{"id":2536,"date":"2008-05-04T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T16:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2008-05-04T13:07:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T19:07:24","slug":"the-wacky-preachers-of-white-candidates-exhibit-a-b-john-hagee-and-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2008\/05\/04\/the-wacky-preachers-of-white-candidates-exhibit-a-b-john-hagee-and-john-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"The wacky preachers of white candidates. Exhibits A & B: John Hagee and John McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you bored by those endless replays of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? If so, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/04\/opinion\/04rich.html?_r=3&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=login&oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Rich of the NYT <\/a> recommends that we visit YouTube to search for \u201cJohn Hagee Roman Church Hitler,\u201d whereupon we will be “recharged by a fresh jolt of clerical jive.”<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What you\u2019ll find is a white televangelist, the Rev. John Hagee, lecturing in front of an enormous diorama. Wielding a pointer, he pokes at the image of a woman with Pamela Anderson-sized breasts, her hand raising a golden chalice. The woman is \u201cthe Great Whore,\u201d Mr. Hagee explains, and she is drinking \u201cthe blood of the Jewish people.\u201d That\u2019s because the Great Whore represents \u201cthe Roman Church,\u201d which, in his view, has thirsted for Jewish blood throughout history, from the Crusades to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hagee is perhaps best known for trying to drum up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?articleId=11541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-emptive \u201choly war\u201d with Iran<\/a>. and see Max Blumenthal’s behind the scenes video where you’ll get the real flavor for <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2007\/07\/26\/creepy-religion-mixed-with-creepy-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">what drives Rev. John Hagee’s followers. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rich argues that Barack Obama is being picked on unfairly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mr. McCain instead told George Stephanopoulos two Sundays ago that while he condemns any \u201canti-anything\u201d remarks by Mr. Hagee, he is still \u201cglad to have his endorsement.\u201d I wonder if Mr. McCain would have given the same answer had Mr. Stephanopoulos confronted him with the graphic video of the pastor in full \u201cGreat Whore\u201d glory. But Mr. McCain didn\u2019t have to fear so rude a transgression. Mr. Hagee\u2019s videos have never had the same circulation on television as Mr. Wright\u2019s. A sonorous white preacher spouting venom just doesn\u2019t have the telegenic zing of a theatrical black man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you bored by those endless replays of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? If so, Frank Rich of the NYT recommends that we visit YouTube to search for \u201cJohn Hagee Roman Church Hitler,\u201d whereupon we will be “recharged by a fresh jolt of clerical jive.” What you\u2019ll find is a white televangelist, the Rev. John Hagee, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,1594,42,43],"tags":[1798,220,1857,432,6439,1855,6431,1856,1481],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-snake-oil","category-the-middle-east","category-war","tag-hagee","tag-iran","tag-new-york-times","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-preemptive","tag-religion","tag-rich","tag-wright","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}