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21
. Fischer,
Albion’s Seed.
(Kindle edition, 14005–14009.)

22
. Terri D. Reeves, “Memory of Ex-Slave, Confederate Soldier Is Revived,”
St. Petersburg Times
(Florida), February 25, 2003; Adam J. Carozza, “Remembrance and Honor: An Interview with Mary Wilder Crockett,”
Southern Scribe
, 2003. Available at http://www.southernscribe.com/zine/culture/remembrance_honor.htm.

23
. James Webb,
Fields of Fire
(Bantam, 2001) at 34.

24
. Byron York, “The Democratic Myth Machine,”
National Review
, April 19, 2004.

25
. Steven Thomma and Ron Hutcheson, “Right-to-Life, Gun-Advocacy Groups Also Running Anti-McCain Campaigns,” Knight Ridder, February 16, 2000; “Gore 2000 Criticizes Tenor of Bush Campaign,” U.S. Newswire, April 26, 2000.

26
. “Interview with Paul Krugman,”
The Charlie Rose Show
, December 26, 2007.

27
. Deroy Murdock, “Reagan, No Racist,”
National Review
, November 20, 2007.

28
. Jon Meacham, “A Man Out of Time: Trent Lott and the GOP Grew Up Together in the South.”
Newsweek
, December 23, 2002.

29
. Jonathan Alter, “Forum: Was It Ever Going To Be Easy?”
Newsweek
, May 5, 2008.

30
. Todd S. Purdum, “Striking Strengths, Glaring Failures,”
New York Times
, December 24, 2000.

31
. Joe Klein, “Putting Clinton’s Legacy to a Vote,”
New York Times
, March 17, 2002.

32
. Clifford Krauss, “New York City’s Gift to Clinton: A Lower National Crime Rate,”
New York Times
, September 1996.

33
. Michael Cooper, “DNA Evidence Links Rape Suspect to 17 Attacks in Region, Authorities Say,”
New York Times
, April 9, 1999.

34
. Cragg Hines, “Clinton Details Effort to Halt Police Racism: Plan Follows Incidents
of Excessive Force,”
Houston Chronicle
, March 14, 1999, Sunday four-star edition.

35
. Federal News Service, March 25, 1999, Thursday. Weekly Media Availability with Attorney General Janet Reno, Department of Justice, Washington, DC.

36
. Weiser, Benjamin, “Final Frisking Policy of the Police Faces Scrutiny,”
New York Times
, March 19, 1999.

37
. Heather MacDonald, “America’s Best Urban Police Force,”
City Journal
, Summer 2000.

38
. “Puerto Rican Demonstrators Demand Pardon for Jailed Terrorists,”
The Bulletin’s Frontrunner
, August 30, 1999. “Tapes Indicate Prisoners Will Return to Violence.”
Newsweek
(9/6) reported, “The most damning evidence against the nationalists,
Newsweek
has learned, is still-secret audio tapes made by the Bureau of Prisons.” The tapes “record at least some of the prisoners saying that ‘as soon as they get out of there, they are going to return to violence,’ one law enforcement official said.”

39
. Anderson Cooper, “State of Texas to Retain Polygamist Children: Clinton to Obama: ‘Toughen Up,’” CNN, April 18, 2008.

40
.
Anderson Cooper, 360
, CNN, May 2, 2008.

41
. Christopher Andersen,
American Evita: Hillary Clinton’s Path to Power
(Wm. Morrow, 2004) at 16–17.

CHAPTER 14: DREAMS OF MY ASSASSINATION

1
. Steve Kroft, Interview with Barack and Michelle Obama, CBS,
60 Minutes,
February 11, 2007.

2
.   This was a theory pushed by Representative Maxine Waters. See Craig Delaval, “Cocaine, Conspiracy Theories & the C.I.A. in Central America,” PBS
Frontline
, available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/cia.html.

3
.   Peter Knight,
Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia
, vol. 1 (ABC-CLIO, 2003) at 38. “It was suggested that [Church’s Fried Chicken] (whose franchises were located primarily in urban areas and had a sizable black customer base) was owned by racist whites who added an ingredient to the chicken that would cause black men to become sterile. A parallel theory held that the makers of Tropical Fantasy, a low-cost soft drink marketed principally in largely black urban areas, was owned by the KKK and added an ingredient to its product that would sterilize or cause impotence in black men.”

4
.   John King, “Racism: Personal Safety Factors in Obama’s Deliberations,” CNN.com, January 19, 2007.

5
.   Frank Rich, “The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama,”
New York Times
, October 12, 2008.

