Dear Newt Gingrich, Your Ally John Hagee is a Jew-Bashing, Demon-Casting Exorcist

[Shallah Kali]

"I went down there and joined this church. We were taught to vomit demons into bags. It was a very, very weird situation." -- Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, on his experiences at John Hagee's San Antonio Cornerstone Church

"Last night at Cornerstone Church we were privileged to have, as our speaker, Newt Gingrich. He gave a wonderful delivery of the theme, 'Rediscovering God in America.' " -- John Hagee

Does Newt Gingrich know that pastor John Hagee, whose San Antonio Cornerstone Church Gingrich recently gave a speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDQRAt7J9s at, has promoted a variant of Hitler's favorite anti-Jewish conspiracy theory, that Rothschild bankers control the world economy and are scheming against the common folk? Does presidential hopeful Gingrich know that Hagee claims cops across America are conspiring with satanists who ritually slaughter babies as sacrifices to the devil? Does he know Hagee is an avowed exorcist who claims to have cast out a demon from a woman with the face of a cat?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoxoeBgcPro


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Though you, dear reader, may not be aware of it, exorcism in America is really quite common these days, ubiquitous even. Indeed, in early 2001, at his inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral, newly installed President George W. Bush received the blessing of a well-practiced exorcist who a few years earlier had endorsed the theory that the early 1990's downturn in the Japanese stock market happened because the Japanese emperor had ritual sexual intercourse with a sky-goddess who, as the theory went, may have been a succubus.

more information: posts on Hagee @ RightWingWatch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/john-hagee

[snagglepuss]

1. Come again. John Hagee a jew basher? He is anything but that. Israel

doesn't have a stronger supporter than Hagee.

[DCKit]

2. Your lack on knowledge about WHY they support Israel is shocking...

for anyone on DU... or the Internets.

It's not the peoples of Israel, it's the Armageddon... once they're all there.

[skepticscott]

4. Exactly

They are convinced that the End Times cannot come until the people of israel are in full control of the Holy Land. But once they start getting Rapturized, they won't give a flying frack what happens to anyone who's not a fundy Christian.

[snagglepuss]

5. The end times BS is just a cover. If Hagee is such a antisemite why does

someone like Elie Wiesel stand by him?

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Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel doesn't mind standing with Hagee. Wiesel spoke before some 6,000 people Sunday night in San Antonio at one of the "Night to Honor Israel" events that are put on each year by Hagee's group, Christians United For Israel. The group has raised millions of dollars for Israeli and Jewish charities since it was founded three years ago.


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But Wiesel has been linked with Hagee before Sunday, when John Hagee Ministries presented $9 million for Israeli and Jewish causes. The event was at Hagee's Cornerstone Church, where video and photos show people waving American and Israeli flags.

Sunday evening, Wiesel talked about how touching it is, amid anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment in the world, to see thousands of Christians standing with Israel.


http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/godingovernment/2009/10/hagee_too_hot_for_mccain_to_handle_but_ok_for_elie_wiesel.html

[DCKit]

6. Maybe because those freaks support the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank?

Geez, I don't know.

[COLGATE4]

8. Why is it a 'cover'? Cover for what? The fact that Elie Weisel

seems to believe in his new BFF Hagee doesn't make him a spokesperson for all, or even most Jews. Certainly there are any number of slightly more cynical Israelis who are welcome to receive Hagee's bonanza without actually believing for a second that Hagee has any interest in their wellbeing.

[Shallah Kali]

10. Exactly so. Once Armageddon comes they convert or die

so they either cease to be Jews or die and die horribly. People like Hagee don't love the Jews, they love Israel so they can get the End Times triggered. They love Jews like a fisherman loves bate.

[COLGATE4]

7. Oh come on. The only reason Hagee 'supports' Isreal is that

he believes that the existence of the Jewish state is an indispensable precondition to the arrival of Armageddon. His dispensionalism requires that after the great battle to follow 144,000 Jews will be left alive in order to witness Jesus' triumphant return and ascendancy. (Of course, once Jesus is back, all those Jews are required to convert to Christianity. Those who don't will be 'cast into a lake of fire'). With 'friends' like Hagee, jews certainly don't need any enemies.

[Zoeisright]

13. Supporting Israel doesn't mean you can't be a bigot.

These assholes support Israel because of the prophecies in Revelations. They hate anyone who isn't a white, wealth male.

[LeftishBrit]

14. That's not because he likes Jews; it's because he finds Israel a useful prop for the End Times.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. And how is Hagee differnt from Donnie McClurkin?

Please explain. Thanks. Do you think it is alright to slander minorities if you stick to teh gay or what? McClurkin calls us vampires, says we try to kill children, and because of those things, he urges Christians to wage unhindered war upon us. He was surrogate to Barack Obama in 08. And yet, no qualms there while tying McCain to Hagee. McCain actually severed those ties when scandal broke out. Obama said that the hate speakers were 'good,decent and moral people' and said they would always be at his table, speaking as they wish.
So. Hagee. McClurkin. Different how?

[howaboutme]

9. You can't watch a Hollywood movie, turn on a radio, or read a newspaper without

seeing full fledged Muslim bashing and no one says diddly squat. It is constant and I submit it is deliberate propaganda. But you rarely ever hear complaints because someone is "bashing the Muslims".

Hagee is a paid off hack who knows where his bread is buttered and it is doubtful he ever bashed anyone but the Muslims. If it was Jews it was only by way of politics.

[classysassy]

11. The cycle continues

First it was the Native Americans(Indians),then the Blacks,the Asians,the Mexicans now it's the Arabs turn to be demonetize by American media and their cousins in Europe.

[LeftishBrit]

15. He bashes Muslims, Jews, Catholics, gays, etc.

Just about everyone outside his narrow group.

[yurbud]

12. Would Newt care even if he knew? It's not about agreeing with their beliefs, it's about

corraling the votes of the mouth-breathers in his church.