A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

Religion Dispatches by Bruce Wilson | Jun. 2, 2008 (Special Report)

On may 15, 2008 I posted a short video on Youtube of Pastor John Hagee, assembled with the free iMovie software that came with my three-year-old MacBook [view the video at the end of this article--ed.]. In just a few days Americans began to absorb the reality that Republican presidential candidate John McCain had sought and accepted an endorsement from a religious leader who'd asserted a divine mandate for the Holocaust and claimed that Jews themselves ... Full Story »

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 by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion piece has minimal journalistic value. The author takes a minor issue, and tries but fails to make it into a major issue. The author did not do the research needed to write credibly on what he calls the Christian Right. The author does not realize that tens of thousands of pastors have become supporters of one candidate or another, while in many cases holding far more extreme views than those claimed in this report. And he neglects to point out Rev Hagee's strong support for Israel.

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