Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! (33 page)

16
. Richard Goldstein, “Sexual McCarthyism: Lurid Revelations, Crude Moralizing, Perjury Traps: They All Echo America’s Darkest Days,”
Village Voice
, September 29, 1998.

17
. Kathy Kiely, “The Prez Sleuth Terry Lenzner Made a Name Exposing Dirty Tricksters. But Now This Ex–New Yorker Is Accused of Being One,”
New York Daily News
, March 8, 1998.

18
. John M. Broder, “White House and Starr Clash on Subpoenas,”
New York Times
, February 25, 1998.

19
. Ann Coulter, “Between Consenting Adulteries: Bill Clinton’s Bimbo M.O.,”
Human Events
, February 6, 1998.

20
. Jonathan Broder and Harry Jaffe, “Clinton’s Sexual Scorched-Earth Plan,”
Salon.com
, August 5, 1998,
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/08/05news.html
.

21
. David Talbot, “ ‘This Hypocrite Broke Up My Family,’ ”
Salon.com
, September 16, 1998,
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/09/cov_16newsb.html
.

22
. “Why We Ran the Henry Hyde Story,” editorial,
Salon.com
, September 16, 1998,
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/09/16newsc.html
.

23
. Larry Flynt,
Sex, Lies & Politics: The Naked Truth
(New York: Kensington Books, 2004), 13–14.

24
. Ibid., 16.

25
. David Neiwert, “Lives of the Republicans, Part Two,”
Salon.com
, September 16, 1998,
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/09/16news.html
.

26
. Jason Vest, “Secret Lives of the Republicans, Part One,”
Salon.com
, September 11, 1998,
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/09/11newsb.html
.

27
. Darrell M. West,
The Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), 100.

28
. Dan Savage, “Stalking Gary Bauer,”
Salon.com
, January 25, 2000,
http://dir.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/01/25/bauer/index.html
.

29
. “The Firestorm over ‘Stalking Gary Bauer,’ ” editorial,
Salon.com
, January 29, 2000,
http://dir.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/01/29/savage_reaction/index.html
.

1
. Kevin Sack, “The 43rd President: After the Vote—A Special Report,”
New York Times
, December 15, 2000.

2
. Richard S. Dunham, “Who Says Bush Has a Mandate? Bush,”
BusinessWeek.com
, February 20, 2001,
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2001/nf20010220_680.htm
.

3
. “What Mr. Bush Can Do,” editorial,
New York Times
, December 15, 2000.

4
. Ann Coulter,
Slander
(New York: Crown Publishers, 2002), 33–34.

5
. Maureen Dowd, “Liberties; Mexico Likes Us!,”
New York Times
, May 6, 2001.

6
. Howard Fineman, “A President Finds His True Voice,”
Newsweek
, September 24, 2001,
http://www.newsweek.com/2001/09/23/a-president-finds-his-true-voice.html
.

7
. Richard L. Berke, “A Nation Challenged: The Democrats; Bush Winning Gore Backers’ High Praises,”
New York Times
, October 20, 2001.

8
. Laura Ingraham,
Shut Up and Sing
(Washington: Regnery, 2003), 77–78.

9
. Greg Pierce,
Washington Times
, January 23, 2003, available at
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-939012/Marching-orders.html
.

10
. Ingraham,
Shut Up and Sing
, 77–83.

11
. Bernard Zuel, “Lights, Camera, Take Action: Sarandon Rallies the Arts,”
Sydney Morning Herald
, November 19, 2002.

12
. Jay Stone, “Sundance Still Relevant,”
Vancouver Sun
, January 21, 2003.

13
. Tim Robbins, “A Chill Wind Is Blowing in This Nation…,”
CommonDreams.org
, April 15, 2003,
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0416-01.htm
.

14
. Sean Penn, “An Open Letter to the President of the United States of America: Advertisement,”
Washington Post
, October 18, 2002.

