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Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America

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by John P. Avlon


  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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