Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control

by Glenn Beck

  “and critical journalists” Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom, FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America (New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), pp. 211–13.

  “on behalf of actual opponents” Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom, FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America (New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), p. 216.

  “consisted of six hundred thousand noncitizens” Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom, FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America (New York: Threshold Editions, 2011), p. 226–29.

  “held disdain for ‘inferior’ peoples” Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).

  “Japanese immigrants were inassimilable” Rafael Medoff. “The Truth About FDR and the Jews,” The Louis D. Brandeis Center For Human Rights Under Law, June 7, 2013, http://brandeiscenter.com/blog/the-truth-about-fdr-and-the-jews/.

  “praised the ‘Teutonic race’ ” John M. Cooper, Jr., Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008), p. 231.

  “the spirit of Fascism here at home” Franklin D. Roosevelt, “State of the Union Message to Congress,” (speech, Washington, D.C., January 11, 1944), The Heritage Foundation, http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/fdrs-second-bill-of-rights.

  “ ‘a mere prelude to revolution’ ” Raymond Moley, How to Keep Our Liberty: A Program for Political Action (New York: Knopf, 1952), pp. 82–83, https://mises.org/library/how-keep-our-liberty.

  “ ‘utterly broken, submissive, and repentant’ ” Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001), p. 456.

  “new city a federal priority” “Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt Glossary: Arthurdale,” The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, George Washington University, accessed May 26, 2016, https://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/arthurdale.cfm.

  “managed by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads” C. J. Maloney, Back to the Land: Arthurdale, FDR’s New Deal, and the Costs of Economic Planning (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011).

  “designed to decentralize American industry” C .J. Maloney, Back to the Land: Arthurdale, FDR’s New Deal, and the Costs of Economic Planning (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011).

  “raising money for the program in Congress” “Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt Glossary: Arthurdale,” The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, George Washington University, accessed May 26, 2016, https://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/arthurdale.cfm.

  “talking about its future course” “Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt Glossary: Arthurdale,” The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, George Washington University, accessed May 26, 2016, https://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/arthurdale.cfm.

  “complete with indoor plumbing” “Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt Glossary: Arthurdale,” The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, George Washington University, accessed May 26, 2016, https://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/arthurdale.cfm.

  “didn’t fit the existing foundations” Tom Stafford, “Looking Back: For Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthurdale Was a Chance to Help,” Springfield News-Sun, August 23, 2010, http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/news/local/looking-back-for-eleanor-roosevelt-arthurdale-was-/nNxD9/.

  “made the homes three hundred percent more expensive” Tom Stafford, “Looking Back: For Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthurdale Was a Chance to Help,” Springfield News-Sun, August 23, 2010, http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/news/local/looking-back-for-eleanor-roosevelt-arthurdale-was-/nNxD9/.

  “ ‘the middle of nowhere’ ” C. J. Maloney, “The Peculiar History of Arthurdale,” Mises Institute, August 8, 2007, https://mises.org/library/peculiar-history-arthurdale.

  “it too quickly shut down” “Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt Glossary: Arthurdale,” The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, George Washington University, accessed May 26, 2016, https://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/arthurdale.cfm.

  “sold off at steep discounts” C. J. Maloney, “The Peculiar History of Arthurdale,” Mises Institute, August 8, 2007, https://mises.org/library/peculiar-history-arthurdale.

  CHAPTER 4: THIRD WAVE: LBJ AND THE POWER OF ENVY

  “ ‘Uncle Cornpone and his little porkchop’ ” Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power (New York: Knopf, 2012).

  “ ‘if Lyndon was president’ ” Rick Klein, “Jacqueline Kennedy Reveals that JFK Feared an LBJ Presidency,” ABCNews.com, September 8, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Jacqueline_Kennedy/jacqueline-kennedy-reveals-jfk-feared-lbj-presidency/story?id=14477930.

  “ ‘a Baptist preacher’ ” United Press International, “President Johnson Calls Himself Cross Between Cowboy, Preacher,” The Pittsburgh Press, November 23, 1963, p. 11.

