Mugged (54 page)

59
. “Hammering Home Their Percentage Point,” The Hotline, October 16, 2008 (“Secret Service spokesperson Eric Zahren said 10/15 that listening to tapes of the Florida rally, the Secret Service heard “tell him” or “tell them,” but never heard “kill him.”)

60
. “Transcript: The Third Presidential Debate,”
New York Times
, October 15, 2008.

61
. Mark Hosenball, “The Death-Threat Debate,”
Newsweek
, October 27, 2008. Available at http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/10/18/the-death-threat-debate.html.

62
. Ibid.

63
. James B. Jacobs and Kimberly Potter,
In Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identiy Politics
(Oxford University Press, 2000) at 143.

CHAPTER 15: OBAMA, RACE DEMAGOGUE

1
. Barack Obama,
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
(Crown, 2007) at 103. “I read the book to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. Their demons. The way ideas get twisted around. It helps me understand how people learn to hate.”

2
.   
Quoted in Michiko Kakutani, “The Young Dreamer, with Eyes Wide Open,”
New York Times
, June 4, 2012 (reviewing David Maraniss,
Barack Obama: The Story
(Simon & Schuster, 2012).

3
.   
Dreams
at 83–85.

4
.   Ibid.

5
.   
Dreams
at 25.

6
.   
Dreams
at 65.

7
.   
Dreams
at xix.

8
.   See, e.g., Evan Thomas, “Alienated in the U.S.A.,”
Newsweek
, March 12, 2008.

9
.   
Dreams
at 98.

10
.
Dreams
at 94.

11
.
Dreams
at 85.

12
. “White Men Can Vote,” the
Economist
, July 3, 2008. Available at http://www.economist.com/node/11670719.

13
. Julie Mason, “Obama’s Election Year Pitch Leaves Out White Males,”
Washington Examiner
,
April 27, 2010. Available at http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/14619.

14
. Mayhill Fowler, “Obama: No Surprise That Hard Pressed Pennsylvanians Turn Bitter,” the Huffington Post, April 11, 2008. Available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-no-surprise-that-ha_b_96188.html.

15
. Caren Bohan, “Obama Says Republicans Will Use Race to Stoke Fear,” Reuters, June 20, 2008.

16
. See, e.g.,
World News With Charles Gibson
, ABC News, July 31, 2008.

17
. See, e.g., “Barack Obama Campaign Conference Call: The Launching of a New Website and Discussing How the McCain Campaign Is Taking the Low Road.” (Participants: David Plouffe, Obama for America campaign manager; Susan Eisenhower), Federal News Service, July 31, 2008.

18
. Mark Mooney, “Obama Aide Concedes ‘Dollar Bill’ Remark Referred to His Race,” ABC News, August 1, 2008.
A
vailable at http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=5495348&page=1#.T_bYV45Sbao

19
. Jim Farber, “Geraldine Ferraro Lets Her Emotions Do the Talking,”
Torrance Daily Breeze
, March 7, 2008.

20
. Josh Drobnyk and John L. Micek, “Skin Color Is Not a Campaign Issue, Obama Warns,”
The Morning Call
, March 12, 2008.

21
. Jayson K. Jones and Ana C. Rosado, “Obama Campaign Criticizes Ferraro Comments,”
New York Times
, March 11, 2008.

22
. Robin Abcarian, “Ferraro Quits Clinton Campaign After Obama Remarks,”
Los Angeles Times
,
March 13, 2008.

23
. Jayson K. Jones and Ana C. Rosado, “Obama Campaign Criticizes Ferraro Comments,”
New York Times,
March 11, 2008.

24
. Ben Smith, “A Ferraro Flashback,” Politico, March 11, 2008.

25
. Andrew Sullivan, “Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters,”
Atlantic
, December 2007.

26
. Obama: How much damage was done, MSNBC’s First Read, March 20, 2008, available at http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2008/03/20/4437326-obama-how-much-damage-was-done.

27
. “Transcript: Barack Obama’s Speech on Race,”
New York Times
, March 18, 2008.
Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/us/politics/18text-obama. html?_ r =1&pagewanted=print.

