Max Blumenthal: The Far Right 'Hates' Children October 28, 2009

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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