Bullies

by Ben Shapiro

  40. Frank James, “Obama Team’s Tough BP Talk Undercut By Tougher Reality,” NPR.org, May 23, 2010, http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/05/obama_teams_tough_bp_talk_unde.html, accessed June 2012.

  41. Nick Assinder, “Britain to Obama: Stop Bullying Us Over BP,” Time.com, June 11, 2010, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1996056,00.html, accessed June 2012.

  42. Noelle Straub, “Obama to Extend Deepwater Drilling Moratorium,” New York Times, May 27, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/05/27/27greenwire-obama-to-extend-deepwater-drilling-moratorium-8011.html?pagewanted=all, accessed June 2012.

  43. Mark Clayton, “Offshore drilling ban: Will revised moratorium appease courts?,” Christian Science Monitor, July 12, 2010, http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0712/Offshore-drilling-ban-Will-revised-moratorium-appease-courts, accessed June 2012.

  44. Darren Goode, “Bill Clinton: Drilling delays ‘ridiculous,’ ” Politico.com, March 11, 2011, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51150.html, accessed June 2012.

  45. Charles Krauthammer, “The Pipeline Sellout,” NationalReview.com, November 18, 2011, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/283442/pipeline-sellout-charles-krauthammer, accessed June 2012.

  46. David Jackson, “Obama attacks ‘manipulation’ of oil markets,” USAToday.com, April 17, 2012, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/

  theoval/post/2012/04/obama-to-announce-plan-on-manipulation

  -of-oil-markets/1#.T-5k6WCo44Q, accessed June 2012.

  47. Susan Crabtree, “Critics rip Obama claim that drilling in U.S. won’t drop gas prices,” WashingtonTimes.com, March 22, 2012, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/22/obama-drilling-every-inch-us-would-not-cut-gas-pri/, accessed June 2012.

  48. Charles Krauthammer, “Obama oil antipathy hurts U.S.,” Quad-City Times, March 17, 2012, http://qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/charles-krauthammer/obama-oil-antipathy-hurts-u-s/article_5219e8ae-6f28-11e1-8281-001871e3ce6c.html, accessed June 2012.

  49. Alana Goodman, “Did Oil Production Increase Under Obama?,” Commentary.com, March 22, 2012, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/22/did-oil-production-increase-under-obama/, accessed June 2012.

  50. Allahpundit, “Obama: Let’s eat less so that we can lead by example on climate change,” HotAir.com, May 19, 2008, http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/19/obama-lets-eat-less-so-that-we-can-lead-by-example-on-climate-change-by-eating-less/, accessed June 2012.

  51. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code,” New York Times, January 28, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/0½9/us/politics/29whitehouse.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all, accessed June 2012.

  52. John Cote, “S.F. OKs toughest recycling law in U.S.,” SFGate.com, June 10, 2009, http://www.sfgate.com/green/article/S-F-OKs-toughest-recycling-law-in-U-S-3295664.php, accessed June 2012.

  53. Joel Millman, “Portland Puts New Twist on Trash Pickup,” Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/

  SB10001424052702304458604577490532687633866.html?

  mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_6, accessed June 2012.

  54. Richard Black, “Gear change on road to Rio?,” BBC News, March 15, 2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17381730, accessed June 2012.

  55. “Al Gore could become world’s first carbon billionaire,” Telegraph (UK), November 3, 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html, accessed June 2012.

  7: SECULAR BULLIES

  1. Jon Street, “Michelle Obama: There is ‘No Place Better’ Than Church to Talk About Political Issues,” CNSNews.com, July 2, 2012, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/michelle-obama-there-no-place-better-church-talk-about-political-issues, accessed July 2012.

  2. “Obama’s 2006 Speech on Faith and Politics,” New York Times, June 28, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/us/politics/

  2006obamaspeech.html?pagewanted=all, accessed July 2012.

  3. “A statement by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius,” HHS.gov, January 20, 2012, http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2012pres/0½0120120a.html/, accessed July 2012.

  4. “Romney: ‘We Found Out’ Why Stephanopoulos Asked About Contraception,” RealClearPolitics.com, February 22, 2012, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/

  02/22/romney_we_found_out_why_stephanopoulos_asked_

  about_contraception.html, accessed July 2012.

  5. Matt Negrin and Sunlen Miller, “Senate Blocks Blunt’s Repeal of Contraception Mandate,” ABCNews.com, March 1, 2012, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/contraception-mandate-goes-up-for-a-vote/, accessed July 2012.

  6. John Parkinson, “Women’s Health vs. Religious Freedom: House Leaders Debate Birth Control Mandate,” ABCNews.com, March 1, 2012, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/womens-health-vs-religious-freedom-house-leaders-debate-birth-control-mandate/, accessed July 2012.

