While others in the media have played snippets of Rev. Wright’s sermons over and over to call into question Barack Obama for his association with his pastor, they’ve remained conspicuously silent on the statements of conservative Christian leaders John Hagee, Jerry Falwell and Rod Parsley. As I’ve blogged many times before, the snippets of Wright’s words have been taken out of context to twist and make malevolent his intent. But Keith Olbermann allows the full statements of Hagee, Falwell and Parsley to air, revealing their hatred, ignorance and intolerance.
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John Hagee: I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are, were recipients of the judgment of God for that. The newspaper carried the story, in our local area, that was not carried nationally, that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the…Katrina came, and the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing.
I’m not sure how I feel about exhorting believers to follow a God so willing to callously end the lives of more than 4,000 Gulf Coast residents, most of whom, I think it’s safe to say, were not planning on attending the Gay Pride parade in New Orleans.
Filed Under: Countdown/Keith Olbermann, Election 08, John McCain, Religious Right
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For the good of the party and the country, pack it up Hillary. You lost fair and square.
And of course Keith Olbermann is not a bully! You people are starting to believe your own BS.
The company McCain keeps makes him a very scary presidential contender…..!!!
Oh dear, olbermann the leader of the pack of blue pill poppers. Who really gets a “high” when he trashes a woman. He used to have credibility but when he started his vendetta against Hillary Clinton I lost all respect for him.
The bloggers on the net are all white males. If obama had to face the daily lying denegration that they pile on Hillary he would be in a tizzy looking for cheney’s undisclosed locations. It is a shame that there is so much sexism in this country.
This campaign does do one thing, it shows the women of this country they should organize. It is about time they showed the good old white boys, (not the REAL MEN) THAT THEY AREN’T GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE. Any real man would not lower himself to do that the good old white boys have done. Real men have steel ones and not ones made of jelly…don’t you know?????????
sieg heil!
No. Most of them were just poor blacks. kaT doesn’t care that they died. After Katrina, kaT was heard to say, “thank Jesus there are fewer ‘ni%^ers’ freeloading off our backs!”
Go for it Keith!! Very few others in the Media are willing to bring out the truth about these jackasses and their followers!!
Expose those hypocrites for all their ignorance, hatred, lies and inhumanity to anyone that does follow their teaching. Why do they have “God” doing so many terrible things to “his/her children”?
Marge @ 4:
Apparently you didn’t see the author of this blog entry.
Carry on.
Marge… not sure what you are talking about.. Hillary got a lot of mail voters… particularly blue collar….. so far from a male-female thing here.. also what is your point kaT… Olbermann is simply point out facts…. are you blind…. McCain has got into bed with some pretty controversial religious leaders…. I don’t understand your point???
Dick @ 6:
Did she really say that? If so, she is disgusting!!
“God Damn New Orleans!”
Ok so y’all are hating on Olberman for quoting your heroes(?) Interesting - I have one question - What did Virginia do to warrant your god sending twisters through there and destroying 200 homes. Were they all secretly gay or was he punishing them for not being patriotic enough? I’m just following through on the logic of the argument. While your at it why did your god punish Dorothy(sp?) in Wizard of OZ - shes from Kansas where they believe the planet is only 6000 years old(lol).
I say thank god for a Talking head pointing out the hypocrisy of todays world.
We are seeing the earliest effects of what a delayed Democratic nomination has done to this campaign, shifting the focus away from McCain so escapes any scrutiny over crap like this.
i can’t wait until russert etermines it is time to bring this info to the light of day. talk about the elephant in the room.
You’ve gotta see this Parsley guy in his full glory:
Hate Mongering Parsley
I saw this klown on Ku satellite years ago, and assumed he had faded into well deserved obscurity. Apparently not: the World Harvest Church is harvesting a bumper crop of idiots. And yet the MSM picks on Obama’s pastor? I picked up an e-copy of the Koran years ago and a cursory read-through revealed nothing to support this shithead’s vitriol - of course.
What a hate-mongering, opportunistic, megalomaniacal, pathological liar. (I still have some adjectives left over…)
Marge @ 4:
As usual you are off target and you miss the point. My disdain has nothing to do with Hillary’s gender. Quite the contrary, it has to do with her unbriddled desire to be President above all else; country, party, voters, common sense.
