The Company He Keeps

"He", being John McCain, Republican candidate for President, "desperately ambitious ex-heretic," and all-around flip-flopping flim-flam man. No, not just the brain-addled, bloodthirsty, worst President in United States history at left, but also...

Of all the vile, fake, lying-ass, money-grubbing shyster scumbags on the face of this planet, there is perhaps none more loathsome than [Joel] Osteen, a human haircut with plastic baseball-size teeth who has made a fortune selling the appalling only-in-America idea that terrestrial greed is actually a form of Christian devotion. "God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us," Osteen once wrote. This is the revolting, snake-oil-selling dickhead that John McCain actually chose to pimp as number one on his list of inspirational authors. So much for "go, sell everything you have and give to the poor," and all that other hippie crap from the New Testament.

Read the rest of Matt Taibbi's Full Metal McCain. Portraits of his charming supporters, too.