Why Won't McCain Repudiate And Denounce Ant-Semite Hagee?

John Hagee has already been exposed for his anti-gay and anti-Catholic sentiments. John McCain says he disagrees with some of his views yet continues to hold onto his endorsement. While Hagee has "apologized" about the Catholic comments, he stayed silent about hating gays and now we find out he hates Jews as well. How much does he hate them (me included!) you ask?

From The Huffington Post:

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."

He goes on: "Theodore Hertzel is the father of Zionism. He was a Jew who at the turn of the 19th century said, this land is our land, God wants us to live there. So he went to the Jews of Europe and said 'I want you to come and join me in the land of Israel.' So few went that Hertzel went into depression. Those who came founded Israel; those who did not went through the hell of the holocaust.

How dare this bastard talk about my great-grandparents like that. Fuck him! This sermon, even if it is ten years old, is disgusting and has no business in an open and religiously tolerant nation. Hagee is a sick bastard who belongs at a KKK rally, not standing behind John McCain and his Presidential bid. For McCain to keep this guy around is a slap in the face not only to Jews, but to any group persecuted by Hitler or any other dictator who has advocated and carried out instances of ethnic cleansing.

If McCain can kick a few lobbyists to the curb, he can do the same to this gasbag.

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On a somewhat related note, hear me rant about McCain and a few other things at 5:30EDT on Sirius' Indie Talk Ch. 110

Nazi Name Games

One of the most atrocious political leaders in recent times was Adolf Hitler. Stalin, Pol Pot and others are on the list. Yet Hitler is the most notorious for World War II and the holocaust of the Jews. Although that terrible time ended more than 60 years ago, people still evoke his name in the divisive political climate of today.

Dick Durbin was excoriated two years ago for comparing Guantanamo Bay to the camps of Hitler and Stalin by the Right Wing Noise Machine. The wingnuts made the statements into a huge deal, ultimately (and sadly) forcing the senior Illinois Senator to apologize for calling American torture policy into question. However when one of their own does it such as the notorious Tom Delay, the statements are quickly swept under the rug.

In this case the comparison is much more direct. In Tom's latest book, he compares the 'lies' of Democrats to the lies the Nazis perpetrated against the Jews. Of course Tom has yet to be acquitted by a jury other than his dwindling supply of sycophants. Nevertheless, he continues to open that ugly mouth of his.


From The Jewish Daily Forward:

Tom Delay is on a book tour — which explains why he stopped by the Forward offices Tuesday for a chat. More on that later.

The book, “No Retreat, No Surrender,” has generated a bunch of press, but it’s clear that Jewish Democratic activists haven’t read it. Or else they would have jumped all over this graff…

“I believe it was Adolf Hitler who first acknowledged that the big lie is more effective than the little lie, because the big lie is so audacious, such an astonishing immorality, that people have a hard time believing anyone would say it if it wasn’t true. You know, the big lie — like the Holocaust never happened or dark-skinned people are less intelligent than light-skinned people. Well, by charging this big lie” — that DeLay violated campaign-finance laws in Texas — “liberals have finally joined the ranks of scoundrels like Hitler.”

Shame on Tom for even trying to insinuate that Democrats are like Hitler. Adolf was a fascist of the worst kind that spread hateful messages about the Jews and other minorities in German society. Those messages of the 1920s and 30s turned into one of the worst human tragedies of the 20th century. That hate wiped out half of my own family in Germany, Poland and Hungary. The holocaust is serious business in my family and many others that have had their families brutally massacred by the Nazis. For anyone to give that man a single shred of credibility when it comes to deciding who tells the truth or not is simply insane.