Hagee: too hot for McCain, just right for Lieberman
My loathing of Sen. Lieberman continues to grow and grow. The latest news is that Lieberman is the headline speaker at Pastor John Hagee’s 2008 Christians United For Israel Washington-Israel Summit. Hagee, of course, being the man who Sen. McCain had to disavow just last week after it was revealed that Hagee had some, uh, interesting things to say about Hitler and the Jews. To wit:
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.
So there’s that. To recap, Pastor Hagee thinks Hitler was sent by God to hunt the Jews and Sen. Liberman, WHO IS JEWISH, is speaking at his conference? And has defended him on Fox News? Really? J Street has a petition, go ahead and sign it, but sadly I don’t think it will make much of a difference. Lieberman, Hagee, and all the rest can’t go away soon enough.
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Update: Had to post this:
…Max Blumenthal observes that Joe Lieberman will speak before a not-really-pro-Israel-despite-what-they-say gathering sponsored by bigoted preacher John Hagee. Hagee, whose endorsement Lieberman’s friend John McCain rejected, is perhaps America’s most prominent advocate of a theodicy-based explanation for the Holocaust — in other words, the contention that six million Jews were asking for it. It’s repugnant that any Jew, let alone the first Jewish candidate for vice president, would lend his imprimatur to anything blessed by an apologist for the Holocaust.
Spencer Ackerman ladies and gentlemen, bringing the hot fire.
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