9. Nina Easton, “What’s Really Behind SEIU’s Bank of America Protests?,” CNN Money, May 19, 2010, available at http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/19/news/companies/
SEIU_Bank_of_America_protest.fortune/.
10. Monica Davey and Steven Greenhouse, “Angry Demonstrations in Wisconsin as Cuts Loom,” New York Times, February 16, 2011, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/us/17wisconsin.html?_r=2.
11. Easton.
12. “Man Convicted of Trespassing During Reagan Speech,” Associated Press, June 13, 1986.
13. “Judge Hears Protesters’ Injunction Request,” Associated Press, July 9, 1987.
14. “Toxic Texan and Grim Reaper Brought to Book,” Morning Star (London), July 20, 2001.
15. Louise Hogan, “Citizen’s Arrest Warrant Drawn for Bush,” Press Association, June 25, 2004.
16. Tobi Cohen, “Down in the Anti-Bush League,” Ottawa Sun, December 1, 2004.
17. Bryan Curtis, “Another Peaceful Protest March,” Slate, August 31, 2004.
18. “Army Veterans Lead Washington Protest,” Morning Star (London), March 20, 2008.
19. “Pandora,” The Independent (London), June 2, 2008.
20. “Parisians Protest Bush’s Visit,” The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August 2008.
21. The Canadian Press, “Bush Speaks in Calgary; Politics Police Keep Protesters Outside,” Telegraph-Journal (New Brunswick), March 18, 2009; leftdog [sic], “Attempt at a ‘Citizen’s Arrest’ of Bush Gets Protester Arrested,” Buckdog, March 17, 2009.
22. “Hay Festival: George Monbiot Calls for Citizen’s Arrest of John Bolton,” Guardian Unlimited, May 25, 2008.
23. Jason Hancock, “Protesters Await Rove’s Return to Iowa,” Iowa Independent, July 24, 2008; Michael Gillespie, “Four Anti-Rove Activists Arrested in Iowa,” The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, September 2008 / October 2008.
24. Rebecca Mead, “Downtown’s Daughter,” The New Yorker, November 15, 2010.
25. Letter: “Summit Protesters Deserved a Laurel,” Toronto Star, June 25, 1988.
26. George Monbiot, “Wanted: Tony Blair for War Crimes,” The Guardian (London), January 26, 2010.
27. See, e.g., James Queally and Eric Durkin, “Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani Is a Loon and He Is Out to Get Me, Says Hamptons Hothead John McCluskey,” Daily News (New York), May 24, 2009; Taylor Vecsey and Ginger Adams Otis, “Rudy Giuliani Stands Up to Crazed Attacker on Hamptons Stroll,” May 23, 2009.
28. “Rudy Giuliani’s Bridgehampton Heckler Speaks Out,” Gawker, May 24, 2009, available at http://gawker.com/5268106/rudy-giulianis-bridgehampton-heckler-speaks-out.
29. Lynn Sweet, “Dems Seek Strategy Against ‘Birthers,’ ” Chicago Sun-Times, August 5, 2009.
30. The Situation Room, CNN, August 5, 2009.
31. “Wash. Rep. Baird Apologizes for Town-Hall Remarks,” Associated Press, August 12, 2009.
32. “Health Care Bill Opponents Pleased by Democratic Anger at Town Hall Meeting Protests,” The White House Bulletin, August 5, 2009.
33. Chris Matthews, Interview with Barbara Boxer, Hardball, MSNBC, August 4, 2009.
34. William McGurn, “Harry Reid’s ‘Evil’ Moment,” Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2009.
35. Police Report available here: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/15739780/GLADNEY-PART-21; see also Mychal Massie, “It’s Not a Hate Crime If …,” WorldNetDaily, December 1, 2009; “Police Report of SEIU Thug Attack on Kenneth Gladney,” The Foxhole, November 19, 2009 (quoting police report no longer available on the web), available at http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/police-report-on-seiu-thug-attack-on-kenneth-gladney/.
36. Neil Cavuto, “Democrats Plan to Push Healthcare Reform Through,” Fox News, September 3, 2009 (interview with Bill Rice); Doug Mainwaring, “Defined by Principle, Not Just Protest,” Washington Times, May 3, 2010.
37. Hardball, MSNBC, January 11, 2011.
38. Keith Olbermann, Countdown, MSNBC, June 10, 2009.
39. The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, June 11, 2009.
40. Ed Schultz, The Ed Show, MSNBC, June 11, 2009.
41. Kathy Shaidle, “Holocaust Museum Shooter von Brunn a 9/11 ‘Truther’ Who Hated ‘Neo-Cons,’ Bush, McCain,” Examiner, June 10, 2009, available at http://www.examiner.com/conservative-politics-in-national/holocaust-museum-shooter-von-brunn-a-9-11-truther-who-hated-neo-cons-bush-mccain.