15
. Dinesh D’Souza,
The Enemy At Home
(New York: Broadway Books, 2007), 50.

16
. Andrew Sullivan, “Why Is This Race Even Close?”
Salon.com
, November 6, 2000,
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/feature/2000/11/06/bush
.

17
. Andrew Sullivan, “Stand By Our Man,”
Salon.com
, September 18, 2001,
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/feature/2001/09/18/bush
.

18
. Andrew Sullivan, “War Is Declared,” The Daily Dish,
TheAtlantic.com
, February 24, 2004,
http://sullivanarchives.theatlantic.com/index.php.dish_inc-archives.2004_02_22_dish_archive.html
.

19
. Rob Reiner, “Where Have You Gone, Woodward & Bernstein?”
HuffingtonPost.com
, May 10, 2005,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-reiner/where-have-you-gone-woodw_b_579.html
.

1
. Theodore Roosevelt, “Who Is a Progressive?” April 1912, available at
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1199
.

2
. Theodore Roosevelt, “The New Nationalism,” 1910, available at
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=501
.

3
. Quoted in Thomas E. Woods,
33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask
(New York: Crown Forum, 2007), 138.

4
. Ronald J. Pestritto,
Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 75.

5
. Ronald J. Pestritto,
Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 78.

6
. Christopher Lasch,
Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1995), 86.

7
. As quoted in Chilton Williamson,
The Conservative Bookshelf
(Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 2005), 296.

8
. Max Horkheimer,
Critical Theory: Selected Essays
(New York: Continuum, 2002), 207.

9
. Ibid., 218–19.

10
. As quoted in Patrick Buchanan,
The Death of the West
(New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2001), 86.

11
. Adam Cohen, “What’s Hot on This BBC Podcast? The Siege of Munster (1534–35),”
New York Times
, February 17, 2010.

12
. Erich Fromm,
The Fear of Freedom
(London: Routledge, 1984), 241.

13
. Ibid., 145–46.

14
. Wilhelm Reich,
The Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-Governing Character Structure
(New York: Macmillan, 1962), 77–78, 111, 184.

15
. Thomas Maier,
Dr. Spock: An American Life
(New York: Basic Books, 2003), 112, 458.

16
. Theodor Adorno,
The Culture Industry
(London: Routledge, 2003), 99.

17
. Jonah Goldberg,
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Change
(New York: Broadway Books, 2007), 175.

18
. Herbert Marcuse,
Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1966), 81, 226.

19
. Herbert Marcuse,
An Essay on Liberation
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), 46–47.

20
. Herbert Marcuse, “Repressive Tolerance,” in Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr., and Herbert Marcuse,
A Critique of Pure Tolerance
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), 95–137.

21
. Mao Zedong, “Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?” May 1963. Pamphlet, Foreign Languages Press, 1966, 3 pages.

22
. Harry Chatten Boyte and Nancy N. Kari,
Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996), 102.

23
. “Essay: Radical Saul Alinsky: Prophet of Power to the People,”
Time
, March 2, 1970.

24
. Saul D. Alinsky,
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
(New York: Vintage Books, 1989).

25
. Ibid., xiii, xvi, xxi.

26
. Ibid., xix.

27
. Ibid., xxiv–xxv.

28
. Ibid., 4.

29
. Ibid., 21.

30
. Ibid., 9–10.

31
. Ibid., 6.

32
. Ibid., 17.

33
. Ibid., 33.

34
. Ibid., 60.

35
. Ibid., 136–138.

36
. Ibid., 139.

1
.
Real Time with Bill Maher
, March 13, 2009, HBO.

2
. Jack Cashill, “Who Wrote
Dreams from My Father
?” American Thinker, October 9, 2008,
www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html
.

1
. Andrew Breitbart, “Couric Should Look in Mirror,”
Washington Times
, September 7, 2009.

2
. “ACORN Fires 2 Employees After Hidden Camera Stunt,”
WBALTV.com
, September 10, 2009,
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/20841755/detail.html
.