  “to Congressman Richard Kleberg” “President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Biography,” LBJ Presidential Library, University of Texas, accessed May 27, 2016, http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/biographys.hom/lbj_bio.asp.

  “ ‘in exchange for part-time jobs’ ” “Lyndon B. Johnson to Allred: November 21, 1935,” Texas State Library and Archives Commission, accessed May 27, 2016, https://www.tsl.texas.gov/governors/personality/allred-lbj.html.

  “ ‘public buildings all over Texas’ ” Lyndon B. Johnson to Allred: November 21, 1935,” Texas State Library and Archives Commission, accessed May 27, 2016, https://www.tsl.texas.gov/governors/personality/allred-lbj.html.

  “ ‘I support Franklin Roosevelt the full way’ ” L. Patrick Hughes, “The Election of a Texas New Dealer: Lyndon Johnson’s 1937 Race for Congress,” Austin Community College, accessed May 27, 2016, http://www.austincc.edu/lpatrick/his2341/election.html.

  “ ‘Franklin D. and Lyndon B’ ” Nero James Pruitt, The Forty-Three Presidents: What They Said To and About Each Other (self-published, and printed by iUniverse, 2015).

  “ ‘horse radish for Roosevelt’” William E. Leuchtenburg, In the Shadow: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009).

  “met with the president no fewer than twenty-three times” William J. vanden Heuvel, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson: Architects of a Nation,” (speech, Austin, Texas, March 14, 2000), Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/library/pdfs/vh_fdrlbj.pdf.

  “ ‘soul needed support’ ” William J. vanden Heuvel, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson: Architects of a Nation,” (speech, Austin, Texas, March 14, 2000), Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/library/pdfs/vh_fdrlbj.pdf.

  “ ‘because of him’ ” William J. vanden Heuvel, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson: Architects of a Nation,” (speech, Austin, Texas, March 14, 2000), Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/library/pdfs/vh_fdrlbj.pdf.

  “ ‘had more women by accident’” Robert Dallek, “Three New Revelations About LBJ,” The Atlantic, April 1998, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/04/three-new-revelations-about-lbj/377094/.

  “ ‘groping’ her” Jan Jarboe Russell, “Alone Together,” Texas Monthly, August 1999, http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/alone-together/.

  “he was treating her as if she was invisible in public” Jan Jarboe Russell, “Alone Together,” Texas Monthly, August 1999, http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/alone-together/.

  “ ‘That’s my prerogative’ ” Stacy Conradt, “10 Unexpected Duties Performed by the Secret Service,” Mental Floss, December 18, 2015, http://mentalfloss.com/article/25170/10-unexpected-duties-performed-secret-service#comment-485137242.

  “ ‘the o
nly seat in the room’ ” Matthew Pinsker, “Richard Goodwin: Monday Morning Psychoanalyst,” The Harvard Crimson, October 29, 1988, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1988/10/29/richard-goodwin-monday-morning-psychoanalyst-pbwbas/.

  “their ticket barely beat Nixon” Peter Carlson, “Another Race to the Finish,” The Washington Post, November 17, 2000, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/11/17/another-race-to-the-finish/c810a41c-7da9-461a-927b-9da6d36a65dc/.

  “ ‘champion of everyday Americans’ ” Kenneth T. Walsh, “The First 100 Days: Lyndon Johnson Fulfilled Kennedy’s Legacy,” U.S. News & World Report, March 5, 2009, http://www.usnews.com/news/history/articles/2009/03/05/the-first-100-days-lyndon-johnson-fulfilled-kennedys-legacy.

  “equality for all” “John Gardner: The Great Society,” PBS, accessed May 27, 2016, http://www.pbs.org/johngardner/chapters/4c.html.

  “ ‘Better than he did’ ” Kenneth T. Walsh, “The First 100 Days: Lyndon Johnson Fulfilled Kennedy’s Legacy,” U.S. News & World Report, March 5, 2009, http://www.usnews.com/news/history/articles/2009/03/05/the-first-100-days-lyndon-johnson-fulfilled-kennedys-legacy.

