Demonic (48 page)

15.
Paul Krugman, “Clueless in Crawford,”
New York Times
, August 13, 2002.

16.
Paul Krugman, “The Ascent of E-Man R.I.P.: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,”
Fortune
, May 24, 1999, available at
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/05/24/
260257/index.htm
(“the company’s pride and joy is a room filled with hundreds of casually dressed men and women staring at computer screens and barking into telephones, where cubic feet and megawatts are traded and packaged as if they were financial derivatives”).

17.
Le Bon, 30–31.

18.
Ibid., 26.

19.
Ibid., 26.

20.
Al Gore,
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
(paperback) (Rodale Books, 2006), 325–26. (“[I]t ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.”)

21.
See generally, Michael Fumento, “Why the Media Miss the Stem-Cell Story,”
Citizen Magazine
, May 2005, available at
http://www.fumento.com/biotech/stem-cell-story.html
.

22.
Matthew 27; Luke 23.

TWO.
AMERICAN IDOLS:
THE MOB’S COMPULSION TO CREATE MESSIAHS

1.
Gustave Le Bon,
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
(Dover, 2002) (1895), 38.

2.
Ibid., 21–22.

3.
Ibid., 30–31.

4.
Ibid., 30.

5.
Lance Morrow, “Why Is This Man So Popular?,”
Time
, July 7, 1986 (quoted in Brent Baker, Tim Graham, Rich Noyes, and Jessica Anderson, “Ronald Reagan: The 40th President and the Press: The Record,” Media Research Center, June 14, 2004, available at
http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/2004/report0604_p1.asp
).

6.
Eleanor Clift on
The McLaughlin Group
, July 12, 1992; on
Inside Politics
, CNN, July 10, 1992; and on
The McLaughlin Group
, July 4, 1992 (quoted in “
Newsweek
Removes Noted Clinton Sycophant from the White House Beat,” MediaWatch, Media Research Center, October 1994).

7.
“Gregory Craig Urges Country to Move Beyond Juanita Broaddrick Allegation,”
Larry King Live
, CNN, March 10, 1999.

8.
Jonathan Alter, “President Best Friend,”
Newsweek
, November 16, 1992.

9.
Howard Fineman, “The New Age President,”
Newsweek
, January 25, 1993.

10.
“Media’s Friends of Bill,” Notable Quotables, Media Research Center, August 3, 1992 (quoting Peter Jennings during ABC convention coverage, July 15, 1992).

11.
“Time
Swoons Over the Sexy President,” Notable Quotables, Media Research Center, November 23, 1992, available at
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/1992/nq19921123.asp
.

12.
Judith Warner, “Sometimes a President Is Just a President,”
New York Times
, Opinionator blog, February 5, 2009.

13.
Media Research Center, The Best Notable Quotables of 2008 (quoting Cowan’s article for “The Peacock,” an NBC advertising supplement included in the March 23–29 edition of the
American Profile
magazine newspaper insert), available at
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2008/welcome.asp
.

14.
Senator Barack Obama discusses country’s economic problems, upcoming election, etc.,
Today Show
, NBC, October 20, 2008.

15.
“Campaign 2008 Review: Barack Obama’s Media Groupies,” Media Research Center, November 3, 2008.

16.
Joe Klein, “Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President,”
Time
, October 2, 2006.

17.
Notable Quotables, Media Research Center, November 3, 2008 (quoting MSNBC’s Chris Matthews talking about Democratic candidate Barack Obama and his wife on the
Tonight Show
, NBC, January 16, 2008).

18.
“Campaign 2008 Review: Barack Obama’s Media Groupies” (quoting ABC’s David Wright report on the January 28, 2008,
World News
program).

19.
Good Morning America
, ABC, November 24. 2008.

20.
Nancy Gibbs, “How Obama Rewrote the Book,”
Time
, November 5, 2008.

21.
“Time Swoons Over the Sexy President.”

22.
Joe Klein, “On the Road Again,”
Newsweek
, August 17, 1992.

23.
Phil McCombs, “The President’s Beachhead: A Vacationing Clinton Finds Waves of Support in Ritzy California Enclave,”
Washington Post
, March 30, 1994.

