UPDATE: For clarity, as Ivey476 points out: McCain denounced comments two months ago that only became public this week. Why is McCain rejecting Hagee's endorsement now if he was happy to have it then?
As Hunter pointed out, McCain has rejected Hagee's endorsement after seeking it:
Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them. I did not know of them before Reverend Hagee's endorsement, and I feel I must reject his endorsement as well.
But on Bill Bennett's March 11 Radio Show, McCain said:
I repudiate any comments that are anti-semetic or anti-Catholic, racist, any other. And I condemn them and I condemn those words that Pastor Hagee apparently...that Pastor Hagee wrote. I will say that he said that his words were taken out of context, he defends his position.
John McCain was aware that John Hagee was anti-semitic two months ago. He only pushed him aside when everybody else became aware of it, too.
Audio after the jump.
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