  “ ‘upward to the Great Society’ ” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Commencement Address at the University of Michigan,” (speech, Ann Arbor, MI, May 22, 1964), The Heritage Foundation, http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/lbj-launches-the-great-society.

  “ ‘elevate our national life’ ” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Commencement Address at the University of Michigan,” (speech, Ann Arbor, MI, May 22, 1964), The Heritage Foundation, http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/lbj-launches-the-great-society.

  “ ‘hunger for community’ ” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Commencement Address at the University of Michigan,” (speech, Ann Arbor, MI, May 22, 1964), The Heritage Foundation, http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/lbj-launches-the-great-society.

  “ ‘quantity of their goods’” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Commencement Address at the University of Michigan,” (speech, Ann Arbor, MI, May 22, 1964), The Heritage Foundation, http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/lbj-launches-the-great-society.

  “ ‘marvelous products of our labor’ ” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Commencement Address at the University of Michigan,” (speech, Ann Arbor, MI, May 22, 1964), The Heritage Foundation, http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/lbj-launches-the-great-society.

  “big-government nonsense” “Study Aid: Great Society Legislation,” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, accessed May 27, 2016, https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/sixties/resources/study-aid-great-society-legislation.

  “ ‘hidden social ties’ ” “John Dewey and the Progressive Conception of Freedom: 1908,” The Heritage Foundation, accessed May 27, 2016, http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/john-dewey-and-the-progressive-conception-of-freedom.

  “become ‘a successful businesswoman’ ” Enid Nemy, “Lady Bird Johnson, 94, Dies; Eased a Path to Power,” The New York Times, July 12, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/washington/12johnson.html?ex=1342065600&en=3085b9d85cb24e12&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&_r=0.

  “ ‘application was speedily approved’ ” Enid Nemy, “Lady Bird Johnson, 94, Dies; Eased a Path to Power,” The New York Times, July 12, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/washington/12johnson.html?ex=1342065600&en=3085b9d85cb24e12&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&_r=0.

  “ ‘cable interests’ ” Enid Nemy, “Lady Bird Johnson, 94, Dies; Eased a Path to Power,” The New York Times, July 12, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/washington/12johnson.html?ex=1342065600&en=3085b9d85cb24e12&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&_r=0.

  “ranches, real estate, and a bank” Joe Holley, “Champion of Conservation, Loyal Force Behind LBJ,” The Washington Post, July 12, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/11/AR2007071102146.html.

  “subsidiary of Halliburton” “KBR History,” KBR.com, accessed May 27, 2016, https://www.kbr.com/about/our-company/history.

  “sizable contributions to Johnson’s political campaign” John Burnett, “Halliburton Deals Recall Vietnam-Era Controversy,” NPR, December 24, 2003, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1569483.

  “ ‘thousands of dollars In campaign contributions’ ” James M. Carter, “War Profiteering from Vietnam to Iraq,” CounterPunch.org, December 11, 2003, http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/12/11/war-profiteering-from-vietnam-to-iraq/.

  “Lady Bird Johnson” Ryan S. Walters, “From ‘Lyin’ Lyndon to ‘Thieving Thad’ The Eerie Similarities Between Texas’48 and Mississippi’14,” Mississippi Conservative Daily, September 7, 2014, https://mississippiconservativedaily.com/2014/09/07/from-lyin-lyndon-to-thieving-thad-the-eerie-similarities-between-texas-48-and-mississippi-14/.

  “ ‘you’ll get your war’ ” Roger Stone and Phillip Nelson, “The Truth About LBJ and MLK,” Breitbart, December 30, 2014, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/30/the-truth-about-lbj-and-mlk/.

  “ ‘Dr. Johnny’ ” Jay Martin, The Education of John Dewey: A Biography (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), p. 492.

  “ ‘economic stagnation followed’ ” Brian M. Riedl, “Most New Spending Since 2001 Unrelated to the War on Terrorism,” The Heritage Foundation, November 13, 2003, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2003/11/most-new-spending-since-2001-unrelated-to-the-war-on-terrorism.