42. CNN’s Erickson: I’ll “[p]ull out my wife’s shotgun” if they try to arrest me for not filling out the American Community Survey, Media Matters for America, April 1, 2010.
43. Noel, Sheppard, “Bill Maher Wishes Glenn Beck Had Been Killed at Pentagon,” Newsbusters, March 6, 2010, available at http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/03/06/bill-maher-wishes-glenn-beck-had-been-killed-pentagon-thursday#ixzz1DJnxVWjZ.
44. Ray Rivera, “104 Are Arrested in Connection with Crips-Bloods Alliance,” New York Times, April 16, 2010.
45. Evan Thomas, “Al Qaeda in America,” Newsweek, June 23, 2003.
46. Tom Troy, “Most Indicted Members of Militia Group Are Voters,” Toledo Blade, April 1, 2010.
47. Juan Williams, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954–1965 (Penguin Books, 1987), 102.
48. See, e.g., Steve Gilbert, “Quotes Not Appearing in Sheehan’s Book,” Sweetness & Light, November 19, 2005, available at http://sweetness-light.com/archive/some-cindy-sheehan-quotes.
49. “New York Dames Come to Blows over Bush Stickers,” Agence France-Presse—English, October 5, 2004.
50. Thai Jones, A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family’s Century of Conscience (Free Press, 2004), 163.
51. Bob Greene, Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned from Vietnam (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989).
52. Tom Hayden, “Dissent Must Come Alive in New York,” Newsday (New York), August 20, 2004.
53. Eliana Johnson, “At Columbia, Students Attack Minuteman Founder,” October 5, 2006.
54. Aaron Smith, “Search On for Officer’s Attacker,” New York Sun, September 1, 2004; Lindsay Faber, “Papers: Convention Kicker Confessed,” Newsday (New York), September 30, 2004.
THIRTEEN. RAPED TWICE: LIBERALS AND THE CENTRAL PARK RAPE
1. Rita Cosby Live, MSNBC, March 28, 2006.
2. Le Bon, 13.
3. See generally Jeremy Rabkin, “Revolutionary Visions in Legal Imagery: Constitutional Contrasts Between France and America,” in The Legacy of the French Revolution (Hancock, ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).
4. See, e.g., Julia Preston, “Prosecutor Seeks to End Time Limit in Rape Cases,” New York Times, April 29, 2005.
5. Michael F. Armstrong, Stephen L. Hammerman, Jules Martin, Report for New York Police Department on Matias Reyes and April 19, 1989, 2.
6. Ibid., 33–34.
7. Chris Smith, “Central Park Revisited,” New York [no date], available at http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/n_7836/.
8. Ronald Sullivan, “Defendant Told of Jogger Rape, Detective Says,” New York Times, November 28, 1990.
9. Mitch Gelman, “Wily Cop Dug into Large Bag of Tricks,” Newsday (New York), July 25, 1990.
10. Mike Wallace, “Yusef Salaam, Accused of 1989 Central Park Jogger Rape,” 60 Minutes, CBS, March 15, 1992.
11. Armstrong, Hammerman, and Martin, 33 (citing notes from Detective August Jonza).
12. Ibid., 35.
13. Emily Sachar, “Jogger Jury Sees a Confession,” Newsday (New York), July 19, 1990.
14. Ronald Sullivan, “Confessions Lawyers Couldn’t Undo,” New York Times, August 20, 1990.
15. Armstrong, Hammerman, and Martin, 33.
16. Ryan Affirmation in Response to Motion to Vacate Judgment of Conviction, People v. Wise, fn ** at 12. Both accounts noted that Jackson had spontaneously told the police this when they were not even interviewing her, but her brother.
17. See, e.g., Samuel Maull, “DNA Expert: No Semen Links to Defendants,” Associat
ed Press, July 14, 1990.