6
.   Bob Herbert, “Roads, High and Low,”
New York Times,
May 27, 2008.

7
.   “Obama Will Be Assassinated if He Wins: Nobel Winner Lessing,” Agence France-Presse February 9, 2008.

8
.   Allison Samuels, “Daring to Touch the Third Rail,”
Newsweek
, January 28, 2008.

9
.   Jeff Zeleny, “In Memories of a Painful Past, Hushed Worry about Obama,”
New York Times
, February 25, 2008.

10
.
Eileen Sullivan, “Obama Has More Threats than Other Presidents-Elect,” The Associated Press, November 15, 2008.

11
. Steve Gilbert, “AP: Obama Gets Most Death Threats Ever,” Sweetness & Light, November 15, 2008.

12
. Rachel Weiner, “Obama’s Secret Service Agent Most Influential Man in the World,” the Huffington Post, December 26, 2008. Available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/idetailsi-obamas-secret-s_n_146325.html.

13
. Frank Rich, “The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama.”

14
. Leonard Pitts, “Racism Lurks in the Shadows for Obama,”
Orlando Sentinel
(Florida), May 8, 2007.

15
. ABC News Now,
Perspectives
, “Speak Freely,” May 11, 2007.

16
. Jeff Zeleny, “In Memories of a Painful Past, Hushed Worry About Obama.”

17
. Matthew Jaffe, “Obama Security Challenge as Popularity Grows,” ABC News, February 28, 2008, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/ story?id=4350538& page=1#.T_ufu45Sbao.

18
. Scout Tufankjian, “Guarding Obama,” Slate.com, January 2009. Available at http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/gallery/2009/01/guarding_obama.html.

19
. Robert Lindsey,
New York Times
, November 14, 1979; the Associated Press, November 13, 1979.

20
. Katharine Q. Seelye, “Kennedy Comment Sends Clinton into Damage Control,”
New York Times
, May 26, 2008.

21
. Kenneth J. Moynihan, “Was Outrage over RFK Remark Launched by Obama Campaign?”
Telegram & Gazette
(Massachusetts), May 29, 2008.

22
. Kenneth R. Bazinet, “Firestorm? Blame It on Bam,”
Daily News
(New York), May 26, 2008.

23
. Bob Herbert, “Roads, High and Low,”
New York Times,
May 27, 2008.

24
. Roger Cohen, “The Obama Connection,”
New York Times,
May 26, 2008.

25
. Eugene Robinson, “Clinton’s Grim Scenario,”
Washington Post,
May 27, 2008.

26
. Keith Olbermann,
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
, MSNBC, May 23, 2008.

27
. The United States Secret Service and Presidential Protection: An Examination of a System Failure. Hearings Before the Committee on Homeland Security, 111th Cong. (December 3, 2009) (testimony of Mark J. Sullivan, director, United States Secret Service).

28
.
Newsweek
’s Mark Hosenball traced the rumor of increased threats against Obama to author Ronald Kessler, who had claimed in a 2009 book that threats against the president rose by 400 percent after Obama took office, but the Obama-threat hysteria long preceded Kessler’s book. Mark Hosenball, “Threats Against Obama Drop to Normal Levels,”
Newsweek
, November 9, 2009. Available at http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/declassified/2009/11/09/threats-against-obama-drop-to-normal-levels.html.

29
. “WP Makes Up Hate Site ‘Explosion’ Story,” Sweetness & Light, June 22, 2008, citing Eli Saslow, “Hate Groups’ Newest Target,”
Washington Post
, June 22, 2008.

30
. Ibid.

31
. Marisol Bello, “White Supremacists Target Middle America,”
USA Today
, October 20, 2008.

32
. Mark Preston, “White Supremacists Watched in Lead Up to Obama Administration,” CNN, January 16, 2009.

33
. Ed Schultz, MSNBC,
The Ed Show
, June 11, 2009.

34
.
Kathy Shaidle, “Holocaust Museum Shooter von Brunn a 9/11 ‘Truther’ Who Hated ‘Neo-Cons,’ Bush, McCain,”
The Examiner
, June 10th, 2009. Available at http://www.examiner.com/conservative-politics-in-national/holocaust-museum-shooter-von-brunn-a-9-11-truther-who-hated-neo-cons-bush-mccain.

35
. “When Right-Wing Extremism Moves Mainstream,” National Public Radio (NPR), March 25, 2010.

36
. Kirk Johnson and Eric Lichtblau, “Officials See No ‘Credible Threat’ to Obama in Racist Rants,”
New York Times
, August 27, 2008.

