Post-American Presidency (49 page)

9
. Paul Krugman, “The Town Hall Mob,”
New York Times,
August 6, 2009.

10
. Maureen Dowd, “Boy, Oh, Boy,”
New York Times,
September 12, 2009.

11
. Greg Bluestein, “Carter Cites ‘Racism’ in Wilson Outburst,” Associated Press, September 16, 2009.

12
. Katharine Q. Seelye, “Obama Wades Into a Volatile Racial Issue,”
New York Times,
July 23, 2009.

13
. Pamela Geller, “Obama’s Race Baiting Must End,” Newsmax, July 27, 2009.

14
. Tim Craig and Michael D. Shear, “Allen Quip Provokes Outrage, Apology: Name Insults Webb Volunteer,”
Washington Post,
August 15, 2006.

15
. “Biden explains Indian-American remarks,” Associated Press, July 7, 2006.

16
. Thomas Lifson, “Barack Obama, Laughingstock,”
American Thinker,
August 2, 2009.

17
. Charles M. Blow, “Hate in a Cocoon of Silence,”
New York Times,
June 12, 2009.

18
. Dave Eberhart, “Pelosi Video: Healthcare Protesters Tote Swastikas,” Newsmax, August 6, 2009.

19
. Sam Stein, “Pelosi Protesters, Including Kid In Stroller, Compare Obama To Hitler,” Huffington Post, August 7, 2009,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/07
/pelosi-protesters-includi_n_253762.html
.

20
. Bill Press, “The Tea Baggers Are Back—Crazy as Ever,”
Hartford Courant,
August 6, 2009.

21
. David Goldstein, “Emotions Spill at Town Halls on Health Care,”
Kansas City Star,
August 7, 2009.

22
. Carrie Budoff Brown, “White House to Democrats: ‘Punch back twice as hard,’” Politico.com, August 6, 2009,
http://www.politico.com/news
/stories/0809/25891.html
.

23
. “Kathy Castor - Healthcare Town Hall Meeting in Tampa - 8/6,” YouTube, August 6, 2009,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kxaGfClPws
&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fatlasshrugs2000.
typepad.com%2Fatlas_shrugs%2F2009
%2F08%2Fobamas-union-thugs
-are-beating-people-up-at-
town-hall-meetings.html&
feature=player_embedded#t=217
.

24
. “Dems Sneak Union Thugs Into Carnahan Town Hall—Tea Party Taxpayers Locked Out!,” YouTube, August 6, 2009,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJhR3T4aw
&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fatlasshrugs2000
.typepad.com%2Fatlas_shrugs%2F2009
%2F08%2Fthe-obama-auguar-psyop
-democrats-begin-to-pack-town
-hall-meetings-with-a&feature
=player_embedded
.

25
. “Union Thugs Deliver Unprovoked Beating on Black Conservative at Carnahan Town Hall,” St. Louis Tea Party, August 7, 2009,
http://stlouisteaparty.com/2009/08/07/
union-thugs-deliver-unprovoked-beating
-on-black-conservative-at-
carnahan-town-hall/
.

26
. Leah Thorsen, “Six People, Including P-D Reporter, Arrested at Carnahan Meeting,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
August 6, 2009.

27
. “Committees And Candidates Supported/Opposed: SEIU COPE (Service Employees International Union Committee on Political Education),” Federal Election Commission, n.d.,
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin
/com_supopp/2007_C00004036
.

28
. Michael Mishak, “Unplugged: The SEIU Chief on the Labor Movement and the Card Check,”
Las Vegas Sun,
May 10, 2009.

29
. Pamela Geller, “Obama and Blago… and the SEIU,” AtlasShrugs.com, December 10, 2008,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2008/12/obama-and-blago.html
.

30
. Jackie Calmes, “Lawmakers Detail Obama’s Pitch,”
New York Times,
November 7, 2009.

31
. Helen Kennedy, “President Obama Insult by Glenn Beck has Advertisers Boycotting Show,”
Daily News
(New York), August 18, 2009.

32
. Richard Leiby, “Obama Delivers the Zingers at Journalists’ Dinner,”
Washington Post,
May 10, 2009.

