More Liberal Lies From Artvoice
I have to admit that I occasionally will pick up a copy of Artvoice, I can’t help myself sometimes. I pick up the horribly liberal rag to see just how nonsensical their political commentaries are. Last week’s issue certainly lived up to expectations with this article by Bruce Fisher.
Hillary Clinton bravely accepted Geraldine Ferraro’s resignation after the woman from the first Mondale campaign said some no-no’s about race.
Barack Obama bravely accepted his preacher’s resignation after the learned reverend was revealed as a paranoid who believes that AIDS was invented by the government to kill black people.
Nobody has yet heard “Straight Talk Express” John McCain denounce his Texas preacher, the one who calls the Catholic Church “whore” and “beast” and who instructs us that a unilateral declaration of war against Iran is divinely ordained. But given time, the bravest candidate of all will, one presumes, gird his loins and say “Go.”
Actually, John McCain did denounce John Hagee’s anti-Catholic comments earlier this month.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday repudiated any views of a prominent televangelist who endorsed him last month “if they are anti-Catholic or offensive to Catholics.”
McCain has come under fire since televangelist John Hagee endorsed him on Feb. 27, but until Friday his response had been tepid. The Arizona senator merely said he doesn’t agree with everyone who endorses him. He said Friday he had been hearing from Catholics who find Hagee’s comments offensive.
What Fisher also fails to realize (or chooses to ignore in order to make a political attack) is Geraldine Ferraro had an official position with Hillary’s campaign. Jeremiah Wright not only had an official position in Barack Obama’s campaign, but was also Obama’s pastor for twenty years, officiated his wedding, and baptized his kids. Ferraro resigned to protect Hillary’s campaign. Wright resigned to protect Obama’s campaign. Those were not acts of bravery. They were done out of political necessity. Contrary to Fisher’s claim, Hagee is not McCain’s pastor. Hagee may have endorsed McCain, but he held no position in the campaign, so there was no resignation to accept. And McCain certainly didn’t have a 20-year relationship with Hagee as Barack Obama did with Jeremiah Wright (though Obama did conveniently and coincidentally did not attend church every single time Wright made an anti-American, anti-Semitic, or anti-white sermon.)
Jeremiah Wright was (and still is) a legitimate problem for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Fisher may be disappointed that Hagee endorsing McCain isn’t hurting him as much as Obama’s long time association with a black supremacist, anti-American and anti-semitic preacher is hurting him… but that doesn’t mean it’s okay for him to lie about McCain’s denunciation of Hagee, or to falsely claim that Hagee is McCain’s pastor.
Matt Margolis is co-author (with Mark Noonan) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Blogs For Victory. Follow Matt on Twitter.