18. Bruce Buursma, “Genetic ‘Fingerprints’ Next Crime-Fighting Tool,” Chicago Tribune, April 30, 1989.
19. Harold M. Schmeck Jr., “DNA Findings Are Disputed by Scientists,” New York Times, May 25, 1989.
20. Shirley E. Perlman, “DNA Test Ordered of Serial Rapist,” Newsday (New York), May 10, 1989.
21. Richard Saltus, “Court Use of DNA ‘Fingerprinting’ Challenged,” Boston Globe, May 23, 1989.
22. Schmeck.
23. Daniel Wise, “Central Park Jogger Trial: Ups and Downs for Defense,” New York Law Journal, July 23, 1990.
24. Sachar.
25. Sullivan, “Defendant Told of Jogger Rape, Detective Says.”
26. Associated Press, “Witness Tries to Link Jogger’s Hair to Suspect,” Record (Bergen County, NJ), November 15, 1990.
27. Ryan, 26–27.
28. Ibid., 27.
29. Ibid., 45.
30. Ibid., 46.
31. Ibid., 45–46.
32. Ibid., 24.
33. Armstrong, Hammerman, and Martin, 33.
34. Peck, People of the Lie, 218.
FOURTEEN. STATUS ANXIETY: PLEASE LIKE ME!
1. “Study: Popular Kids—But Not the Most Popular—More Likely to Torment Peers; Popularity Increases Aggression Except for Those at Top of Social Hierarchy,” The American Sociological Review, February 8, 2011.
2. Tara Parker-Pope, “Web of Popularity, Achieved by Bullying,” New York Times, February 14, 2011.
3. Eugene Lyons, Red Decade (Arlington House, 1941), 101.
4. Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Dover, 2002) (1895), 79.
5. Ibid., 79.
6. Allison Stewart, “Getting Gaga,” Washington Post, February 20, 2011.
7. “Red Hot,” Chicago Tribune, December 28, 2010.
8. Thomas Jefferson, Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774).
9. Shari Weiss, “Justin Bieber’s Abortion Comments in Rolling Stone Slammed on ‘The View,’ ” Daily News, February 18, 2011, available at http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/02/18/
2011-02-18_justin_biebers_abortion_comments_in_rolling_stone_slammed_
by_the_view_cohosts.html#ixzz1EYMRB6B8
10. BLTWY, “When Celebs Talk Politics, Odd Things Happen,” MSNBC.com, available at http://bltwy.msnbc.msn.com/politics/when-celebs-talk-politics-bad-things-happen-9526.gallery.
11. A former riot policeman says protesters everywhere even dress the same. The riot uniform consists of: “military fatigues (rather ironic since they detest the military and war), bandanas (sometimes over their faces), chains, boots, stocking caps, and gloves. Some have mops of longish hair or dreadlocks.” In their nonconformity, he said, “they assume a look that conforms to half the people at any protest in the country.” Loren W. Christensen, Riot: A Behind-the-Barricades Tour of Mobs, Riot Cops and the Chaos of Crowd Violence (Paladin Press, 2008), 48.
12. Le Bon, 74.
13. Ibid., 22.
14. Ibid., 24.
15. Jim Cramer, “Jon Stewart Is My Idol,” New York Examiner, March 12, 2009, available at http://www.examiner.com/x-668-TV-Examiner∼y2009m3d12-Jim-Cramer-Jon-Stewart-is-my-idol.
16. Le Bon, 75.
17. Ibid., 74–75.
18. Transcript of Daily Show interview between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer, Vancouver Sun, March 13, 2009.
19. James Fallows, “It’s True: Jon Stewart Has Become Edward R. Murrow,” The Atlantic, March 13, 2009.
20. Voltaire, Candide (CreateSpace, February 6, 2010), 96.
21. Bill Carter, “CNN Will Cancel ‘Crossfire’ and Cut Ties to Commentator,” New York Times, January 6, 2005.
22. Malachi Martin, Hostage to the Devil (HarperOne, 1992) (first published 1976), 57.
23. Good Morning America, ABC, November 8, 2001.
24. “Twist-a-Braid Infomercial Gets Put to the Test,” Today, NBC, February 27, 2002.
25. Michael Abramowitz, “Many Versions of ‘Bush Doctrine,’ ” Washington Post, September 13, 2008.
26. Sam Harris, “When Atheists Attack,” Newsweek, September 20, 2008.
27. The Joy Behar Show, Headline News, January 13, 2010.
28. Keith Olbermann, Countdown, MSNBC, August 6, 2010.
29. Larry Elder, “Bush Dumb, Gore Bright?,” World Net Daily, March 6, 2002.
30. David Maraniss, Ellen Nakashima, “Gore’s Grades Belie Image of Studiousness; His School Transcripts Are a Lot Like Bush’s,” Washington Post, March 19, 2000.
