"John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to the Reverend, Adolph Hitler was a 'hunter,' sent by God, who was tasked with expediting God's will of having the Jews re-establish a state of Israel.
Going in and out of biblical verse, Hagee preached: ''And they the hunters should hunt them,' that will be the Jews. 'From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.' If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the holocaust you can't see that.'"
May 21, 2008
Blech
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It was interesting last night to see how the commentators on MSNBC were simultaneously discounting Hagee, criticizing McCain as lightly as possible, and still trying to take shots at Obama about Rev. Wright.
One Republican commentator was arguing that while McCain made a poor choice in soliciting Hagee's endorsement, this is simply evidence of how little comfort and familiarity he has with evangelicals. Probably a good point, and it may have scored with those who support McCain ca. 2000 when he was open about his antipathy to the religious right.
Another was saying that Hagee is basically a nobody anyway and it's not like He's McCain's personal mentor and pastor of 20 years. A nobody with a wide-ranging broadcast and a 17,000 member church whose the support McCain actively sought for over a year, but a nobody nonetheless, apparently.
Had there just been one more person to blame the Jews and explain how Fox News was founded to destroy Islam it would have been the Triple Crown. Overall, it's just more evidence that the sillier you are the more likely you are to get on a TV news panel.
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