A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

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 Beth Wellington - Jun. 2, 2008

This is an interesting long account from a blogger who founded Talk2Action who says he alerted Americans to Hagee's Christian Zionism when he posted to YouTube May 15. This may be a bit of a stretch, as others wrote about Hagee on this topic before his post. There was, for instance a piece in Rolling Stone on May 1 (see link to page on Newstrust below.) And others may have a more nuanced description of the odd releationship between Hagee and Israel. See Steve Waldman of Beliefnet writing for the WSJ 's blog below. The writer, has, however, blogged extensively on Hagee and annotated his sermons. You can find his other material on this topic at http://www.talk2action.org/user/Bruce%20Wilson/stories

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