by Ann Coulter
27. Ibid.
28. Anderson Cooper, 360 Degrees, CNN, September 25, 2009.
29. See, e.g., The Ed Show, MSNBC, September 28, 2009.
30. The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, September 23, 2009.
31. The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, September 25, 2009.
32. Ibid.
33. The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, November 24, 2009 (Howard Dean guest-hosting).
34. The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, February 17, 2011.
35. “Rachel Maddow Says Wisconsin Is on Track to Have a Budget Surplus This Year,” Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel, February 18, 2011, available at http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/feb/18/rachel-maddow/rachel-maddow-says-wisconsin-track-have-budget-sur/.
36. Stuart Taylor Jr., “In Duke Case, a Rogues’ Gallery,” The National Journal, May 20, 2006.
37. See, e.g., Stuart Taylor Jr., “An Outrageous Rush to Judgment,” The National Journal, April 29, 2006; Taylor, “In Duke Case, a Rogues’ Gallery.”
38. Melissa Harris Lacewell, “Catching Up on the Top Stories of Spring! 1. Duke Rape Case,” Bloggin’ In, July 1, 2006 available at http://web.archive.org/web/20060721165301/melissaharrislacewell.com/
blog.htm.
39. “Report of the Lacrosse Ad Hoc Review Committee,” Duke News & Communications, May 1, 2006, available at http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/mmedia/pdf/lacrossereport.pdf.
40. Monica Lewis, “Support for Accused Duke Rapists by Women’s Lacrosse Team Rankles Many,” BlackAmericaWeb.com, June 3, 2006.
41. See, e.g., Gary D. LaFree, “Male Power and Female Victimization: Toward a Theory of Interracial Rape,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 88, No. 2 (September 1982) (Throughout the 1970s, black-on-white rape was at least ten times more common that white-on-black rape); William Wilbanks, “Frequency and Nature of Interracial Crimes,” submitted for publication to the Justice Professional (November 7, 1990). Data derived from Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1987, p. 53 (in 1988 there were 9,406 cases of black-on-white rape and fewer than ten cases of white-on-black rape); Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1997 Statistical Tables, Table 42, available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus97.pdf; Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005 Statistical Tables, Table 42, available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus05.pdf; Department of Justice, Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2006 Statistical Tables, Table 42, available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cvus0602.pdf. See also, Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (Paperback) (Ballantine Books 1995) at 192 (noting that black men commit rape at five to six times the rate of white men and choose white women as their victims approximately 30 percent of the time).
42. Hardball, MSNBC, March 29, 2010.
43. Countdown, MSNBC, August 18, 2009.
44. Eugene Robinson, “Duke Scandal Raises Many Questions,” Charleston Gazette (West Virginia), April 26, 2006.
45. Le Bon, 35–36.
46. Maureen Dowd, “The Unfair Game,” New York Times, October 12, 2010.
47. Le Bon, 35–36.
48. In the February 12, 2002, memo, Plame writes “it seems that Niger has signed a contract with Iraq to sell them uranium,” and then says our embassy disputes that. She goes on to say:
So where do I fit in? As you may recall, [redacted] of CP/[office 2] recently approached my husband to possibly use his contacts in Niger to investigate [a separate Niger matter]. After many fits and starts, [redacted] finally advised that the station wished to pursue this with liaison. My husband is willing to help, if it makes sense, but no problem if not. End of story.
Now, with this report, it is clear that the IC is still wondering what is going on … my husband has good relations with both the PM and the former minister of mines, not to mention lots of French contacts, both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity. To be frank with you, I was somewhat embarrassed by the agency’s sloppy work last go-round, and I am hesitant to suggest anything again. However, [my husband] may be in a position to assist. Therefore, request your thoughts on what, if anything, to pursue here. Thank you for your time on this.
See Byron York, “Did Valerie Plame Wilson Tell the Truth?,” National Review, May 25, 2007.
49. Patrick E. Tyler, “Standoff in the Gulf,” New York Times, December 18, 1990.
50. Neil A. Lewis, “First Source of C.I.A. Leak Admits Role, Lawyer Says,” New York Times, August 30, 2006.
51. Georges Sada, Saddam’s Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied & Survived Saddam Hussein (Integrity Publishers, 2006).
52. See, e.g., Andrew McCarthy, “Iraq & al Qaeda: The 9/11 Commission Raises More Questions Than It Answers,” National Review, June 17, 2004.