This sums it up quite well.
I’ll be sure to make another donation to the ACLU (I am a card carrying member) in the hope that they will continue their work in maintaining our civil liberties.
First among these, literally and for good reason, is the first amendment which guarantees that these folks can spew their hate speech under the cover of ‘religious tolerance’. As long as they include some imaginary god in their vile talk, they seem to be OK.
The bigots that include the ACLU in their words of hate don’t get it. They are literalists, a sense of irony seems to be beyond them.
Mugsy @ 13:
The MSM is much more to blame than the extended Democratic nomination. What, they’re not allowed to scrutinize McSame as long as the Dem nominee remains unresolved? That’s the excuse that Russert et al are selling, but I’m not buying it.
Apparently God doesn’t mind a little “collteral damage” when he’s bringing his wrath down upon supposed sinners.
Yet we hear these same nitwits railing on about the evils of Islam.
Whoofah.
-GSD
Marge is here proving just how delusional and self-righteous she really is, once again! Marge… seriously lady… The “anyone-who-doesn’t-vote-for-and-respect-Hillary-is-a-misogynist-and-a-womanizer” shtick is so completely devoid of any real logic that it frightens me. Look up cognitive dissonance.
While watching this YouTube clip (www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaXs8MdmXWY&feature=related )from a Bill Moyers program on John Hagee, I was stunned to see John McCain refer to our nation’s capital as “Satan’s City.” McCain’s comment appears at 5:08 in the clip.
These are not words from a nut job pastor, these are words from the mouth of a possible future president. Satan’s City. That sounds remarkably like something the Iranians might say. How can a U.S. Senator refer to Washington D.C., the seat of our representative government as Satan’s City? Does he hate America?
Christian = Hypocrite.
I guess Jesus was up there in the sky with our kindly old Grampa God, cheering on death and destruction in New Orleans, just as he did when he walked the Earth.
Oh, wait……didn’t he say something about compassion, love, tolerance? Or brother’s keeper? Love one another as I have loved you? Obviously he didn’t mean those damn homos!
ROFL!!!!
Look, it’s not the religious nut-cases the media ought to be concentrating on. They’re nothing but Machiavellian ‘auxiliaries’ and are as expendable as toilet paper…and that is why the closest they have ever gotten to real power was “Crisco” Johnny Ashcroft.
No, for the real ‘devils in the details’ you need to look at who’s advising McShame on real issues, and that is the remnants of the PNAC crowd, like ex-spymaster R. James Woolsey. They are proof that the cabal behind Bush wants to maintain the madness. Given such a coterie, McCain is going to be exponentially worse than Bush, if that can be believed.
Never mind the puppet; look up at who’s holding his strings!
GOD HAS A SENSE OF IRONY?
With all the death and calamity that HUMANS bring upon themselves, I really doubt God has to figure out where to bring MORE destruction (”McCain supporter Rev. Hagee says New Orleans ravaged by God because of Gay Pride Parade”)
But even if he did, why spare The French Quarter??
Hagee doesn’t know his own Bible.
So the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham still stood before the LORD. Then Abraham drew near, and said, “Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou then destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” And the LORD said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.” Abraham answered, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking? Wilt thou destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” Again he spoke to him, and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.” Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.” He said, “Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.” Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.” And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.
My main issue with most Christians is that they do not know their own teachings and yet they want to foist them upon us all.
The main reason why this quote didn’t light a fire under people is simply the fact that lots of people don’t like homosexuality and lots of people believe in divine retribution. It’s just that when those people happen to be white and you are black saying that there is divine retribution for America in general, then the rants of a pastor are scary and offensive. Plenty of whites WOULD like to see some divine retribution to rid this blessed land of the darkies…not rocket science. Just America.
When you’re surgically attached at the hip with the most disasterous leader in the history of the human species, as McSame is, then Hagee, Falwell and Parsely are the LEAST of your problems.
God won’t be blessing America anytime soon.
While I believe that an Obama candidacy is a gift to the Republicans I will say it is good to see someone focusing on McCain. Even if it is someone who is a disgusting as KO.