33
. Howard Kurtz, “Study: Coverage of McCain Much More Negative Than That of Obama,”
Washington Post,
October 22, 2008.

34
. Alexander Burns, “Halperin at Politico/USC conf.: ‘extreme pro-Obama’ press bias,” Politico, November 22, 2008,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/
1108/15885.html#xzz0WPq5PGFN
.

35
. “Most Voters Say News Media Wants Obama to Win,” The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, October 22, 2008,
http://people-press.org/report
/463/media-wants-obama
.

36
. Fred Lucas, “Poll: Big Majorities Say Objective Journalism Is Dead and that Media Back Obama,” CNS News, September 25, 2009.

37
. Jeff Poor, “Obama Blasts Fox News: ‘I’ve Got One Television Station that is Entirely Devoted to Attacking My Administration,’” Business & Media Institute, June 16, 2009.

38
. Brian Stelter, “Fox’s Volley With Obama Intensifying,” FOXNews.com, October 11, 2009.

39
. “Obama Team Continues Effort to Isolate Fox News,” FOXNews.com, October 18, 2009.

40
. Ibid.

41
. Johanna Newman, “The Obama War Against Fox News: Risky Business?”
Los Angeles Times,
October 19, 2009.

42
. James Gordon Meek, “Obama’s Team Again Rips Fox News—But Says Aides Will Appear on Shows,”
Daily News
(New York), October 19, 2009.

43
. “Obama Team Continues Effort to Isolate Fox News.”

44
. “Obama Compares Fox News to Talk Radio, Says He’s Not ‘Losing Sleep’ Over Controversy,” FOXNews.com, October 21, 2009.

45
. Peter Nicholas, “Democratic Consultant Says He Got a Warning from White House After Appearing on Fox News,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 6, 2009.

46
. John Fontana, “Bill giving Obama power to shut Web takes on new tone,” Computer-World, August 31, 2009.

47
. Jaikumar Vijayan, “Privacy Office approves laptop searches without suspicion at U.S. borders,” ComputerWorld, August 31, 2009.

48
. Kyle Smith, “Gag the Internet!,”
New York Post,
July 11, 2009.

49
. Ibid.

50
. Kerry Picket, “New AG Choice Advocated To Stifle Speech On Web,” Newsbusters.com, November 21, 2008.

51
. Macon Phillips, “Facts Are Stubborn Things,” WhiteHouse.gov, August 4, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
blog/facts-are-stubborn-things/
.

52
. “Sen. Cornyn Sends Letter To President Obama About ‘Fishy’ Activities Program,” John Cornyn website, August 5, 2009,
http://cornyn.senate.gov//files/12/58/23/f125823/public/index.
cfm?FuseAction=ForPress.NewsReleases
&ContentRecord_id=ebc2c77d-802a-23ad
-4ae4-6ccf4c7a255c&ContentType_id
=b94acc28-404a-4fc6-b143-a9e15bf92da4
&Group_id=24eb5606-e2db
-4d7f-bf6c-efc5df80b676&MonthDisplay
=8&YearDisplay=2009
.

53
. Erick Erickson, “John Cornyn Takes on Obama’s [email protected] Program, But Wait! There’s More with the NTIA,” RedState.com, August 5, 2009,
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/08/05/john
-cornyn-takes-on-obamas-
flagwhitehousegov-program-but-
wait-theres-more-with-the-ntia/
.

54
. Jake Tapper, “Political Punch,” ABCNews.com, August 10, 2009.

55
. Audrey Hudson, “EXCLUSIVE: W.H. Collects Web Users’ Data Without Notice,”
Washington Times,
September 16, 2009.

56
. Jacqui Cheng, “EFF: MySpace suicide charges a threat to free speech,” Ars Technica, August 4, 2008,
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/
news/2008/08/eff-myspace
-suicide-charges-a-threat-
to-free-speech.ars
.

57
. “H.R. 1966 - Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act,” available at
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/
111-h1966/text
.

58
. Eugene Volokh, “Federal Felony To Use Blogs, the Web, Etc. To Cause Substantial Emotional Distress Through ‘Severe, Repeated, and Hostile’ Speech?” Volokh Conspiracy, April 30, 2009,
http://volokh.com/
posts/1241122059.html
.

