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Brotherhood of the Disappearing Pants

A Field Guide to Conservative Sex Scandals



Tom Breuer and Joseph Minton Amann
September 2007     ISBN: 156858377X


In the months before the 2006 midterm elections, a series of scandals rocked the Republican party, setting the stage for the vigorous undressing received by the GOP at the hands of Nancy Pelosi & Co.

Along with the President's own feckless foreign policy, the guilt-by-association helped turn a tsunami tide of public sentiment against the administration and its party.

As much as the earnest, engaged citizen would have liked to chalk up the GOP's comeuppance to systemic corruption and corporate canoodling, however, the party was undoubtedly hurt most (at least as far as scandals are concerned) by Congressman Mark Foley's tireless efforts both to establish a national child predator database and to keep his own name off of it.

Foley managed to drown an already foundering party, proving yet again that, when it comes to politics, there's nothing the public remembers and reacts to quite like a lurid sex scandal. But while Foley's prominence thrust the story into the media spotlight, his is just the tip of a very large, very phallic iceberg. Indeed, there's far more to the conservative creep-fest than the high-profile Foley scandal, Clarence Thomas's Dadaistic come-ons, and Bill OReilly's many chickpea-related indiscretions.

Over the years, conservatives across the country have spun webs of deception, hypocrisy, and grotesque lechery that have shot so many holes in their pretensions of moral superiority, it's a wonder they can even mouth the words "family values" without getting laughed out of the bordello.

It's enough, at least, to fill a book.

About the Authors

Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer launched sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.comin the spring of 2004. They are the coauthors of Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly.



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