Demonic (49 page)

53.
The Best Notable Quotables of 2006, Media Research Center (quoting Harry Belafonte, at a televised rally with Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez), available at
http://www.mrc.org/MainSearch/search.html
.

54.
Joe Klein, “Blessed Are the Poor—They Don’t Get Tax Cuts,”
Time
, June 2, 2003.

55.
William Raspberry, “A Reckless Blast That Hits the Target,”
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
, June 29, 2004.

56.
“Inside Washington,” WJLA-TV, November 6, 2005.

57.
House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight and the Subcommittee on Europe (110th Congress, 1st Sess.), April 17, 2007 (testimony of Michael F. Scheuer, former chief, Bin Laden Unit, Central Intelligence Agency).

58.
Joe Hagan, “Dan Rather to Bush: ‘Answer the Questions,’ ”
New York Observer
, September 20, 2004.

59.
Video at Andrew Breitbart, Feelin’ the Healin’: Young Jeezy, Jay-Z Perform “My President Is Black,” Remix on Inauguration Eve, BigHollywood.com, January 21, 2009, available at
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/01/21/feelin-the-healin-young-jeezy-jay-z-perform-“my-president-is-black”-remix-on-inauguration-eve/
; see also Mattera, xvii.

60.
Lynn Sweet, “Dems Seek Strategy Against ‘Birthers,’ ”
Chicago Sun-Times
, August 5, 2009.

61.
Quest for Camelot,
The Hotline
, January 14, 2010.

62.
“Jimmy Carter Speaks Out Against Anti-Obama Racism,”
NBC Nightly News
, September 15, 2009.

63.
Video: “Are We Running Out of Oil?,”
The Nation
, January 5, 2011, available at
http://www.thenation.com/video/157441/are-we-running-out-oil
.

64.
The Best Notable Quotables of 1998, Media Research Center, available at
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/1998/best1-3.asp
.

65.
Lonnae O’Neal Parker,
I’m Every Woman: Remixed Stories of Marriage, Motherhood, and Work
(Amistad, 2005), 105.

66.
Inside Washington
, NPR, July 8, 1995, available at
http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor1999/
welcomeaward6.asp
.

67.
See, e.g., “Empty Promise,”
New York Post
, June 1, 2008; “A Celebrity Exodus over Bush Win: Now That’s Entertainment,”
Chicago Tribune
, December 6, 2000.

68.
See, e.g., Matthew L. Wald, “T.W.A. Crash Investigators Ridicule a Missile Theory and Pin Hopes on Research,”
New York Times
, March 14, 1997; George Johnson, “Pierre, Is That a Masonic Flag on the Moon?,”
New York Times
, November 24, 1996.

69.
George Rush and Joanna Molloy, “Monica Rules Out Prez Reunion,”
Daily News
(New York), January 13, 2000.

70.
Todd S. Purdum, “G.O.P. Candidates Taking Streisand Shots,”
New York Times
, October 17, 2002.

71.
Remarks by President Barack Obama at a Democratic National Committee (DNC) Fundraiser Dinner (as Released by the White House), Federal News Service, October 20, 2009.

72.
Foreign Policy Implications of U.S. Efforts to Address the International Financial Crisis (111th Congress, 1st Sess.) (2009) (Hearing of the Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee), Federal News Service, June 10, 2009.

73.
Bill O’Reilly, “Talking Points Memo and Top Story,” Fox News, February 26, 2009.

THREE.
CONTRADICTIONS:
YOU CAN LEAD A MOB TO WATER, BUT YOU CAN’T MAKE IT THINK

1.
Gustave Le Bon,
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
(Dover, 2002)(1895), 30–31.

2.
“No Prison for Libby,”
American Morning
, CNN, July 3, 2007. (Senator Hillary Clinton: “And what we saw today was elevating cronyism over the rule of law.”)

3.
Matthew Saltmarsh, “Soros to Get a Day in Court over Insider Trading Case,”
New York Times
, September 16, 2010.

4.
“Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own ‘Inconvenient Truth,’ ” Tennessee Center for Policy Research, February 25, 2007, available at
http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/tag/al-gore/
.

5.
Keith Olbermann,
Countdown
, MSNBC, October 23, 2006.

6.
“Keeping Emotions Under Control at Jogger Trial,”
New York Times
, July 2, 1990.

7.
Dennis Duggan, “The Cool, Meticulous Prosecutor,”
Newsday
(New York), July 3, 1990.

8.
Chapin Wright, “Tawana Brawley Greets 2 Defendants,”
Newsday
(New York), July 31, 1990.

9.
“Trial Sets Alight a Bonfire of Profanities,”
Courier-Mail
, August 1, 1990; Richard Bernstein, “The Arts Catch Up with a Society in Disarray,”
New York Times
, September 2, 1990.

