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Will mccain answer questions about his pastor? ... or is the question: will he be asked any?

John McCain, 71, is in New Orleans today, and we wonder if the adoring media will ask him about his pastor, Christian Zionist, Reverend John Hagee, the fanatical owner/operator of Cornerstone, a megachurch in the Texas Hill Country.

Hagee is a fat televangelist who claims to be God's Armageddon mouthpiece against The Gay, the Catholics, and the sinners, e.g.,everyone else who's not a Christian exactly like him.

Although McCain actually solicited his endorsement, no Pastor Wright-style wall-to-wall-coverage has arisen. Could it be because the national press corps have sleep-overs and bring his favorite donuts (with sprinkles) after the codgerly Senator slaps them when they misbehave?

It's another example of how religion is once again screwing with our political process, and we wonder if McCain's pandering to the religious right (whom we all know he despises) will ever come back to bite him.

Showdown: Rev. Ken Hutcherson & Goldy on the Dave Ross Show

David Goldstein is not gay and never has been gay... yet he self-describes as a weak, soft man; and a liberal Jew to boot.

Nonetheless, he'll go mano a mano with "Dr. Blackman," AKA Rev. Ken Hutcherson, who, at 280 lbs. and 6'4" is the biggest, baddest-ass, Christian homophobe in the valley.

He self describes has a strong, hard man; and Christian to a fault.

Lucky for Goldy, it''ll be by phone; at 9a on KIRO, Tuesday.

UPDATED: Godtalkers: do you know who rabbi daniel lapin is?

Godtalk Update: after Rabbi Lapin discussed Berkeley's actively discouragement of  Marine recruiting, a listener writes: "This is a Godtalk topic?!?" Later Lapin managed to get into the religious conversation: "I don't like the BBC, I don't like PBS, and I don't like NPR... they shouldn't exist."
    Another listener comment forwarded this to us: "Please, please PLEASE, get Rabbi Daniel Lapin OFF THE AIR!!! You are insulting every minute Bernie spent on the air. I have been a faithful listener for years, but no more until Rabbi Lapin is history. He gives us nothing to contemplate, but much to hold in contempt. While Bernie spoke to the best in all of us, the Rabbi makes even the pacifist want to consider mayhem. He is narrow-minded, condescending, self-absorbed, and about as deep as one layer of vaneer. As Bernie would say, "He parked his brain at the door and picked up his Crayolas." The loyal God Talk audience deserves FAR BETTER. If you keep him, you would do well to  rename the program "God Forbid Talk."
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Godtalk, Bernie Ward's interfaith dialogue is too popular to cancel at San Francisco's KGO (Sundays, 6-9a). But what would he say if he could comment on how his show is being shepherded over by one of the most virulent clergymen in the American religious right?

For three weeks now, former KSFO right-wing talker, Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Seattle has hosted the weekly, liberal, one-world exchange of views that often range far afield from those of the Judeo-Christian practitioners whom Lapin's always championed as the sort of "Master Race" of religionists.

Screw America: who'd be best president for talk radio?

It's a given that election years are good for talk radio. And that 2008 is a presidential year and the races are close make this year even better for the explaining industry.

The campaign trail started unwinding way early because the nation can't wait to get rid of President Bush. Another mitzvah for talk radio.

When Bill Clinton won in 1992, Rush Limbaugh rejoiced: he used to say that without the Clinton presidency, there might never have been a Limbaugh monarchy. Even after Dumbo took the White House in 2001, right-wing radio flogged the Clintons for years after and still do, as recently we have seen vividly.

Right-wing radio has declined while they were in the majority. that's because they were forced to regurgitate talking points, and make happy face as conservative principles were trod upon; incompetence was plain to see; Iraq disintegrated, and the Bush presidency crumbled like a Costco snickerdoodle. Hence: left-wing radio got its first toe-hold in the market. (Photo: crumbled Costco chocolate chip cookie, snickerdoodles were not available, at this writing)

(They always fell back on decrying the "hatred," and "desperation," and "bitterness" of the left; chiding us for being negative; being against anything Bush was for; and always seeing the glass as empty. Besides that the glass (and the president's suit) actually was empty, the role of the "loyal opposition" is to tear down the ruling party. During those gloomy days wandering in the desert of the minority, the left did our best to do just that -- and it wasn't always attractive. But we couldn't have torn the Bush administration down any more effectively than it did itself by bad calculations, go-it-alone arrogance, and missed opportunities).

So whose success would make the best talk fodder for the next four years?  Let's talk...

Rev. Ken Hutcherson on the medved show

(photo: Rev. Ken Hutcherson with (state's) rights activist, Gov.George Wallace)

In America, if a man puts something into another man, it had better be a bullet. ~Bill Maher

Rev. Ken Hutcherson on the Michael Medved Show (KTTH m-f 12-3p) said Tuesday that the Rabbi Daniel Lapin told him to fear not, the Hebrew language has no word for tolerance- that things therefore, were either right or wrong, bad or good. In other words, tolerance is not biblical.