  7. Phyllis Schlafly, “Obama’s War on Religious Liberty,” Townhall.com, February 20, 2012, http://townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/2012/02/

  20/phyllis_schlafly, accessed July 2012.

  8. Sandra Fluke, “Law Students for Reproductive Justice: Statement Before Congress,” ABCNews.com, February 16, 2012, http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/statement-Congress-letterhead-2nd%20hearing.pdf, accessed July 2012.

  9. Felicia Sonmez, “Obama calls Sandra Fluke, Georgetown law student assailed by Rush Limbaugh,” Washington Post, March 2, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/obama-calls-sandra-fluke-georgetown-law-student-assailed-by-rush-limbaugh/2012/03/02/gIQAIoW0mR_blog.html, accessed July 2012.

  10. William A. Jacobson, “Media Matters astroturfed the Limbaugh secondary boycott,” LegalInsurrection.com, March 15, 2012, http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/03/media-matters-astroturfed-the-limbaugh-secondary-boycott/, accessed July 2012.

  11. Michelle Malkin, “Sandra Fluke is not a ‘slut.’ She’s a femme-agogue tool; DCCC, Emily’s list fund-raise off of Rush,” MichelleMalkin.com, March 2, 2012, http://michellemalkin.com/2012/03/02/sandra-fluke-is-not-a-slut-shes-a-femme-agogue-tool/, accessed July 2012.

  12. Ken Klukowski, “Kagan balks at Obama EEOC claim of authority over churches,” Washington Examiner, October 11, 2011, http://www.frc.org/op-eds/kagan-balks-at-obama-eeoc-claim-of-authority-over-churches, accessed July 2012.

  13. Senator Orrin Hatch, “Protecting charities, churches and others’ charitable donations,” DeseretNews.com, November 6, 2011, http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700194797/Protecting-charities-churches-and-others-charitable-donations.html?pg=all, accessed July 2012.

  14. Arthur Delaney, “Obama: U.S. ‘Not A Christian Nation Or A Jewish Nation Or A Muslim Nation,’ ” HuffingtonPost.com, May 7, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/06/obama-us-not-a-christian_n_183772.html accessed July 2012.

  15. Noam Chomsky, University of Houston, Texas, October 18, 2002.

  16. “Pakistani Muslims Want to Ban the Bible,” FoxNews.com, June 1, 2011, http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/06/01/pakistani-muslims-want-ban-bible, accessed July 2012.

  17. Outofstepper, “Taliban or Religious Right?,” DailyKos.com, September 21, 2010, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/09/21/903429/-Taliban-or-Religious-Right, accessed July 2012.

  18. Josh Feldman, “Bill Maher: Taliban Wants To Go Back To 8th Century, Christian Right Wants To Go Further Back,” Mediaite.com, March 9, 2012, http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-taliban-wants-to-go-back-to-8th-century-christian-right-wants-to-go-further-back/, accessed July 2012.

  19. Noel Sheppard, “Chris Matthews: Religious Right In America Resembles The Taliban,” Newsbusters.org, October 22, 2009, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/10/22/chris-matthews-religious-right-america-resembles-taliban, accessed July 2012.

  20. Interview with Susan Harris, May 4, 2009.

  21. Nina Mandell, “Dan Savage accused of bullying,” New York Daily News, May 2, 2012, http
://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-05-02/news/31543321_1_anti-bullying-pansy-bible, accessed July 2012.

  22. Neetzan Zimmerman, “Dan Savage Sorry About ‘Pansy-Ass’ Comment, But Bashing Gay People with Bible Quotes Is Still Bullshit,” Gawker.com, http://gawker.com/5906289/dan-savage-sorry-about-pansy+ass-comment-but-bible+thumping-gay-people-is-still-bullshit, accessed July 2012.

  23. Charles Krauthammer, “President Obama and Stem Cells—Science Fiction,” Washington Post, March 13, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031202764.html, accessed July 2012.

  24. “Full Text: President Obama Speech on Stem Cell Policy Change,” White House Press Office, March 9, 2009, http://www.clipsandcomment.com/2009/03/09/full-text-president-obama-speech-on-stem-cell-policy-change/, accessed July 2012.

  25. Katrina vanden Heuvel, “The Republicans’ war on science and reason,” Washington Post, October 24, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-republicans-war-on-science-and-reason/2011/10/24/gIQALl3BEM_story.html, accessed July 2012.

  26. Kevin Canfield, “The Republican war on science is un-American,” Salon.com, October 15, 2011, http://www.salon.com/2011/10/15/the_

  republican_war_on_science_is_un_american/, accessed July 2012.

