Blaming Obama for the Blood Moon
by Steve Benen

It wouldn’t have occurred to me to connect this to politics in any way, but as Brian Tashman noted this morning, WorldNetDaily manages to “fit criticism of President Obama into nearly everything it publishes, including its story in Monday’s lunar eclipse.”

Citing the president’s comments from January – “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone” – about using executive orders and executive actions in the face of congressional obstruction, right-wing pastor Mark Biltz told WND today that the “blood moon” is a divine warning to Obama that God has “more than a pen and a phone in his hand.”

“In the book of Joel it mentions three times about the sun and the moon going dark and in context it also mentions Divine wrath against all countries that want to divide or part the land of Israel,” Biltz said, touching on a frequent Religious Right claim that Obama administration efforts to broker a Mideast peace deal will lead to divine punishment.

“Like Pharaoh the leaders and pundits of today will realize when it comes to crossing the red lines of the Creator of the universe he has more than a pen and a phone in his hand.”