Demonic (51 page)

52.
See, e.g., Andrew McCarthy, “Iraq & al Qaeda: The 9/11 Commission Raises More Questions Than It Answers,”
National Review
, June 17, 2004.

53.
Le Bon, 32.

FIVE.
I’LL SEE YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE CONSPIRACY THEORY AND RAISE YOU ONE OCTOBER SURPRISE

1.
John Avlon, “The ‘Birthers’ Began on the Left,” The Daily Beast, February 8, 2010.

2.
Jaymes Song, “Hawaii Again Declares Obama Birth Certificate Real,” Associated Press, July 28, 2009.

3.
“Obama Tells Ohio Plumber He Favors ‘Spreading Wealth’ to Poor,”
The Frontrunner
, October 15, 2008.

4.
Gabriel Winant, “The Birthers in Congress,” Salon, July 28, 2009, available at
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/28/birther_enablers
.

5.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg and James Dao, “Congress Ratifies Bush Victory After a Rare Challenge,”
New York Times
, January 7, 2005.

6.
Byron York, “Democrats and the
Fahrenheit 9/11
Trap: Do They Endorse Michael Moore’s Kookiness?,”
National Review
, June 24, 2004, available at
http://old.nationalreview.com/york/york200406240908.asp
.

7.
Dana Milbank, “Democrats Play House to Rally Against the War,”
Washington Post
, June 17, 2005.

8.
See Federal Judicial Center,
http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/topics_ji_bdy
:

Harry E. Claiborne, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, July 22, 1986, on charges of income tax evasion and of remaining on the bench following criminal conviction; convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, October 9, 1986.

Alcee L. Hastings, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, August 3, 1988, on charges of perjury and conspiring to solicit a bribe; convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, October 20, 1989.

Walter L. Nixon, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, May 10, 1989, on charges of perjury before a federal grand jury; convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, November 3, 1989.

9.
Steve Weinberg, “The October Surprise: Enter the Press,”
Columbia Journalism Review
, March/April, 1992.

10.
Flora Lewis, “The Wiles of Teheran,”
New York Times
, August 3, 1987.

11.
Gary Sick, “The Election Story of the Decade,”
New York Times
, April 15, 1991.

12.
Marilyn Milloy and Gaylord Shaw, “Carter Urges Probe of Hostage Story,”
Newsday
(New York), April 26, 1991.

13.
Frank Snepp, “Brenneke Exposed,”
Village Voice
, September 10, 1991.

14.
Michael Tackett, “With a Uniform and a Line, Gunther Russbacher Eased His Way into the Confidence of Military and Law Enforcement Officials,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 17, 1992.

15.
Robert G. Kaiser, “Circus: From ‘Nightline’ to Obscurity the Washington Way,”
Washington Post
, June 24, 1984.

16.
Steve Emerson and Jesse Furman, “The Conspiracy That Wasn’t,”
New Republic
, November 18, 1991.

17.
Judith Cummings, “Friends Say Feminist Heroine Is Sincere if Eccentric,”
New York Times
, August 30, 1983.

18.
Marilyn Milloy and Gaylord Shaw, “Carter Urges Probe of Hostage Story,”
Newsday
(New York), April 26, 1991.

19.
All this is available on the Internet!
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/
the_oral_deposition_of_richard_j._brenneke_6-21-91.html
.

20.
Nightline
, ABC, June 20, 1991.

21.
Jim Drinkard, “House Approves Probe of Alleged 1980 Hostage Deal,” Associated Press, February 5, 1992.

22.
Text of KGB Letter on Senator Ted Kennedy,
Freerepublic.com
(citing Kengor at p. 317).

23.
Steve Emerson and Jesse Furman, “The Conspiracy That Wasn’t,”
New Republic
, November 18, 1991.

24.
John Barry, “Making of a Myth,”
Newsweek
, November 11, 1991.

25.
Steven Emerson, “Gary Sick’s Bald-Faced Lies,”
The American Spectator
, March 1993.

26.
Committee on Foreign Relations 1992, 115 (cited in Daniel Pipes, “Remember Ronald Reagan’s October Surprise? It Never Happened,” History News Network, March 29, 2004, available at
http://hnn.us/articles/4249.html
).

27.
Daniel Pipes,
Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia
, 2003, available at
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1654
(citing Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 53).