  “ ‘three times the amount of money’ ” “Editorial: The Not-So-Great Society Turns a Rickety 50,” The Washington Post, May 21, 2014, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/21/editorial-the-not-so-great-society/.

  “ ‘negra’ with others” Adam Serwer, “Lyndon Johnson Was a Civil Rights Hero. But Also a Racist.” MSNBC, April 12, 2014, http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism.

  “ ‘hordes of barbaric yellow dwarves’ ” Adam Serwer, “Lyndon Johnson Was a Civil Rights Hero. But Also a Racist.” MSNBC.com, April 12, 2014, http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism.

  “ ‘pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture’ ” Adam Serwer, “Lyndon Johnson Was a Civil Rights Hero. But Also a Racist.” MSNBC.com, April 12, 2014, http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism.

  “ ‘any civil rights legislation’ ” Wynton Hall, “The Unknown History of Civil Rights,” TownHall.com, February 4, 2008, http://townhall.com/columnists/wyntonhall/2008/02/04/the_unknown_history_of_civil_rights.

  “ ‘the nigger bill’ ” Adam Serwer, “Lyndon Johnson Was a Civil Rights Hero. But Also a Racist.” MSNBC.com, April 12, 2014, http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism.

  “ ‘everyone to know he’s a nigger’ ” Adam Serwer, “Lyndon Johnson Was a Civil Rights Hero. But Also a Racist.” MSNBC.com, April 12, 2014, http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism.

  “ ‘than Democrats’ ” Alicia W. Stewart and Tricia Escobedo, “What You Might Not Know about the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” CNN.com, April 10, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/politics/civil-rights-act-interesting-facts/.

  “he became president himself” Roger Stone and Phillip Nelson, “The Truth About LBJ and MLK,” Breitbart, December 30, 2014, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/30/the-truth-about-lbj-and-mlk/.

  “Democratic nomination in 1964” Roger Stone and Phillip Nelson, “The Truth About LBJ and MLK,” Breitbart, December 30, 2014, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/30/the-truth-about-lbj-and-mlk/.

  “his marital infidelities” Dia Kayyali, “FBI’s ‘Suicide Letter’ to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance,” Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 12, 2014, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance.


  “on the basis of ‘national security’ ” “June 16, 1967: LBJ Orders No Wiretapping,” Today in Civil Liberties History, accessed May 27, 2016, http://todayinclh.com/?event=lbj-orders-no-wiretapping.

  “ ‘is bared to the nation’ ” Dia Kayyali, “FBI’s ‘Suicide Letter’ to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance,” Electronic Frontier Foundation, November 12, 2014, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance.

  “as the population ages and people live longer” John Stossel, “The Medicare Ponzi Scheme,” TownHall.com, May 21, 2009, http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2009/05/20/the_medicare_ponzi_scheme.

  “ ‘drug bills cut in half’ ” “Bush Promotes Medicare Prescription Drug Plan,” FoxNews.com, March 14, 2006, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/03/14/bush-promotes-medicare-prescription-drug-plan.html.

  “$1.3 million for a family of four” John Stossel, “The Medicare Ponzi Scheme,” TownHall.com, May 21, 2009, http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2009/05/20/the_medicare_ponzi_scheme.

  “to spy on antiwar activists and other dissidents” The Rockefeller Commission, Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States, June 1975, Assassination Archives and Research Center, chap. 11, https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/rockcomm/pdf/RockComm_Chap11_CHAOS.pdf.

  “files collected on them by the government” David P. Hadley, “America’s ‘Big Brother’: A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance,” Origins 7, no. 3, December 2013, http://origins.osu.edu/article/americas-big-brother-century-us-domestic-surveillance.

  “ ‘Nothing more’ ” Brendon O’Connor, A Political History of the American Welfare System: When Ideas Have Consequences (Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004).

  “attended the Republican National Convention” Brooks Jackson, “Hillary Worked for Goldwater?” FactCheck.org, March 27, 2008, http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/hillary-worked-for-goldwater/.