28
. See, e.g., Neely Tucker, “Descendants Hold to Ex-Slaves’ Dream,”
Detroit Free Press,
November 5, 1997 “The Rev. David Mwambila, a Kenyan living on the Indian Ocean coast…In 1874, Matthew Wellington, his great-grandfather…had been captured by Arab slave traders.…”; Erica Poff, Country Profile: The Republic of Kenya, Ohio University, Center for International Studies, September 18, 2007 at 4, available at http://www.internationalstudies.ohio.edu/activities-outreach/files/Kenya.pdf. “Arabs had been trading African slaves for over 1000 years, taking them to the Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf, and other regions of Asia. European slave traders came later in the 17th century, taking African slaves to various islands in the Indian Ocean and the Americas.”; Cynthia McKinney, Expectations for U.N. Conference Against Racism, CNN International, September 1, 2001; “WALTER MBOTELA, DESCENDANT OF FREED SLAVE:’…[I]t was a terrible thing what the Arabs did to Africans.’”

29
. See, e.g., Erica Poff, Country Profile: The Republic of Kenya, Ohio University, Center for International Studies, September 18, 2007 at 4, available at http://www.internationalstudies.ohio.edu/activities-outreach/files/Kenya.pdf. “One of the most important aspects of early trade and cultural interaction in Kenya was the evolution of the slave trade in East Africa”; Cynthia McKinney, Expectations for U.N. Conference Against Racism, CNN International, September 1, 2001. “To an area when control of what is now Kenya came first under Arab rule, then Portuguese, before Arabs regained the upper hand in the late 17th century. Through it all, Mbasa served as a key port in Africa’s slave trade.”; Kevin Mwachiro, Remembering East African slave raids, BBC, March 30, 2007, available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6510675.stm. “There was not much slave-raiding along the Kenyan coast but it was a vital transit point for slaves who were captured further inland, due to its proximity to the main market in Zanzibar”.

30
. Results from the 1860 Census, The Civil War Home Page, available at http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html; See also Jenny B. Wahl, Slavery in the United States, Economic History Association, February 1, 2010, available at http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/wahl.slavery.us.

31
. Ibid.

32
. Mary A. Johnson, “Crime: New Frontier; Jesse Jackson Calls It Top Civil-Rights Issue,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
November 29, 1993.

33
. Bernard Goldberg,
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
(Broadside Books, 2008). at 30–31.

34
. Ben Smith, “Obama on Virginia Tech, and ‘Violence,’” Politico, April 17, 2007.

35
. NBC Staff, “Bozell on Hannity ‘Media Mash’: NBC Deliberately Skewed Travyvon Martin Story with Selective Editing,” March 30, 2012; available at http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2012/03/29/bozell-irresponsible-media-skewing#ixzz20TrewbRw.

36
. Noah Rothman, “MSNBC
Primetime
Makes Zero Mentions of Trayvon Martin Case After Pro-Zimmerman Evidence Surfaces,” Mediaite.com, May 23, 2012.

37
. Jonathan Strong, “Documents Show Media Plotting to Kill Stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright,” The Daily Caller, July 20, 2010, available at http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/print/#ixzz0uI7TXbTr.

CHAPTER 16: THE MEDIA CRY “RACIST” IN A CROWDED THEATER

1
. Douglass K. Daniel, “Analysis: Palin’s Words Carry Racial Tinge,” Associated Press, October 5, 2008.

2
.   
Countdown
with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, August 4, 2008.

3
.   Katie Couric,
CBS Evening News
, July 31, 2008.

4
.   Jacob Weisberg, “If Obama Loses, Racism Is the Only Reason McCain Might Beat Him,” Slate, August 23, 2008, available at http://slate.com/id/2198397.

5
.   Timothy Noah, “What We Didn’t Overcome,” Slate, November 10, 2008.

6
.   See David Paul Kuhn, “Exit polls: How Obama Won,” November 5, 2008.

7
.   Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, “How Racist Are We? Ask Google,”
New York Times
, June 9, 2012.

8
.   See, e.g.,
Hannity & Colmes
, Fox News Network, November 3, 2008.

9
.   The coal interview story was broken by Brent Bozell’s
Newsbusters
; P. J. Gladnick, “Audio: Obama Tells S
F Chronicle
He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry,”
Newsbusters,
November 2, 2008, available at http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/ 11/02/hidden-audio-obama-tells-sf-chronicle-he-will-bankrupt-coal-industry#ixzz20YouLcsF.

10
. Chris Dickerson, “Coal Official Calls Obama Comments ‘Unbelievable’,”
West Virginia Record,
November 2, 2008.

11
. Tim Kane, “Who Are the Recruits? The Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Military Enlistment, 2003-2005,” The Heritage Foundation, October 27, 2006, available at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2006/10/who-are-the-recruits-the-demographic-characteristics-of-us-military-enlistment-2003-2005.

