"PC" Now Means "Preacher Correctness"

There was a predictable eruption of indignation last week when it was "discovered" -- a la the Dead Sea Scrolls -- that the Rev. John Hagee had made "derogatory" comments about Jews at some point in the late 1990s. But what were those "derogatory" comments? Simply that he (and, one supposes, his followers) believes that Hitler, in some way, was doing God's work in persecuting the Jews and driving them back to Israel, i.e. the Promised Land, i.e. their homeland. Well, Nazism certainly did succeed where the early Zionists had failed -- that much cannot be denied. It has even been pointed out that the Holocaust was "the best thing that ever happened to the Jews" -- politically. Of course, culturally it was a total disaster -- a true "holocaust" in a sense, since the Jewish heartland in Eastern Europe -- the centers of their traditional culture in the urban ghettos and in the rural shtetls -- was destroyed, never to return. But politically? Well, the Jews, or more specifically Israel, have more political power now than they have ever had in history, IMHO. They have the foreign policy of "the" superpower, i.e. the U.S., by the balls, if you'll pardon the expression, and that is no mean feat, considering the dithering that went on 60 short years ago about whether we (the U.S.) should even _recognize_ Israel diplomatically. Now, one might well say that the Jews have sold their cultural and religious birthright "for a mess of pottage", namely the secular, militant, and, yes, racist state of Israel. But Rev. Hagee doesn't see it that way. He sees the events of the past 70-plus years as a window of opportunity for the Jews to return to the religion of their forebears, and reap the blessings thereof. But now, because he has used the "H word", he is actually being presented as anti-Semitic! Yes, a champion of Judaism and Israel for many years is all of a sudden anti-Semitic; go figure. Because the way he described the recent history of the Jews is not exactly the politically-correct way. So it appears that he must be consigned to the outer darkness and all of his beliefs and claims rejected by all reasonable people, and... but wait! He also fully supports the notion of the U.S. defending Israel at all costs. Will they reject that idea as well? Not very damn likely. And they will not reject the support of all the other evangelical preachers who basically agree with Hagee, but without using the H word. Ah, what fine distinctions are being made for us these days. And what an ever-fraying tightrope our politicians are expected to creep across. It really is too entertaining.