C Street House Used Interns As Servants, Author Tells Rachel Maddow

[deminks]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/c-street-house-used-inter_n_531348.html

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Now, Jeff Sharlet, the author of "The Family, the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American Power," alleges that the C street house has used unwitting interns as domestic servants.

Rachel Maddow interviewed Sharlet Thursday on "The Rachel Maddow Show," and the author explained what a former intern-servant told him about her experience inside the C Street house. Their exchange was transcribed on The Maddow Blog:

SHARLET: I recently spoke to a young woman, young evangelical woman, she thought she would going to do an internship in Washington, but she found herself recruited into C street and turning down sheets for John Ensign, and she said it really sort of galled her that it wasn't just those congressman, it was also people like Oliver North, hanging around and she was expected to be at their beck and call..



MADDOW: And just to be clear, people who think they're getting sort of an internship are the people who are providing essentially maid services at no cost to the members of Congress for maintaining these facilities that they live in?

SHARLET: Sure...

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Video at the link.

Servants??? What is the cost of private maid service in DC? IRS??? Anyone???? What services did Olly get from the C Street servants?

[Fumesucker]

1. I suspect that "turning down sheets" is a euphemism.

For something a little more risqué.

But then I have a dirty and cynical mind.

And let's not forget that Oliver North is like a God unto many evangelicals.

[malaise]

2. Rachel link with a good section on Coburn as well

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#36293413

[d_r]

3. this isn't new information

It was in the book. And honestly, I don't think that turning down the sheets was a euphemism here.