53. Le Bon, 32.
FIVE. I’LL SEE YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE CONSPIRACY THEORY AND RAISE YOU ONE OCTOBER SURPRISE
1. John Avlon, “The ‘Birthers’ Began on the Left,” The Daily Beast, February 8, 2010.
2. Jaymes Song, “Hawaii Again Declares Obama Birth Certificate Real,” Associated Press, July 28, 2009.
3. “Obama Tells Ohio Plumber He Favors ‘Spreading Wealth’ to Poor,” The Frontrunner, October 15, 2008.
4. Gabriel Winant, “The Birthers in Congress,” Salon, July 28, 2009, available at http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/28/birther_enablers.
5. Sheryl Gay Stolberg and James Dao, “Congress Ratifies Bush Victory After a Rare Challenge,” New York Times, January 7, 2005.
6. Byron York, “Democrats and the Fahrenheit 9/11 Trap: Do They Endorse Michael Moore’s Kookiness?,” National Review, June 24, 2004, available at http://old.nationalreview.com/york/york200406240908.asp.
7. Dana Milbank, “Democrats Play House to Rally Against the War,” Washington Post, June 17, 2005.
8. See Federal Judicial Center, http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/topics_ji_bdy:
Harry E. Claiborne, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, July 22, 1986, on charges of income tax evasion and of remaining on the bench following criminal conviction; convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, October 9, 1986.
Alcee L. Hastings, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, August 3, 1988, on charges of perjury and conspiring to solicit a bribe; convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, October 20, 1989.
Walter L. Nixon, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi Impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, May 10, 1989, on charges of perjury before a federal grand jury; convicted by the U.S. Senate and removed from office, November 3, 1989.
9. Steve Weinberg, “The October Surprise: Enter the Press,” Columbia Journalism Review, March/April, 1992.
10. Flora Lewis, “The Wiles of Teheran,” New York Times, August 3, 1987.
11. Gary Sick, “The Election Story of the Decade,” New York Times, April 15, 1991.
12. Marilyn Milloy and Gaylord Shaw, “Carter Urges Probe of Hostage Story,” Newsday (New York), April 26, 1991.
13. Frank Snepp, “Brenneke Exposed,” Village Voice, September 10, 1991.
14. Michael Tackett, “With a Uniform and a Line, Gunther Russbacher Eased His Way into the Confidence of Military and Law Enforcement Officials,” Chicago Tribune, March 17, 1992.
15. Robert G. Kaiser, “Circus: From ‘Nightline’ to Obscurity the Washington Way,” Washington Post, June 24, 1984.
16. Steve Emerson and Jesse Furman, “The Conspiracy That Wasn’t,” New Republic, November 18, 1991.
17. Judith Cummings, “Friends Say Feminist Heroine Is Sincere if Eccentric,” New York Times, August 30, 1983.
18. Marilyn Milloy and Gaylord Shaw, “Carter Urges Probe of Hostage Story,” Newsday (New York), April 26, 1991.
19. All this is available on the Internet! http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/
20. Nightline, ABC, June 20, 1991.
21. Jim Drinkard, “House Approves Probe of Alleged 1980 Hostage Deal,” Associated Press, February 5, 1992.
22. Text of KGB Letter on Senator Ted Kennedy, Freerepublic.com (citing Kengor at p. 317).
23. Steve Emerson and Jesse Furman, “The Conspiracy That Wasn’t,” New Republic, November 18, 1991.
24. John Barry, “Making of a Myth,” Newsweek, November 11, 1991.
25. Steven Emerson, “Gary Sick’s Bald-Faced Lies,” The American Spectator, March 1993.
26. Committee on Foreign Relations 1992, 115 (cited in Daniel Pipes, “Remember Ronald Reagan’s October Surprise? It Never Happened,” History News Network, March 29, 2004, available at http://hnn.us/articles/4249.html).
27. Daniel Pipes, Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, 2003, available at http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1654 (citing Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 53).
