Max Blumenthal Discusses Republican Gomorrah September 29, 2009

Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party

Award-winning journalist and documentary videographer Max Blumenthal has become one of the most important journalists writing about how the Religious Right fringe movement became the Republican Party mainstream. Whether it was his revelation of Sarah Palins involvement with a Kenyan pastor who boasted of epic battles with witches, or his expose of the eccentric theocratic multimillionaire behind Californias Prop 8 anti-gay-marriage initiative, Blumenthals reporting goes almost instantly viral, shocks thousands, has been cited everywhere from MSNBC to the New York Times, and has landed him interviews on Fresh Air and The Rachel Maddow Show.

Republican Gomorrah -- Blumenthal's remarkable, muckraking debut -- is an expose of the dysfunction, scandal, and crime from the heart of the Religious Right, the fringe movement that has come to define the Republican Party. Blumenthal describes the people and the beliefs that establishment Republicans, like John McCain, have to kowtow to if they have any hope of running for President, and how moderates have been systematically purged from party ranks. He shows why the unqualified Sarah Palin was the party's only logical choice and how her most fanatical supporters will be setting the strategy for the Republican assault on the Obama administration.

Max Blumenthal is one of the most constantly cited young liberal journalists in America and is regularly featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, Democracy Now and the Countdown with Keith Olbermann. His articles and video documentaries have appeared in The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is a correspondent for The Daily Beast, a research fellow for Media Matters for America and a Puffin Writing Fellow for the Nation Institute. Visit him at www.maxblumenthal.com

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