Hagee and McCain
FauxNews is at the center of promoting the controversy about Rev. Wright and his relation to Barack Obama, but Wright got his crackpot theories from FauxNews. Meanwhile, the NYTimes focuses on John Hagee and John McCain, and serves up softballs, which Hagee still embarrasses himself with.
First, John Hagee endorsed John McCain, then John McCain accepted the endorsement, then McCain tried to mildly “denounce and reject” the hateful words of John Hagee. Yet FauxNews is all over Barack Obama, even though Rev. Wright got his crackpot theories from. . . FauxNews. Man! What a twisted story this has become. FauxNews anchors spatting, and Hannity denying his relation to a neo-Nazi. . . ZOUNDS!
Tomorrow we’ll get a story from the New YorkTimes where John Hagee says he was solicited for an endorsement by the John McCain campaign. Yes, John McCain wants hateful religious bigots supporting him. The interesting thing with the Hagee interview in theTimes tomorrow might be this phrase, taken from the preview piece from E & P:
Asked what he [Hagee] thinks of Obama, he answers, “He is going to be difficult to beat, because the man is a master of communication. If he were in the ministry, he would make it in the major leagues overnight.”
Yes, Hagee speaks a little truth in the interview, as hard as that is to imagine. He tells us in this metaphor he uses to describe Barack Obama just what he thinks of his own vocation — as entertainment and as a game. Hagee himself is in the “Major Leagues,” but I’m thinking he’s been using the steroids of hate to get ahead. Someone needs to check to see if Hagee comes up in the Balco trial transcripts.
For the record, we’ve had enough of Republicans and right wing radicals like John Hagee treating our political life as a “game.”. Oh, and has the IRS checked Hagee’s tax exempt status yet?
It is almost as if religious radicals and political endorsements are a strange new phenomena…man my head is spinning. I hope this Hagee thing gets more than just a by-line in the news. *fingers crossed awaiting disappointment*
We ought be more worried about the interrelationship The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Bang of Indecision 2008 (as it were) hath with Rev. Rod Parsley, perhaps the crudest hatemonger America may have seen since Father Charles Coughlin….