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by Michael Savage


  This book has been about the many missteps that accompanied a great adventure that began in 1492. Much of what followed was exemplary. But I, and any right-thinking human being, must also be, and will continue to be, ashamed of a great deal of it—which is why mass hysteria must always be countered with reason.

  Today, that is happening less and less. Remember what I said at the start:

  Guns. Donald Trump. Russophobia. The mass hysteria from the left bleeds one into the other, folding in additional insanity like “white privilege” and the myth of man-made climate change. Look at our history and remember that while there are those of us who learn the lessons of mass hysteria, there are others who will exploit those lessons.

  When the left has removed all the statues of Columbus, all the Confederate flags, all the monuments to our Founding Fathers; when books like this have been burned and removed from libraries, when we have allowed hysterical cries to terminate or terrorize rational discourse, we will all have become Cotton Mather and Hassan-i Sabbah and those who erected testaments to their own infamy with the bones of others.

  In one of his many exquisite plays on words, Benjamin Franklin said of Americans—just before he affixed his signature on the Declaration of Independence—“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  I wish to thank my editor, Kate Hartson, for having the faith to believe in my vision, and Jeff Rovin for his outstanding research and structural conceptualizations.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  In 2016, after twenty-two years on the air, Michael Savage was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame, an honor that Dr. Savage calls “the capstone of my life.”

  The Savage Nation, the country’s #1 streaming radio show, is one of the top programs in America, with millions of listeners and broadcast on over 230 stations, including WABC and KSFO. A prolific New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Savage has been profiled in Playboy and The New Yorker, and he has been awarded the Freedom of Speech Award from Talkers magazine. He received his PhD in epidemiology and nutrition sciences from the University of California at Berkeley.

  Also by Michael Savage published by Center Street:

  God, Faith, and Reason

  Government Zero

  Scorched Earth

  Stop the Coming Civil War

  Trump’s War

  Teddy and Me

  NOTES

  CHAPTER 1: MASS HYSTERIA INFLECTION POINT

  1. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/antifa-ice-employees-list-immigration-nebraska-github-medium-linkedin-sam-lavigne-a8412496.html

  2. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/06/20/peter-fonda-apologizes-vulgar-barron-trump-tweet/719504002/

  3. https://www.vox.com/2018/6/25/17501450/maxine-waters-trump-pelosi-civility-sarah-sanders

  4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-leaders-voice-hope-that-bill-addressing-family-separations-will-pass-thursday/2018/06/20/cc79db9a-7480-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html?utm_term=.19742c2f8378

  5. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer

  6. https://books.google.com/books?id=e aRvKpLUf0C&pg=PA43&lpg= PA43&dq=%22It+is+essential+to+have+a+tangible+enemy, +not+merely+an +abstract+one. %E2%80%9D%22&source=bl&ots=9jICNRnYPW&sig= J7B39CWpWwyh9B0lNdwpyQ6V3SU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-iPeku KfcAhXDm-AKHahcCCkQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is %20essential%20to%20have%20a%20tangible%20enemy%2C%20not %20merely%20an%20abstract%20one.%E2%80%9D%22&f=false

  7. https://books.google.com/books?id=gMLieJOtWwIC&pg=PA168&lpg= PA168&dq=Hoffer+japanese+berlin+1932&source=bl&ots=CjnziPqj-g&sig= PHsD6FqKz6PlXjRSELoY5zRpT6w&hl=en&sa=X&ved= 0ahUKEwjymZjQuKfcAhUiUt8KHVDPAkUQ6AEIezAD#v=onepage&q= Hoffer%20japanese%20berlin%201932&f=false

  8. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/06/china-war-japan-rana-mitter-review

  9. https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/thomas-jefferson-had-some-issues-newspapers

  10. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/samuel_johnson_157371

  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_in_the_Venona_papers

  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White

  13. https://www.denverpost.com/2018/06/04/colorado-civil-rights-commission-impact/

  14. https://michaelsavage.com/?p=17803

  CHAPTER 2: HISTORY OF MASS HYSTERIA

  1. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana

  2. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trump-jokes-about-launching-nukes-to-radio-host-michael-savage

  3. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/11/02/poll-trump-russia-election-crime/827907001/

  4. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/31/doj-russia-investigation-costs-near-17-million/661744002/

  5. http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/03/manafort-lawyers-claim-leaky-mueller-probe-has-provided-no-evidence-of-contacts-with-russian-officials/

  6. http://www.businessinsider.com/space-travel-per-seat-cost-soyuz-2016-9

  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

  8. https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/914853465926639618?lang=en

  9. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/358884-warren-to-gop-thoughts-and-prayers-not-enough-after-texas-shooting

  10. www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/us/police-response-mass-shootings.html

  11. https://www.newsweek.com/malia-obama-harvey-weinstein-accusations-680950

  12. https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sexual-misconduct/weinstein-here-s-growing-list-men-accused-sexual-misconduct-n816546

  13. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/panic-not-answer-article-1.3651778

  14. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/opinion/metoo-sexual-harassment-men.html

