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July 9, 2008 | 6:37 pm

The Empire strikes back, Hagee defeats YouTube

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

The Rev. John Hagee hates YouTube. It was YouTube that scarred his behind-the-scenes political career, and now Hagee has struck back:

Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee has successfully worked with copyright lawyers to get more than 120 videos featuring him removed from YouTube.

The development was reported by The Huffington Post, whose blogger Max Blumenthal discovered that a video he had made at Hagee’s Christians United for Israel conference last year was among those removed from the popular video Web site.

Juda Engelmayer, a spokesman for Hagee, confirmed that the videos had been removed.

“They were anything that contained clips of sermons, clips of activities happening at CUFI or John Hagee Ministries events,” he said.

Hagee is the outspoken pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio. After his controversial comments about the Holocaust and Catholics were carried on the Internet, Sen. John McCain rejected Hagee’s endorsement of his presidential race.

Blumenthal criticized the move as “a naked exercise in news suppression.”

I really am shocked that YouTube acquiesced on this one. I thought Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil?” Not that I’m calling Hagee evil, but why would they be willing to remove such public opinions from the public arena?

A refresher of Blumenthal’s video, courtesy of Vimeo:


Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour from huffpost on Vimeo.

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What is the problemo? In this age of identity theft, borrowing and exploitation, it is the A number 1 priority of any personage to exert control over his/her images. If I was famous, I would get an agent and charge big bucks for any exposure I did not consider an investment. Hagee is just smart and prudent to manage his intellectual property responsibly.

Just because Hagee takes a public role, he is not public property, considering that Pee-Wee Blumenthal and his staff and crew are all getting paid and hoping to position themselves to get paid even more by exploiting Hagee for free.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/09/08 at 11:37 pm

What is wrong with you people? Hagee is the Jew’ best friend.

Comment by teresa novak on 7/09/08 at 11:49 pm

I agree. What happened is that Barack Obama had a big public relations problem because of his association with fraud Jeremiah Wright who along with Farrakhan acts as a slave trader to deliver the black community to the leftists and to the Muslims and Arabs for money.

So Obama’s supporters jumped on the story to try to set up somebody on McCain’s side who is like Jeremiah Wright, in order to divert attention from Obama’s problem. Actually there is no comparison at all.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/10/08 at 9:31 am

This guy Hagee find naive religious people who pay his way and make him rich.
Of course he has to hide his rant’s from serious people.
Hagee’s church is commercial endevor and his “church” should be taxed!

Comment by Guenter Monkowski on 7/27/08 at 7:01 am

Who are you making rich?

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/28/08 at 2:49 am

Time will tell if Mr.Hagee is right. Search the scripture and line it up with Gods word with what he says if you are a child of God you will no what is truth,Jesus said, “My sheep know my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27).

Comment by sheryl on 4/03/09 at 4:43 pm

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