Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them_ A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right - Al Franken [141]
19—Who Created the Tone?
Richard Mellon Scaife’s confrontation with Karen Rothmyer is detailed in Eric Alterman’s What Liberal Media?
Scaife’s profile in the Wall Street Journal ran on October 12, 1995, under the headline “Citizen Scaife: Heir Turned Publisher Uses Financial Largess to Fuel Conservatism.”
The Wall Street Journal does not archive its material on LexisNexis, so its collection of Vincent Foster editorials was accessed on Factiva.com.
The phone number for “The Clinton Chronicles” was printed in the WSJ editorial “The Falwell Tape” on July 19, 1994.
Joseph Sobran’s column, “Inductive Reasoning . . . and Moldering,” ran in the Washington Times on March 5, 1999.
21—Why Did Anyone Think It Would Change?
Some information about the Republican primary campaign in South Carolina came from Rick Davis, who ran the McCain campaign.
Information about Karl Rove’s history comes from Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential by James Moore and Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush by Lou Dubose et al.
22—I Grow Discouraged
Ari Fleischer’s comments about the alleged vandalism were made during his press briefing on January 25, 2001, and in a Boston Herald article, “White House Staffers Left Trail of Trash,” published January 26, 2001. The administration’s efforts to inflame the story were detailed in a January 29, 2001, Slate article, “Was the White House Trashing Story Garbage?” The Washington Times story detailing the porn bombing of the White House, published on January 26, 2001, was entitled “Clinton Aides Accused of Theft, Vandalism.”
A Nexis search of “Fox News Network AND vandalism” from January 24, 2001, to January 31, 2001, reveals that the topic was brought up in at least thirteen different segments. Grover Norquist made his comments on CNN Talkback Live on January 26, 2001.
The GAO report was detailed in several publications, including The New York Times, which ran “White House Vandalism Caper Was Overblown, A Report Finds” on May 19, 2001; and was quoted on Salon.com, which ran “The White House Vandal Scandal That Wasn’t” on May 23, 2001.
The Bush administration’s actions toward Dana Milbank and Thomas Ricks are detailed in The American Prospect’s March 11, 2002, issue, under the headline, “Beat the Press.”
John DiIulio’s memo, reported on in the article “Why Are These Men Laughing?” in the January 2003 issue of Esquire, was obtained in full from the Drudge Report.
Information about the attacks on Tom Daschle comes from The New Republic’s May 12, 2003, article, “Hard Target.”
ABC reported on John Ashcroft’s draping of the statue on January 29, 2002.
23—I’m Prudenized
The Reverend Moon’s self-aggrandizing comments appeared in the November 11, 1995, Ottawa Citizen and the September 8, 2002, Melbourne Sunday Herald-Sun.
John McCaslin’s column in which I was Prudenized ran on May 11, 1999.
24—Paul Gigot Is Unable to Defend an Incredibly Stupid Wall Street Journal Editorial
The editorials cited are as follows: “Gun Control, Ashcroft Style,” February 3, 2003; “Dick Tracy Wins,” January 26, 1994; “Civil Liberties or Civil Security?” December 10, 1993; and “Missing the Target,” May 11, 1994.
Crime statistics are from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports. You can view them yourself at http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm.
Paul Gigot became editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal in 2001. Thus, the last three editorials listed above were published during the tenure of Robert Bartley.
25—“This Was Not A Memorial to Paul Wellstone: A Case Study in Right-Wing Lies
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