31. M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (Touchstone, 1983), 222.
32. Keith Olbermann, Countdown, MSNBC, April 30, 2009.
33. Countdown episodes: September 1, 2009, December 22, 2009, December 28, 2009, December 30, 2009.
34. Randy Cohen, “The Ethics of Letterman’s Palin Joke,” New York Times, June 22, 2009.
35. Sheila Marikar, “Comics Crack Wise on Palin’s Pregnant Daughter,” abcnews.go.com, September 4, 2008.
36. David Asman, American Nightly Scoreboard, Fox Business Channel, June 11, 2009.
37. “Letterman vs. Palin; Spies Hiding Among Us?,” CNN, June 11, 2009.
38. Lyons, 185.
39. Le Bon, 82–83
FIFTEEN. INHERITORS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: LIBERALS MOBS
1. Cornell University Arts and Sciences: History Department Course and Time Roster Fall 2010, available at http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/courses/roster/FA10/HIST/.
2. Department of History, UCLA, available at http://www.history.ucla.edu/academics/courses.
3. Harvard History and Undergraduate Courses, available at http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=historyba&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup106325.
4. Alan Schom, Napoleon Bonaparte (HarperCollins, 1997), 253.
5. See, generally, S. J. Taylor, Stalin’s Apologist, Walter Duranty: The New York Times’s Man in Moscow (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).
6. Jacques Steinberg, “Times Should Lose Pulitzer from 30’s, Consultant Says,” New York Times, October 23, 2003.
7. Mark Von Hagen, “Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer,” New York Times, November 13, 2003.
8. Herbert L. Matthews, “Cuban Rebel Is Visited in Hideout,” New York Times, February 24, 1957, available at http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/matthews/
matthews022457.pdf.
9. Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Belknap Press, 2009), 274.
10. Ibid., 295.
11. Stanlet Kober, “The Debate over No First Use,” Foreign Affairs, Summer 1982; see also Walter Issacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 477.
12. Peter Collier and David Horowitz, Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the ’60s (New York: Free Press); first edition (August 12, 1996), 292.
13. See James Webb, “Sleeping with the Enemy,” The American Enterprise, May/ June 1997.
14. Phil Brennan, “Possible Homeland Intelligence Chief Has Strong Clintonista Ties,” NewsMax.com, October 9, 2002, available at http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/7/164844.shtml.
15. Raymond Strait, Bob Hope: A Tribute (Pinnacle, 2003), 426–27.
16. Stéphane Courtois, et al., The Black Book of Communism (Mark Kramer, ed. and Jonathan Murphy, trans., Harvard University Press, 1999), 632.
17. Estimates of the dead range from 1.2 million (U.S.) to 3 million (People’s Republic of Kampuchea), with Amnesty International putting the figure at 1.4 million and the Yale Genocide Project at 1.7 million. Stephane Courtois, et al., The Black Book of Communism, 607.
18. See, generally, Collier and Horowitz; Stephane Courtois, et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (translated by Kramer and Murphy) (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1999); Webb, available at http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=18440; David Horowitz, “Pol Pot,” Discover the Networks: A Guide to the
Political Left, available at http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1998.
19. Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, The Political Economy of Human Rights, Vol. 2: After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperialist Ideology, 1979, xii-xiii.
20. Richard Falk, “Trusting Khomeini,” New York Times, February 16, 1979.
21. “Big Dupes at Big Peace: Ted Kennedy—Part 2,” Big Peace, October 10, 2010 (Interview with Paul Kengor about his book, Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century [Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2010], which reprints the KGB memo discussing Kennedy’s letter), available at http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2010/10/10/big-dupes-at-big-peace-ted-kennedy-part-2/; Text of KGB Letter on Senator Ted Kennedy, Freerepublic.com (citing Kengor at page 317), available at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760564/posts.
22. Erik Durschmied, The Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini (Arcade Publishing, 2002), 36.
23. Mein Kampf, Worldview and Organization chapter; see generally Henry Ashby Turner, German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1985); George Victor, Hitler: The Pathology of Evil (Potomac Books, 1999).
24. Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Thomas Nelson, 2010), 166.
25. Ibid., 170–71.
26. Quoted in Metaxas, 163–64.
27. Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society (Basic Books, 2010), 25.
28. Courtois et al., 593–94.
SIXTEEN. THE TOTALITARIAN INSTINCT AND SEXUAL PERVERSITY OF LIBERALS
1. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (Simon & Schuster, 2003), 161.
2. Beth Fouhy, “San Francisco Rolls Out Red Carpet for the Clintons,” Associated Press, June 28, 2004.
3. The White House Office of the Press Secretary, Remarks by the President and the Vice President at a DNC “Moving America Forward” Rally in Philadelphia, October 10, 2010.