by Glenn Beck
“ ‘lukewarm liberals’ ” Paul Kengor, The Communist (New York: Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink, 2012), p. 239.
“home for his interracial marriage” Toby Harnden, “Frank Marshall Davis, Alleged Communist, Was Early Influence on Barack Obama,” The Telegraph, August 22, 2008, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/2601914/Frank-Marshall-Davis-alleged-Communist-was-early-influence-on-Barack-Obama.html.
“ran to six hundred pages” Paul Kengor, “The Washington Post Sugarcoats Obama’s Communist Mentor,” American Thinker, March 26, 2015, http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/the_washington_empostem_sugarcoats_obamas_communist_mentor.html#ixzz3VanoJC9E.
“testimony in front of the U.S. Senate” Paul Kengor, “Dreams from Frank Marshall Davis,” The American Spectator, October 12, 2012, http://spectator.org/34799_dreams-frank-marshall-davis/.
“photographs of nude women” Jim Hoft, “Your Right to Know: More Racy Photos of Obama’s Mother Discovered (Video),” TheGatewayPundit.com, June 19, 2012, http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/your-right-to-know-more-racy-photos-of-obamas-mother-discovered-video/.
“should Hawaii ever need to be targeted” Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “Frank Marshall Davis: Obama’s ‘Communist mentor’?” The Washington Post, March 23, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/03/23/frank-marshall-davis-obamas-communist-mentor/.
“drink together” Paul Kengor, “Dreams from Frank Marshall Davis,” The American Spectator, October 12, 2012, http://spectator.org/34799_dreams-frank-marshall-davis/.
“ ‘African, and an American’ ” “From the Vault—Barack Obama—Sep 1995,” YouTube video, 56:42, from “Barack Obama Speaking at the Cambridge Public Library,” on 22-City View, September 20, 1995, posted by “22-City View—Cambridge, MA,” March 12, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5JlqDnoqlo.
“ ‘get used to these frustrations’ ” “From the Vault—Barack Obama—Sep 1995,” YouTube video, 56:42, from “Barack Obama Speaking at the Cambridge Public Library,” on 22-City View, September 20, 1995, posted by “22-City View—Cambridge, MA,” March 12, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5JlqDnoqlo.
“ ‘black people have a reason to hate’ ” Bob Unruh, “See Obama Admit Seeking Advice from Communist,” WND.com, April 15, 2015, http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/see-obama-admit-seeking-counsel-from-communist/.
“ ‘picturing him there’ ” Paul Kengor, “Obama’s Purge: Why Has Frank Marshall Davis Been Quietly Removed from ‘Dreams from My Father,’ ” TheBlaze, October 3, 2012, http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama%E2%80%99s-purge-why-has-frank-marshall-davis-been-quietly-removed-from-dreams-from-my-father/.
“ ‘planet on which we reside’ ” Gerald Horne, “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party,” Political Affairs, March 29, 2007, http://www.politicalaffairs.net/rethinking-the-history-and-future-of-the-communist-party-41925/.
“purged Davis’s name” Tiffany Gabbay, “Why Was Obama’s Audio Book Version of ‘Dreams from My Father’ Purged of All References to Communist Mentor?” TheBlaze, October 3, 2012, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/03/why-would-obamas-audio-book-version-of-dreams-from-my-father-have-been-purged-of-all-references-to-communist-mentor/.
“ ‘satisfaction of radical ends’ ” Glenn Beck, “Van Jones, In His Own Words,” FoxNews.com, September 1, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/09/01/van-jones-in-his-own-words.html.
PART II: THE LIES
INTRODUCTION: THE GREAT LIE
“a ‘moderate’ and a sellout” Clare Foran, “What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Real Progressive’?,” The Atlantic, February 4, 2015, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/progressive-sanders-clinton/459978/.
“ ‘find a more accomplished and passionate progressive’ ” Dan Merica, “Clinton ‘a little disappointed’ Sanders’ Comments,” CNN.com, February 3, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/03/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sander-disappointed/.
“ ‘the root of that word . . . is progress’ ” Gregory Krieg, “What ‘Progressive’ Means to Hilary Clinton vs. What ‘Progressive’ Means to Bernie Sanders,” CNN.com, February 5, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-progressive-fight/.