  15. https://twitter.com/emilylindin/status/933074980627030016?lang=en

  16. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/11/15/florian-jaeger-rochester-harassment-open-letter/866662001/

  17. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/11/30/the-growing-list-of-sexual-harassment-scandals-as-satirized-in-cartoons/?utm _term=.9f0c39be4b81

  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman

  19. www.stageandcinema.com/2012/03/24/the-many-mistresses-est-jr/

  20. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/what-happened-to-trumps-16-sexual-misconduct-accusers.html

  21. http://www.newsweek.com/trump-scared-germs-needs-drink-straw-avoid-contamination-671730

  22. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/missouri-senator-who-called-for-trump-assassination-running-for-seat/article_dff17c03-6ac1-59db-9273-559453aa3636.html

  23. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/obama-effigy-hanged-outside-church_n_1581272.html

  24. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stormy-daniels-describes-her-alleged-affair-with-donald-trump-60-minutes-interview/

  25. https://patriotpost.us/articles/56645-republicans-blast-fbi-bias-exposed-in-the-ig-report

  26. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anthony-weiner-begins-21-month-sentence-sexting-underage-girl-n817971

  27. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-s-kim-trump-meet-andrea-mitchell-weighs-risks-n855111

  28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time

  29. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier

  30. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/391770-trump-lavishes-kim-with-compliments-after-historic-summit

  31. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty

  32. https://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/sputorig.html

  33. https://books.google.com/books?id=vHJ1oWiqUgkC&pg=PA25&lpg= PA25&dq=%22the+united+states+now+sleeps+under+a+soviet+moon%22& source=bl&ots=lHbU9yGvw3&sig=bnE0MYRFdZ9-Au-nWBjz8fLuKAs &hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLs766z6fcAhUvmuAKHasLBO0Q6AEIbjAN #v=onepage&q=%22the%20united%20states%20now%20sleeps %20under%20a%20soviet%20moon%22&f=false

  34. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Advisory_Committee_for_Aeronautics

  CHAPTER 3: MASS HYSTERIA

  1. ht
tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting

  2. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-brustein/the-new-anarchists_b_1085909.html

  3. https://www10.dict.cc/wp_examples.php?lp_id=1&lang=en&s=Seven %20against%20Thebes

  4. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext %3A1999.01.0014%3Acard%3D1032

  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot

  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus

  7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/06/the-top-15-democratic-presidential-candidates-for-2020-ranked-3/?utm _term=.f01ce0cc73db

  8. https://www.c-span.org/video/?320176-5/senate-debate-unaccompanied-immigrant-children

  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Don_Hutto_Residential_Center

  10. https://twitter.com/genmhayden/status/1008035777455026178?lang=en

  11. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017JB014423

  12. https://www.newsmax.com/michaelsavage/border-immigration-children/2018/06/19/id/867098/

  13. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/united-states-global-leader-asylum-requests_us_5b28eea9e4b0f0b9e9a50f57

  14. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/presentation/9d76/3f8c2aec3b020 a0fc30a150e88f3d7bdb424.pdf

  15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)

  16. http://www.bostonmassacre.net/trial/acct-adams3.htm

  17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act

  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Locust; www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/the-day-of-the-locust/summary-and-analysis/chapter-27

  19. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-engineer-fired-writing-manifesto-women-s-neuroticism-sues-company-n835836

  20. https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/trump-president-charlottesville-1202535835/

  21. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-protests-idUSKCN1AU0TW

  22. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hitler-s-threats-against-the-jews-1941-1945

  23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hand_(Serbia)

  24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_press#History

  25. https://salemwitchmuseum.com/blog/elie-wiesels-salem-witch-trials-memorial-dedication-speech-1992

  26. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/us/university-of-missouri-fires-melissa-click-who-tried-to-block-journalist-at-protest.html

  27. https://exploringyourmind.com/tell-lie-thousand-times-become-truth/

  28. https://www.vox.com/cards/mike-brown-protests-ferguson-missouri/mike-brown-police-officer-darren-wilson

  29. http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-gosar-charlottesville-riots-george-soros-conspiracy-2017-10

  30. https://medium.com/@peacelovetrig/on-the-sexist-etimology-of-hysteria-and-what-academia-did-about-it-ef98815ddb6c

  31. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi383/syllabus/topic15/

  32. https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/10-strangest-mass-hysterias1.htm

  33. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria

  34. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria#LeRoy,_New_York _(2011%E2%80%9312)

  35. https://www.everydayhealth.com/healthy-living/0130/erin-brockovich-investigates-mass-hysteria-mystery-illness.aspx

  36. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freud%27s_seduction_theory

  37. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_(medicine)

  38. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Martin_Charcot

  CHAPTER 4: FROM PLYMOUTH ROCK TO CITY HALL

  1. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/yale-offers-rehire-man-broke-window-showing-slavery-article-1.2717458

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid

  3. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/marranos-conversos-and-new-christians

  4. www.cnn.com/2012/05/20/opinion/garcia-columbus-jewish/index.html

  5. http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/following-terrorist-attack-barcelonas-chief-rabbi-says-his-community-is-doomed/

