Joseph Lieberman To Headline Upcoming Pastor Hagee Summit

The Huffington Post

by Max Blumenthal

Senator Joseph Lieberman is scheduled to headline Pastor John Hagee’s 2008 Christians United For Israel Washington-Israel Summit this July 22. In accepting Hagee’s invitation, Lieberman became the most senior elected representative confirmed to appear at the annual gala. Last year, when Lieberman spoke at Hagee’s summit, he compared the Texas televangelist to the biblical prophet Moses, dubbing him “an Ish Elochim,” or “a man of God.” Unless he rescinds his pledge to appear at this year’s summit, Lieberman can be expected to deliver another soul-stirring tribute.

Read on….

John McCain has denounced Pastor Hagee, but Joe Lieberman, who has been attached to McCain’s elbow on his campaign trail (and rumored to be McCain’s pick for VP), apparently has not. What’s up with that?

How extreme is Hagee? And how cozy are he and Lieberman? Watch this video by Bruce Wilson of Talk2Action.org to find out.

Previous posts on Pastor John Hagee:

McCain accepts endorsement from Pastor John Hagee..

Bill Moyers Journal: More on Christians United for Israel

Had enough Hagee? Here’s some more.

Meet Reverend Hagee

Had enough Hagee? Here’s some more..

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Huffington Post:

McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God’s Will (AUDIO) – Sam Stein

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.

Going in and out of biblical verse, Hagee preached: “‘And they the hunters should hunt them,’ that will be the Jews. ‘From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.’ If that doesn’t describe what Hitler did in the holocaust you can’t see that.”

He goes on: “Theodore Hertzel is the father of Zionism. He was a Jew who at the turn of the 19th century said, this land is our land, God wants us to live there. So he went to the Jews of Europe and said ‘I want you to come and join me in the land of Israel.’ So few went that Hertzel went into depression. Those who came founded Israel; those who did not went through the hell of the holocaust.

“Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. And the Bible says — Jeremiah writing — ‘They shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and from the holes of the rocks,’ meaning there’s no place to hide. And that might be offensive to some people but don’t let your heart be offended. I didn’t write it, Jeremiah wrote it. It was the truth and it is the truth. How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.”

Why is John McCain getting a free pass here? The corporate media looped Rev. Wright ad nauseum for weeks. Why hasn’t McCain condemned these words from this nut, and distanced himself? According to a guest speaking to Olbermann on Countdown (MSNBC) tonight, John McCain actually seeked out the endorsement of Pastor Hagee for an entire year before he got the endorsement.

Is McCain just as nuts as Hagee? Is he THAT desperate for votes? Does he really stand by this guy’s teachings?

Where is the media on this?

I’ll add the video from Countdown as soon as it goes up.