59
. Rep. Linda Sanchez, “Protecting Victims, Preserving Freedoms,” Huffington Post, May 6, 2009.

60
. “H.R. 1966 - Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act.”

61
. Ryan Singel, “FCC Backs Net Neutrality—And Then Some,” Wired.com, September 21, 2009,
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09
/net-neutrality-announcement/
.

62
. Ibid.

63
. James G. Lakely, “‘Net Neutrality’ Is Socialism, Not Freedom,”
Examiner
(Washington), October 20, 2009.

64
. Glenn Beck, “The Radicals on the Left Want You to Shut Up,” Fox News, August 13, 2009.

65
. Pamela Geller, “Free Speech Silenced at Columbia and Princeton,”
American Thinker,
November 24, 2009.

66
. William J. Becker, Jr., “The American Library Association’s Stealth Jihad Against Free Speech,” FrontPageMagazine.com, October 9, 2009.

67
. Pamela Geller, “Free Speech Code Blue: Geert Wilders Goes on Trial January 2010,” AtlasShrugs.com, September 12, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/09/free-speech-code-blue-geert
-wilders-goes-on-trial-january-2010.html
; Pamela Geller, “Geert Wilders Arrested! Refused Entry,” AtlasShrugs.com, February 12, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/02/geert-wilders-
arrested-refused-entry.html
; Pamela Geller, “Wilders Liberated to Travel to UK! Coming to Columbia University Next Week,” AtlasShrugs.com, October 13, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/10/wilders-liberated-to-travel
-to-uk-coming-to-columbia
-university-next-week.html
; Pamela Geller, “Self Imposed Noose Tightens on the West: Another Wilders Ban,” AtlasShrugs.com, November 22, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
2009/11/self-imposed-noose-tightens
-on-the-west-another-wilders-ban.html
.

68
. “Reaction to the decision in the pre-trial review,” WildersOnTrial.com, February 3, 2010,
http://www.wildersontrial.com/index.php?option
=com_content&view=section&
layout=blog&id=4&Itemid=2
.

ELEVEN: SOCIALIST AMERICA

1
. “Obama College Thesis: ‘Constitution is Inherently Flawed,’” Jumping In Pools, August 25, 2009,
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/08/
obama-college-thesis-constitution-is.html
.

2
. Michael Ledeen, “The Obama ‘thesis’ hoax,” Pajamas Media, October 23, 2009,
http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/10/
23/the-obama-thesis-hoax/
.

3
. “Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered,” Barack Obama interview, WBEZ-FM, 2001, YouTube, October 26, 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck&
feature=player_embedded
.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Ibid.

7
. “The next campaign,”
Progressive Populist,
November 1996,
http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html
.

8
. Stanley Kurtz, “Life of the New Party,”
National Review,
October 30, 2008.

9
. Bob Roman, “A Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity: Employment and Survival in Urban America,”
New Ground
45, March-April 1996,
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html
.

10
. Carl Shier, “So Long, Saul, Old Friend,”
New Ground
58, May-June 1998,
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng58.html
.

11
. John Berlau, “Nationalization Review,”
American Spectator,
June 23, 2009.

12
. “Krauthammer’s Take,”
National Review,
May 20, 2009.

13
. John Lott, “The Nationalization of the US auto industry,” John Lott’s Website, April 28, 2009,
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2009/04/
nationalization-of-us-auto-industry.html
.

14
. Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, “The Young Turn Against Obamacare,” DickMorris.com, November 24, 2009.

15
. Pamela Geller, “Obamacare DOA: Rx America, A Doctor’s Prescription,” AtlasShrugs.com, September 20, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/09/obamacare-doa-rx-america.html
.

16
. Robert Creamer,
Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win
(Santa Ana, Calif.: Seven Locks Press, 2007); Joel B. Pollak, “Was Democrats’ Health Care Strategy Written In Federal Prison?” Big Government, December 7, 2009.

17
. Sarah Palin, “Statement on the Current Health Care Debate,” Sarah Palin’s Notes, Facebook.com, August 7, 2009.