  27. Michael Gerson, “A Phony ‘War on Science,’ ” Washington Post, May 7, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR2008050602446.html, accessed July 2012.

  28. Ned Potter, “Are Some Sheep Gay?,” ABCNews.com, January 26, 2007, http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2823706&page=1, accessed July 2012.

  29. Max Blumenthal, “Giulio Meotti: Serial Plagiarist or Common Hasbarist,” MaxBlumenthal.com, May 18, 2012, http://maxblumenthal.com/tag/pinkwashing/, accessed July 2012.

  30. John Podhoretz, “Derrick Bell in 1994: ‘Jewish Neoconservative Racists,’ ” Commentarymagazine.com, March 9, 2012, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/09/derrick-bell-jewish-neoconservative-racists/, accessed July 2012.

  31. Aaron Klein, “Obama Raised Funds For Islamic Causes,” WorldNetDaily.com, February 25, 2008, http://www.wnd.com/2008/02/57341/, accessed July 2012.

  32. Peter Wallsten, “Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Obama,” Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2008, http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/10/nation/na-obamamideast10, accessed July 2012.

  33. Michael Goldfarb, “Obama Campaign ‘Flattered’ by Hamas Endorsement,” WeeklyStandard.com, April 17, 2008, http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008

  /04/obama_campaign_flattered_by_ha.asp, accessed July 2012.

  34. Pamela Geller, “Obama’s Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes,” AmericanThinker.com, August 14, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/

  obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html, accessed July 2012.

  35. Ben Shapiro, “Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert Downplayed Genocidal Anti-Semitism,” Breitbart News, April 18, 2012, http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/18/Media-Matters-Boehlert-Anti-Semitism, accessed July 2012.

  36. Ben Shapiro, “Media Matters’ Oliver Willis Wants Pro-Israel Liberals ‘Marginalized,’ ” Breitbart News, April 19, 2012, http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/19/Media-Matters-Oliver-Willis, accessed July 2012.

  37. Andrew C. McCarthy, “Triple Play! Obama Blows Off Congress, Funds Palestinians, Lies About PA Stance on Israel,” NationalReview.com, April 28, 2012, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/297202/triple-play-obama-blows-congress-funds-palestinians-lies-about-pa-stance-israel-andrew, accessed July 2012.

  38. “Reports: Netanyahu ‘Humiliated’ by Obama Snub,” FoxNews.com, March 26, 2010, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/25/president-allegedly-dumps-israeli-prime-minister-dinner/, accessed July 2012.

  39. Hana Levi Julian, “Arab Anger Forces Obama to Backtrack on Jerusalem,” IsraelNationalNews.com, June 6, 2008, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

  News/News.aspx/126429#.T_YI3mCo44Q, accessed July 2012.

  40. Omri Ceren, “Palestinians Set Obama’s 1967 Border Guidelines as Precondition to Talks,” Commentarymagazine.com, May 22, 2011, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/05/22/palestinians-set-obamas-1967-border-guidelines-as-precondition-to-talks/, accessed July 2012.

  41. “Obama State Department Won’t Say If Jerusalem Is The Capital Of Israel,” RealClearPolitics.com, March 29, 2012, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

  video/2012/03/29/obama_state_department_wont_say_if_

  jerusalem_is_the_capital_of_israel.html, accessed July 2012.

  42. Arnaud De Borchgrave, “King Abdullah: Create Palestinian State or Risk War,” Newsmax.com, May 12, 2009, http://www.newsmax.com/deBorchgrave/Palestinian-West-Bank/2009/05/12/id/330049, accessed July 2012.

  43. Jerusalem Post staff, “Saudi airspace open for Iran attack,” Jerusalem Post, June 7, 2012, http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=178304, accessed July 2012.

  44. David Ignatius, “Is Israel preparing to attack Iran?,” WashingtonPost.com, February 2, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-israel-preparing-to-attack-iran/2012/02/02/gIQANjfTkQ_print.html, accessed July 2012.

  45. Patrick Brennan, “Israeli-Azerbaijan Deal Leaked, Bolton Blames Obama,” NationalReview.com, March 29, 2012, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/294856/israeli-azerbaijan-deal-leaked-bolton-blames-obama-patrick-brennan, accessed July 2012.

  46. Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller, and Julie Tate, “US, Israel developed Flame computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say,” Washington Post, June 19, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-israel-developed-computer-virus-to-slow-iranian-nuclear-efforts-officials-say/2012/06/19/gJQA6xBPoV_print.html, accessed July 2012.

  47. Dennis Prager, “George Soros and the Problem of the Radical Non-Jewish Jew,” Creators Syndicate, February 27, 2007, http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2007

  /02/27/george_soros_and_the_problem_of_the_

  radical_non-jewish_jew/page/full/, accessed July 2012.

