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 Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The story has a tinge of self-agrandisement, but shows perhaps some of the effect of bloggers in the world of new media. It includes a few factoids that were new to me, such as Hagee advocating an armed attack against Iran, that might help explain McCain's enchantment with the odd fellow. The bit about Henry Ford putting anti-jewish literature in cars as they left the factory is interesting. The most worthwhile observation is the free pass that the right wing corporate press gives to religious nut cases who use contorted holy writings to support racial hate positions.

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