted” Farrakhan’s support, but was on stage with him when he announced it. Can you imagine the firestorm that would ignite. Man. But apparently Hagee’s radicalism doesn’t mean quite as much as Farrakhan’s, I mean for all intensive purpose, they are equally nuts.
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the irony is that this will be the first time that the msm will ignore bill donohue.
The funny thing is, most of what Hagee says about the roots of Hitler’s and the Nazi’s anti-Semitism is TRUE. It was Catholic/Lutheran to the CORE.
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While I despise Mr. Hagee, his preposterous theology, and his anti-human politics, he is basically correct about Hitler and the church. He was born, baptized, and raised a Catholic– and if you subscribe to their theology, he remains a Catholic today.
… but I think Hagee is right about Pius, isn’t he?
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Sure Hagee is a wingnut theocrat. So is Donohue. And Pope Pius was a nazi-sympathizing fascist.
I agree with Bill Donohue… is that proof that God exists?
No matter how offensive, little excerpts of Hagee will never give you a picture of how utterly revolting a human being he is. Please take a minute and catch this shit-wad on cable. He is the minister to the NeoCons. His view of God is war, war, war, war, war, war, war. The more dead bodies, the more blood, the greater the glory to God. I think that’s his message.
I had never heard of this guy Hagee before. Thanks John McCain!
KansasCityFaGt @ 19:
I dare you to say that to a Jew or a Muslim.
Every Saturday night, I sprinkle bird seed in church parking lots; Every Sunday, I watch the birds shit on the christains cars.
Fuck you christians and fuck your shit encrusted SUVs.
McRapture.
With any luck, the religious right will finally have the apocalypse they seek - on each other
Chuck @ 34:
feed thu birds
“…and the Catholics bigot the joos, and Hitler lay with Popehile Pius XII and cleansed the joos, and Hagee bigot the Catholics, and Donohue bigot the non-Catholics…and the circle-jerking was great, for there were many jerks, and the media said ‘we will taketh the position of pivot‘, and all were drenched in the seed of their bigotry.”
Chuck @ 34:
Good idea, thanks, lol. ;-}
puck @ 35:
#404, tanky! ;)
Huh. Serves all those Catholics right who voted for BushMcfuckwit in 2000 and 2004. When the evangelicals start rounding them up with all them fags, abortionists, feminists, jews and Islamofacists it will be just desserts. Emmmm, desserts. I love desserts.
go circular firing squad!
There’s only one problem for Donahue. Everything that evangelical “whack-job” said about Hitler and the Catholic Church is true, before a certain year. (google it, it’s out there.) But, then again, it’s pretty hard to think of something really awful that the church hasn’t done. For nearly two-thousand years, they’ve been proving one of the oldest maxims in human history: WE BECOME OUR ENEMIES. Perhaps that’s why Jesus said, “The last place you’ll ever find God is in a church.”
The last place you’ll ever find God is in a church.” me too!
Nice endorsement ya got there, McMaverick.
I never thought I would in any way agree with Donahue - but he’s got a bit of a point. Too bad he’s too crazy to make the point.
“This is the kind of hate that permeates the extreme wing of the religious right”
I’d hardly call this summary of papal complicity in the Holocaust “hate.” It’s a matter of historical record: Pious XII did indeed sell out the Catholic Center Party, though more to consolidate papal power than to facilitate Nazism, which he hated. In removing papal support for a powerful Catholic party which stood as an obstacle to Hitler–as a condition for ratifying a concordat with Germany–Pious XII essentially placed himself in Hitler’s pocket. He could not speak out against Hitler, whether or not he wanted to, without risking his precious concordat.
John Hagee first came to my attention when he was running around like his hair was on fire yelling at the top of his lungs that the Harry Potter books had real spells in them and the young people reading this books were calling real demons into their home to take over families. I started watching once in a while for pure entertainment factor much like watching Pat Roberson’s head bob up and down just before he says something insane. Hagee once told the story of how he didn’t feel well after a sermon and when home to pray. In the middle of prayer he realized what was really going on and jumped to his feet and ran around the house yelling. You see he realized that some of the women at the last sermon were witches and had put a spell on him. Of course being a real bible thumping christian he was able to break the spell is ok today. I am telling you that is entertainment. :)
we haven’t had a good religious war for quite some time now,have we?
Religion:something that’s taught.Usually when your a child.
In the process,you learn the hatred for other religions,from your parents.and relatives.
for instance,Catholic v Protestant.The divisiveness is taught to the children from their elders.Who was taught by their elders.and it goes back and back,ect,ect.Somebody somewhere got screwed somehow and the retaliation goes on and on.It doesn’t take much for some people to hate.
And what is religion?
On Sunday,these people are all about forgiveness and tolerance ,But come monday,all bets are off.
Until next Sunday.
Nope,you can have it.I want no part of it.
Hey, the endorsement of one fruitcake is as good as the endorsement of any other fruitcake.
Did anyone else notice in all the media coverage of the Bill Cunningham lunacy from Cincy, that everytime they showed McCain getting off the bus, right behind him was the big dollar preacher from Columbus, Rod Parsley. I guess he has to make sure his tax deferemnt stays in place. Probably would have a better chance on the Obama bus. Ex-Presidential candidiates like McCain don’t have much pull after November.
I’m Sure Donohue is cursing that damned Protestant or Evangelical or what ever.
Matthew Elias
mean for all intensive purpose, they are equally nuts.
for all intents and purposes