54 http://www.nextbookpress.com/news-and-politics/22857/liebermans-betrayal/
55 http://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html
56 http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/tally65.html
57 http://www.ssa.gov/history/tally1996.html
58 http://www.gallup.com/poll/123491/Approval-Congress-Falls-21-Driven-Democrats.aspx
59 http://www.gallup.com/poll/124094/Majority-Say-Obama-Policies-Mostly-Liberal.aspx
60 http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cr_20091205_2246.php
The Big Lie: Birthers and Truthers
1 http://washingtonindependent.com/51736/rep-mike-castle-fends-off-the-birthers
2 http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/26/obama_fighting_false_e_mail_rumors_in_south_carolina/
3 http://washingtonindependent.com/63817/poll-one-third-oftennesseans-think-obama-is-muslim-or-foreign-born
4 http://pumaparty.com/vb/puma-talking-points-media-relations/18349-write-your-local-areas-newspapers-ask-if-obama-legal.html
5 http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
6 http://pumaparty.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=185&p=924
7 http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/complete_report/CBS_Report.pdf
8 Interview with the author, 12/30/09.
9 Interview with the author, 12/9/09.
10 http://www.adl.org/special_reports/rage-grows-in-America/birther-movement.asp
11 http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-30/queen-of-the-birthers/
12 http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=94377
13 http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-30/queen-of-the-birthers/
14 http://drorly.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-should-be-done.html
15 http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/feature/2009/07/22/dobbs/
16 http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/23/gop-birther-bill/
17 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_03/017108.php
18 http://www.orlytaitz.com
19 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100503819_pf.html
20 http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0709/58_of_GOP_not_suredont_beleive_Obama_born_in_US.html?showall
21 http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll
22 http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=10051
23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3wxkvsQvtQ&eurl=
24 http://reason.com/blog/2007/06/19/the-awful-truth-about-9-11
25 http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/12/13/tape.transcript/
26 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/09/obama-charlie-sheen-911.html
The Hatriots: Armed and Dangerous
1 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/us/06threat.html
2 http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/
3 http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1092
4 http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1027
5 http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=392
6 http://www.threepercenter.org/page.php?al=about
7 http://www.theamericanresistancemovement.com/forums.php?a=vtopic&t=27
8 http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-12-05T11%3A43%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7
9 http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-12-15T09%3A07%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7
10 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/us/politics/18texas.html
11 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/glenn-beck-secession-or-s_n_187779.html
12 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/glenn-beck-secession-or-s_n_187779.html
13 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/21/inside-the-beltway-68484451/
14 http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dobsons-lament-obama-no-reagan
15 http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/after_obama_fails.html
16 http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-07/stopping-the-next-mcveigh/full/
17 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34899_Hot_Air_Comments_of_the_Day
18 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35021_Hot_Air_Comments_of_the_Day
19 http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2009_10/fulltext/sr632.htm
20 http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/04/16/georgia-senate-threatens-dismantling-of-usa/
21 http://dixienet.org/New%20Site/index.shtml
22 Overstreet, The Strange Tactics of Extremism, p. 218.
23 http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output. cfm&file_id=1464
24 http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/aug/06/minuteman-outlasted-notoriety-died-with-regrets/
25 American Jewish Year Book, 1967.
26 http://www.textfiles.com/conspiracy/walker.txt
27 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B1FFE3F5A167493CBA9178CD85F428785F9
28 “Eisenhower Says Officers Should Stay Out of Politics,” New York Times, November 24, 1961, p. 1.
29 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/35_kennedy/psources/ps_conspir.html
30 http://www.adl.org/Learn/Ext_US/SCM.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=4&item=sov
31 http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=383
32 Hewitt, Political Violence and Terrorism in Modern America, pp. 28-90.
33 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574447621545728370.html
34 http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/27/gohmert-conspiraciesalexjones/
35 Interview with the author.
36 http://www.adl.org/special_reports/rage-grows-in-America/conspiracy-theories.asp
37 http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908310007
38 http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909290042
39 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/10/07/leave-or-else-youtube-video-warns-obama/
40 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09095/960750-53.stm
41 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/27/joshua-cartwright-cop-kil_n_191929.html
42 http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/01/kansas.doctor.killed.charges/index.html
43 http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/11/museum.shooting.suspect.two/.
44 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/us/06threat.html
45 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/watermellonroll-more-rac_b_152743.html_NoPara
46 http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=392
47 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/12/officials-see-rise-inmil_n_257128.html
Conclusion: How to Take America Back from the Lunatic Fringe
1 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/were-heading-into-nut-country-president-kennedy-said-this-to-an-aide-as-he-began-his-fatal-visit-to-texas-thirty-years-ago-here-peter-pringle-evokes-dallas-as-it-was-then-a-hostile-place-which-cared-very-little-for-the-dream-that-died-there-1505387.html
2 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
INDEX
Abramoff, Jack
Abrams, Dan
Agnew, Spiro
Ailes, Roger
Alaska Independence Party
Alexander, Lamar
Alinsky, Saul
background
Rules for Radicals
Ambrose, James
American Independent Party
American Nazi Party
American Resistance Movement philosophy
American Sentinel
American Spectator
American Thinker
Americans for Prosperity
Shay and
Tea Party protests
AmeriCorps
Anderson, Pastor Stephen L.
