called The Truth (and jokes). It was quite interesting. I had no idea what a really cheap Enronish crook abramoff really was. Oddly enough I always gave Ralph Reed a pass for being in a corner office of ENRON when the whole scheme crumbled….but after finding Reed neck deep with Abramoff in the SAME sort of sleazy conman activity again I have to revise that opinion and conclude Reed really is just a crooked amoral sociopath. Strangely, just as with ENRON, it was their sociopathic bragging about their crimes which brought them down. While Jack Abramoff (his nickname really was apparently “abraham Jackoff”) was conning an indian tribe out of something like 4 million dollars he was writing emails laughing about it and calling them “those monkeys”.
There are about 4 different revelation of this magnitude (all widely divergent) in this book. There’s the detailed psychiatric studies conducted by the republicans to sort out how to precisely use 9/11 to frighten people. Abramoff. The abramoff related forced abortions and sexual slavery (also just plain old slavery) the republicans protected and in fact lauded in the Marianis Islands (this is a US territory…meaning these slaves and forced prostitutes are american citizens). And also a great account of how when Giulliani claimed at the RNC that on 9/11 he grabbed the arm of (some clown) and said “Thank God George Bush is President” , Al Franken actually grabbed the arm of his editor and said “He made that up”. And then of course he proves it was made up.
It really is a quite interesting read.