Mike Taibbi discusses his new book The Great Derangement, a study of how America is going radical in both directions at the same time. Taibbi joined and went through basic training at Reverend Haggee’s West Texas Pentecostal Church. We find that Reverend Hagee – who makes Reverend Wright seem a sleepy intellectual – is a Pentecostal, who like all Pentecostals believe Satan lives in our UPPER digestive tracks and must be purged by vomiting into bags. Something many of us learned more than 20 years ago when Pentecostal Ollie North – with his faraway eyes – was lying to congress. Pentecostals are also the ones who Ugatie buggity booger poopity speak in tongues, handle rattlesnakes, and just happen to make up all six of the Televangelists under financial investigation by Congress.
After months of standing behind the Crazy Reverend Hagee, John McCain last week finally threw him under the bus for saying Jesus was responsible for the Holocaust rather than Satan (or Germans or Nazis or anti-Semetism or fascism).