28. Gary Sick, “Last Word on the October Surprise?,” New York Times, January 24, 1993.
29. Daniel Pipes, “Gary Sick’s Same Old Song,” Wall Street Journal, May 2, 1991: “But Mr. Sick seems to have forgotten his own thinking. Here is a statement he made, quoted by the Rocky Mountain News on Oct. 30, 1988—at the very peak of the 1988 presidential campaign—in which he discussed the possibility of a hostage deal: “ ‘At first I dismissed this, but not any more. I’m convinced on the basis of what I heard that there were some meetings in Paris. I know that the Iranians changed their policy at that time.’ Just over a month before that, on Aug. 26, 1988, Mr. Sick told the New York Daily News in a telephone interview: ‘There is something here. I just don’t know how much.’ ”
30. Kenneth R. Timmerman, “October Surprise, Part 3: Clinton Sought Dirt on W’s Dad,” World Net Daily, September 27, 2000, available at http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=6748.
31. Le Bon, 14.
SIX. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: WHEN LIBERALS ATTACK
1. Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Dover, 2002) (1895), 22.
2. Christopher Hibbert, The Days of the French Revolution (Harper Perennial 1999), 65–82.
3. Alexander Hamilton, Writings (Library of America, 2001) (letter dated October 6, 1789), 521.
4. Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (Grove Press, 2002), 60–61.
5. Ibid., 73.
6. Le Bon, 38.
7. See, e.g., Zweig, 29.
8. Zweig, 105.
9. Ibid., 114.
10. Ibid., 62.
11. Ibid., 289.
12. “At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, ‘Then let them eat pastry!’ ” Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau (paperback) (Nabu Press, 2010), 220.
13. Zweig, 259–60.
14. Hibbert, 100.
15. Hibbert, 101.
16. Kennedy, 194.
17. See, e.g., T. Jeremy Gunn, “Religious Freedom and Laicite: A Comparison of the United States and France,” Brigham Young University Law Review, January 1, 2004.
18. Michael L. Kennedy, The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution, 1793–1795 (Berghahn Books, 2000), 164–66.
19. Erik Durschmied, The Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini (Arcade Publishing 2002), 21.
20. Ibid., 21.
21. Ibid., 22.
22. Ibid., 25–27.
23. Hibbert, 161.
24. Henry Goudemetz, Historical Epochs of the French Revolution (Hard Press, 2006) [No page numbers] available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/2379520/Historical-Epochs-of-the-French-RevolutionWith-The-Judgment-And-Execution-Of-Louis-XVI-King-Of-FranceAnd-A-List-Of-The-Members-Of-The-National-Con#outer_page_124.
25. Ibid.
26. See, e.g., Gunn.
27. Durschmied, 30.
28. Hibbert, 170.
29. See, e.g., Hibbert, 170–71; Durschmied, 30.
30. Durschmied, 30.
31. Goudemetz.
32. G. Lenôtre, The Tribunal of the Terror: A Study of Paris in 1793–1795 (Paperback) (University of Michigan Library, 1909), 37, available at http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/g-lenotre/the-tribunal-of-the-terror-a-study-of-paris-in-1793-1795-ala/page-4-the-tribunal-of-the-terror-a-study-of-paris-in-1793-1795-ala.shtml.
33. Hibbert, 171.
34. Lenôtre, 35–37; Hibbert, 175.
35. G. Lenôtre, 35–37; Hibbert, 174.
36. Lewis Goldsmith Stewarton, The Female Revolutionary Plutarch, Containing Biographical, Historical and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters and Anecdotes (J. & W. Smith, 1808), at 225, available at http://books.google.com/books?id=95bzlnsVu7cC&pg=PA224&lpg=PA224&dq=goddess+of+reason+Momoro&source=bl&ots=n-ZhPxWwN8&sig=8xsgafh5pvoWvHCBCj92DtMg0_g&hl=
en&ei=5wwkTcX6GsWblgewk9nZCw&sa=X&oi=book_result
&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&qomoro&f=false.
37. Charles Buke Yonge, The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (Duke, Project Gutenberg, 2004), available at http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/0/5/5/10555/10555.htm.
38. Hibbert, 175.
39. See, e.g., Durschmied, 31; Hibbert, 175–76.
40. Goudemetz.
41. Ibid., 227. See also Stewarton (Stewarton and Goldsmith say the heads were presented at the Jacobin Club).
42. Goudemetz.
43. Kennedy, 169.
44. Durschmied, 37.
45. Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre, “Against Granting the King a Trial,” Bartleby’s The World’s Famous Orations, Continental Europe (380–1906), available at http://www.bartleby.com/268/7/23.html.
