*Whew* I bet that was keeping people up at nights.
That’s right…you have a religious leader on your show who has spouted off such crazy, hate-filled rhetoric and is endorsing the other party’s candidate, and the thing foremost on Beck’s mind (such as it can charitably be called) is whether Rev. “End Times” Hagee envisions a Democratic candidate as the fulfillment of the prophecy of the Apocalypse. Nice to see him contributing to the national dialogue in such an uplifting way, isn’t it?
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BECK: Let me ask you, because I got — I get so much e-mail on this, and I think a lot of people do, and I`ve only got a couple of seconds. They say Glenn, you and the media, you`ve got to wake up. Barack Obama`s making people faint and cry and everything else. And he`s drawing people in.
There are people — and they said this about Bill Clinton that actually believe he might be the anti-Christ. Odds that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ?
HAGEE: No chance. He has a lot of charisma. There`s a media love affair with him right now. He is a very formidable political person. I believe the best leader for America in the future is John McCain.
Reverend Hagee is a Class A kook. Stark raving mad. He believes someone will unite the whole world together and bring peace to everyone - and that person is the Anti-Christ. Yeah, God forbid we should have peace. So, Hagee prefers war instead.
He wants to preemptively strike Iran to start the festivities. So, will this bring peace later at least? No, exactly the opposite, it will bring Armageddon. Then nearly everyone will die - which, of course, is a great thing because Biblical prophecy will be fulfilled and the few people who agree with John Hagee will all be saved and laughing their ass off in heaven. And the rest of us will be dead. Killed by Rev. Hagee’s righteous God.
This is who John McCain has been actively pursuing for an endorsement, Hagee and other “Christocrats”. These same people he derided in 2000 as “agents of intolerance“. As Media Matters points out:
“Some in the media continue to focus on Farrakhan’s praise of Obama, even though Obama has repeatedly criticized Farrakhan, while McCain has actually embraced the endorsement from Hagee — who has a history of inflammatory rhetoric about women, Muslims, the Catholic Church, and members of the gay community,” said Karl Frisch, a Media Matters for America spokesman. “Why have so many in the media shied away from asking these tough questions of the McCain campaign? The double standard is very telling.”
Full Transcripts below the fold
BECK: All right, the evangelical vote. John Hagee is here. He`s the senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, president of the John Hagee Ministries.
Let me just get this right out on the table, pastor. You`ve had some problem with the Catholics this week, and now it looks like John McCain, who you`ve endorsed, may be distancing himself. Can you explain what happened this week and what your stance is with Catholicism?
JOHN HAGEE, PASTOR, CORNERSTONE CHURCH: Certainly, I can explain that, Glenn. First, thank you for having me on this telecast.
BECK: No problem.
HAGEE: I have written a book called “In Defense of Israel.” And in that book, I wrote a chapter called “The Sins of the Fathers.” It`s a chapter about anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is an oxymoron. An anti-Semite is someone who is driven by hate. A Christian is someone who`s driven by love. Therefore, there`s no such thing as a Christian anti-Semite.
And in this chapter, I have talked about the anti-Semitism historically. I have criticized the Catholic Church for its past anti- Semitism. But I have also been very critical of the Protestants and their anti-Semitism, especially as led by Martin Luther.
Standing against anti-Semitism does not make me an anti-Catholic. And standing against anti-Semitism does not make me anti-Protestant. I am very much — anti-Semitism. It makes no difference who participates in it.
BECK: All right. So let me go to the endorsement of John McCain. You`re an evangelical. Mike Huckabee is still in. He`s an evangelical. Do you believe in John McCain? Or is he kind of like the best one out there? Or tell me about your endorsement of him and why not a fellow evangelical?
HAGEE: Well, let me answer the first question about John McCain. John McCain is pro-life, and that`s a major issue with evangelicals. He has a 24-year voting record to back that up. And if there is an issue that`s visceral with the evangelicals it is pro life. The Constitution of the United States begins with the pledge to the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
BECK: Patrick, you and I — I`ve sat down with you for an hour. I interviewed you for an hour. And I`m sorry. But I mean, when I say to you, tell me about John McCain, you go pro life first. I don`t think that fits with who I met on my set.
You are a guy who believes we are here in the end days. Is John McCain the guy to make sure that — that, you know, the end days don`t happen as you believe we could be seeing now?
HAGEE: The fact is, and I believe John McCain brings to the presidency a mature leadership and a leadership that has the strength of character to lead America into the future in a world that`s become a very dangerous world.
BECK: Let me ask you, because I got — I get so much e-mail on this, and I think a lot of people do, and I`ve only got a couple of seconds. They say Glenn, you and the media, you`ve got to wake up. Barack Obama`s making people faint and cry and everything else. And he`s drawing people in.
There are people — and they said this about Bill Clinton that actually believe he might be the anti-Christ. Odds that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ?
