[Darkened movie theater. Suddenly, projected on the screen, a giant cross superimposed over this woman's face screaming at the audience]
IN A WORLD. WHERE CRAZY CHRISTIAN'S FANATICISM IS USED FOR POLITICAL GAIN.
Yes, kids.
We have been saying this for quite some time now, but this is the first time I have heard actual proof in the perpetrators own words. Lobbyist Jack "Gee your hair looks great" Abramoff and his former business partner Michael "Pretty Boy" Scanlon (it does sound like scandal-on, I can't make this stuff up) are accused of bilking Native Americans of about $66 million dollars and laundering it to pay for government favors. These plans are always pretty slick until you are caught. That is when the ugly details sprout legs and run about.
Scanlon, former aide of Tom DeLay (of campaign money laundering and conspiracy fame), confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives*. This is an excerpt from a memo that was read at a Capitol Hill hearing from Scanlon to a tribe that describes his plan to protect their gambling interests:
"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them."
If anyone thought I had the tin-foil hat on before, let me just say, "HAH" and leave the evidence to stand on its own.
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