Gingrich Says McCain Should Condemn Only Hagee’s Anti-Catholic Comments, Ignores Hagee’s Homophobia
Gingrich Says McCain Should Condemn Only Hagee’s Anti-Catholic Comments, Ignores Hagee’s Homophobia
Appearing on Fox News’s Hannity and Colmes last night, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich defended Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) ties to radical pastor John Hagee, who has repeatedly said that Hurricane Katrina was “the curse of God” for a gay-pride parade planned for New Orleans later that week. Hagee has also called the Catholic Church “the Great Whore” and a “false cult system.”
Host Alan Colmes pressed Gingrich on whether McCain — who said just last Sunday that he was “glad to have” Hagee’s endorsement — should repudiate the pastor for his homophobic suggestion about Katrina. Gingrich completely ignored Hagee’s anti-gay remarks to say that McCain has sufficiently rejected Hagee’s anti-Catholic remarks:
COLMES: John Hagee just told Dennis Prager on his radio show that New Orleans was cursed because they were about to hold a gay pride parade. He has already bad-mouthed the Catholic Church. He has called it the great whore, anti-Christ and things like that. Should we make sure that John McCain repudiates that to a greater extent?
GINGRICH: Let me point out, when this came up, questions were raised for Senator McCain. He was very clear. He repudiates any anti-Catholicism. He repudiates any kind of vicious comments. And McCain was quite clear about it. … So I think, Alan, you are grabbing at straws here. … I think McCain should be clear that he disagrees with statements of anti-Catholicism.
Watch it:
Gingrich tried to say that McCain was taking “the Ronald Reagan position” that “people get to endorse me. I’m not endorsing them.” Yet, as Colmes pointed out, McCain actively sought Hagee’s endorsement. Moreover, McCain has been anything but “very clear” on his views of Hagee, first distancing himself, then defending Hagee, then flip-flopping within a matter of seconds.
In the past, Gingrich has been similarly cavalier about homophobia. In an interview with right-winger John Lofton, Gingrich said “you have to” believe “homosexuality is a sin,” adding, “I think that if you believe the Bible then it’s fairly clear.” Though he said he didn’t “want to be judgmental about others,” Gingrich stated he opposes the right of gay people to marry or adopt children — an extreme position, considering that only one state, Florida, bans all forms of gay adoption.
(HT: Newshounds)
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Gingrich and Bush are both Dead Beats, and further more both are sorry as whale sh$t. And that’s at the botton of the ocean.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:00 pmWhy anyone pays much attention to Mr. GinRick is a continuing mystery. Mr. “FamilyValues” GinRick appears to be an intellectual in his own mind and is obviously the leading believer in his own bullshit. He’s actually a leading repukeican hypocrite…remember he was stepping out on his wife at the same time he was harping about B. Clinton. I remember.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:06 pm“if you believe in the Bible…”
you mean if you acknowledge as valid the wildly exaggerated genetic and eschatological ravings of a bunch of neo-lithic shepherds?
i’ll pass, thanks
April 24th, 2008 at 9:07 pmOne never really knows about Republicans these days, Ole Newtie might be “A little light in the loafers himself!”
April 24th, 2008 at 9:08 pmYes, we will be hearing about McBush a lot. If you want to know McBush, go over to the Daily Howler (they have a great archive)
http://dailyhowler.com/h022400_1.shtml
and read about the 2000 election campaign against Bush. It is about whether he is really a “straight shooter” as the media portrays him. (And as they are portraying him today.) Here is an excerpt on his problem with abortion. He has not changed a bit:
Whoa, Nelly! First Lars-Erik Nelson fielded a call saying McCain had lied about Bush’s budget (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 2/23/00). A short while later, Nelson heard this, from a caller supporting The Dub:
BRIAN LAMB: The last caller suggested that John McCain looks you in the eye and tells you the truth all the time. What’s your experience with George Bush?
CALLER: “…I hear McCain saying, “I’m a straight-talker,” and yet on my issue, which is pro-life, unlike your last caller from Charleston, I’ve heard McCain say, straight in the eye, that if he were given the option to overturn Roe v. Wade he would not do it, “in the short term nor the long term,” then I’ve seen him look us straight in the eye and say he would overturn Roe v. Wade. I’ve heard him look us straight in the eye and say that his daughter, his minor daughter, if she were pregnant, that it would be her choice, then I’ve heard him look us straight in the eye and say the opposite.”
Gulp. As with the previous caller, the lady’s comments struck us as fair. McCain gave a speech in San Francisco this summer, declaring he would not repeal Roe v. Wade, and when an outcry from the right ensued, he quickly reversed his position. Asked (inappropriately) about his daughter, he wandered all about the town, saying first it would be his daughter’s choice, then saying it would be a family decision. Neither answer seems to jibe real well with his claim to be pro-life. Even Nelson, who’s partial to McCain, had to admit that the caller had a point:
NELSON: McCain has been all over the lot on abortion. It’s a difficult issue. He’s obviously not a true believer in the way that Gary Bauer was or that Alan Keyes was.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:09 pmThe 2000 campaign will give us tremendous ammunition to use against McBush in the general. He was abused by the Rove machine and all of it is still very accessible.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:12 pmOh, ‘mister having an affair’ while condemning Clinton for an affair had something to say about something…yawn…FY Newt.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:19 pmDidn’t real journalists used to pay attention to Newtzi way back in the last century?
FOX News = Celebrity Apprentice
April 24th, 2008 at 9:26 pmCome on, it’s Newt Gingrich.
**eyes rolling**
April 24th, 2008 at 9:31 pmStill absent from the media discussion about John McCain and his supporter the End-Times Pastor Hagee is the question of conflict with Iran. Given his own tough talk toward Tehran, does John McCain agree with Pastor John Hagee that war with Iran is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy?
Hagee in 2006:
“The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God’s plan for both Israel and the West…a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ.”
For the details, see:
April 24th, 2008 at 11:24 pm“McCain, Hagee and the Media’s Missing Question on War with Iran.”
Why would he condemn Hagee’s homophobia? It was obviously the homosexuals that caused the destruction of New Orleans.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:35 am.
So,
God damned America then, still…?
Or did God just damn NOLA, because we all know that bastion of sin isn’t a part of America… YES?
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April 25th, 2008 at 1:18 amWhen we look at the Bible Belt, it seems to follow the Tornado Belt.
Could that be God saying he hates the people who have hijacked the Bible to support their prejudices? Hmmm. . . .
April 25th, 2008 at 11:23 amNewt, noun:
April 25th, 2008 at 2:58 pmThe Newt is an amphibian of the Salamandridae family, order Urodela or Caudata, found in North America, Europe, and Asia. Their eggs are laid singly in ponds or slow-moving streams, attached to aquatic plants. This distinguishes them from the free-floating eggs of frogs, that are laid in clumps, or toads, that are laid in strings. The larvae leave the water as a terrestrial form called an eft, returning to the water when mature to live or to breed. The adult form has a lizard-like body and is either aquatic or semi-aquatic.
Newt Gingrich is a failed Congressman with a grudge who cheats on his wives. Not the kind whose opinion is work have a chunk of cowpie to me.
April 25th, 2008 at 6:17 pmHey,
Newt is the real expert at this right?
Thats why he is like the plague when it comes to running for the GOP nomination himself.
The guy is like residual cancer causing radiation.
Gret choice of a go to guy. Not to mention his great personal examples of family values with marraige.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:20 pmHey,
Newt is the real expert at this right?
Thats why he is like the plague when it comes to running for the GOP nomination himself.
The guy is like residual cancer causing radiation.
Gret choice of a go to guy. Not to men
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