Today, Glenn Beck interviewed Pastor John Hagee and announced he would be delivering a keynote address at Hagee's upcoming event -- despite having, earlier in the day, inadvertently ridiculed a famous statement Pastor John Hagee had made several years ago.

The intended target of Beck's mockery was Father Beck (no relation, Beck says), who appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to offer his religious perspective on the death of Osama bin Laden. Beck took issue with Father Beck's refusal to call bin Laden “evil.” After some extended mockery from Beck and his co-host Stu Burgiere, Beck argued that not judging evil people as evil allows evil to “just exist,” and illustrated his point by mocking the self-evidently ridiculous notion that someone as evil as Hitler could be doing God's work.

So what does this have to do with John Hagee?

Well, it just so happens that John Hagee once declared that Hitler was doing God's work. Sam Stein of the Huffington Post reported in May 2008:

John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to the Reverend, Adolph Hitler was a “hunter,” sent by God, who was tasked with expediting God's will of having the Jews re-establish a state of Israel.

Going in and out of biblical verse, Hagee preached: " 'And they the hunters should hunt them,' that will be the Jews. 'From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.' If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the holocaust you can't see that."

He goes on: “Theodore Hertzel is the father of Zionism. He was a Jew who at the turn of the 19th century said, this land is our land, God wants us to live there. So he went to the Jews of Europe and said 'I want you to come and join me in the land of Israel.' So few went that Hertzel went into depression. Those who came founded Israel; those who did not went through the hell of the holocaust.

”Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. And the Bible says -- Jeremiah writing -- 'They shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and from the holes of the rocks,' meaning there's no place to hide. And that might be offensive to some people but don't let your heart be offended. I didn't write it, Jeremiah wrote it. It was the truth and it is the truth. How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel." [italics in original]

Glenn Beck interviewed Hagee during today's radio program. Apparently unaware of Hagee's claim that Hitler was doing the work of God, Beck did not mention it during the interview. But he did mention that he was delivering a keynote address at Hagee's 2011 DC-Israel Summit in July.

Will Beck really deliver a keynote speech for an event hosted by a man who said that Hitler was doing God's work when he murdered millions of Jews? Or will he continue his recent pattern of glaring hypocrisy?