Demonic (57 page)

19.
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman,
The Political Economy of Human Rights
, Vol. 2:
After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperialist Ideology
, 1979, xii-xiii.

20.
Richard Falk, “Trusting Khomeini,”
New York Times
, February 16, 1979.

21.
“Big Dupes at Big Peace: Ted Kennedy—Part 2,” Big Peace, October 10, 2010 (Interview with Paul Kengor about his book,
Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century
[Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2010], which reprints the KGB memo discussing Kennedy’s letter), available at
http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2010/10/10/big-dupes-at-big-peace-ted-kennedy-part-2/
; Text of KGB Letter on Senator Ted Kennedy,
Freerepublic.com
(citing Kengor at page 317), available at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760564/posts
.

22.
Erik Durschmied,
The Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini
(Arcade Publishing, 2002), 36.

23.
Mein Kampf
, Worldview and Organization chapter; see generally Henry Ashby Turner,
German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler
(Oxford University Press, 1985); George Victor,
Hitler: The Pathology of Evil
(Potomac Books, 1999).

24.
Eric Metaxas,
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
(Thomas Nelson, 2010), 166.

25.
Ibid., 170–71.

26.
Quoted in Metaxas, 163–64.

27.
Thomas Sowell,
Intellectuals and Society
(Basic Books, 2010), 25.

28.
Courtois et al., 593–94.

SIXTEEN.
THE TOTALITARIAN INSTINCT AND SEXUAL PERVERSITY OF LIBERALS

1.
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Living History
(Simon & Schuster, 2003), 161.

2.
Beth Fouhy, “San Francisco Rolls Out Red Carpet for the Clintons,” Associated Press, June 28, 2004.

3.
The White House Office of the Press Secretary, Remarks by the President and the Vice President at a DNC “Moving America Forward” Rally in Philadelphia, October 10, 2010.

4.
Alexander Hamilton: Writings (Library of America, 2001) (letter dated October 6, 1789), 521.

5.
Jeremy Rabkin, “Revolutionary Visions in Legal Imagery: Constitutional Contrasts between France and America,” in
The Legacy of the French Revolution
(Hancock, ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), 227.

6.
Pelosi: Remarks at the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties, Congressional Documents and Publications, March 9, 2010.

7.
Courtois,
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
(translated by Kramer & Murphy), (Harvard University Press, 1999), 577.

8.
See “Pretty Upset,”
Santa Monica Daily Press
, July 29, 2009, available at
http://www.smdp.com/Gallery-1852.113116-2614.113116_PRETTY_
UPSET.html
.

9.
Gustave Le Bon,
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
(Dover, 2002) (1895), 19.

10.
Rabinowitz, “Through the Darkness,” available at
http://www.lukeford.net/Dennis/p48.html
.

11.
Dorothy Rabinowitz, “Justice and the Prosecutor,”
Wall Street Journal
, March 21, 1997, available at
http://nsulaw.nova.edu/faculty/documents/P%20-%2012%20-%20Buck’s%20County%20-%20March%2021,%201997.pdf
; “Republican Rubenstein Wins in Bucks County on Both Tickets,”
Morning Call
(Allentown, PA), May 31, 1997.

12.
Paul Bedard, “Reagan Son Claims Dad Had Alzheimer’s as President,”
U.S. News & World Report
, January 14, 2011.

13.
Whittaker Chambers,
Witness
(Regnery Publishing, 1987), 733.

14.
“
New York Observer
Writer John Connolly’s Upcoming Book on Clinton Critics’ and Impeachment Lawyers’ Sex Lives and Business Dealings,”
Rivera Live
, CNBC News, June 7, 2000.

15.
Simon Schama,
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
(Vintage, 1990), 210.

16.
Ibid., 99.

17.
Christopher Hibbert,
The Days of the French Revolution
(New York: Harper Perennial, 1999), 22.

18.
Michael L. Kennedy,
The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution 1793–1795
(Berghahn Books, 2000), 157.

19.
William Ayers,
Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist
(Beacon Press, 2009), 147.

20.
M. Stanton Evans, “Faith of Our Fathers,”
The American Spectator
, February 2007.

21.
Ibid.

22.
Ibid.

23.
Samuel Adams,
The Writings of Samuel Adams
, edited by Harry Alonzo Cushing (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1908), vol. 4, 407 (quoting Massachusetts Governor Samuel Adams, Fast Day Proclamation, March 20, 1797).