3
. Jake Tapper, “Census Severs Relationship with ACORN,”
ABCNews.com
, September 11, 2009,
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/census-severs-relationship-with-acorn.html
.

4
. “Congress Votes to Strip ACORN of Federal Funding,”
FoxNews.com
, September 15, 2009,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/17/congress-votes-strip-acorn-federal-funding/
.

5
. “Issa Releases Investigative Report Finding ACORN Still Alive and Well,”
Republicans.oversight.house.gov
, April 1, 2010.

1
. “Fear or Loathing: Democrats Raise Specter of Swastikas to Cancel Town Meetings,”
FoxNews.com
, August 6, 2009,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/06/fear-loathing-democrats-raise-specter-swastikas-cancel-town-halls/
.

2
. Andrew Breitbart, “2010: A Race Odyssey—Disproving a Negative for Cash Prizes or, How the Civil Rights Movement Jumped the Shark,”
BigGovernment.com
, March 25, 2010,
http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/03/25/2010-a-race-odyssey-disproving-a-negative-for-cash-prizes-or-how-the-civil-rights-movement-jumped-the-shark/
.

1
. Greg Sargent, “Source: ABC’s Newsroom Upset with Decision to Tap Andrew Breitbart,” The Plum Line,
WashingtonPost.com
, October 30, 2010,
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/source_abcs_newsroom_upset_wit.html
.

2
. Matt Gertz, “Failing Upward: Breitbart to Be Featured in ABC’s 2010 Election Coverage,”
MediaMatters.org
, October 29, 2010,
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010290035
.

3
. Oliver Burkeman, “US Midterms Diary: John McCain’s Penthouse Put-Down,”
Guardian
(UK), November 1, 2010,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/01/midterms-diary-mccain-reid-palin
.

4
. Michael Calderone, “Breitbart, ABC News Spar over His Election Night Role,” The Upshot,
Yahoo.com
, November 1, 2010,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101101/el_yblog_upshot/breitbart-abc-news-spar-over-election-night-role
.

*
Tom Wolfe famously wrote about this elitist poseurism in
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
, which, if you haven’t read it, is a must.

*
You might recall one of James’s college stunts. To highlight the Kafkaesque extremes of political correctness Rutgers had descended into, James, of Irish descent, decided to complain to the college administration about the serving of Lucky Charms cereal in the school cafeteria. The school agreed, pulling the “offensive” cereal with that “degrading” leprechaun on the box from its shelves.

*
It’s the same mistake any start-up Internet or New Media company makes—to say to the audience, “We want you to come here and we want you to stay here,” as though you’re the only site on the Internet. With a singular, potentially viral product like a video, the far better strategy is—to quote another famous salesman—“Spread the wealth around.”

*
Talk about an apostate to the left—Patrick’s former partner is Shepard Fairey, the guy who designed the Obama “Hope” poster.

*
The
Wall Street Journal
summed up Harshbarger’s behavior in that infamous case when Amirault was released after nearly two decades in prison: “Along the way, the law was stood on its head. The rules of evidence were changed to accommodate the prosecution; the burden of proof was put on the accused. Four- and five-year-olds were coached to say what adults wanted to hear. One of the reasons behind the district attorney’s decision last week not to oppose Mr. Amirault’s release on parole was that in order to have him classified as a ‘sexually dangerous person’ there would have had to be a virtual retrial of the entire Amirault case. The DA had to have been deterred by the prospect of parading into a courtroom with the incredible fantasies extracted from Mr. Amirault’s alleged victims—about secret rooms, magic drinks, animal butchery, assaults by a bad clown. Then District Attorney Scott Harshbarger had offered them as ‘proof’ of the Amiraults’ guilt.”

*
Never heard the term? No, it’s not an exotic cocktail served at the Watergate Hotel bar. You’ll have to Google it, I’m afraid.