Max Blumenthal: The Far Right 'Hates' Children

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/29/Republican_Gomorrah_Max_Blumenthal

Journalist Max Blumenthal ties far-right ideology to authoritarian parenting styles, which he describes as methods intended "to break the will of children." He cites Republican leader James Dobson's book Dare to Discipline as a "manual for sado-masochism."

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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 Palin's involvement with a Kenyan pastor who boasted of epic battles with witches, or his expose of the eccentric theocratic multimillionaire behind California's Prop 8 anti-gay-marriage initiative, Blumenthal's 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. - Berkeley Arts and Letters

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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[AloneOnASeeSaw]

Yes, "death panels" are real-under the psuedonym "insurance companies". Enough with conspiracies theories, "wake up" to reality of what we have now.

[loserella55]

Hurting children "until they cry" will not make them become good people or make them love their parents. At best it will just confuse them. At worst, it will totally fuck them up. I was raised this way and it was hellish.

[whoo689]

You never hear about self-hating straight Democrats. It's only self-hating and/or self-denying gays who pretend to be straight FROM THE RIGHT. It happens over and over. The culture of the Right on gay rights promotes otherwise conservative folks to hide who they are on sexuality in order to "fit in" and fool themselves into being something they're not. Then the pressure of hiding becomes too great, and they get caught revealing their true selves. But instead of admitting they're gay...

[whoo689]

Conservatives can be seen OVER AND OVER projecting their own deepest thoughts and fears on their political opponents. I see it so often, esp. nowadays. Religious Right assholes bitching about environmentalists using language that BRILLIANTLY describes themselves! "environmentalists use bad science" And what do creationists do? Intelligent Design people? "Environmentalists scare children for their own political ends" And just what do extreme christian parents do?? come on

[whoo689]

It was extreme conservatives who held women down all throughout history and denied them the right to vote until 1920. Extremist conservatives promote homophobia and hatred of just about anyone who doesn't fit their narrow worldview. At one point it was blacks. At another point it was the disabled ("feeble-minded", anyone?). Another time it was women. Yet again it was gays and sexual minorities. On and on and on.

Conservatism is a mild form of insanity, really.

[whoo689]

Extremist conservatives tend to be racists. Extremist conservatives make up groups like al Qaeda. It's extreme conservatives who bomb abortion clinics. Yes, there are extreme liberals, but they usually strive more for an end to occupation and control by OUTSIDE powers, not wanting to control and suppress others. Any talk of a "thought police" or "nanny-state" on the Left is NOTHING compared to what the far Right wants to do to control and suppress people in every country.

[whoo689]

Conservatives, especially social conservatives, are much more authoritarian. However economically "liberal" Mussolini and Hitler may have been (as Jonah Goldberg claims), they were CONSERVATIVE at heart. Think about it. Fascism is simply economic conservatism gone wild. The corporations basically run the state, and boards of directors modeled after the corporate management structure run the various industries, not the people or democratically-elected reps.

[whoo689]

Bob Altemeyer exposed these right-wing authoritarians in the 50s. The GOP and conservative movement are MUCH MORE VISIBLY FRINGE than ever before! Just imagine how much MORE authoritarian conservatism has gotten since then.

You can't deny this. Most authoritarians are attracted to conservatism. Most conservatives tend to be authoritarian at their cores. This is a simple fact verified by research. Conservatives, by and large, want to CONTROL people, or at least love control and order.

[whoo689]

A sad far-right delusional troll who probably has a small penis and is overcompensating

[whoo689]

Chewbaca1989 is nothing but a troll. Don't dignify his nonsense with a response.

[whoo689]

The Religious Right is just a bunch of control freaks, as Max Blumenthal well-documents in his book Republican Gomorrah. Why else would they want to take away everyone else's freedom to do things they don't like and take us to a near-theocracy (and for some, an ACTUAL theocracy, like RJ Rushdoony)?? Control freaks who have no order in their own lives, so subconsciously the only way to ADD order is to control society with moral rigidity.

[kees161]

@omegapoint777 Your "liberal catholic priest???"