(We're not that good on the Bible, but we didn't need a rabbinical scholar to tell us how intolerant the Rab and Rev are).

Hutcherson, a black, evangelical megachurch pastor who's fundraising schtick is fag-baiting and threatening guilt-ridden white corporations, slaked his mighty thirst for self-promotion once more.

Rev. Hutcherson to Rush: blame yourself for Obama's success

Is Rush Limbaugh to blame for Obama's success?

"Yes," is what mega-preaching, Seattle homeboy-homophobe Rev. Ken Hutcherson told Limbaugh on his show, Friday. "If it wasn't for you, Obama wouldn't have been in the race and the United States wouldn't want a black president."

What's more, he said, Hillary Clinton will fail for the same reason.

WTF, you say?

Hutch says it's Big Pants' enthusiasm of the Fox Network's 24, the long-running torture-friendly TV show so popular with militarists, post adolescent men, and as a topic when a right-wing talk radio producer is short on show-prep. 

We're not devotees, but it seems that a 24 character, President David Palmer (played by Dennis Haysbert) is the first African-American with a chance at the White House. He's a sympathetic character, but his ex-wife Sherry Palmer (Penny Johnson Jerald) is a conniving bitch who's involved in Palmer's administration is widely considered a Hillary doppelgänger by the largely conservative audience.

Hutcherson believes that Rush promoting the show has gotten America used to the idea of a black President, and has helped Obama.

In other words: Bad Rush! for enurring us to the unthinkable! If we achieve another chunk of racial equality in this country -- it's your fault! And it took a black man to point out your error.

This is the kind of concisely irrelevant political analysis we've come to expect from the black, ex-NFL linebacker who has made a name for himself by the race-carding of fag-baiting.

Huck-A-Bee: fried varmint politics, cool exploding squirrels: what else has this man eaten?

We gotta say it: Mike Huck-A-Bee is the real deal.

If it weren't that he was a damn evangelical Republican, and against everything we hold dear, we'd love to support him.

Or at least have a beer with him (despite that neither of us drinks alcohol).

Turns out he's squirrelly in a way that the slinky-sleek mush mouth Mitt Romney could never imagine.

Huck-A-Bee told Joe Scarborough today: "When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels ... in the dorm room."

As Dave Boze (KVI m-f, 3-6p) took callers on this subject this afternoon, memories of our dorm room culinary adventures came, er, flooding back...

Hutcherson on the commentators: when the fox preaches, look to the geese!

Ken Schram: Your plan is like trying to urinate up a rope, if you catch my drift...

Rev. Ken "Hutch" Hutcherson: You know how many people have told me this won't work? But everything I've ever tried people have told me won't work-- the only difference is... I have an awfully big God, Ken.

Schram: I have the same God.

Hutch: You ought to trust Him sometime.

Schram: I do... implicitly--  and he tells me you're just a pain in the butt.

Despite suffering from an apparent bout of the Ebonic plague, fag-baiter Rev. Ken Hutch Hutcherson appeared Tuesday on the The Commentators KVI m-f, 3-6p) perpetuating his latest Christianist scam.

This time it's just comical, craven and way less scary than usual.

Alan keyes' campaign secret: a secret campaign

We've written that we support Ron Paul for the GOP presidential nomination.

We've always thought that the weasel-y little Texan with the charisma of Gabby Hayes with an anal fissure was the perfect combination of laugh track and no chance of winning.

That's because we didn't know Alan Keyes was running.

As it turns out, nobody knew- until his camera-hogging of the debate Wedneday,- and that's Alan's campaign secret- a secret campaign.

Liberals' guide to the GOP presidential candidates

As you know, we don't like Republicans, and don't ever want any one of them to be elected to any office ever again.

Having said that (and having said, "having said that") we must also confess that we like every Democrat running for president this year. But this crop of GOP haircuts and power ties is the least inspiring group we've ever seen trying to play on a national political stage. Turd blossoms come to mind, as do monkeys and footballs. So today we present our picks for the GOP nomination- starting with the guy (they're all guys, naturellement) we'd like to see at the top of the ticket, and descending to the candidate we're most afraid of.

1. Ron Paul
He's our all. Run, Ron, run! His impressive gravitas deficit and his geezerly, turkey-neck demeanor give him the edge over all the other be-white shirted losers that dot the Republican field like so many cowpats. It's true that a run by the homuncular Ron would be priceless for the late night talk shows, but we Americans gotta quit electing presidents just for that! We must remember that behind that ill-fitting collar is a guy who believes the New World Order with the help of Jewish neoconservatives are working secretly to turn our sovereignty over to Canada and the Mexicans.

2. Tom Tancreado
He sounds like a cartoon because he is one. He's a one-issue candidate and boy is he pissed! Unfortunately, (for us and for him) Americans don't like angry candidates, and this scare-mongering honyock with his squirrel gun loaded for Mexican can't hurt anybody. But he sure stirs up the Latinos against the Republicans- not that they aren't stirred up against them already . Come on people, nominate this goofball!