24.
Evans.

SEVENTEEN.
LUCIFER:
THE ULTIMATE MOB BOSS

1.
M. Scott Peck,
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil
(Touchstone, 1983), 202.

2.
Ibid., 204.

3.
Gustave Le Bon,
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
(Dover, 2002) (1895), xi.

4.
Ibid., xiii.

5.
See, e.g., “Sean Cockerham Bailey book: Manuscript about Palin leaked,”
Anchorage Daily News
, February 18, 2011.

6.
David Kuo,
Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction
(Free Press, 2006).

7.
“Sen. John McCain Attacks Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Republican Establishment as Harming GOP Ideals,” CNN Transcripts, February 28, 2000, available at
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/28/se.01.html
.

8.
Editorial: “The War on Women,”
New York Times
, February 26, 2011.

9.
David Gregory,
Meet the Press
, NBC, March 21, 2010.

10.
John O’Connor, “McMaster’s ‘Black Hats’ Prevail,”
The State
(Columbia, SC), September 5, 2008.

11.
Aaron Smith, “Search On for Officer’s Attacker,”
New York Sun
, September 1, 2004.

12.
Neil Cavuto, “Democrats Plan to Push Healthcare Reform Through; Reviewing the Numbers,”
Cavuto
, Fox News, September 3, 2009.

13.
John Maynard Keynes,
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
(Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920).

14.
Erik Durschmied,
The Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini
(Arcade Publishing, 2002), 28.

15.
Evelyn Waugh, “Conservative Manifesto,” in
Essays, Article and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh
, edited by Donat Gallagher (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984), 161–62. Quoted in Roger Kimball,
Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education
, 3d ed. (Ivan R. Dee, 2008), 308.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

E
veryone I’ve ever met has been forced to read a portion of this book over the past year, and most were surprisingly generous in answering, “This sentence or that?” “This joke or that?” “Is this grammatically correct?” “Am I being unfair?” “Please read this chapter” and so on.

Before getting to everyone I’ve been tormenting this way, I especially want to thank Jeremy Rabkin, my professor from Cornell, who knows everything about everything, including the French and American Revolutions. Inasmuch as few people seem to know the first thing about the French Revolution, his advice was invaluable, even when he told me to stop comparing MSNBC to the Jacobins.

I also need to single out Marshall Sella for his hours of tireless editing, eventually leading him to scream at me: “DID COMMAS DO SOMETHING TO YOUR FAMILY?”

I also want to thank my extremely clever friends, who have helped not only with enormous portions of this book, but also my columns over the years—Bill Armistead, Hans Bader, Trish Baker, Robert Caplain, Rodney Lee Conover, Miguel Estrada, Sandy Frank, Steve Gilbert, Melanie Graham, James Higgins, Jim Hughes, David Limbaugh, Jay Mann, Gene Meyer, Jim Moody, Ned Rice, and Jon Tukel. You all have busy lives, but you’ve been great friends and terrific editors and joke-generators for me.

I am honored to say that Juan Williams read a portion of this book at my request and gave me some great ideas and edits. I would especially
like to thank NPR for irritating Juan enough that he doesn’t even mind that I’m thanking him.

Allan Ryskind and Stan Evans read portions of the book—I’m not telling which portions to protect their reputations—as did law professors Bill Otis and Gary Lawson, who gave me great tips, both legal and libertarian. Eddie Scarry helped find some legislative history for me, and Beda Koorey has provided emergency secretarial services (and hilarious e-mails) over the years.

Thanks to my agent Mel Berger for plowing through the whole first draft—before I even translated it into English! And out of tradition, thanks to my agent for life, Joni Evans.

Finally, humble, amazed, huge, sincerest thanks to my publisher Tina Constable, my editor Sean Desmond, my copy editor Toni Rachiele, my long-suffering footnote editor Stephanie Chan—and everyone at Crown Forum Books, whom I subjected to a special torture by turning my book in three months late. (I had a lot to say!) It’s an amazing team that performed miracles to get this book out on time.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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