It was a dark horse, out of nowhere, out of the blue, slamming into a cushy John McCain/John Hagee embrace and knocking both into a big vat of stinking manure called "God sent Hitler."
MSNBC's "The Verdict" went so far, in discussing my video and its "shocking"audio that the show used a graphic of John Hagee's grinning face next to an image of Der Fuehrer...
As far as I'm aware it was, dollar for dollar, one of the most successful campaigns in history: it was free.
For several years now, I have been tracking and studying the covert aspects of Christian Zionism but today an anonymous source--a devoted and concerned student of the spread of anti-Semiticideas within American pop-culture and religious culture --sent to me a product, currently sold at Barnes and Noble bookstores, that suggests the historically covert anti-Semitism within American Christian Zionist culture is mutating, changing and entering a new phase: the anti-Semitism is becoming overt. The Christian Zionism of Tim Lahaye and of Senator John McCain's recently renounced political endorser Pastor John Hagee, which has traditionally perpetrated coded attacks on Jews while also declaring them to be blessed by God, especially if they move to Israel, may be entering a new and very dark phase.
Please return periodically, every 15 minutes, if you are interested in helping to pressure US Senator Joseph Lieberman to distance himself from CUFI, an organization that appears to incite terrorist attacks against the national security interests of the State of Israel, acts that are widely believed would trigger a Mideast regional war or even a World War. I am conferring with some relevant Jewish organizations on an appropriate course of action to publicly censure Senator Lieberman for his association with CUFI and John Hagee, who has publicly blamed Jews for the Holocaust and stated that God sent Hitler.
United States Senator Joseph Lieberman has called for banning "terrorist videos" from YouTube but Mr. Lieberman has failed to recognize that he has closely associated and allied himself with a group that has repeatedly and very publicly incited acts, against Israel, which the state of Israel considers acts of terrorism posing a security threat of the highest magnitude.
A few days ago, Max Blumenthal mentioned to me he was doing a story on Lieberman, Hagee and [by implication, because he's fully in the soup too, McCain]
The closer we can associated these three, given how toxic CUFI founder and apocalypse-booster Pastor John Hagee has suddenly become [who the heck knows why], the harder it will be for John McCain to get elected to the presidency.
[ACTION item 1]
Max Blumenthal has some deliciously scandalous news to impart. First - vote up Max's story on Digg , Buzz, Reddit so that it can get the proper mainstream media exposure it truly deserves :
[UPDATE: If you know of MORE instances, please post them in the comments section and I'll review to see if they should go into this timeline - Bruce Wilson]
Yesterday, John McCain renounced his political endorsement from Pastor John Hagee, and yesterday I was on the phone with what seemed at the time to be dozens of reporters, journalists, and network producers, talking about the details of one little video I'd made, a video which has come to trouble the presidential candidacy of Arizona Senator John McCain who once, it is said, was a maverick but who I have come to feel has lost his moral bearing. Now, a Google search on "Hagee,McCain,endorsement" pulls up over 1,000 news stories, both national and international, on John McCain's rejection of the political endorsements of John Hagee and Rod Parsley. And, a Google search that includes "Talk To Action", the website I co-founded in late 2005 with Frederick Clarkson and which centrally helped make this possible, produces over 230 news stories.
[UPDATE: If you haven't already, you can vote this up on DIGG - best, Bruce Wilson
I'm adding some new material to this presently, but to begin with :
My title is clinically accurate. Why ? Well, the joyful song John Hagee's "Christians United For Israel" sing at every CUFI/"Night To Honor Israel" event I've seen is actually, according to Hagee's own commentary in his "John Hagee Prophecy Bible", a celebration of the expected invasion and destruction of Israel which, say a number of leaders of John Hagee's CUFI, will amount to "another", a "second" or a "final"...
[UPDATE2: John Ministries appears to still sell the sermon my audio clip, in the video, was derived from! The sermon is the 3rd in the triptych, sold as a DVD by JHM Ministries for $55 ]
I just noticed that Sam Stein, on the Huffington Post, has picked up on my latest John Hagee video, which showcases an extended excerpt from a John Hagee sermon, which I believe to be (judging from its themes) from the late 1990's. Themes from the sermon were plied into John Hagee books published in 2001,2003 and 2006. The Huff Post story is, in turn on Digg.
[UPDATE: This is off-topic for this post (scroll down for Creationism/fake US history story), but there's another issue of transcendent importance, so here goes:
In an open letter to Admiral William J. "Fox" Fallon, whose recent resignation led to speculation about a possible impending US "preemptive" attack on Iran, 27-year CIA analyst Ray McGovern has just issued an open letter to Fallon imploring the Admiral to come out with what he knows about such possible US/Bush Administration plans.
Many of the same people who promote Creationism and fake US history are also the most tireless promoters of, you guessed it, a US war with Iran.
See the end of this post for more on that, and what you can do to help
Back in 2005, The Daily Show summed it up brilliantly:
Now, the facts are rolling in.
With Opposition To Gay Marriage, in Texas, Comes Miraculous Rise in STD's and Teen Pregnancy.