10.
Emily Sachar, “Split Verdicts at 2nd Central Park Trial,”
Newsday
(New York), December 12, 1990.

11.
“Keeping Emotions Under Control at Jogger Trial.”

12.
John Kifner, “Tension in Brooklyn; Blacks March by Hasidim Through a Corridor of Blue,”
New York Times
, August 25, 1991.

13.
David Herszenhorn, “Alan Grayson, the Liberals’ Problem Child,”
New York Times
, October 31, 2009.

14.
“Investigating the President: Ken Starr Fights Back,”
Larry King Live
, CNN, June 16, 1998.

15.
James Carville on the investigating of the president,
Larry King Live
, CNN, February 23, 1998.

16.
Pete Yost, “Prosecutors Strike Back at White House,” Associated Press,
The Star-Ledger
(Newark, NJ), February 25, 1998.

17.
David Tell, Editorial: “Sid Vicious,”
The Weekly Standard
, May 11, 1998.

18.
Talk of the Nation: “Where Do We Go Next?,” NPR, May 11, 2009.

19.
“A Conversation with Larry Summers,”
The Charlie Rose Show
, August 21, 2007.

20.
Keith Olbermann,
Countdown
, MSNBC, April 4, 2007.

21.
Bill Maher (guest host), “Scandal and Politics,”
Larry King Live
, CNN, January 13, 2006.

22.
Talk of the Nation: “The Making of a Successful Justice,” NPR, November 3, 2005.

23.
“Flip-Flopping in Politics,” Weekend Edition, Sunday National Public Radio (NPR), August 8, 2004.

24.
Jim Lehrer, “Terrorism on Trial,”
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
, PBS, May 29, 2001.

25.
“Will Edwards Be Kerry’s Running Mate?,”
Capital Gang
, CNN, February 28, 2004.

26.
Peter Schweizer,
Architects of Ruin: How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy—and How They Will Do It Again if No One Stops Them
(HarperCollins, 2009), 111–18.

27.
Chris Matthews,
Hardball
, MSNBC, April 16, 2010.

28.
Keith Olbermann,
Countdown
, MSNBC, March 31, 2010.

29.
Interview with Representative Barney Frank,
The Rachel Maddow Show
, MSNBC, June 25, 2010.

30.
Interview with Elizabeth Warren,
The Rachel Maddow Show
, MSNBC, September 14, 2009.

31.
George Stephanopoulos, “Sunday Headliner: John Edwards,”
This Week
, ABC, June 15, 2008 (affair first reported by the
National Enquirer
in October 2007; “Edwards Admits Affair, but Denies Paternity of Child,” August 8, 2008; “Edwards Admits Paternity of Love Child,” August 14, 2009).

32.
Video and transcript at Noel Sheppard, “Bob Schieffer: I Didn’t Ask Holder About Black Panther Case Because I Just Didn’t Know About It,” Newsbusters, July 18, 2010, available at
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/07/18/bob-schieffer-i-didnt-ask-holder-about-black-panther-case-because-i-just-didnt-know-about-it#ixzz1CZmMlEuV
.

33.
Madison Gray, “The L.A. Riots: 15 Years After Rodney King: Reginald Denny,”
Time
, 2007, available at
http://205.188.238.181/time/specials/2007/la_riot/article/
0,28804,1614117_1614084_1614511,00.html
.

34.
Seth Mydans, “Jury Acquits 2 on Most Charges in Beatings in Los Angeles Riots,”
New York Times
, October 19, 1993.

35.
See, e.g., Jay Nordlinger, “Shrill Waters,”
National Review
, January 25, 1999.

36.
Greg Miller and Josh Meyer, “Interrogation Memos Opened,”
Chicago Tribune
, April 17, 2009.

37.
Stephen Holden, “At Human Rights Film Festival, Horror and Hope,”
New York Times
, June 8, 2006.

38.
A. O. Scott, “Taking a Long, Bumpy Ride to Systematic Brutality,”
New York Times
, January 18, 2008.

39.
Editorial: “Justice 5, Brutality 4,”
New York Times
, June 13, 2008.

40.
“Trucker Beaten in Riot Is Hospitalized Again,” Associated Press,
New York Times
, June 18, 1992.

41.
“5th Man Held in Los Angeles in Beating of a Truck Driver,”
New York Times
, June 20, 1992.

42.
“60 Arrested in Disturbance at Site of Los Angeles Riots,”
New York Times
, December 15, 1992.