HAGEE: No chance. He has a lot of charisma. There`s a media love affair with him right now. He is a very formidable political person. I believe the best leader for America in the future is John McCain.
BECK: Thank you very much, Pastor.
Back in just a second. That`s good news, at least where I stand.
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If “fainting & crying” are signs of the Anti-Christ, then Sanjiah (sp?) surely deserves the title more than Obama. :)
Whew! Now I can vote for Obama with a clear conscience…
Frist(ish)!!
Why is being anti-christ such a bad thing?
If they replaced the idiot beck with miss cleo’s hour long infomercial would anyone notice?
So does that mean McCain is the Anti-Christ?
Dear God, please rapture up these morons ASAP.
Thanks, big guy.
“Sanjaya”.
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The anti-christ is too superior to be black , right Hagee, Beck? you fuckin mutants.
Never mind the religious kooks; look at the ex-spooks and other unsavory PNAC black-bag types hovering around McCain. They’re far more dangerous than some fat old goof lining his wallet from the proceeds of less intelligent goofs while praying for his own private dispensation-from-immolation. It’s never the Religious Right shock troops who make serious national policy, but the Money Boyz.
I wish someone would start a website that listed nothing but the sponsors for these lame-brained jackasses in the media. If we truly care about changing things for the better, we need to start letting sponsors of these idiots (Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Savage et al) know that we will no longer buy their products while they sponsor the hate-filled and intolerant messages these boneheads continually spew. That is the ONLY way we can hope to take their microphones away.
Did Beck disagree?
DC @ 5:
No, Uncle-Christ.
You know, I have a book filled with nothing but these “end times” wack jobs going back 2000 years. Hagee’s con game is nothing new and people buy into it as always. He isn’t the first and he sure isn’t going to be the last. Why anyone actually pays attention to either of those nuts is beyond me.
If being pro life is so important to evangelicals why are they so pro war? Are women suppose to keep bringing babies in this world just to see them get killed in these stupid wars?
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By the way, I expect we will see a lot more of Hagee now since Huckabee dropped out. If McCain is going to have any chance against either Clinton or Obama he is going to need the Conservative Evangelical vote. Hagee and the rest will try their best to court that group for him and if they have to, they will make McCain out to be like the second coming of Christ.
hahahaha
that sort of desperation can only be a good sign for the democrats….
I love when ‘pastors’ get asked questions like this…as if at some point in their training they took a course on “Identifying the antichrist 101″ ….they are the ULTIMATE bullshit artists…greedy, modern day Dr. Doolittles…my message to Hagee: get a job.
Shut up. That question was actually asked? Was it a joke? Because, um, this Barak is running for the Democratic nomination in the real world, not a fantasy one.
It’s a bit like asking if he’s a unicorn in disguise.
Who would have thought that Hagee would come of as more reasonable than Beck? Notice how Beck cut off Hagee when he didn’t criticize Obama? I’m sure Beck wanted Hagee to say something horrible about Obama.
Pfft… idiots. Obama can’t possibly be the anti christ because I…
Er… I’ve said too much.
Blathering fools! The best nonsensical team on television.
Are there betting lines on just who is the anti-christ? I’m putting my economic stimulus rebate on a Republican evangelical.
This seems to be a self-fulfilling prophecy and it scares me.
I always heard that Click and Clack from Car Talk were the actual anti-christs.
Vickif @ 14:
Obviously to keep the underprivileged cranking out cannon-fodder so their own spawn can grow up to be the next generation of preachers and Rethug politicians.
The media’s double standard over McCain and Hagee is very telling. We know who they support. Why is Beck even on the air. Or Rove, Hannity… nevermind.
to these idiots….ANYONE that is a peace advocate is now the anti-christ. so you have your choice…those who want to hasten the rapture (which is a made up faerytale) and join the anti-christ culminating in a worldwide genocide and betrayal of the jews that won’t convert -or- support leaders that want more war, death and destruction.
and ISLAM is the illicit religion? yikes!
the fucker contradicted himself within the first few moments of his interview
if it’s “Christian Anti-Semitism” oxymoron, and isn’t possible (because Anti-Semitism is something directed out of hate and Christians are always motivated out of love [even when they bomb the hell out of cities and towns, put whole families to the sword, etc.] how can there be Catholic Anti-Semitism and Protestant Anti-Semitism?
oxymoron
Odds that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ?
Nah, the title of anti-Christ is already taken by the shrub.
No further proof is needed that Beck, Hagee and McCain are all certifiably insane.
The pentagon is coming out with all these new weapons aimed at defeating just one segment of the population. Gays, people of certain races, certain cultures…
Can’t we just get some R&D on one that’ll eliminate idiots ie. the 30 percentile that still supported Bush back when when any smart person already knew he was the anti-Christ.
Please get on it asap.
