Gomorrah: That ol’ one-ring circus (Interview with Max Blumenthal on the GOP)

[icymist]

Investigative journalist Max Blumenthal looked deep into the heart of the Republican Party. What he found should make the G.O.P. blush

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“Republican Gomorrah:” You know, Gomorrah’s a Biblical town that’s linked to Sodom and, essentially, things didn’t go so well. So why choose Gomorrah as part of the title?

And I managed to look into Gomorrah and not turn into a pillar of salt.

It’s a reference to the Republican experiment — from the Gingrich Revolution in ’94 to the end of the Bush era — and during that time, a Gomorrah-like sea of scandals exploded into the open, ranging from the bizarre sexual escapades of rightwing, supposed family-values Republicans from Ted Haggard to Larry Craig to David Vitter , to lesser known figures who did even more bizarre acts, to the wanton criminality of Tom DeLay, “The Hammer,” who was the majority leader of Congress. And these scandals, to me, while they’re entertaining, they suggest a lot of hypocrisy. I wanted to go beyond that and show how they reflected an essential sensibility of the Christian Right, and how bringing that movement into that party brought the party down.
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[icymist]

1. In kicking this back up, anyone even read the article?

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