Another One Bites The Dust

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Al Armendariz was by all accounts a well-liked and effective official in a key region of the country for the Environmental Protection Agency.

But when America’s climate-change-denier-in-chief Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) decided to make a big deal about a two year old video of Armendariz that had, up to that point, been considered totally innocuous, the right-wing outrage machine spun into action. Armendariz resigned in a matter of days.

Here’s how it happened.

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