46. See Shaun Bishop, “Academic Senate Opposes War,” The Daily Bruin, April 14, 2003, available at http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2003/04/academic-senate-opposes-war.
47. Durschmied, 38.
48. Hibbert, 184.
49. Ibid., 184–85.
50. Ibid., 185.
51. Durschmied, 38.
52. Ibid., 36, 38, n. 19.
53. Hibbert, 186.
54. Ibid., 186–87.
55. E. L. Higgins, ed., The French Revolution as Told by Contemporaries (Houghton Mifflin, 1966), 272–73. See also, http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/louis_trial.html. There are various basically similar versions of the king’s brief speech. See also Hibbert, 188 (“I forgive those who are guilty of my death and I pray God that the blood which you are about to shed may never be required of France”).
56. Durschmied, 41, 43.
57. Hibbert, 224.
58. Kennedy, 193.
SEVEN. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION PART DEUX: COME FOR THE BEHEADINGS, STAY FOR THE RAPES!
1. Erik Durschmied, The Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini (Arcade Publishing, 2002), 44–45.
2. Ibid., 46.
3. Lewis Goldsmith Stewarton, The Female Revolutionary Plutarch, Containing Biographical, Historical and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters and Anecdotes (J. & W. Smith, 1808), 238, available at http://books.google.com/books?id=95bzlnsVu7cC&pg=PA224&lpg=PA224&dq=goddess+of+reason+Momoro&source=bl&ots=n-ZhPxWwN8&sig=8xsgafh5pvoWvHCBCj92DtMg0_g&hl=
en&ei=5wwkTcX6GsWblgewk9nZCw&sa=X&oi=
book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&qomoro&f=false.
4. Michael L. Kennedy, The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution (1793–1795) (Berghahn, 2000).
5. Ibid., 176.
6. Ibid., 166.
7. T. Jeremy Gunn, “Religious Freedom and Laicite: A Comparison of the United States and France,” Brigham Young University Law Review, January 1, 2004.
8. Ibid.
9. Janet T. Marquardt, From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), 14.
10. Gunn.
11. Kennedy, 176.
12. Ibi
d., 176.
13. Ibid., 166–67.
14. Ibid., 176.
15. Ibid., 165.
16. Ibid., 162.
17. Ibid., 154.
18. Schom, 253.
19. See, e.g., Kennedy, 153–54.
20. Stewarton, 236.
21. Henry Goudemetz, Historical Epochs of the French Revolution (Hard Press, 2006) [No page numbers] available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/2379520/Historical-Epochs-of-the-French-RevolutionWith-The-Judgment-And-Execution-Of-Louis-XVI-King-Of-FranceAnd-A-List-Of-The-Members-Of-The-National-Con#outer_page_124.
22. Schom, 253–54.
23. Ibid., 253.
24. Kennedy, 154.
25. Ibid., 155.
26. Kennedy, 189–90.
27. See, e.g., Stewarton, 240–42; Michael Burleigh, Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War (HarperCollins, 2006), 79; Gunn; Kennedy, 177.
28. Stewarton, 243; Goudemetz.
29. Stewarton, 244.
30. Kennedy, 192.
31. Ibid., 167, 168.
32. Ibid., 169.
33. Ibid., 169.
34. Goudemetz.
35. See Charles Duke Yonge, The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (Duke, Project Gutenberg, 2004), available at http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/0/5/5/10555/10555.htm; Hibbert, 222.
36. Yonge.
37. Trial of Marie Antoinette, late Queen of France (compiled from a manuscript sent from Paris, and from the journals of the Moniteur) (Logographic Press 1794), passim, 52.
38. Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (Modern Library, 2002), 669.
39. Carlyle, 669.
40. Trial of Marie Antoinette, 30.
41. Ibid., 30–31.
42. Ibid., 32.
43. Carlyle, 669 (citing Vilate, Causes secretes de la Révolution de Thermidor) (Paris, 1825), 179.
44. Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette (Anchor Books, 2001), 431–32.
45. Le Bon, 15.
46. Yonge.
47. See, e.g., Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (New York: Grove Press, 2002), 450–51.
48. See, e.g., Zweig, 451.
49. See Christopher Hibbert, The Days of the French Revolution (Harper Perennial, 1999), 236; Pamela Grant, Marie Antoinette Story, ParisMarais.com, available at http://www.parismarais.com/marie-antoinette-story.htm.