{"id":196810,"date":"2008-03-23T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/23\/mccain-aggressively-pursued-hagees-endorsement\/"},"modified":"2008-03-23T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T10:05:00","slug":"mccain-aggressively-pursued-hagees-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/23\/mccain-aggressively-pursued-hagees-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Aggressively Pursued Hagee&#8217;s Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions about John McCain&#8217;s hookup with Rightwing Bigot Evangelical pastor John Hagee is just who pursued whom. <\/p>\n<p>Obviously, if McCain pursued Hagee&#8217;s endorsement, there is a greater obligation for due diligence.<\/p>\n<p>Well,  now have this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/23\/magazine\/23wwln-q4-t.html?ex=1363924800&amp;en=b8bf32eb2e2e0e54&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">directly from Hagee&#8217;s NY Times Magazine interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">NYT<\/span>: As a prominent evangelical pastor based in San Antonio, you were recently catapulted into national controversy when you endorsed Senator John McCain for president. Is it true that McCain actively sought your endorsement?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">John Hagee<\/span>: It\u2019s true that McCain\u2019s campaign sought my endorsement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. &#8220;Straight Talk&#8221; doesn&#8217;t give a damn.  There is no corner he won&#8217;t cut, nor any value he won&#8217;t turn his back on, in order to be president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions about John McCain&#8217;s hookup with Rightwing Bigot Evangelical pastor John Hagee is just who pursued whom. Obviously, if McCain pursued Hagee&#8217;s endorsement, there is a greater obligation for due diligence. Well, now have this directly from Hagee&#8217;s NY Times Magazine interview: NYT: As a prominent evangelical pastor based in San Antonio, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}