Anti-Defamation League
Anti-Semitism
Holocaust Museum killing
Rat-Finks
Westboro Baptist Church
Antichrist
definition
Left Behind series and See also “Obama as Antichrist”
Anuzis, Saul
Arbitron
Arguing w
ith Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government (Beck)
Armey, Dick
Asner, Edward
Audacity of Hope, The (Obama)
Ayers, Bill
Bachmann, Michele
extremism
How To Take Back America Conference
Value Voters Summit
Baird, Brian
Baker, James
Baldwin, Stephen
Barr, Bob
Beck, Glenn
background
“big tent” philosophy opposition
books by
calling Obama a racist
“Comrade Updates”
description/style
father of
Fox News beginnings
Hatriots and
health-care reform
Limbaugh and
Mormons and
mother of
9/12 March on Washington
“Obama as Antichrist”
“Obama as communist”
“Obama as Hitler”/fascism
overview
pitch on buying gold
secession
Tea Party movement and
as “truth teller”
Van Jones and
Belafonte, Harry
Berg, Philip
Bergen, Candice
Bernanke, Ben
Biden, Joe
Big Lies
about See also Birthers; 9/11 Truthers
Birthers
bill in Congress
“Crazy Eileen”
Drake
far left and
Keyes
overview
Palin
people believing
primary campaign and
PUMAS and
soldiers and
Taitz
WorldNetDaily
Bishop, Tim
Black, Diane
Blame-America-First reflex
Blue Dog congressman
Board of Education, Brown v. (1954)
Bolling v. Sharpe
Bond, Kit
Booth, John Wilkes
Branch Davidian compound, Waco, Texas
Brickley, Adam
British National Party
Brittingham, Kody
Brooke, Ed
Brooks, David
Broun, Paul
Brown, Brian
Brown, Tina
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Brownstein, Ron
Bryant, Anita
Buchanan, Pat
background
white minority politics
Buckley, Chris
Buckley Jr., William F.
Burton, Dan
Bush, George H.W.
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Clarence Thomas and
RINO hunters and
Bush, George W.
2000 election
civilian reserve corps
comparisons
economic crisis
fiscal issues
National Guard
No Child Left Behind policy
Bush Derangement Syndrome
C-Span
Calhoun, John C.
California’s Proposition 6
Cantor, Eric
Carter, Carol
Carter, Jimmy
Cartwright, Joshua
Castle, Mike
“Crazy Eileen” (Birther) and
RINO hit list and
Castro references/comparisons
CBS News
Chaitkin, Anton
Charlie Brown Christmas Special
Chavez, Cesar
Chávez, Hugo
Belafonte and
Obama comparisons
Cheney, Dick
comparisons
gay marriage
imagined scenarios
on Limbaugh vs. Powell
Chicago Tea Party protests
Christian Coalition
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Goldwater and
Johnson and
states’ rights and
Civil rights legislation
Dixiecrats and
Humphrey and
Johnson and
See also Civil Rights Act (1964)
Civil War
beginnings See also Reconstruction
Civil war talk
Civilian reserve corps
Climate change Cap and Trade bill
Clinton, Bill
Farah and
as “Manchurian Candidate”
militia movement and
Wiley Drake and
Clinton, Hillary
Alinsky and
Secretary of State
supporters
WorldNetDaily and
Club for Growth
Cochran, Dan
Code Pink
Colbert, Stephen
Conservapedia and
quotes
Coleman, Norm
Collins, Susan
Colmes, Alan
Columbus, Christopher
Communism. See John Birch Society; “Obama as communist”; specific individuals
Communist Party USA
Communist Workers Party
Confederate flags
Confederate States Militia
Conner, Sean L.
Connolly, Gerry
Connor, Bull
Conservapedia
Conservative Digest
Conservative Political Action Committee (2009)
Conspiracy theorists explained
Conyers, John
Cook, Stefan Frederick
Corsi, Jerome R.
Coughlin, Father Charles
Coulter, Anne
Council for National Policy
Councils of Conservative Citizens
in 1980s/1990s
White Citizen Councils of 1950s/1960s and
Countdown (MSNBC)
County Times
Couric, Katie
Cronkite, Walter
Cunningham, Bill
Curious George monkey doll
Czolgosz, Leon
Daily Beast
Audra Shay
Chris Buckley
Meghan McCain
Daily Kos
Daily Show
Davis, Artur
Davis, Fred
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