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The Cuomo Hypocrisy Controversy Comes Full Circle

We didn't think anything could top Glenn Beck's hypocrisy(link is external) 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(link is external) 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(link is external)), Hagee compared(link is external) 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(link is external) occasions(link is external) that atheists are not wanted in America and should get out of this country: