by Glenn Beck
“ ‘an inspiration’ ” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Remarks Upon Accepting a Portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” (Washington D.C., January 31, 1967), The American Presidency at the University of California, Santa Barbara, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28316.
“ ‘toward the broader horizons of human hope’ ” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Remarks Upon Accepting a Portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” (Washington D.C., January 31, 1967), The American Presidency at the University of California, Santa Barbara, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28316.
“ ‘how many kids did you kill today’ ” “Hey! Hey! LBJ!” The Economist, September 28, 2013, http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21586830-what-current-fascination-lyndon-johnson-says-about-barack-obamas-america-hey-hey.
“a decent political legacy” “Lessons Learned: LBJ Announces He Will Not Seek Reelection,” Council on Foreign Relations, March 27, 2012, http://www.cfr.org/world/lessons-learned-lbj-announces-he-not-seek-reelection/p27745.
“ ‘another term as your president’ ” Lyndon B. Johnson, “Address to the Nation Announcing Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not to Seek Reelection,” (speech, Washington, D.C., March 31, 1968), LBJ Presidential Library, http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/680331.asp.
“ ‘tyrannical’ ” Jacques Kelly and Carl Schoettler, “Philip Berrigan, Apostle of Peace, Dies at 79,” The Baltimore Sun, December 7, 2002, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2002-12-07/news/0212070391_1_philip-berrigan-vietnam-war-jonah.
“by the age of five” Shawn Francis Peters, The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
“church’s work in social justice” Shawn Francis Peters, The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
“ran over the cobblestone” Terry Lenzner, The Investigator: 50 Years of Uncovering the Truth (New York: Penguin Group, 2013), p. 84.
“cooked with whatever she had to spare” Mary Pemberton, “1 [sic] Arrests Later, Phillip Berrigan Still Fighting for Peace,” The Seattle Times, September 12, 1993, http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930912&slug=1720603.
“made to resemble napalm” Mary Pemberton, “1 [sic] Arrests Later, Phillip Berrigan Still Fighting For Peace,” The Seattle Times, September 12, 1993, http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930912&slug=1720603.
“a ‘grave’ on the Rumsfelds’ lawn” Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown: A Memoir (New York: Sentinel, 2011), p. 217.
“six years in prison” Mary Pemberton, “1 [sic] Arrests Later, Phillip Berrigan Still Fighting For Peace,” The Seattle Times, September 12, 1993, http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930912&slug=1720603.
CHAPTER 5: FOURTH WAVE: THE HOPE AND CHANGE OF BARACK OBAMA
“highly segregated city” Nate Silver, “The Most Diverse Cities Are Often the Most Segregated,” FiveThirtyEight.com, May 1, 2015, http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-diverse-cities-are-often-the-most-segregated/.
“Hyde Park stands out as a vibrant, racially diverse” Peter Slevin, “Uncommon Ground,” The Washington Post, October 16, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503728.html?sid=ST2008101503923.
“former domestic terrorists” David Remnick, “Mr. Ayer’s Neighborhood,” The New Yorker, November 4, 2008, http://www.newyorker.com/the-new-yorker-blog/mr-ayerss-neighborhood.
“take any responsibility for it” Joe Miller, “Obama a Constitutional Law Professor?” FactCheck.org, March 28, 2008, http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/obama-a-constitutional-law-professor/.
“FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list” Ben Joravsky, “The Long, Strange Trip of Bill Ayers,” The Chicago Reader, November 8, 1990, http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-long-strange-trip-of-bill-ayers/Content?oid=876592.
“killing those who got in the way” “Bill Ayers,” DiscoverTheNetworks.org, accessed May 28, 2016, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169.
“adhere to their beliefs” Dinitia Smith, “No Regrets for a Love of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life with the Weathermen,” The New York Times, September 11, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/books/no-regrets-for-love-explosives-memoir-sorts-war-protester-talks-life-with.html?pagewanted=all.
“professor of law at Northwestern University” “Bernardine Dohrn,” DiscoverTheNetworks.org, accessed May 28, 2016, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190.
“murdered at least seven people” Alfred S. Regnery, “They’re All in This Together,” The American Spectator, September 2, 2011, http://spectator.org/37001_theyre-all-together/.
“didn’t seem to have a whole lot of sympathy” Guy Benson, “Confirmed: Bill Ayers Hosted Fundraiser for Obama,” Townhall.com, November 30, 2011, http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/11/30/confirmed_bill_ayers_hosted_a_fundraiser_for_obama.
“ ‘some people have to die’ ” Alfred S. Regnery, “They’re All in This Together,” The American Spectator, September 2, 2011, http://spectator.org/37001_theyre-all-together/.
“calls himself a progressive” Charles Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. x.
“he was destined for prominence” Andrew Walden, “What Barack Obama Learned from the Communist Party,” American Thinker, July 8, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html.
“to be taken care of by her parents” Thandeka, “Obama’s Religious Roots,” UU World, Fall 2012, October 8, 2012, http://www.uuworld.org/articles/obamas-religious-roots.
“ ‘after himself’ ” Tim Jones, “Family Portraits: Strong Personalities Shaped a Future Senator, Barack Obama,” Chicago Tribune, March 27, 2007, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-03-27/features/0703270151_1_sen-barack-obama-stanley-ann-dunham-coffee-shops.
“ ‘What’s wrong with Communism’ ” Andrew Walden, “What Barack Obama Learned from the Communist Party,” American Thinker, July 8, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.html.
“ ‘The Little Red Church on the Hill’ ” Glenn Beck, “Barack Obama’s Foundation,” FoxNews.com, April 6, 2010, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2010/04/06/barack-obama-foundation.html.
“ ‘position-paper liberalism’ ” Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (New York: Times Books, 1995), p. 75.
“ ‘how I go about the world of politics’ ” Tim Jones, “Family Portraits: Strong Personalities Shaped a Future Senator, Barack Obama,” Chicago Tribune, March 27, 2007, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-03-27/features/0703270151_1_sen-barack-obama-stanley-ann-dunham-coffee-shops.
“were chief aims of government” Lisa Schiffren, “Confiscatory Tax Rate Dreams from my Father,” The Corner (blog), National Review, August 19, 2008, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/167359/confiscatory-tax-rate-dreams-my-father-lisa-schiffren.
“with whom he spent his youth” Paul Kengor, “Our First ‘Red Diaper Baby’ President?” The American Spectator, October 22, 2012, http://spectator.org/34558_our-first-red-diaper-baby-president/.
“ ‘resisting bourgeois society’s stifling constraints’ ” Gene Koprowski, “Obama Becomes Agitator in Chief,” The Detroit News, February 11, 2010, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/02/11/obama_becomes_agitator-in-chief_229256.html.
“ ‘concerned with issues of social justice’ ” Serge F. Kovaleski, “Old Friends Say Drugs Played Bit Part in Obama’s Young Life,” The New York Times, February 9, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/us/politics/09obama.html?_r=1.
“ ‘a more practical road to socialism’ ” John Drew, “Meeting Young Obama,” American Thinker, February 24, 2011, http://www.americanthinker.com/arti
cles/2011/02/meeting_young_obama.html.
“outright ‘redistribution of income’ ” Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty,” The Nation, March 8, 2010, http://www.thenation.com/article/weight-poor-strategy-end-poverty/.
“necessitate radical change” James Simpson, “Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis,” American Thinker, September 28, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html.
“over the next two decades” James Simpson, “Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis,” American Thinker, September 28, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html.
“ ‘socialist conferences’ ” John McCormack, “Why Did Obama Attend Socialist Conferences?” Weekly Standard, July 18, 2008, http://www.weeklystandard.com/why-did-obama-attend-socialist-conferences/article/25175.
“centenary of Karl Marx’s death” Stanley Kurtz, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010).
“Carol Mosely Braun to the U.S. Senate” Aaron Klein, “Radicals Key to Career of Chicago Mayoral Candidate,” WND.com, January 4, 2011, http://www.wnd.com/2011/01/247365/.
“goal of a nuclear-free world” Barack Obama, “Obama’s 1983 College Magazine Article,” The New York Times, accessed May 28, 2016, http://documents.nytimes.com/obama-s-1983-college-magazine-article.
“a world without nuclear weapons” Barack Obama, “Remarks by President Barack Obama in Prague as Delivered,” (remarks, Prague, Czech Republic, April 5, 2009), The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-barack-obama-prague-delivered.
“his progressive principles” Byron York, “What Did Obama Do as a Community Organizer,” National Review, September 8, 2008, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225564/what-did-obama-do-community-organizer-byron-york.
“ ‘problem-solving’ ” “Obama’s Socialist Roots and Worldview,” DiscoverTheNetworks.org, accessed May 28, 2016, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=2374.
“variety of leftist policies” “Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF),” DiscoverTheNetworks.org, accessed May 28, 2016, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7493.
“ ‘a comparative handful’ ” “Obama’s Socialist Roots and Worldview,” DiscoverTheNetworks.org, accessed May 28, 2016, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=2374.
“Obama’s political rise” Jim Geraghty, “The Alinsky Administration: Today, Reading ‘Rules for Radicals’ Is Illuminating and Worrisome,” National Review, May 14, 2009, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/227500/alinsky-administration-jim-geraghty.
“ ‘Obama learned his lesson well’ ” L. David Alinsky, “Son Sees Father’s Handiwork in Convention,” The Boston Globe, August 31, 2008, http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention/.
“community organizers such as ACORN” Mike Robinson, “Obama Got Start in Civil Rights Practice,” The Washington Post, February 20, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/20/AR2007022000045.html.
“Reverend Jeremiah Wright” Charles C. Johnson, “The Gospel According to Wright,” The American Spectator, December 9, 2011, http://spectator.org/36529_gospel-according-wright/.
“endemically racist” Brian Ross and Rehab El-Buri, “Obama’s Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11,” ABCNews.com, March 13, 2008, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4443788&page=1.
“the progressivism Obama had imbibed” Spengler, “The Peculiar Theology of Black Liberation,” Asia Times, March 18, 2008, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JC18Aa01.html.
“make a progressive vision a reality” Barack Obama, “Obama’s 2006 Speech on Faith and Politics at the Call to Renewal’s Building a Covenant for a New America Conference,” (speech, Washington, D.C., June 28, 2006), The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/us/politics/2006obamaspeech.html?pagewanted=all.
“whose famous book Orientalism” Efraim Karsh and Rory Miller, “Did Edward Said Really Speak Truth to Power,” The Middle East Quarterly 15, no. 1, Winter 2008, http://www.meforum.org/1811/did-edward-said-really-speak-truth-to-power.
“colonialist oppressor of the Islamic world” Joshua Muravchik, “Enough Said: The False Scholarship of Edward Said,” World Affairs, March/April 2013, http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/enough-said-false-scholarship-edward-said.
“in the Left’s historical reading” Max Eden, “Book Review: ‘Making David Into Goliath,’ ” review of Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel, by Joshua Muravchik, The Washington Times, July 21, 2014, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/21/book-review-tracing-the-changed-perception-of-isra/.
“Obama’s unsuccessful 2000 congressional bid” “Rashid Khalidi,” DiscoverTheNetworks.org, accessed May 28, 2016, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1347.
“during the 1990s” Andrew C. McCarty, “The Obama/Ayers/Khalidi Connection,” National Review, October 25, 2008, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/172641/obamaayerskhalidi-connection-andrew-c-mccarthy.
“we must still be better” Ron Radosh, “The Influence of Howard Zinn on the Loss of Patriotism, and the Antidote to Zinn, Dinesh D’Souza’s America,” PJ Media, July 4, 2014, https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/7/4/the-influence-of-howard-zinn-on-the-loss-of-patriotism-and-the-antidote-to-zinn-dinesh-dsouzas-movie-america/.
“people have earned ‘enough’ ” Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York: Crown, 2006), Kindle edition, p. 193.
“while protecting the environment” Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York: Crown, 2006), Kindle edition, p. 119.
“legitimate grievances” Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York: Crown, 2006), Kindle edition, p. 233.
“we’re all in it together” Barack Obama, “Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Ceremony & Commemoration of Robert F. Kennedy’s 80th Birthday,” (speech, Washington, D.C., November 16, 2005), ObamaSpeeches.com, http://obamaspeeches.com/039-Robert-F-Kennedy-Human-Rights-Award-Ceremony-Obama-Speech.htm.
“ ‘a progressive income tax’ ” Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas,” (remarks, Osawatomie, KS, December 6, 2011, The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/06/remarks-president-economy-osawatomie-kansas.
“ ‘that makes this country work’ ” Barack Obama, “Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention,” (speech, Boston, MA, July 27, 2004), The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19751-2004Jul27.html.
“ ‘collective salvation’ ” Barack Obama, “Pritzker School of Medicine Commencement,” (speech, Chicago, June 10, 2005), ObamaSpeeches.com, http://obamaspeeches.com/022-Pritzker-School-of-Medicine-Commencement-Obama-Speech.htm.
“by government intervention” Rebecca Kaplan, “Obama: Income Inequality ‘The Defining Challenge of Our Time,’ ” CBSNews.com, December 4, 2013, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-income-inequality-the-defining-challenge-of-our-time/.
“ ‘an ever-changing world’ ” Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York: Crown, 2006), Kindle edition, p. 90.
“ ‘social equality and social justice’ ” Charles Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), pp. 190–91.
“ ‘openness to change’ ” Charles Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 192.
“Franklin Delano Roosevelt” Charles Kesler, I Am the Change
: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 11.
“ ‘run our factories’ ” Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address,” (speech, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2009), The White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/01/21/president-barack-obamas-inaugural-address.
“a retirement that is dignified’ ” Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address,” (speech, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2009), The White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/01/21/president-barack-obamas-inaugural-address.
“ ‘save the free market system’ ” “ ‘I’ve Abandoned Free Market Principles to Save the Free Market System’—George W. Bush,” YouTube video, 1:05, from “Exit Interview with President Bush,” by CNN, December 16, 2008, posted by “argusfest,” January 14, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmi8cJG0BJo.
“abrogating the property rights of creditors” James Sherk and Todd Zywicki, “Auto Bailout or UAW Bailout? Taxpayer Losses Came from Subsidizing Union Compensation,” The Heritage Foundation, June 13, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/06/auto-bailout-or-uaw-bailout-taxpayer-losses-came-from-subsidizing-union-compensation.
“seize them” Norbert J. Michael, “Repealing Dodd-Frank and Ending ‘Too Big to Fail,’ ” The Heritage Foundation, November 3, 2014, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/11/repealing-doddfrank-and-ending-too-big-to-fail.
“with the Department of Justice” Sean Higgins, “Obama’s Big Bank ‘Slush Fund,’ ” Washington Examiner, January 18, 2016, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-big-bank-slush-fund/article/2580431.
“big banks have only grown even bigger” Carrie Sheffield, “Dodd-Frank Is Killing Community Banks,” Forbes, February 9, 2015, http://www.forbes.com/sites/carriesheffield/2015/02/09/dodd-frank-is-killing-community-banks/#23336d245ca4.
“unless one was politically connected” Tad DeHaven, “Obama’s Stimulus: A Bit of Pork, a Lot of Opportunism,” CATO Institute, January 10, 2013, http://www.cato.org/blog/obamas-stimulus-bit-pork-lot-opportunism.