“ ‘I make no bones about it’ ” Maya Rhodan, “President Obama: ‘I Still Believe in a Politics of Hope’ ” Time, February 11, 2016, http://time.com/4215851/barack-obama-springfield/.
“ ‘that we can change the gun culture’ ” Liz Kreutz, “Clinton Holds Emotional Town Hall with Family Members of Sandy Hook Victims,” ABC News, April 21, 2016, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/emotional-town-hall-hillary-clinton-concerted-effort-undermine/story?id=38580530.
“This is how we will be judged” Barack Obama and Joe Biden, “Remarks by the President and the Vice President on Gun Violence” (remarks, Washington, D.C., January 16, 2013), The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/16/remarks-president-and-vice-president-gun-violence.
“ ‘Wheeler controlled the Prohibition Bureau’ ” John Kobler, Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (Boston: Da Capo, 1993), p. 274.
“ ‘costs many lives and long years of effort’ ” Lily Rothman, “The History of Poisoned Alcohol Includes an Unlikely Culprit: The US Government,” Time, January 14, 2015, http://time.com/3665643/deadly-drinking/.
“poisoned some ten thousand Americans” Deborah Blum, “The Chemist’s War: The Little-Told Story of How the US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition with Deadly Consequences,” Slate, February 19, 2010, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html.
“ ‘in order to further the investigation’” Lauren Keane, “The Justice Department Cartel Strategy, October 2009,” The Washington Post online, July 26, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/atf-fast-and-furious-2.html.
“found its way to the kingpin through Fast and Furious” Ian Tuttle, “El Chapo’s Capture Puts ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ Back in the Headlines,” National Review, January 21, 2016, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430153/fast-furious-obama-first-scandal.
“ ‘regardless of the politics’ ” Tom Cohen, “Wiping Away Tears, Obama Mourns Children Killed in School Shooting,” CNN.com, December 15, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/14/us/obama-school-shooting/.
“ ‘This is how we will be judged’ ” Barack Obama and Joe Biden, “Remarks by the President and the Vice President on Gun Violence,” (remarks, Washington, D.C., January 16, 2013), The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/16/remarks-president-and-vice-president-gun-violence.
“ ‘over the profits of the gun lobby’” Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, “Gun Violence Prevention: It Is Past Time We Act on Gun Violence,” HillaryClinton.com, accessed May 30, 2016, https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/gun-violence-prevention/.
“ ‘that we can change the gun culture’ ” Liz Kreutz, “Clinton Holds Emotional Town Hall with Family Members of Sandy Hook Victims,” ABC News, April 21, 2016, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/emotional-town-hall-hillary-clinton-concerted-effort-undermine/story?id=38580530.
“ ‘fact that the AR-15 has been in the news’ ” Justin Peters, “The New Assault Weapons Ban Deserved to Die,” Crime (blog), Slate, March 20, 2016, http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/03/20/dianne_feinstein_gun_control_the_new_assault_weapons_ban_deserved_to_die.html.
“ ‘to protect its citizens’ safety’ ” Richard Simon, “Senate Votes Down Feinstein’s Assault Weapons Ban,” Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2013, http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/17/news/la-pn-dianne-feinstein-assault-weapons-vote-20130417.
“compiled data on causes of death” Jason Howerton, “Infographic: Fears Versus Reality When It Comes to Death—Including 5 Things More Likely to Kill You Than a Firearm,” TheBlaze.com, A
pril 5, 2016, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/05/infographic-fears-vs-reality-when-it-comes-to-death-including-5-things-more-likely-to-kill-you-than-a-firearm/.
“ ‘just making my kids and I less safe?’ ” Justin Wm. Moyer, “Meet the Pro-Gun Rape Survivor Who Challenged Obama on CNN,” The Washington Post, January 8, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/08/meet-kimberly-corban-the-pro-gun-rape-survivor-who-challenged-obama-on-cnn/.
“ ‘firearm in a home leads to a tragic accident’ ” Justin Wm. Moyer, “Meet the Pro-Gun Rape Survivor Who Challenged Obama on CNN,” The Washington Post, January 8, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/08/meet-kimberly-corban-the-pro-gun-rape-survivor-who-challenged-obama-on-cnn/.
