Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [149]
Q: Where did it hit him in the leg?
A: I don’t know, like down here, like on the shin or something.
Q: And what did you do when you got home?
A: I told my mother we was playing tag and that’s why I was so dirty.
Q: When you guys went into the park, what were you going into the park for?
A: Just to have fun.
Q: Did you have a good time?
A: Nah, not when we was getting chased.
Q: Before you got chased?
A: Not when we was hitting that man, and everything wasn’t fun then.*
*“Emily Sachar Jogger Jury Sees a Confession,” Newsday (New York), July 19, 1990.
NOTES
ONE. THE LIBERAL MOB
1. Erik Durschmied, The Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini (Arcade Publishing, 2002), 30.
2. George Monbiot, “Why the Police Provoke Crowds,” The Guardian (London), June 20, 1996.
3. “Hay Festival: George Monbiot Calls for Citizen’s Arrest of John Bolton,” Guardian Unlimited, May 25, 2008.
4. Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Dover, 2002) (1895), 69.
5. Ibid., 74.
6. Ibid., 77–78.
7. Ibid., 21–22.
8. Live With Cenk Uygur, MSNBC, February 22, 2011.
9. Live With Cenk Uygur, MSNBC, February 23, 2011.
10. See, e.g., Baird Helgeson, “In Pension and Benefits, Wisconsin Tops Minnesota,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 24, 2011.
11. See, e.g., Jake Tapper, “Obama Says Republicans Cannot Have the Keys Back to the Car: ‘No! You Can’t Drive,’ ” ABC News’s Political Punch, May 13, 2010.
12. Kenneth P. Vogel, “Wall Street Invested Heavily in Obama,” Politico, January 20, 2009.
13. Barack Obama (D): “Top Contributors,” OpenSecrets.org, available at http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid 00009638.
14. Carl Hulse, “The Blackout: Legislation,” New York Times, August 16, 2003.
15. Paul Krugman, “Clueless in Crawford,” New York Times, August 13, 2002.
16. Paul Krugman, “The Ascent of E-Man R.I.P.: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” Fortune, May 24, 1999, available at http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/05/24/
260257/index.htm (“the company’s pride and joy is a room filled with hundreds of casually dressed men and women staring at computer screens and barking into telephones, where cubic feet and megawatts are traded and packaged as if they were financial derivatives”).
17. Le Bon, 30–31.
18. Ibid., 26.
19. Ibid., 26.
20. Al Gore, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (paperback) (Rodale Books, 2006), 325–26. (“[I]t ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.”)
21. See generally, Michael Fumento, “Why the Media Miss the Stem-Cell Story,” Citizen Magazine, May 2005, available at http://www.fumento.com/biotech/stem-cell-story.html.
22. Matthew 27; Luke 23.
TWO. AMERICAN IDOLS: THE MOB’S COMPULSION TO CREATE MESSIAHS
1. Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Dover, 2002) (1895), 38.
2. Ibid., 21–22.
3. Ibid., 30–31.
4. Ibid., 30.
5. Lance Morrow, “Why Is This Man So Popular?,” Time, July 7, 1986 (quoted in Brent Baker, Tim Graham, Rich Noyes, and Jessica Anderson, “Ronald Reagan: The 40th President and the Press: The Record,” Media Research Center, June 14, 2004, available at http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/2004/report0604_p1.asp).
6. Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group, July 12, 1992; on Inside Politics, CNN, July 10, 1992; and on The McLaughlin Group, July 4, 1992 (quoted in “Newsweek Removes Noted Clinton Sycophant from the White House Beat,” MediaWatch, Media Research Center, October 1994).
7. “Gregory Craig Urges Country to Move Beyond Juanita Broaddrick Allegation,” Larry King Live, CNN, March 10, 1999.
8. Jonathan Alter, “President Best Friend,” Newsweek, November 16, 1992.
9. Howard Fineman, “The New Age President,” Newsweek, January 25, 1993.
10. “Media’s Friends of Bill,” Notable Quotables, Media Research Center, August 3, 1992 (quoting Peter Jennings during ABC convention coverage, July 15, 1992).
11. “Time Swoons