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.