Crazies Make Up

John Hagee, the Jabba the Hutt-like evangelical pastor and John McCain supporter, has issued a letter of apology to The Catholic League's Bill Donohue for calling the Catholic church the "great whore" and for suggesting it colluded with Adolf Hitler. Hagee says he's spoken to several Catholic leaders and friends who have educated him about the anti-Catholic origins of those remarks, and he will be more sensitive in the future. You'd think a pastor would have some understanding of the Catholic church, no matter what religion he blusters for, but you'd be holding these people to some kind of intellectual standard. That fact of the matter is that the Catholic church did not collude with Hitler--they just looked the other way. This apology becomes more absurd when you realize that The Catholic League isn't so much a league proper as it is one red-faced lunatic with access to a home PC. In other words, it's just Bill Donohue. So while these two insignificant human whales slobber all over each other, John McCain still hasn't felt the political pressure he should feel over accepting an endorsement from a know-nothing windbag like Hagee. While appearing on ABC's This Week, McCain said he condemns any "remarks that are, in any way, viewed as anti-anything." I'm still waiting for comment from the Jewish Anti-defamation League on McCain's seeming embrace of defamation. More details here.