“ ‘He kind of dodged the question’ ” Justin Wm. Moyer, “Meet the Pro-Gun Rape Survivor Who Challenged Obama on CNN,” The Washington Post, January 8, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/08/meet-kimberly-corban-the-pro-gun-rape-survivor-who-challenged-obama-on-cnn/.
“after her husband was shot and killed on a commuter train” Rick Hampson, “ ‘Gun Lady’ Carolyn McCarthy Finally Going Home,” USA Today, January 2, 2016, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/02/carolyn-mccarthy-retiring/20599293/.
“ ‘time to rise again to secure our future’ ” Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim, An Inconvenient Truth (Hollywood, CA: Paramount, 2006).
“ ‘and our planet began to heal’ ” Barack Obama, “Full Speech: Obama Declares Victory,” ABC News, June 3, 2008, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4988344&page=1.
“that was the scientific Left’s theory in the 1970s” Popular Technology, “1970s Global Cooling Alarmism,” PopularTechnology.net, February 28, 2013, http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html.
“ ‘result from unchecked climate change’ ” Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, “Climate Change and Clean Energy: Making America the World’s Clean Energy Superpower and Meeting the Climate Change Challenge,” HillaryClinton.com, accessed May 30, 2016, https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/climate/.
“ ‘ravages our planet and our people’ ” Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign, “Combating Climate Change to Save the Planet: #Peoplebeforepolluters,” BernieSanders.com, accessed May 30, 2016, https://berniesanders.com/people-before-polluters/.
“and our planet began to heal” Barack Obama, “Full Speech: Obama Declares Victory,” ABC News, June 3, 2008, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4988344&page=1.
“ ‘the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction’ ” “Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia, “Secretary Kerry on the Security Threat of Climate Change,” ClimateandSecurity.org, February 17, 2014, https://climateandsecurity.org/2014/02/17/secretary-kerry-on-the-security-threat-of-climate-change/.
“made his hedge-fund money in fossil fuels” Richard Valdmanis, “Exclusive: Billionaire Green Activist Steyer Not Ready to Back Clinton, Open to Sanders,” Reuters, January 20, 2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-steyer-idUSMTZSAPEC1K9038AB.
“top super-PAC donors in the 2016 elections” Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy, “The New Gilded Age: Close to Half of All Super-PAC Money Comes from 50 Donors,” The Washington Post, April 15, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-new-gilded-age-close-to-half-of-all-super-pac-money-comes-from-50-donors/2016/04/15/63dc363c-01b4-11e6-9d36-33d198ea26c5_story.html.
“ ‘Why didn’t they wake up when they had a chance?’ ” Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim, An Inconvenient Truth (Hollywood, CA: Paramount, 2006).
“ ‘what Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky were thirty years ago” Larissa Macfarquhar, “Outside Agitator: Naomi Klein and the New Left,” The New Yorker, December 8, 2008, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/12/08/outside-agitator.
“ ‘and build something radically better’ ” Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014).
“ ‘the best chance we’re ever gonna get to build a better world’ ” “This Changes Everything: Int’l Trailer,” YouTube video, 2:22, posted by This Changes Everything, August 27, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpuSt_ST4_U.
“ ‘problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole’ ” Anthony Watts, “IPCC Official: ‘Climate Policy Is Redistributing the World’s Wealth,” Watt’s Up with That?, November 18, 2010, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/18/ipcc-official-%E2%80%9Cclimate-policy-is-redistributing-the-worlds-wealth%E2%80%9D/.
“ ‘distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated’ ” Anthony Watts, “IPCC Official: ‘Climate Policy Is Redistributing the World’s Wealth,” Watt’s Up with That?, November 18, 2010, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/18/ipcc-official-%E2%80%9Cclimate-policy-is-redistributing-the-worlds-wealth%E2%80%9D/.
“ ‘at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution’ ” United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe, “Figueres: First Time the World Economy Is Transformed Intentionally,” Unric.org, February 3, 2015, http://www.unric.org/en/latest-un-buzz/29623-figueres-first-time-the-world-economy-is-transformed-intentionally.
“ ‘wisdom of our founders and the Constitution’ ” Elizabeth Titus, “Hillary and Jeb, Friends for a Night,” Politico, September 10, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/hillary-clinton-jeb-bush-philadelphia-096587.
“ ‘and true to our founding documents’ ” Barack Obama, “The President’s Inaugural address,” (speech, Washington, D.C., January 21, 2009), The White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/01/21/president-barack-obamas-inaugural-address.
“ ‘according to the Darwinian principle’ ” First Principles editors, “Woodrow Wilson Asks ‘What Is Progress,’ ” First Principles, Heritage.org, accessed May 31, 2016, http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/woodrow-wilson-asks-what-is-progress.
“ ‘most marvelously elastic compilation of rules’ ” Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Address as Governor of New York,” (speech, New York, NY, March 2, 1930), Lexrex.com, accessed May 31, 2016, http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/writings/fdr_address.htm.
“reelected with fewer votes than his first election” Ed Krayewski, “Barack Obama First President Re-Elected with Less Popular, Electoral Support Second Time Around,” Hit and Run (blog), Reason.com, November 19, 2012, http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/19/barack-obama-first-president-re-elected.
“ ‘placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution’ ” Mark Tapscott, “Bombshell: Obama Endorsed ‘Redistribution of Wealth’ in 2001 WBEZ Interview,” Washington Examiner, October 26, 2008, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bombshell-obama-endorsed-redistribution-of-wealth-in-2001-wbez-interview/article/136302/section/elizabeth-warren.
“ ‘must do on your behalf’ ” Mark Tapscott, “Bombshell: Obama Endorsed ‘Redistribution of Wealth’ in 2001 WBEZ Interview,” Washington Examiner, October 26, 2008, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bombshell-obama-endorsed-redistribution-of-wealth-in-2001-wbez-interview/article/136302/section/elizabeth-warren.
“ ‘the Colonial culture nascent at that time’ ” David A. Patten, “Obama: Constitution Is ‘Deeply Flawed,’ ” Newsmax, October 27, 2008, http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/obama-constitution/2008/10/27/id/326165/.
“ ‘flaw of this country that continues to this day’ ” David A. Patten, “Obama: Constitution Is ‘Deeply Flawed,’ ” Newsmax, October 27, 2008, http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/obama-constitution/2008/10/27/id/326165/.
“ ‘distrust of the democratic principle’ ” Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life, quoted in David Levy, Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), p. 103.
“ ‘feeling of its peculiarly sacred character” Herbert Croly, “Introduction to Progressive Democracy,” in American Progressivism: A Reader, ed. Ronald J. Pestritto
and William J. Atto (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008), p. 295.
“earlier Articles of Confederation government” Charles Beard, “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States,” TeachingAmericanHistory.org, accessed May 31, 2016, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/an-economic-interpretation-of-the-constitution-of-the-united-states/.
“ ‘democracy rallied to an undemocratic Constitution’ ” Herbert Croly, Progressive Democracy (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2006), p. 49–51.
“ ‘serve the purposes for which it was intended’ ” Charles R. Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p 45–46.
“ ‘throwback to the Gilded Age of the robber barons’ ” Benjy Sarlin, “Hillary Clinton Slams Inequality in Populist Speech,” MSNBC.com, May 16, 2014, http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-goes-populist.
“ ‘if we’re going to have a vibrant middle class’ ” Greg Sargent, “Bernie Sanders Calls for Downward ‘Transfer’ of Wealth of Top One Percent,” The Washington Post, May 26, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/05/26/bernie-sanders-calls-for-downward-transfer-of-wealth-of-top-one-percent/.
“one of the ‘biggest issues we face’ ” Correct the Record editors, “Hillary Clinton: A Lifetime Champion of Income Opportunity,” CorrectRecord.org, accessed May 31, 2016, http://correctrecord.org/the-points/hillary-clinton-a-lifetime-champion-of-income-opportunity/.
“ ‘reshuffle the deck’ to address the issue” James Pethokoukis, “Hillary Clinton’s Inequality Plan Has Big Problems,” The Week, January 7, 2016, http://theweek.com/articles/597696/hillary-clintons-inequality-plan-big-probblems.
“both ‘income inequality’ and ‘wealth inequality’ during his campaign” Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign, “Issues: Income and Wealth Inequality,” BernieSanders.com, accessed May 31, 2016, https://berniesanders.com/issues/income-and-wealth-inequality/.
