We didn’t think anything could top Glenn Beck’s hypocrisy over Governor Andrew Cuomo’s statement that “extreme conservatives … have no place in the state of New York” but, of course, we were wrong, as we always are whenever we think that the Religious Right has reached its nadir.
To remind us of our folly was none other than Matthew Hagee, who used yesterday’s broadcast of “The Hagee Hotline” to blast Cuomo for his comments.
Falsely asserting that Cuomo made the remarks duing his State of the State address (they were actually made during a radio interview), Hagee compared Cuomo’s statement to George Wallace’s attacks on those fighting for civil rights as well as the dehumanization and murder of millions by the likes of Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler:
To hear Hagee tell it, it is extremely dangerous when leaders begin declaring that people who do not share their particular views have no place in their own nation … and keep in mind that Hagee’s own father has used this very same sort of language, declaring on multiple occasions that atheists are not wanted in America and should get out of this country:
