More on John Hagee, Whose Endorsement McCain Was Honored to Accept

Yesterday I did a post on John Hagee, the Christianist nutjob who has endorsed John McCain's canidacy. Following Hagee's endorsement, McCain said, "All I can tell you is I'm very proud to have pastor Hagee's support." As you will recall, in the February 26th Democrat Debate, Barack Obama was put under extreme pressure by Tim Russert to repudiate Louis Farrakhan's endorsement. The same rule should apply to both the GOP and the Democrats and, therefore, the Hagee endorsement and McCain's embrace of it raise the question of whether MSNBC will devote coverage to them comparable to its coverage of the Farrakhan issue.

Obviously, if MSNBC was honest and unbiased, we should be hearing McCain grilled to reject Hagee's endorsement. Time will tell whether Russert is unbiased. If he fails to go after McCain on this issue, then Russert is admitting that (1) he is not unbiased, and (2) Hagee shows the true face of today's GOP. Meanwhile, here's more on the views of the man McCain is proud to have as a supporter (http://mediamatters.org/items/200802280018):

On the September 18, 2006, edition of National Public Radio's Fresh Air, host Terry Gross said to Hagee, "You said after Hurricane Katrina that it was an act of God, and you said 'when you violate God's will long enough, the judgment of God comes to you. Katrina is an act of God for a society that is becoming Sodom and Gomorrah reborn.' " She then asked, "Do you still think that Katrina is punishment from God for a society that's becoming like Sodom and Gomorrah?" Hagee responded:

HAGEE: All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are -- were recipients of the judgment of God for that. The newspaper carried the story in our local area that was not carried nationally that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing. I know that there are people who demur from that, but I believe that the Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the day of judgment. And I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.

Earlier in the program, Gross asked if Hagee believed that "all Muslims have a mandate to kill Christians and Jews," to which Hagee replied, "Well, the Quran teaches that. Yes, it teaches that very clearly."

Additionally, investigative journalist Sarah Posner noted in God's Profits: Faith, Fraud and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters (PoliPointPress, January 2008) that in his book What Every Man Wants in a Woman (Charisma House, 2005), Hagee wrote:

Do you know the difference between a woman with PMS and a snarling Doberman pinscher? The answer is lipstick. Do you know the difference between a terrorist and a woman with PMS? You can negotiate with a terrorist.