The Obama Haters: Behind the Right-Wing Campaign of Lies, Innuendo & Racism

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201 notes Introduction 1. Evan Thomas, A Long Time Coming (New York: Public Affairs, 2009), 106. 2. Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, Battle For America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election (New York: Viking Adult, 2009), 361. 3. Balz and Johnson, Battle for America, 364. 4. Richard Wolffe, Renegade: The Making of a President (New York: Crown, 2009), 230. 5. Michael Oreskes, “Lee Atwater, Master of Tactics for Bush and GOP, Dies at 40,” New York Times, March 30, 1991. Chapter 1. How an Unknown Inspired Hope in Millions 1. John Harwood, “But Can Obama Make the Trains Run on Time?” New York Times, April 19, 2009. 2. Paul Krugman, “The Politics of Spite,” New York Times, October 5, 2009. Chapter 2. Falsehoods About Obama Echo Endlessly 1. Mark McKinnon, “Send Joe Wilson Home,” The Daily Beast, September 12, 2009, http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-11/send-joewilson -home. 2. Erick Erickson, “Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: He’s Becoming Jimmy Carter Faster Than Jimmy Carter Did,” RedState, October 9, 2009, http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/10/09/barack-obama-wins-nobelpeace -prize. Chapter 4. Loons and Losers 1. Michael Weigel, “McCain Campaign Investigated, Dismissed Obama Citizenship Rumors,” the Washington Independent, July 24, 2009, http://washing tonindependent.com/52474/mccain-campaign-investigated-dismissedobama -citizenship-rumors. 2. Jim Myers, “Inhofe Weighs in on Obama Birth Site,” Tulsa World, July 28, 2009. 202 — — — — — — notes 3. “Editorial: Obama birth conspiracy is an embarrassment,” Dallas News, July 24, 2009. 4. “Editorial: No Doubt About Obama’s Birth,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, July 29, 2009. 5. “Editorial: The ‘Birthers’: Don’t encourage them, Senator,” Tulsa World, July 29, 2009. 6. “Born in the U.S.A.,” National Review Online, July 28, 2009, http://www .nationalreview.com/articles/227954/born-u-s/editors. Chapter 5. Can You Prove Your Innocence? 1. Bernard McGinn, Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil (San Francisco: Harper, 1994), 273. Chapter 6. The Obama Trifecta 1. Hugh Hewitt, “Just Say No to Government Motors and Obamacars,” Washington Examiner, June 1, 2009. 2. Mark Tapscott, “Furor Grows Over Partisan Car Dealer Closings,” Washington Examiner, May 27, 2009. 3. Stephen F. Hayes, “Not Right: The Obama Administration Grants Miranda Rights to Detainees in Afghanistan,” The Weekly Standard, June 10, 2009, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/ 016/605iidws.asp. 4. John White, Dan Eggen, and Joby Warrick, “U.S. to Try 6 On Capital Charges Over 9/11 Attacks,” Washington Post, February 12, 2008. 5. William Ayers, “The Real Bill Ayers,” New York Times, December 5, 2008. Chapter 7. Why We Hate 1. Alexander P. Lamis, ed., Southern Politics in the 1990s (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1999), 7. 2. David Frum, “The reckless Right courts violence,” The Week, August 12, 2009, http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/99474/The_reckless_Right_courts_ violence. 3. Jack Levin and Gordana Rabrenovic, Why We Hate (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004), 81–82. Chapter 8. Profiles in Cowardice 1. Bob Herbert, “Impossible, Ridiculous, Repugnant,” New York Times, October 6, 2005. 2. Lee Atwater and T. Brewster, “Lee Atwater’s Last Campaign?” Life, February 1991, 67. 3. Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2001), 76. 4. Conason and Lyons, The Hunting of the President, 72. 5. Michael Rowe, “Death at the Holocaust Museum and the Degradation of the American Dialogue,” The Huffington Post, June 11, 2009, http://www .huffingtonpost.com/michael-rowe/the-holocaust-museum-shoo_b_214133. html. notes — — — — — — 203 6. Ann Coulter, “Obama’s Dimestore ‘Mein Kampf,’” AnnCoulter.com, April 2, 2008, http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=243. 7. Frank J. Gaffney Jr., “America’s First Muslim President?” Washington Times, June 9, 2009. 8. Frank J. Gaffney Jr., “The Jihadist Vote,” Washington Times, October 14, 2008. 9. Jim Myers, “Inhofe Says Patriotism Question Will Sink Obama,” Tulsa World, September 6, 2008. 10. Chris Casteel, “U.S. Sen. Inhofe Calls Obama Speech “Un-American,” The Oklahoman, June 4, 2009. 11. John Chase and Rick Pearson, “Perennial candidate back for another race,” Chicago Tribune, February 10, 2006. 12. Christopher Hayes, “The New Right-Wing Smear Machine,” The Nation, October 25, 2007, http://www.thenation.com/article/new-right-wing-smear -machine. 13. Ibid. 14. Ibid. 15. Ezra Klein, “Is the Government Going to Euthanize Your Grandmother? An...