28.
Gary Sick, “Last Word on the October Surprise?,”
New York Times
, January 24, 1993.

29.
Daniel Pipes, “Gary Sick’s Same Old Song,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 2, 1991: “But Mr. Sick seems to have forgotten his own thinking. Here is a statement he made, quoted by the
Rocky Mountain News
on Oct. 30, 1988—at the very peak of the 1988 presidential campaign—in which he discussed the possibility of a hostage deal: “ ‘At first I dismissed this, but not any more. I’m convinced on the basis of what I heard that there were some meetings in Paris. I know that the Iranians changed their policy at that time.’ Just over a month before that, on Aug. 26, 1988, Mr. Sick told the
New York Daily News
in a telephone interview: ‘There is something here. I just don’t know how much.’ ”

30.
Kenneth R. Timmerman, “October Surprise, Part 3: Clinton Sought Dirt on W’s Dad,” World Net Daily, September 27, 2000, available at
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=6748
.

31.
Le Bon, 14.

SIX.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION:
WHEN LIBERALS ATTACK

1.
Gustave Le Bon,
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
(Dover, 2002) (1895), 22.

2.
Christopher Hibbert,
The Days of the French Revolution
(Harper Perennial 1999), 65–82.

3.
Alexander Hamilton,
Writings
(Library of America, 2001) (letter dated October 6, 1789), 521.

4.
Stefan Zweig,
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
(Grove Press, 2002), 60–61.

5.
Ibid., 73.

6.
Le Bon, 38.

7.
See, e.g., Zweig, 29.

8.
Zweig, 105.

9.
Ibid., 114.

10.
Ibid., 62.

11.
Ibid., 289.

12.
“At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, ‘Then let them eat pastry!’ ” Jean Jacques Rousseau,
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
(paperback) (Nabu Press, 2010), 220.

13.
Zweig, 259–60.

14.
Hibbert, 100.

15.
Hibbert, 101.

16.
Kennedy, 194.

17.
See, e.g., T. Jeremy Gunn, “Religious Freedom and Laicite: A Comparison of the United States and France,”
Brigham Young University Law Review
, January 1, 2004.

18.
Michael L. Kennedy,
The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution, 1793–1795
(Berghahn Books, 2000), 164–66.

19.
Erik Durschmied,
The Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini
(Arcade Publishing 2002), 21.

20.
Ibid., 21.

21.
Ibid., 22.

22.
Ibid., 25–27.

23.
Hibbert, 161.

24.
Henry Goudemetz,
Historical Epochs of the French Revolution
(Hard Press, 2006) [No page numbers] available at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2379520/Historical-Epochs-of-the-French-RevolutionWith-The-Judgment-And-Execution-Of-Louis-XVI-King-Of-FranceAnd-A-List-Of-The-Members-Of-The-National-Con#outer_page_124
.

25.
Ibid.

26.
See, e.g., Gunn.

27.
Durschmied, 30.

28.
Hibbert, 170.

29.
See, e.g., Hibbert, 170–71; Durschmied, 30.

30.
Durschmied, 30.

31.
Goudemetz.

32.
G. Lenôtre,
The Tribunal of the Terror: A Study of Paris in 1793–1795
(Paperback) (University of Michigan Library, 1909), 37, available at
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/g-lenotre/the-tribunal-of-the-terror-a-study-of-paris-in-1793-1795-ala/page-4-the-tribunal-of-the-terror-a-study-of-paris-in-1793-1795-ala.shtml
.

33.
Hibbert, 171.

34.
Lenôtre, 35–37; Hibbert, 175.

35.
G. Lenôtre, 35–37; Hibbert, 174.

36.
Lewis Goldsmith Stewarton,
The Female Revolutionary Plutarch, Containing
Biographical, Historical and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters and Anecdotes
(J. & W. Smith, 1808), at 225, available at
http://books.google.com/books?id=95bzlnsVu7cC&pg=PA224&lpg=PA224&dq=goddess+of+reason+Momoro&source=bl&ots=n-ZhPxWwN8&sig=8xsgafh5pvoWvHCBCj92DtMg0_g&hl=
en&ei=5wwkTcX6GsWblgewk9nZCw&sa=X&oi=book_result
&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&qomoro&f=false
.

37.
Charles Buke Yonge,
The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
(Duke, Project Gutenberg, 2004), available at
http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/0/5/5/10555/10555.htm
.