Credit: Huffington Post
Max Blumethal posted a fascinating fact in the Huffington Post the other day when he pointed out that Phil Gramm, whose assertion that our current economic crisis was "mental" and "all in our heads" offended the sensibilities of those struggling to make ends meet and whose livelihoods have been severely impacted by the current economic crunch.
Blumethal took the time to remind us about the seedy business schemes that preceded his political career: "Before Gramm joined the Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed to call for the defunding of the NEA, before he attacked an opponent for taking money from a gay rights group, and before he was interviewed by the white supremacist Southern Partisan magazine, Gramm was an avidly active investor in soft-core pornography movies."
The film in question was "Truck Stop Women," whose promo poster boasted, "No Rig Was Too Big For Them To Handle." Caton, who was in charge of fundraising for the production, asked Gramm to become an investor. His entree into the soft-core-porn business was his brother-in-law George Caton, who managed to sweet-talk him into investing $15,000 in the film venture. He followed up that initial investment by plopping another fifteen grand to help finance the production of "Beauty Queens," a soft-core flick about pageant judges having sex with contestants, and another $7,500 towards a satire of the Nixon White House called "White House Madness" that featured the crazed president wandering around the White House in the nude.
Like Judge Judy Sheinlin used to say, "Beauty Fades, Dumb is Forever." How stupid can a politician get?
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