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Just How Crazy IS McCain Supporter John Hagee?

The Hate Talk Express keeps rolling
 
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How crazy is John Hagee -- the anti-Catholic, antisemitic, anti-Muslim, anti-gay evangelical preacher who serves as official Louis Farrakhan to the John McCain campaign?

In a sermon on the coming Russo-Arab invasion of Israel (and really, what's theApocalypse: The goal of the McCain-Hagee campaignApocalypse: The goal of the McCain-Hagee campaign difference between Russians and Arabs when you think about it?), which will drown the Jewish state in rivers of blood, Hagee bolsters his prophecy with some (to put it mildly) tendentious biblical interpretation, and ominously warns that if the US helps facilitate Israel-Palestinian peace, we, too, will be subject to divine wrath. Concluding his exposition of God's plan for middle Eastern politics, Hagee does the Lord's work of parting fools from their money. And he's got a unique marketing tool, namely this more than a little cracked take on symbolism of the one dollar bill:

George Washington wanted to do something to honor the Jewish people, so he put a tribute on the American dollar. It’s over the head of the eagle, it’s to the Jewish people. Right over the head of the American eagle is the star of David – that’s a six-pointed star. Around that star is the shekinah glory of god that’s a starbust. The shekinah glory of God that dwelt over the tabernacle. If you turn it upside-down this is the menorah – the flames of the menorah that are lifting up. For all of you who are now reaching for a dollar bill, we’ll take an offering in just a moment and receive every one of them.

Just as Moses, our Orthodox friends would tell us, wrote the very Bible that describes his death, I suppose it's possible that Washington designed the original greenback. But he would have had to do so from beyond the grave, since the buck went into circulation in 1862 featuring a portrait of the distinctly goyish Salmon P. Chase. Also, the menorah Hagee descries on the back of the bill --- no kidding --- is the eagle's tail-feathers.

So a preacher who blames the historical persecution of Jews on the Jews themselves for their refusal to accept Jesus, who propagates the Whore-of-Babylon strain of anti-Catholic bigotry, who sees Muslims as mindless killers, and blames buggery for natural disasters, is actively lobbying the government to adopt policies whose announced goal is to bring about the end of the world, and in particular, the annihilation of the Jewish state. This same ridiculous, hateful figure has the ear of a major party presidential candidate, and the support of senior legislative officials like Joe Lieberman.

One would think that John McCain's slobbery embrace of Hagee and his subsequent, chickenshit non-disavowal, would merit some media attention. One would be wrong. According to Steve Benen, the "combined number of articles" on McCain and Hagee "from the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe is zero." So, at least until Hagee puts on blackface, it looks like he's going to get a pass.



 

Anonymous


Hagee endorsed McCain but

Hagee endorsed McCain but did not become an advisor.





Anonymous


Hagee gets a pass because

Hagee gets a pass because he has AIPAC and ADL/Abe Foxman's seal of approval?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7p7o4f4Asg 





Phantom


He forgot to mention that

He forgot to mention that the upside down menorah is above an encrypted image of a naked George Washington engaging in erotic wax play.

That this unrejected/undenounced endorsement by a cook has slipped under the radar of the American public is maddening.





naftali


That's Because the Cook

never gets into radar range. I see him, I see his hair, I move to the next channel. I've never even waited for him to completely form a word. South Park won't even deal with him. And if I recall, Farrakahn was just as small a blip until the Million Man March. Then he was on the radar. Hagee is going to have to get caught with at least two hookers to make news. One hooker is dog bites man.

I think in this situation, cynicism is the way to proceed.





Christopher R.


Retort to your hate-filled screed

Farrakahn is a big deal because the ADL and other Jewish groups have made him a big deal.  Ask any ol' shmuck on the street, even a dopy goy like myself:  The first and only thing you hear about Louie F. is that he is anti-semitic (true enough).  One never hears the rest of the story--that he really, really, really hates whites of all stripes, including the gentile ones.  But then how many Jews care if the guy preaches anti-goy hatred?  [Rhetorical question]

This Hagee sounds like a complete loon, but if you're gonna turn him into a Farrakahn, you'll need to explain why "anti-semites" like him always push for the US to continue pumping billions and billions of American cash and umpteen tons of freeby weapons into Israel and always scream that the US must continue its one-sided Middle East policies.  Who cares about this dope's prophetic lunacy when he's making sure that America's poor are bankrolling Israel?  Talk about forcing fools to part with their money....

Oh, and thanks for the mighty generous defense of Catholicism--there's a first time for everything and it's about high time considering all the smears against the Church made by many (though of course not all) Jews.  Case in point:  His Holiness Pope Benedict has been getting vilified by Jews and gentiles alike simply because he happened to grow up in Nazi Germany (in an anti-Nazi household by the way).  Or is he under attack simply because there isn't enough tolerance of other people's religions?  Feel the irony!

 

 





naftali


I'm Not Sure You Fully Appreciate Irony

Irony is that at the same time Jews are fully aware of the history between the Catholic Church and Jews, we don't really like to see this kind of bigotry--in the same way surgeons don't like to see people suffer, yet the ER and surgical units fill themselves with black humor to make life bearable.

We do care if someone preaches hatred towards 'goys'. It just so happens that if someone is preaching hatred against 'goys' they are probably combining it in a salad of hatred. We will take care of ourselves, and figure you can do the same.

Israel also has a good economy, they produce a great deal of innovation in medicine, high tech, and agriculture. We are not bankrolling them, although we are helping their army to withstand the attempts at wholesale destruction. Nevertheless, Israeli expertise also helps the US fight terrorism.

That's not to say we don't have our share of idiots. Go to any synagogue board meeting. For some reason they all show up there the way tornadoes hit trailer parks. But that history is there, between Catholics and Jews, and it's got to be addressed. There are many Catholic and Jewish organizations dedicated to that very principle.

So it would seem that ironically, you've read us wrong. Feel that.





unspun


Hagee is not a threat -- he stands athwart the threat

Trying to twist the pro-Israel, pro-Jewish sentiments of John Hagee into something threatening is quite an effort.  Experienced taffy pullers might help, I suppose.  Now if you want to find threatening behavior, just look at nearly every other continent of the world than North America (or at the anti-zionist left, that are here).





Zionist


"Jewcy" is more of a threat to Jews than Hagee.

Hagee might be wrong on a lot of issues but he speaks the truth about Muslims and the need for Israel to protect it's citizens.  Hagee has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Sderot and poor Jewish communities in Israel.  He has also been a strong supporter of Israel while most American Jews cower in the corner like wimps.

The attacks against Hagee are a tactic to steer away attention from all the anti-semitic friends of Obama.  Obama supporters are getting scared about all the contoversey surrounding Obama and his anti-semitic pastor.  In the end it won't matter because Obama is finished.  His carefully crafted mask has been peeled off and now we know what Obama stands for. 





ChevyNazi


As I've said before

Jews should not waste their energy of Hagee's remarks about catholics. If Jews want to vent on behalf of catholics vent for the catholics that are being persecuted in places like China, Cuba, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.