You'll be hearing about Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the new chair of the House Oversight Committee, a lot in the coming months. But unlike other wacky and sinister far-right firebrands on the panel, such as Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Comer was not consistently a bomb-thrower in the years before his ascent to the chair. Interviews with people who know Comer and an examination of public records presented a more complicated view of the man who has spent the last six weeks railing against Hunter Biden's art purchases and flirting with vaccine skepticism. His reputation in Kentucky was that of a "bipartisan backslapper," said Adam Edelen, a former Democratic state auditor who spent years working with Comer. Now, he's helming one of the party's highest profile platforms for spreading conspiracy theories, a job that he's already begun to use to to promote ideas that, for the past few years, have mostly been consigned to Fox News opinion programming and Newsmax. "How does he manage this?" Al Cross, director of the University of Kentucky's Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, wondered aloud to TPM. "How does his prevailing persona mesh with the almost by-definition confrontational nature of the chairmanship?" | 
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