  6. https://fullfact.org/news/muslims-uk-viral-poster-factchecked/

  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people

  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower

  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bradford_(Plymouth_Colony _governor)

  10. http://archive.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/2177-the-trial-of-george-spencer.html

  11. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp

  12. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/09/new_haven _colony_bestiality_trial_the_twisted_puritan_origins_of_our_modern.html

  13. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7bdd74/the-time-a-pilgrim-got-the-death-penalty-for-having-sex-with-a-turkey

  14. https://www.theawl.com/2017/08/the-curious-case-of-thomas-hogg/, https://vdocuments.site/things-fearful-to-name.html

  15. http://www.damnedct.com/alse-alice-young, https://patriciahysell.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/alse-young/

  16. https://books.google.com/books?id=nlcssspLvd8C&pg=PT64&lpg= PT64&dq=%E2%80%9CNeither+do+I.+And+if+I+see+anybody+undesirable +coming+in+here,+I%E2%80%99ll+be+the+first+to+complain.%E2%80%9D &source=bl&ots=z96kfNuvOJ&sig=FXpkX65gOeBMMyLhop1RwjXCZis &hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHzKT14qfcAhXImuAKHRKrD6QQ6 AEIMzAB#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CNeither%20do%20I.%20And %20if%20I%20see%20anybody%20undesirable%20coming%20in%20here %2C%20I%E2%80%99ll%20be%20the%20first%20to%20complain.%E2 %80%9D&f=false

  17. http://www.witchcraftandwitches.com/trials_connecticut.html

  18. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/was-the-last-witch-of-boston-actually-a-catholic-martyr-27747 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Glover

  19. https://edwingcoleman.wordpress.com/2002/05/31/its-bluenoses-and-not-bluenosers-may-3102/

  20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather

  21. https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/08/23/robert-lee-espn-decision-pull-announcer-broadcast

  22. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/02/20/raising-kane-i

  23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Potemkin

  24. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-mayor-asks-Cal-to-cancel-12104330.php

  25. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Circle

  26. http://gothamist.com/2017/08/23/de_blasio_grant_hate_symbol.php

  27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1868_Democratic_National_Convention

  28. https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2012/03/obama-if-i-had-a-son-hed-look-like-trayvon-118439

  29. http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/02/19/michelle-obama-takes-heat-for-saying-shersquos-lsquoproud-my-countryrsquo-for.html

  30, 31. https://www.indiewire.com/2013/11/review-12-12-12-hurricane-sandy-relief-concert-doc-featuring-bruce-springsteen-paul-mccartney-the-rolling-stones-more-91568/

  32. https://deadline.com/2017/09/the-x-files-gillian-anderson-david-duchovny-take-a-knee-colin-kaepernick-nfl-pharrell-williams-stevie-wonder-social-injustice-1202176894/

  CHAPTER 5: FROM SALEM TO CNN

  1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/05/brawley-begins-to-repay-lawyer-she-falsely-accused/2618399/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley_rape_allegations

  2. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abigail-adams-urges-husband-to-remember-the-ladies

  3. http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17970213aa

  4. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/august_2017/73_say_freedom_of_speech_worth_dying_for

  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials

  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather

  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_William%27s_War

  8. http://www.famous-trials.com/salem/2074-asal-math

  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Bishop http://www.famous-trials.com/salem/2043-bridget-bishop

  10. https://books.google.com/books?id=kDuboILCZwYC&pg=PA33&lpg= PA33&dq=%22we+cannot+but+humbly+recommend+unto+the+government, +the+speedy+and+vigorous+prosecution+of+such+as+have+rendered+ themselves+obnoxious,%22&source=bl&ots=JY2Z1ffQM5&sig=Eqnp TVYcaXl-lNJQVz2QXrTxw
Ak&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHzbD08 KfcAhXIY98KHdQVBF4Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22we%20cannot %20but%20humbly%20recommend%20unto%20the%20government%2C %20the%20speedy%20and%20vigorous%20prosecution%20of%20such% 20as%20have%20rendered%20themselves%20obnoxious%2C%22&f=false

  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Corey

  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Good, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Good

  13. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ma-witches-b/2/

  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials#September_1692

  15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials#Accusations_and _examinations_before_local_magistrates

  16. https://www.tulane.edu/~salem/Salem%20and%20Village.html

  17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings

  19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_847

  20. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pan-am-flight-103-explodes-over-scotland

  21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing

  22. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khobar_Towers_bombing

  23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings

  24. https://www.britannica.com/event/USS-Cole-attack

  25. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

  26. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan _(2001%E2%80%93present); https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/15214375

  27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl

  28. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-19881138

  29. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-synagogue-bombings-in-istanbul-al-qaedas-new-front

  30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Berg

  31. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing; https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/boston-marathon-bombing-attack-massive-manhunt-followed-n865766

  32. https://nypost.com/2015/01/07/gunmen-who-killed-12-at-newspaper-were-calm-controlled/

  33. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012136/quotes/?ref_=tx_sq_sr_40

  34. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_cuisine#Foods_and_ingredients

 

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