24.
Terry Moran, “The Next Big Thing; Senator Barack Obama’s Star Power,”
Nightline
, ABC, November 6, 2006.

25.
“Large Crowd Gathers to Hear Obama Speak in Germany,”
NBC Nightly News
, July 24, 2008.

26.
Jennifer Senior, “The Benjamin Button Election,”
New York
, November 8, 2010.

27.
Jon Meacham, “Rocking the Vote, in the 1820s and Now,”
New York Times
, October 21, 2010.

28.
The “I Pledge” video, available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRrdmZwdW-c
.

29.
Michael Whack, “The ‘BAM’ … The Obama Handshake!,” Organizing for America Community Blogs, January 12, 2008, available at
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/michaelwhack/CVBJ
, cited in Jason Mattera,
Obama Zombie: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation
(Threshold Editions, 2010), xvi.

30.
Ameena Schelling, “Reserved Passion: Kagan ’81,”
The Daily Princetonian
, May 3, 2010.

31.
Brent Bozell, “Smearing Republican Women,”
Newsbusters.org
, June 15, 2010.

32.
Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, “Rocking the Planet,”
Washington Post
, December 12, 2007.

33.
Tim Graham, “Margaret’s Flagrant Foul,”
National Review
Online, November 25, 2000.

34.
Martha Sherrill, “Hillary Clinton’s Inner Politics,”
Washington Post
, May 6, 1993.

35.
The Best Notable Quotables of 1999, Media Research Center (quoting
Time’s
Lance Morrow in a July 12 “Viewpoint” piece).

36.
Bill Peterson, “The Word According to Human Events; Reagan: ‘I’m Still Reading You Guys, But I’m Enjoying It Less,’ ”
Washington Post
, March 14, 1982.

37.
Michael Calderone, White House spokesman, praises MSNBC hosts after Obama’s Fox swipe, Yahoo News, September 28, 2010 (quoting White House spokesman Bill Burton, who was quoting the president), available at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100928/cm_yblog_upshot/white-house-spox-praises-msnbc-hosts-after-fox-swipe
.

38.
Ira R. Allen, “Poll Says Reagan No Longer Most Admired Conservative,” United Press International, September 22, 1981.

39.
Dan Murphy, “New Poll Finds Obama Has Already Rebuilt America’s Global Brand,”
Christian Science Monitor
, October 6, 2009.

40.
“Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama Sit on Top of World Leaders Barometer,” Business Wire, April 27, 2010.

41.
“Obama Is World’s Sexiest Politician,”
Daily Record
, January 2, 2009.

42.
Jeffrey M. Jones, “Clinton Edges Out Palin as Most Admired Woman; Obama Easily Wins Most Admired Man Title,” Gallup Poll News Service, December 30, 2009.

43.
“Pitt Tops ‘Celeb Dads Most Women Want to See in Their Undies’ List,”
Hindustan Times
, June 16, 2009.

44.
Michael Leahy and Juliet Eilperin, “Obama and Oil Drilling: How Politics Spilled into Policy,”
Washington Post
, October 12, 2010.

45.
Le Bon, 38.

46.
Jonathan Alter, “The Two Mr. Clintons,”
Newsweek
, August 24, 1998.

47.
Geraldo Rivera,
Rivera Live
, NBC, March 8, 1999.

48.
Ginger Thompson, “The Public; Cry of Halt, Unheard, Is Getting Louder,”
New York Times
, January 25, 1999.

49.
Le Bon, 22.

50.
Matthew Saltmarsh, “Soros to Get a Day in Court over Insider Trading Case,”
New York Times
, September 16, 2010.

51.
Interview, George Soros,
60 Minutes
, CBS, December 20, 1998, available at
http://www.sorosmonitor.com/absolutenm/templates/news.aspx?articleid=33&zoneid=1
.

Kroft:
My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.

Mr. Soros:
Yes. Yes.

Kroft:
Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

Mr. Soros:
Yes. That’s right. Yes.

Kroft:
I mean, that’s—that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

Mr. Soros:
Not—not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t—you don’t see the connection. But it was—it created no—no problem at all.

Kroft:
No feeling of guilt?

Mr. Soros:
No.

52.
Jack Shafer, “Screw You, Mr. President,” Slate, March 12, 2003 (quoting Thomas’s remarks to John Bogert in a January 19, 2003, article in the
Daily Breeze
, Torrance, CA).