Huckabee Lashes Back, Settles Scores

You knew it was coming. First a tv show, now this? Dish-licious.

Out this week: Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America by Mike Huckabee.

Time calls it "at once a memoir of his campaign, a treatise on the ills of the Republican Party, and a blueprint for his own political future." The book is also "filled with sharp words for fellow Republicans who frustrated his bid for the party's nomination."

Mitt Romney "comes in for the roughest treatment... He notes that Romney declined to make a phone call of congratulations after Huckabee beat the oddsmakers to win the Iowa caucuses, 'which we took as a sign of total disrespect.'"

He also "calls out Pat Robertson, the Virginia-based televangelist, and Dr. Bob Jones III, chancellor of Bob Jones University in South Carolina, for endorsing Rudy Giuliani and Romney, respectively. He also has words for the Texas-based Rev. John Hagee, who endorsed the more moderate John McCain in the primaries, as someone who was drawn to the eventual Republican nominee because of the lure of power."

Did Palin Borrow 'Lipstick' Schtick?

By GottaLaff

Every time she opens her lipsticked lips, she starts a whole new controversy:

Sarah Palin's now famous "lipstick" joke from her acceptance speech Wednesday night is generating lots of buzz in Democratic circles and the liberal blogosphere. Not because of how funny it was, but because of its similarity to another (in)famous one-liner delivered by controversial evangelical pastor John Hagee.

Palin, who, like Hagee, is an evangelical Christian, had Republicans inside St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center doubled over laughing when she said, "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."

Hagee, in his book "What Every Man Wants in a Woman," wrote, "Do you know the difference between a woman with PMS and a snarling Doberman pinscher? The answer is lipstick."

Add plagiarism to the list. I guess Joe Biden is now immune from criticism.

Reasons #98476, #98477 to loathe Zel McLieberman

By GottaLaff

Paddy gave you Reason #98475 why she loathes Joe Lieberman.

Here are two more:

1. Zell McLieberman is ready and willing to speak at the Republican convention (see video).
2. This:

One of Sen. John McCain’s most visible surrogates is scheduled to speak before an organization founded and led by Pastor John Hagee Tuesday night in Washington, despite McCain’s rejection of the endorsement by the controversial pastor.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., is the keynote speaker at the Christians United for Israel Washington-Israel summit, where he’ll take the stage right before Hagee Tuesday evening, according to the summit itinerary.

Please feel free to add to the list.

Lieberman-Hagee: Caught on tape‏

By Paddy

Ugh, we're expecting huge thunderstorms and it's gotten my head all messed up- so you get an easy one. Take the time to sign this petition please? From J Street, a progressive Jewish organization-

Sen. Joe Lieberman called extremist Pastor John Hagee a "man of god." This is the same Pastor that said God sent Hitler to force Jews to move to Israel!

Go here to take action and tell Sen. Lieberman not to go to Hagee's group's conference:

John McCain's Jewish Problem

GWB lurks around the edges trying to stir up trouble between Obama and the Jewish community while McSame's bff Hagee says this stuff out in the open. Which one gets all the media exposure?

Via Talk 2 Action.

John Hagee says he's sorry

By GottaLaff

(video is of Hagee's previous comments and McCain's open-armed acceptance of them)
Hagee is feeling "regret". Well, then, all those bigoted, vile remarks are just distant memories, water under the bridge, finito, forgotten:

John Hagee, an influential televangelist who endorsed John McCain, is apologizing to Catholics for referring to the Roman Catholic Church as "the great whore" and calling it "the apostate church."

Hagee's support for McCain has drawn criticism from some Catholic leaders. McCain has said he does not agree with some of Hagee's past comments.

Of course he doesn't agree. That would be wrong. He's just "honored" and "glad to have" his endorsement.

In a letter to William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights, Hagee wrote: "Out of a desire to advance a greater unity among Catholics and Evangelicals in promoting the common good, I want to express my deep regret for any comments that Catholics have found hurtful."

Those Catholics are so easily hurt! Can't we all just be friends? Um, Hagee? I know apologies, and that was no apology.

Donohue, one of Hagee's critics, said, "To me, it's basically over." He planned to meet with Hagee.

Oh, it's over, all right. Hagee weighs on John Sidney McFlippy the way a lead-bib weighs on a dental X-ray patient.