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Scott McClellan refused to speculate on the number of civilian casualties on November 9, 2004.
The New York Times reported on the unusual compensation plan for displaced Iraqi families in “Hearts, Minds, and Flood Relief,” published on January 9, 2005.
The revision of the “Patterns of Global Terrorism” report was reported by the Los Angeles Times on June 9, 2004, in an article titled “U.S. Will Revise Data on Terror.” Colin Powell shook his head in dismay on Meet the Press on June 13, 2004.
The report of the Defense Science Board is available on-line at www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2004-09-Strategic_Communication.pdf.
Epilogue: The Resurrection of Hope
Chapter 15: A Letter to My Grandchildren
The statistics on youth voting come from pages 18–19 of the paperback edition of How the Left Lost Teen Spirit (And how they’re getting it back!) by Danny Goldberg.
The information about Democratic victories in state legislatures appeared in USA Today, in a December 14, 2004, piece titled “Dems Gain in ‘Hidden Election.’ ”
Hendrik Hertzberg calculated the total vote for Democratic versus Republican senators for a November 15 New Yorker piece, “Blues.”
The Christian Science Monitor reported on the incredible growth of the Democratic donor base in “In Politics, the Rise of Small Donors,” which ran on June 28, 2004.
The talk radio statistics come from a September 14, 2003, article in the Boston Globe, “Liberal Authors Triumphant as US Bookshelves Lean Left.”
Bill O’Reilly commented on his background in an October 9, 2000, article in the New York Observer titled “Fox News Superstar Bill O’Reilly Wants to Oppose Hillary in 2006!”
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
So many people to thank, so little time. With my radio show and all the other important things I’m doing, I really can’t spend a lot of time or effort acknowledging the colleagues, friends, and experts who helped make this book happen. So I know they’ll understand why these acknowledgments are so perfunctory and slapdash.
First, my editor, Mitch Hoffman, and his assistant editor, Erika Kahn. Thanks. Thanks. My agent, Jonathon Lazear, his assistant, Christi Cardenas, and my lawyer, Gunnar Erickson. Thank you all. Brian Tart, my publisher. Thanks. My wife, Franni. Also, thanks.
Richard Hasselberger did the cover design. Good job. Thanks. Dutton publicists Lisa Johnson and Jean Anne Rose, thanks for the great job on Lies. Let’s not rest on our laurels, okay?
Thanks also to the phenomenal staff of The Al Franken Show. Much of the research for the book was accumulated during the year and a half we’ve been on the air. Tim Bradley, Mark Lotto, Eric Hananoki, Ayo Griffin, Rob Mackey—thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, and thanks. And to Jim Norton, who came up with two of the lies about Sean Hannity—thanks.
Also, to the research interns—Josh Blank, Merle Eisenberg, and Joe Franken—thanks.
The rest of the staff deserves thanks, too. That would be executive producer Gaby Zuckerman, engineer Chris Rosen, associate producer Kate Sullivan, and administrative assistant Molly Patterson. You’re the best. Thanks, thanks, etc., etc.
And the Sundance people, too. Thank you, guys.
To all our guests on The Al Franken Show. Thank you. Especially, David Sirota, Christy Harvey, and Judd Legum from the Center for American Progress. Thanks times three, one for each of you. To our other regular and semiregular guests—Jonathan Alter, David Brock, John Dickerson, Howard Fineman, Paul Glastris, Hendrik Hertzberg, Paul Krugman, Mark Luther, John Markus, Joshua Micah Marshall, Lawrence O’Donnell, Tom Oliphant, Melanie Sloan, and, of course, Joe Conason—I have one word for you all. Thanks.
A special thank-you to my terrific cohost, Katherine Lanpher. You deserve a better acknowledgment. Next book, okay?
Everybody at Air America deserves individual thanks. They won’t get them.