In Becks defense tho, even he thinks it is funny that people are saying this about Obama…
This guy is on CNN, just talking about the “antichrist” as if it’s a done deal, a proven concept, an accepted truth. No one is there to challenge him and call bullshit on the whole idea in the first place.
This is America today. Glad I don’t live there anymore. Wen I tell the people in the country I live in what Americans believe, they laugh. They actually laugh. They can hardly believe it when I tell them what upwards of 90 million people in the US believe.
We are lost.
Lost
Lost
Hag it up folks, this is the dawn of the new dark ages.
According to the rapture kooks’ most authoritative source — the “Left Behind” series — the Antichrist will bear a striking resemblance to Robert Redford.
That rules out the current field, unless Redford himself sees an opening.
How did Beck’s fans type all these emails with straight jackets on?
Hard to imagine a worse question to seriously ask someone, and on television…
(I didn’t watch clip, I’ll go on in life assuming this was a joke)
That Beck even asked such a STOOOOOOPID question is the more amazing thing here. Not that he is above asking STOOOOOOPID questions (they’re his stock and trade.) It just shows how ridiculously maladroit these right-wing (pundits, comedians, goofballs, assclowns — pick one) are. There is simply no filter. They just open there maws and whatever insanity pours forth is fine because they all probably have a clause in their contracts that says something like:
“I cannot be fired or suspended for anything that I say on air no matter how inane, repugnant, or factually incorrect it is. In addition, if I say anything such as described, the network must actively support it as if the words came down from God in heaven himself, and in turn promote me as some sort of authoritative visionary.”
These (commentators, imbeciles, schmucks, morons,– pick one) also know that with viewerships of say 200K at their time slots, no amount of letters are going to get them in trouble with their networks, at least not until the “Roger Ailes” of this world grow a conscience and sense of decency.
We are truly living in BIZARRO World.
CHRISTOCRATS?!?! Please don’t start calling theocrats christocrats! Sounds too close to Democrat, and the repugs will start pairing dems and christo in the same sentence, like alquada and iraq, and the repubs base, the repub-aquaida, will think that dems are the party of the religious loons!
Don’t let them get the seed planted, yank it out like the fetid weed that it is!
Dale @ 21:
The Chinese bookies are hoping you’re wrong.
Kevin @ 30:
No, Beck likes that “people” are saying it so that he can repeat it on air and deny having anything to do with it. Like “they” did in the last election(s) be saying “some people” are saying…. I think I remember even Matt Lauer say, “some people” the dropping a poison pill on democratic politicians.
And don’t defend Beck, condemn him.
AP’s Nedra Pickler Strikes Again!
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer Wed Mar 5, 3:12 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Congratulations, Hillary Rodham Clinton. You did what your husband said you had to do and won Ohio and Texas. Now what?
*headdesk*
I read on a message board just yesterday a guy say that he hopes the world ends before Obama can become president. No, not for the religious reasons stated above but because he hates Democrats that much. If he isn’t careful with all that hate and anger his world may just end in a heart attack in some parking lot somewhere surrounded only by Repuplicans who never took the time to learn how to save a life because it wasn’t in their self interest.
We Democrats need to attack Hillary. So Obama can win! Obama needs to get some balls and take out Hillary!
Oh wait a minute the Evangelical Fascist Right Wing Neocons and Rethuglicans sitting in the spectator stands eating popcorn!
Forgot about them!
I hate to say it, but in 2000 I believed shrub was the anti-Christ. That was the only way I could rationalize why anyone (let alone millions of people) could vote for a man with the intellectual capacity of an amoeba in bleach.
religious moderates are worse than nuts like this hagee guy because they allow these freaks to stay mainstream and relevant. sad…
Hagee looks amazingly like Larry “Bud” Melman.
When Beck says he gets a lot of emails asking the question, that is his straw man. It is the same tactic used by the right wing pundits for decades. Rovian, yes, but they have been using the straw man for years to scare people or get a negative message out.
I find it absolutely astounding that the arrogance of some members of the Religious Right like Hagee and the Apostolic Congress is so tremendous that they apparently believe they not only have the power but the right to try manipulating God into fulfilling the Book of Revelations according to their preferred schedule. Many of these people have actually gone as far as to memorize the Bible so that they can quite chapter and verse by heart (although many of them don’t show much more understanding of it than a talking parrot taught to do the same would) — and yet they still somehow manage to conveniently forget the verse which clearly states that nobody but God knows when the world will end.
Ron @ 44:
This countries brainwashed by Media. How can you think clearly when the Media is hammering mixed messages into your brain 24/7?
Oh how CNN has fallen. Glen “water on the brain” Beck sits there and conducts his own push-polls with every show. Its either, “I get alot of emails” (sent from his laptop), “some people say”,(his dementia suffering father), or “the little voice in my head that urges me to say outlandish things in a perpetual hunt for ratings says…”.