To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Observercast

An Acid Test For The Self-Righteous Right

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BY JOE CONASON Whenever a politician insists too much on his own pious morality – and his duty to impose that particular brand of morality on everyone else – the safest prediction is that sooner or later, a scandal will emerge. For Roy Moore, the former judge now running to fill Jeff Session’s Senate seat, the revelations about his past remained hidden for decades, while he constantly proclaimed his righteousness from a perch atop the […]

Joe Conason
Joe Conason
Joe Conason is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator. He writes a column for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including Big Lies, which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives.