Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control

by Glenn Beck

“Liberal outlets like the New York Times routinely publish columns” Peter Georgescu, “Capitalists, Arise: We Need to Deal with Income Inequality,” The New York Times, August 7, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/opinion/sunday/capitalists-arise-we-need-to-deal-with-income-inequality.html?_r=2.

  “Moore’s worth at around $50 million” Noel Sheppard, “OWS Supporter Michael Moore Lies on National Television About His Wealth: No, I’m Not Worth Millions,” NewsBusters.org, October 26, 2011, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/10/26/ows-supporter-michael-moore-lies-national-television-about-his-wealth.

  “was a net worth of $20 million” Peter Coy, “The Richest Are in a Class by Themselves: For a Lucky Few, It’s a Return to the Roaring Twenties,” Bloomberg, April 3, 2014, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-03/top-tenth-of-1-percenters-reaps-all-the-riches.

  “Neil Young, with a net worth of $65 million” “Neil Young Net Worth,” CelebrityNetWorth.com, accessed May 31, 2016, http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rock-stars/neil-young-net-worth/.

  “and let him use his music at rallies” Tessa Berenson, “Here’s What Neil Young Thinks About Donald Trump Using His Music,” Time, September 27, 2015, http://time.com/4051260/neil-young-donald-trump-music/.

  “Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon . . . threw their weight separately” Christie D’Zurilla, Kyle Kim, Armand Emadjomeh, “Celebrity Endorsement Tracker,” Campaign 2016 (blog), Los Angeles Times, accessed May 31, 2016, http://graphics.latimes.com/celebrity-presidential-endorsements/.

  “a combined net worth of more than $100 million” “Tim Robbins Net Worth,” CelebrityNetWorth.com, accessed May 31, 2016, http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/tim-robbins-net-worth/. “Susan Sarandon Net Worth,” CelebrityNetWorth.com, accessed May 31, 2016, http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/actors/susan-sarandon-net-worth/.

  “amassed a net worth of $30 million” “Dick Van Dyke Net Worth,” CelebrityNetWorth.com, accessed May 31, 2016, http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/richest-comedians/dick-van-dyke-net-worth/.

  “a ‘New Deal Democrat’ from the Franklin Roosevelt era” Christie D’Zurilla, Kyle Kim, Armand Emadjomeh, “Celebrity Endorsement Tracker,” Campaign 2016 (blog), Los Angeles Times, accessed May 31, 2016, http://graphics.latimes.com/celebrity-presidential-endorsements/.

  “made $3 million for giving three speeches in 2013” Zaid Jilani, “Hillary Clinton Made More in Twelve Speeches to Big Banks Than Most of Us Earn in a Lifetime,” TheIntercept.com, January 8, 2016, https://theintercept.com/2016/01/08/hillary-clinton-earned-more-from-12-speeches-to-big-banks-than-most-americans-earn-in-their-lifetime/.

  “an astounding $19 trillion in new taxes” Philip Klein, “Here’s a List of Bernie Sanders’s $19.6 Trillion in Tax Hikes,” Washington Examiner, January 19, 2016, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/heres-a-list-of-bernie-sanders-19.6-trillion-in-tax-hikes/article/2580846.

  “minimum wage has been increased nine times” US Department of Labor, “Wage and Hour Division: History of Federal Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor Standards Act 1938–2009,” dol.gov, accessed May 31, 2016, https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/chart.htm.

  “poverty level is now sixteen percent—a three percent increase” United States Census Bureau, “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2013,” press release, Census.gov, September 16, 2014, http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-169.html.

  “cost the economy as many as two hundred thousand jobs” David Neumark, “The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment,” Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, frbsf.org, December 21, 2015, http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2015/december/effects-of-minimum-wage-on-employment/.

  “in Switzerland, they’ve proposed $2,700 a month” Kathleen Caulderwood, “$2,700 a Month No Matter What? Some Swiss Ask Government to Assure Income,” International Business Times, November 12, 2013, http://www.ibtimes.com/2700-month-no-matter-what-some-swiss-ask-government-assure-income-1466508.

  “even some conservatives have gotten on board” Noah Gordon, “The Conservative Case for a Guaranteed Basic Income,” The Atlantic, August 6, 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/why-arent-reformicons-pushing-a-guaranteed-basic-income/375600/.

  “an astounding thirty percent of Switzerland’s GDP” “Basically Unaffordable” The Economist, May 23, 2015, http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21651897-replacing-welfare-payments-basic-income-all-alluring.

  “ ‘bringing their own toilet paper’ ” Dave Shiflett, “Laughing in the Face of Despair,” The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2015, http://www.wsj.com/articles/laughing-in-the-face-of-despair-1448044955.

  “ ‘the more they did for themselves, and became richer’ ” The Federalist Papers Project, “Benjamin Franklin on the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766,” TheFederalistPapers.org, accessed May 31, 2016, http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/founders/franklin/benjamin-franklin-on-the-price-of-corn-and-management-of-the-poor-november-1766.

  “and work is an important part of one’s happiness” Arthur C. Brooks, “A Formula for Happiness,” The New York Times, December 14, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/a-formula-for-happiness.html?_r=0.

  “ ‘to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind’ ” George H. W. Bush, “Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union” (speech, Washington, DC, January 29, 1991), The American Presidency Project at University of California, Santa Barbara, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=19253.

  “ ‘I’m a George W. Bush conservative’ ” “Transcript: Bret Baier Interviews President Bush,” FoxNews.com, December 17, 2008, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/17/transcript-bret-baier-interviews-president-bush.html.

  “as a senile fool or a dangerous loose cannon” Matt Latimer, “Nancy Reagan’s Passing Marks the Death of the GOP Establishment,” Politico Magazine, March 6, 2016, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/nancy-reagan-death-gop-establishment-213703.

  “ ‘limits one or more of the major life activities’ ” Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Public Law 101-336. 108th Congress, 2nd Session (July 26, 1990).

  “ ‘communicating and interacting with others’ ” James Bovard, “The Failure of the Americans with Disabilities Act,” The Future of Freedom Foundation, fff.org, October 1, 2015, http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/failure-americans-disabilities-act/.

  “lawsuits against private industries” James Bovard, “How Disability Law Went Nuts: Column,” USA Today, July 29, 2015, http://www.usatoday.com/wlna/opinion/2015/07/27/ada-americans—disabilities-act-lawsuits/30702519/.

  “toilet stall was at an improper height” James Bovard, “How Disability Law Went Nuts: Column,” USA Today, July 29, 2015, http://www.usatoday.com/wlna/opinion/2015/07/27/ada-americans—disabilities-act-lawsuits/30702519/.

  “ ‘if an individual without a disability performed the job’ ” Kenneth Ofgang, “Ninth Circuit Rejects One-Eyed Drivers’ Bias Claims Against UPS,” Metropolitan News-Enterprise, September 16, 2005, http://www.metnews.com/articles/2005/eeoc091605.htm.

  “lawsuits against businesses under the ADA” Joseph Perkins, “Abuse of ADA a Plague on California Small Businesses,” The Orange County Register, April 24, 2015, http://www.ocregister.com/articles/ada-659192-mccarthy-lawsuits.html.

  “deal McConnell had made to keep the Export-Import Bank open” Jordain Carney, “Cruz Accuses McConnell of Lying,” Floor Action (blog), The Hill, http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/249076-cruz-accuses-mcconnell-of-lying-to-him-on-ex-im-bank.

  “ ‘Capitol Hill humming along as it was designed to” Politico Staff, “Senate Sends Transportation Infrastructure Bill to Obama,” Politico, December 3, 2015, http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/senate-transportation-package-ex-im-renewal-216420.

  “ ‘fighting for equality f
or all Americans’ ” Priorities USA, “What’s at Stake: Fighting for Equal Rights,” PrioritiesUSAAction.org, accessed May 31, 2016, http://prioritiesusaaction.org/whats-at-stake/.

  “ ‘and to reform our broken criminal justice system’ ” Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign, “Sanders in North Charleston Caps South Carolina Tour,” press release, BernieSanders.com, August 22, 2015, https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-in-charleston-caps-south-carolina-tour/?source=twitter08222015&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=twitter08222015.

  “ ‘struggle with racism remains far from finished’ ” Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, “Racial Justice: America’s Struggle with Race Is Far From Finished,” HillaryClinton.com, accessed May 31, 2016, https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/racial-justice/.

  “ ‘own them, and then change them’ ” Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, “Racial Justice: America’s Struggle with Race Is Far From Finished,” HillaryClinton.com, accessed May 31, 2016, https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/racial-justice/.

  “ ‘fight harder to end institutional racism’ ” Elizabeth Landers and Eugene Scott, “New Sanders Video Features Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson,” CNN.com, February 13, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/13/politics/bernie-sanders-martin-luther-king-jr-hillary-clinton-south-carolina/.

  “ ‘they like me. I like them’ ” Janell Ross, “Donald Trump’s Intriguing Comments About Sandra Bland. Yes, Really,” The Fix (blog), The Washington Post, July 23, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/23/donald-trumps-intriguing-comments-about-sandra-bland-yes-really/.

  “declared in the photo’s caption: ‘I love Hispanics!’ ” Donald J. Trump, Twitter post, May 5, 2016, 11:57 a.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/728297587418247168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw.

  “ ‘the rights of Americans with disabilities’ ” Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, “Disability Rights: We Must Continue to Expand Opportunities for All Americans,” HillaryClinton.com, accessed May 31, 2016, https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/disability-rights/.

  “ ‘and achieve a high quality of life’ ” Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign, “Issues: Fighting for Disability Rights,” Bernie Sanders.com, accessed May 31, 2016, https://berniesanders.com/issues/fighting-for-disability-rights/.

  “ ‘birth control could be a valuable tool of eugenics’ ” Thomas C. Leonard, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), p. 116.

  “ ‘certain criminals and other mental defectives’ ” Talya Nevins, “Eugenics at Princeton,” Nassau Weekly, April 12, 2015, http://www.nassauweekly.com/eugenics-at-princeton/.

  “ ‘broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes” Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, 47 S. Ct. 584 (1927).

  “ ‘Three generations of imbeciles are enough” Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, 47 S. Ct. 584 (1927).

  “the Nazis quoted Justice Holmes’s opinion in Buck v. Bell” Edwin Black, “Eugenics and the Nazis: The California Connection,” SF Gate, November 9, 2003, http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php.

  “more than three hundred thousand abortions every year” Jamie Bryan Hall and Roger Severino, Disentangling the Data on Planned Parenthood Affiliates’ Abortion Services and Receipt of Taxpayer Funding, Issue Brief, (Washington, D.C.: The Heritage Foundation, September 30, 2015), http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/09/disentangling-the-data-on-planned-parenthood-affiliates-abortion-services-and-receipt-of-taxpayer-funding.

  “accounted for 35.7% of all abortions in 2010” Jerome Hudson, “Proof Ben Carson Is Right About Planned Parenthood Targeting Black Neighborhoods,” Breitbart.com, August 13, 2015, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/13/proof-ben-carson-is-right-about-planned-parenthood-targeting-black-neighborhoods/.

  “ ‘winning over the masses on his way to power’ ” William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), p. 205.

  “ ‘Now we’ve got a new bunch of Hitlers’ ” Doug Heye, “The Left’s Limited Outrage at Hitler Comparisons,” US News & World Report, October 6, 2011, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/doug-heye/2011/10/06/celebs-should-avoid-the-hitler-president-comparison-be-it-bush-or-obama.

  “war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy in 2003” “MoveOn Stays on Bush-Hitler Theme,” WND.com, 1/14/2004, http://www.wnd.com/2004/01/22750/.

  “images of Senator John McCain alongside Hitler” Jocelyn Vena, “Madonna Compares Hitler to John McCain at Tour Opener; Campaign Calls Slam ‘Outrageous,’ ” MTV.com, August 25, 2008, http://www.mtv.com/news/1593432/madonna-compares-john-mccain-to-hitler-at-tour-opener-campaign-calls-slam-outrageous/.

  “because they both used Swiss bank accounts” Tony Lee, Slate Blogger Matthew Yglesias Compares Mitt Romney to Hitler,” Breitbart, July 9, 2012, http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2012/07/09/slate-blogger-matthew-yglesias-compares-mitt-romney-to-hitler/.

  “campaign efforts in Illinois as a ‘Mittzkrieg’ ” Tim Cavanaugh, “Axelrod Stay Class with Romney/Hitler Comparison,” Hit and Run (blog), Reason.com, March 19, 2012, http://reason.com/blog/2012/03/19/axelrod-stays-classy-with-romneyhitler-c.

  “akin to ‘Jews for Hitler’ ” Meera Jagannathan, “Joy Behar Rips Caitlyn Jenner’s Ted Cruz Support: ‘Transgenders for Cruz Is Like Jews for Hitler,’ ” New York Daily News, March 15, 2016, http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/joy-behar-caitlyn-cruz-support-jews-hitler-article-1.2565331.

  “supporters of Stalin, for example, as ‘conservatives’ ” Gregory Bovt, “Back to Stalin’s Soviet Union,” The Moscow Times, February 15, 2013, http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/back-to-stalins-soviet-union/475589.html.

  “ ‘Why U.S. Conservatives Love Russia’s Vladimir Putin’” Ishaan Tharoor, “Why U.S. Conservatives Love Russia’s Vladimir Putin,” The Washington Post, August 25, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/08/25/why-u-s-conservatives-love-russias-vladimir-putin/.

  “ ‘shut on the fingers of millions of citizens’ ” Norman Vieira and Leonard Gross, Supreme Court Appointments: Judge Bork and the Politicization of Court Appointments, (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998), p. 26.

  “ ‘to escape altogether from its relentless logic’ ” Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 21.

  “ ‘absolutely necessary to get the state in order’ ” Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 21.

  “negotiated by British prime minister Neville Chamberlain” Clive Irving, “Joe Kennedy’s Answer to the ‘Jewish Question’: Ship Them to Africa,” The Daily Beast, February 1, 2015, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/01/joe-kennedy-s-answer-to-the-jewish-question-ship-them-to-africa.html.

  “led him to argue that they should be shipped to Africa” Clive Irving, “Joe Kennedy’s Answer to the ‘Jewish Question’: Ship Them to Africa,” The Daily Beast, February 1, 2015, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/01/joe-kennedy-s-answer-to-the-jewish-question-ship-them-to-africa.html.

  “told the Boston Globe. ‘It may be here’ ” Thomas Mallon, review of Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy, ed. Amanda Smith, New York Times, December 31, 2000, https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/31/reviews/001231.31mallont.html.

  “ ‘The right thing for Germany’ ” Allan Hall, “How JFK Secretly ADMIRED Hitler: Explosive Book Reveals Former President’s Praise for the Nazis as He Traveled Through Germany Before the Second World War,” Daily Mail, May 23, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2329556/How-JFK-secretly-ADMIRED-Hitler-Explosive-book-reveals-Presidents-praise-Nazis-travelled-Germany-Second-World-War.html#ixzz46rv0Eouu.


  “have pointed out, a ‘man of the left’ ” Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 53.

  “ ‘others, including democratic socialists, thought so too’ ” George Watson, “Hitler and the Socialist Dream,” The Independent, November 21, 1998, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html.

  “ ‘as I do not hesitate to admit’ ” George Watson, “Hitler and the Socialist Dream,” The Independent, November 21, 1998, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html.

  “ ‘first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood’ ” Bill Flax, “Obama, Hitler, and Exploding the Biggest Lie in History,” Forbes, September 1, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/billflax/2011/09/01/obama-hitler-and-exploding-the-biggest-lie-in-history/#325ff0292b98.

  “ ‘experiment in reconciling individualism and socialism’ ” George Dunlap Burns Jr., Our Dying Republic: The Cause and the Cure, (self-published, and printed by Xulon Press, 2011), p. 27.

  “hailed the Soviet Union as ‘the future’ ” Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 28.

  “run by ‘petty persons with petty purposes’ ” Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 103.

  “ ‘formed’ by God ‘out of the rib of Italy’ ” Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 28.

  “ ‘the able and courageous Mussolini’ ” Billie James Jensen, “Philip Dru, the Blueprint of a Presidential Adviser,” American Studies Journal 12, no. 1 (Spring 1971): 55, https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/amerstud/article/view/2434/2393.

  “ ‘piece of social machinery I’ve ever seen’ ” Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 11.