12
. See, e.g., “Talk of the Nation: The Tea Party, a Modern Movement,” National Public Radio (NPR), April 29, 2010.

13
. Kate Zernike, “Doing Fine, But Angry Nonetheless,”
New York Times
, April 18, 2010.

14
. Jonathan Gurwitz, “A Tea Party Movement That’s Strong, More Focused—and Much Different from Its Caricature,”
St. Paul Pioneer Press
(Minnesota), April 17, 2010.

15
. Joe Schoffstall, “Poll Shows Support for Tea Party Movement Continues to Grow,” cnsnews.com, April 22, 2010.

16
.
The Ed Show
, MSNBC April 13, 2010.

17
. David Weigel, “Tea Party Infiltration Done Wrong,” Slate.com, August 9, 2010. Available at http://www.slate.com/content/slate/blogs/weigel/2010/08/09/tea_party_infiltration_done_wrong.html.

18
. Alex Pappas, “Infiltrator Trying to Pass as Rand Paul Fan Wrote Column Bashing Tea Party,” the Daily Caller, August 11, 2010. Available at http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/11/infiltrator-trying-to-pass-as-rand-paul-fan-wrote-column-bashing-tea-party/#ixzz20OTrMFgt.

19
. Lachlan Markay, “Far-left Think Progress Fabricates Examples of Tea Party Racism for Bogus Video,”
Newsbusters
, July 16, 2010, available at http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/07/16/far-left-think-progress-fabricates-examples-tea-party-racism-bogus-v.

20
. Glenn Beck, Fox News Network, July 19, 2010.

21
.
Hardball
with Chris Matthews, MSNBC, July 18, 2010.

22
. Kyle Drennen, “MSNBC: ObamaCare Protesters ‘Racist,’ Including Black Gun-Owner,”
Newsbusters,
August 18, 2009, available at http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/08/18/msnbc-no-mention-black-gun-owner-among-racist-protesters#ixzz21KhK8M00.

23
.
The Ed Show
, MSNBC, April 19, 2010. Available at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36663015/ns/msnbc_tv-the_ed_show/t/ed-show/#.T_6BQo5Sbao.

24
. “Editorial: They Want to Make Voting Harder?”
New York Times
, June 5, 2011.

25
.
Washington Watch with Roland Martin
, TV One, June 5, 2011.

26
. Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “Why Did Liberal African-Americans in Rhode Island Help Pass a Voter ID Law?”
New Republic
, February 7, 2012.

27
. David Scharfenberg, “Who Passed Voter ID?”
Providence Phoenix
, May 16, 2012.

28
. Simon van Zuylen-Wood, February 7, 2012.

29
. David Scharfenberg, May 16, 2012.

30
. Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “Why Did Liberal African-Americans in Rhode Island Help Pass a Voter ID Law?”
New Republic,
February 7, 2012.

31
. Complaint in
U.S. v. Missouri
, U.S.D.C. (Western Dist of Mo 
Central Div) available at http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/nvra/mo_nvra_comp.php;
U.S. v. Missouri
, U.S.D.C. (CD MO) (2007) (case dismissed for naming wrong parties—state instead of counties—under National Voter Registration Act of 1993). Available at http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/laughrey_ruling.pdf.

32
.
The Ed Show,
MSNBC, May 22, 2012.

33
. Steve Benen, “What’s the Matter with Arizona?”
The Maddow Blog
, May 18, 2012.

34
. See, e.g., David Hackett Fischer,
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America
(Oxford University Press, 1991) at 6372–6375, e-book edition. (“The first Africans appeared in the colony [of Virginia] as early as 1619; a census of 1625 enumerated 23 blacks. There were fewer Africans in the Chesapeake than in New England or New Netherlands. Their legal status remained very unclear.”)

35
.
Countdown with Keith Olbermann,
September 15, 2009.

36
. Mark Finkelstein, “Massachusetts: Olbermann Cries Racism,” NewsBusters.org, January 19, 2010, available at http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein /2010/01/19/massachusetts-olbermann-cries-racism#ixzz20Mqfv855.

37
.
Countdown with Keith Olbermann,
MSNBC, February 15, 2007.

38
. Jeff Poor, “MSNBC Guest Suggests Romney’s Use of the Term ‘Kitchen Cabinet’ Is Racist,” the
Daily Caller
, July 12, 2012, available at http://dailycaller.com/ 2012/07/12/msnbc-guest-suggests-romneys-use-of-the-term-kitchen-cabinet-is-racist/#ixzz20X52N2PB.