  48. Alana Goodman, “Why Has J Street Defended Media Matters?,” CommentaryMagazine.com, March 9, 2012, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/09/j-street-defended-media-matters/, accessed July 2012.

  49. Omri Ceren, “J Street Rolls Out the Red Carpet for BDS,” CommentaryMagazine.com, March 19, 2012, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/19/j-street-conference-red-carpet-bds/, accessed July 2012.

  50. Jennifer Rubin, “Right Turn,” Washington Post, January 18, 2011, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/01/morning_bits_40.html, accessed July 2012.

  51. David Bedein, “J Street Is Anti-Israel, Not Pro-Peace,” IsraelNationalNews.com, May 3, 2011, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/

  143869#.T_YQ6WCo44Q, accessed July 2012.

  52. Barak Ravid, “J Street embraced by Obama administration, but not in Israel,” Haaretz.com, October 18, 2009, http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/j-street-embraced-by-obama-administration-but-not-in-israel-1.5948, accessed July 2012.

  53. Devin Dwyer, “Obama: I’ve Proven Democrats Not ‘Weak on Defense,’ ” ABCNews.com, March 1, 2012, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/obama-ive-proven-democrats-not-weak-on-defense/, accessed July 2012.

  54. Bridget Johnson, “Valerie Jarrett Rocks The House at J Street,” PJMedia.com, March 26, 2012, http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/03/26/valerie-jarrett-rocks-the-house-at-j-street/, accessed July 2012.

  55. Z Street, “J Street Leader: Our Job is to ‘Move Jews’ to Support Washington Politicians,” JewishPress.com, May 17, 2012, http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/j-street-leader-our-job-is-to-move-jews-to-support-washington-politicians/2012/05/17/, accessed July 2012.

  56. Ted Merwin and David Zax, “Out and About with Tony Kushner,” GLBTJews.org, http://www.glbtjews.org/article.php3?id_article=501, accessed July 2012.

  57. Frank Newport, “Democrats View Religious Groups Less Positively Than Republicans,” Gallup.com, September 7, 2006, http://www.gallup.com/poll/24385/democrats-view-religious
-groups-less-positively-than-republicans.aspx, accessed July 2012.

  58. Mark Finkelstein, “Martin Bashir Believes Evangelicals Won’t Vote For Romney Because Book of Mormon . . . Boring?,” Newsbusters.org, February 9, 2012, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2012/02/09/bashir-slimes-mormons-evangelicals-romney, accessed July 2012.

  59. Dennis Wagner, “Mormon bias still part of politics,” USAToday.com, November 23, 2011, http://www.usatoday.com/USCP/PNI/NEWS/2011-11-23-PNI1123met-antimormonPNIBrd_ST_U.htm, accessed July 2012.

  60. Michelangelo Signorile, “Romney’s Pandering Gets Him Nowhere,” HuffingtonPost.com, November 23, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/mitt-romney-mormon-gay-republican_b_1110108.html, accessed July 2012.

  61. Alana Goodman, “4 in 10 Liberals Hold Anti-Mormon Bias,” Commentary Magazine.com, June 13, 2012, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/06/1¾-in-10-liberals-hold-anti-mormon-bias/, accessed July 2012.

  62. Noel Sheppard, “Joy Behar Wants to See Romney’s House Burn Down: ‘Who’s He Going to Call, the Mormon Fire Patrol?,’ ” Newsbusters.org, June 12, 2012, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/06/12/joy-behar-wants-see-romneys-house-burn-down-it-would-be-kind-cool-mor, accessed July 2012.

  63. Tina Daunt, “Cher Accused of Bigotry After ‘Magic Underwear’ Romney Tweet,” HollywoodReporter.com, June 29, 2012, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cher-bigotry-anti-romney-magic-underwear-343651, accessed July 2012.

  64. Jim Geraghty, “New York Times Columnist Mocks Romney’s ‘Magic Underwear,’ ” NationalReview.com, February 23, 2012, http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/291858/inew-york-timesi-columnist-mocks-romneys-magic-underwear, accessed July 2012.

  CONCLUSION

  1. “Convicted Bomber Brett Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser, Ron Brynaert, and Their Campaign of Political Terrorism,” Patterico.com, May 25, 2012, http://patterico.com/2012/05/25/convicted-bomber-brett-kimberlin-neal-rauhauser-ron-brynaert-and-their-campaign-of-political-terrorism/, accessed July 2012.

  2. Erick Erickson, “SWATting the Ericksons,” RedState.com, May 27, 2012, http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/05/27/swatting-the-ericksons/, accessed July 2012.