37
. See, e.g., Woody Baird and Andrew DeMillo, “Authorities Say Skinhead Plot Wasn’t Fully Formed,”
Abilene Reporter-News
(Texas), October 29, 2008; Richard A. Serrano,” “Pair Accused of Plotting to Kill Obama, 102 Blacks,”
Los Angeles Times,
October 28, 2008.

38
. Stephanie Schendel, “Election, Economy Spark Explosive Growth of Militias,” MSNBC.com, 
March 7, 2012. Available at http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/07/10602763-election-economy-spark-explosive-growth-of-militias.

39
. “Potok Claims ‘Explosive Growth’ of Militias,” Sweetness & Light, March 8, 2012. Available at http://sweetness-light.com/archive/potok-claims-explosive-growth-of-militias.

40
. Leon Wieseltier, “The Extremities of Nicholson Baker,”
New York Times
, August 8, 2004; Linton Weeks, “A Novel’s Plot Against the President,”
Washington Post
, June 29, 2004.

41
. MacKenzie Weinger, “Bush Decapitated in ‘Game of Thrones,’” Politico.com, June 13, 2012.

42
. TV Sound Bite, The Hotline, October 9, 2006.

43
. James Hohmann, “Nobel Laureate Calls for Removal of Bush: Irish Peace Activist’s Speech at Dallas Event Gets Standing Ovation,”
Dallas Morning News
, July 12, 2007.

44
. Lynn Elber, CBS: “Violent Anti-Bush Graphic Was ‘Regrettable,’” Associated Press, August 9, 2000.

45
. “Death Threats Against Bush at Protests Ignored for Years,” ZombieTime.com. Available at http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621.

46
. Jonathan B. Opet, [untitled],
Alameda Sun
, March 2, 2007. Available at http://alamedasun.com/local-and-hometown/1139-patriotic-artist-gets-read-the-patriot-act.

47
. There appears to have been two lone kooks who hung Obama effigies. One was the crazy pastor in Florida who created an international incident by burning a Koran in 2012, and the other was an anti-government nut who hung a slew of politicians (mostly local) in effigy in his yard in North Carolina and on a flatbed truck to protest, as he claims, a government cover-up of several of his family members being murdered by law enforcement officers. He added Obama to his gallery of hanging effigies sometime in 2012. Mike Opelka, “Why Is a Hangin’ Truck Driving Around NYC with President Obama on a Noose?”
The Blaze
, May 4, 2012.

48
. Leon Czolgosz, who killed President William McKinley in 1901, was a socialist; Giuseppe Zangara attempted to assassinate president-elect Franklin Roosevelt because he was a “capitalist.”

49
. Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot President John F. Kennedy, was a communist.

50
.
Senator Robert Kennedy was killed on June 5, 1968, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian extremist angry with Kennedy for his support of Israel.

51
. Charles Manson follower Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, shot at President Gerald Ford in 1975 because she was incensed about the plight of the California redwood.

52
. Sara Jane Moore tried to kill President Ford because “the government had declared war on the left.”

53
. Alex Isenstadt, “GOP Unnerved by Democrats’ Candid Camera Techniques,” Politico.com, July 9, 2012; “Liberal Media Posts Allen West’s Home Address,”
Fox News Nation,
June 25, 2012, available at http://nation.foxnews.com/allen-west/2012/06/25/liberal-media-posts-allen-west-s-home-address# ixzz21ChIewuW.

54
. Jim Rutenberg, Marilyn W. Thompson, David D. Kirkpatrick and Stephen Labaton, “For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk,”
New York Times
, February 21, 2008. “Correction:…
The article did not state, and the Times did not intend to conclude, that Ms. Iseman had engaged in a romantic affair with Senator McCain or an unethical relationship on behalf of her clients in breach of the public trust.”;
see also Clark Hoyt, “What That McCain Article Didn’t Say,”
New York Times
, February 24, 2008.

55
. See also “In It for the Long Haul,” The Hotline, October 16, 2008; “The Journal Editoral Report,” Fox News Network, October 18, 2008; Jack Kelly, “The Media Misrepresent McCain and Palin Rallies,”
The Blade
(Toledo, Ohio), October 18, 2008;
Lou Dobbs Tonight
, CNN, October 16, 2008.

56
. “Secret Service Says ‘Kill Him’ Allegation Unfounded,”
Times Leader
, October 15, 2008. Available at: http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html.

57
. Alex Koppelman, “Did Anyone Really Yell ‘Kill Him’”? Salon.com, October 16, 2008.

58
. Dana Milbank, “Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame,”
Washington Post
, October 7, 2008.