Back in 2006, on July 13, I covered the outcome of approaching two years of legalized gay marriage in Massachusetts: "Major leaders of the American religious right made predictions that same sex marriage would cause the decline or destruction of the traditional family and the institution of marriage...
I might have used any number of titles to describe this sermon by Pastor John Hagee, given in the late 1990's and then mass marketed as part of a book Hagee published in 2001 and republished in 2003, "The Battle For Jerusalem".
It could have titled it:
McCain's Hagee: God Sent Hitler, or...
Pastor Hagee says Jew Have Dead Souls. or...
Hagee says God mandates ethnic bantustan for Jews
I think all those titles would have been valid, point being:
Hagee says a LOT of horrible things. And, Hagee and McCain have given each other mutual endorsments.
McCain endorser John Hagee says Jews have dead souls. Literally. I'll stand by that because I've got John Hagee's very own "Prophecy Study Bible" - It's John Hagee's very own version of the Scofield Reference Bible, and so I can trace Hagee's Biblical, prophetic exegesis in minute detail. I'm writing that up at Talk To Action, to substantiate every last jot and tittle, so please take a look as it evolves, but first...
The following tragi-farcical video is built around a brief excerpt from Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee's 2001 55-minute film "Vanished", which followed the prophetic, premillennial plot line of Tim LaHaye's and Jerry Jenkin's "Left Behind" book and film series so closely that it was produced by the same company which had made the original "Left Behind" movie.
The 4 minute, 51 second video explores the association, made in the Hagee Ministries film, of Jews with homosexuality, abstract art, conspiracy, satanism, organized crime, and New York City and Europe as historic Jewish power-bases---all associations made in the infamous 1930's-era anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda film [perhaps one of the three most lethal works of anti-Jewish propaganda in modern history alongside The Protocols of The Elders of Zion and Henry Ford's "The International Jew"] that was produced with close supervision by Third-Reich arch-propagandist Joseph Goebbels and which some consider it to be, in effect, authored by Goebbels himself: "The Eternal Jew". "
[NOTE: this really isn't a joke, though it sounds like one]
The Bush family and GOP embrace of the religious right is at the least a pragmatic and personally profitable position, as George Bush Sr.'s recent hosting of a powerful cult leader, Sun Myung Moon, shows. But the Bush's are close to other ideologically extreme American religiious leaders, and in the summer of 2004, on June 12 after George Herbert Walker Bush celebrated his 80th birthday by parachuting into Houston's Minute Maid Park, after the day's celebratory hoopla was over, John McCain's controversial political endorser Pastor John Hagee, along with George W. Bush, George "Poppa" Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Larry King and Randy Travis made their way to an unknown, tackily decorated Asian restaurant, probably the sort of place with an ornate carved wooden door with dragons, the type of establishment that serves very strong fruity rum drinks in giant ceramic goblets sporting small tropical ceramic islands jutting out from fruity rum seas.
John McCain has joked about it by singing "Bomb Bomb Iran," at a VFW hall. Hillary Clinton has recently stated that, if she were elected the next US president and Iran launches a nuclear attack on Israel, the United States would "obliterate" Iran. Under the Bush Administration, United States nuclear doctrine has been rewritten to incorporate the offensive use of tactical nuclear weapons as large or larger than the 15-20 kiloton nuclear bomb that seared living humans in the nearly unspeakable manner shown in the newly released photographs I have posted here.
Israel is widely believed to possess not only a nuclear first strike but also a nuclear second strike ability. Thus, if Iran launched a nuclear attack on Israel, Israel would still be able to 'obliterate' Iran.
The United States is the only nation to have used nuclear weapons in war or against civilian populations. The following images are photographs taken after the US nuclear bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
A warning: the following images are extremely graphic and may be very disturbing:
Today on Meet The Press, Tim Russert suggested that the US is ready to hit Iran. Russert also brought up Clinton's "obliterate Iran" quote and asked Barack Obama what he thinks of Clinton's "nuclear umbrella" idea. [ Here's what I think the correct MTP clip is, here's the master MTP page I'm listening now for the key Russert quotes...
[getting audio - give me about 10-15 to get to the important stuff... ]
[NOTE - please feel free to paste the graphics in this post all over the internet. That's what they're for.]
Recently it has come to light that John Hagee declared "America is under the curse of God" but Hagee has also stated that, in the war he predicts will ensue after a US or Israeli attack on Iran, God may well punish the majority of Americans living, immolating them in a Russian nuclear strike on America's east and west coasts or devastating the United States with terrible natural disasters. The reason Hagee suggests for a possible divine nuking of the coasts ? - a failure, on the part of Americans living in those regions, to back the vigorous defense of Israel which Hagee claims will be necessary when Islamic and Russian armies march on the embattled nation, in the course of a war Hagee himself has advocated starting.
My real name is Bruce Wilson. I co-founded Talk to Action, a blog dedicated to the intersection of politics and religion, with Frederick Clarkson.
Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Larry King and Randy Travis made their way to an unknown, tackily decorated Asian restaurant, probably the sort of place with an ornate carved wooden door with dragons, the type of establishment that serves very strong fruity rum drinks in giant ceramic goblets sporting small tropical ceramic islands jutting out from fruity rum seas.
Recently it has 