….and McCain gets a pass, why? And while we’re at it, anyone ever see McCain wearing a flag lapel pin? And does he think John Hagee loves America as much as he does? And what is McCain’s bowling average? And is Cindy proud of America? Why is she unwilling to disclose her tax returns?
God DAMN American Media. With a few exceptions, notably KO, they seem to be trying to steal viewers from FOX Noise.
The existence of Hagee is enough to convince me that there is no “God”
Marge @ 4:
When did Keith Olbermann trash Hillary for being a woman? I thought it was her campaign he criticized for, among other things, appealing to racists.
As Dr. Matt pointed out, the author of this post is a woman.
Obama has had to face daily lying about himself and his record. Have you entirely missed Clinton saying she has the “white vote” and therefore appeals to a broader base and is more electable? Never mind the fact, that Hillary used to have a majority of the black vote until she began appealing to racism. Maybe you also missed the point of this post, that Obama has had to face the MSM machine’s 24/7 manufactured “Wright controversy,” while McCain gets a free pass. Or the manufactured controversy over Obama’s so-called ties to the Weatherman and indicted Rezko. While Hillary’s many shady deals, Whitewater anyone and fraudster Norman Hsu, have gone unmentioned.
I’ve noticed a lot more racism coming from Hillary’s campaign and the usual right-wing media spin aimed against Obama, than I’ve noticed sexism aimed at Hillary. I’m not saying there hasn’t been sexism, such as remarks about Hillary’s tears. But it pales in comparison to the racism and media coverage of non-issues about Obama. Flag pins anyone? Or how about Hamas supports Obama? Or is Obama a Muslim?
Actually, Rev Wright is in the majority.
only about 60 Million of the Earth’s 7 Billion people do not believe that America’s failed foreign policy was the root cause of 9-11.
Ahhhhhh…three of my favorite “power priests” with their usual message:
“There is one God. God happens not to be here at the moment, but, fortunately for all of us, He left me with a full set of instructions as to what He wants from us. So … listen carefully, and do exactly as I instruct you, or else you’ll be very, very sorry, for our God is a god of wrath who sees all transgressions and who plunges the disobedient into the pits of everlasting Hell!” The power priests require a God of Wrath, not a God of Love.”
All of you who worship the mean spirited, bearded, white robed dude sitting on a throne in the heavens keeping a list of who’s naughty or nice can have him. Yuck.
None of these so-called preachers has any solid Christian theology behind their extremely prejudiced statements. Solid Christian theology does NOT state that God punishes evildoers in this life and also happens to also punish good people who might be in the same town, etc. Christian theology posits that evil exists, whether in people or in forces of nature, and sometimes bad things happen to good people. This of course does not fit in with these wacko preachers’ propensity to condemn everyone whose lifestyle or values does not dovetail with theirs. But real theologians must be aghast every time one of these guys opens his foully un-Christian mouth.
The original Jesus hung out with people that the elite society thought were the dregs of the earth. If He walked the earth today, I think He would be with the homeless, the gays, the poor, minorities. I have a feeling He would condemn as Pharisees the Hagee, Falwell etc. types. I just don’t know why the mainstream media haven’t picked up on these guys as they have the Rev. Wright.
I remember when Canada legalized same-sex marriages and God was so angry he brought down his wrath by … uh … TURNING THEM INTO CANUCKS!
Apparently Hagee didn’t notice that the “Southern Decadence” event was canceled because news reports showed that there was a hurricane coming.
If God was going after them, he has really bad aim.
Unfortunately, with his base, these wild eyed ranting lunatics do good for McCain. That’s why he won’t repudiate! denounce! or condemn! them.
Right wing, fanatical, religeous extremists blame deadly weather phenomenom on God for the same reasons they reject the research and publishings of Charles Darwin… They do not understand even the most fundemental science behind it all.
Chico Hussein @ 40:
Speaking of which, I’m really glad they caught that Wizard in Florida. Making a toothpick disappear indeed!
Robin @ 38:
One would think that an all-powerful God would at least own a laser-guided scope for his wraths.
Off-Topic but .. another “heckuva job” in the breaking news:
Washington Post: Hezbollah Gunmen Seize Several Beirut Neighborhoods
Leslie [Hussein] @ 41: