Blood and Politics (117 page)

  
8.
Leonard Zeskind, “Klan Bombs & Swastika Flags Mix in Nativist Movement,”
Searchlight
, September 2005.

  
9.
Pat Buchanan, “Battle Flag Issue Is Synthetic and Phony,”
Citizens Informer
25 (Summer 1994), p. 2.

54. Pat Buchanan and the Reform Party

  
1.
“Reporters from
The Spotlight
and
The Baltimore Sun
Interviewed Pat Buchanan at the March 4 Reform Party Meeting in Greenbelt, Maryland,” and “Liberty Lobby’s Congressional Liaison,”
The Spotlight
, April 3, 2000, p. 28; “Buchanan 2000: The People vs the Big Media, the Big Money & the Global Elite,” tabloid reprint, Americans for Buchanan, April 10, 2000; Tom Stuckey, “Buchanan Wows Reform Party; Collects Eight Delegates,” Associated Press, March 4, 2000.

  
2.
Brigid Schulte and Ron Dzwonkowski, “United They Stand No Longer: Perot Movement Is Beset by Squabbling,”
Detroit Free Press
, June 18, 1996, p. 4a.

  
3.
Beverly Kidder, “The Wave of Reform: A History of the Reform Party,” Reform Party 2000 convention document.

  
4.
Mike Glover, “Reform Party Split Opens Complex Ballot Access Fight,” Associated Press, August 25, 2000.

  
5.
“How You Can Help Get Pat Nominated: Buchanan Supporters Must ‘Go Reform’ for Buchanan to Get Reform Party Nomination,”
The Spotlight
, February 14, 2000; “America Needs Change at the Top,”
The Spotlight
, February 14, 2000; Vince Ryan, “For Years Patriots Have Talked About ‘Unifying Forces’—Here’s the Man Who Can Do It,”
The Spotlight
, January 31, 2000; Laurie Kellman, “Buchanan’s Bid Called Quiet Coup,” Associated Press, April 27, 2000.

  
6.
John R. Moore, “Buchanan Used, Abused Supporters,”
The Spotlight
, July 6, 1998, p. 21.

  
7.
Christopher J. Petherick, “Buchanan Wants America’s Sovereignty Restored,”
The Spotlight
, February 7, 2001; “Liberty Lobby to Back Pat,”
The Spotlight
, January 24, 2000; “Off and Running,”
The Spotlight
, November 8, 1999.

  
8.
Pat Buchanan,
Meet the Press
with Tim Russert, August 13, 2000, transcript from
www.msnbc.com
/news.

  
9.
“Liberty Lobby’s Congressional Liaison,” p. 28.

10.
“Editor-in-chief: Dr. Samuel Francis, Managing Editor: Chris Temple,”
Citizens Informer
31 (December 1999), p. 2.

11.
Michael W. Masters, “Republican or Third Party?,”
American Renaissance
, December 1999;
Citizen Informer
s for the year 2000 emphasized immigration and Confederate flag issues rather than presidential election alternatives.

12.
Devin Burghart,
Party Crashers: White Nationalists and Election 2000
, report, Center for New Community, July 20, 2000, p. 10.

13.
Ibid., pp. 9–11; “Support Pat Buchanan,” fund-raiser at Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, Coalition for a Just Peace in the Balkans, June 30, 2000; Patrick J. Buchanan, “U.S. Should Stay Out of Bosnian Conflict,”
Human Events
, May 15, 1993.

14.
Burghart,
Party Crashers: White Nationalists and Election 2000
.

15.
Mark Cotterill, “Pat Buchanan,”
American Friends of the B.N.P. Members and Supporters Bulletin
, May–June 2000, p. 2.

16.
Thomas Edsall, “Buchanan’s Bid Transforms the Reform Party,”
The Washington Post
, July 23, 2000, p. A4; Leonard Zeskind, “White Nationalists Just Love Buchanan,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 30, 2000.

17.
“Reform Leaders Vote to Drop Buchanan,” Associated Press, July 30, 2000; Kellie B. Gormly, “Buchanan Removed from Ballot,” Associated Press, July 30, 2000; Susan Parrott, “Hagelin Says Committee’s Vote to Oust Buchanan Makes Him Sole Reform Party Candidate,” Associated Press, July 31, 2000; Clayton Potts, “Buchanan Solidifies Hold on Party,”
The Spotlight
, July 24, 2000.

18.
Kellie B. Gormly, “Buchanan Removed from Ballot,” Associated Press, July 30, 2000.

19.
Clayton Potts, “Foes Try to Trip Up Buchanan,”
The Spotlight
, August 14, 2000.

20.
Devin Burghart, “Notes of Hagelin Press Conference, Westin Hotel, Long Beach, California,” August 10, 2000, 9:00 a.m., communication to author; Devin Burghart, “Notes on Hagelin Party Convention Hall, Performing Arts Center,” August 11, 2000, 3:30 p.m., communication to author.

21.
Devin Burghart, “Notes of Buchanan Reform Party Convention Hall, Long Beach Convention Center,” August 9, 2000, 2:00 p.m., communication to author; “Spotlight on People,”
The Spotlight
, August 28, 2000, p. 20.

22.
Warren Bates, “Retiree Hires Attorney to Help with Nativity Scene Battle,”
Las Vegas Review Journal
, December 19, 1997.

23.
Devin Burghart, “Notes on Buchanan Vice-President Announcement Press Conference Rainbow Harbor,” August 11, 2000, 1:00 p.m., communication to author.

24.
Peter Carlson, “Ezola Foster: Pat Buchanan’s Far Right Hand,”
The Washington Post
, September 13, 2000; “Buchanan Learns Running Mate Is Birch Member,” Reuters, August 14, 2000; “Confederate Flag Stands for Heritage,” Associated Press, October 25, 2000; Devin Burghart, “Ezola Foster’s Reform Party Vice-Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech,” August 12, 2000.

25.
Devin Burghart, “Notes on Ezola Foster Presentations,” communication to author.

26.
Devin Burghart, photos of Willis Carto and Joe Fields, Long Beach, communication with author.

27.
Jared Taylor, “Ezola Foster for Vice President? A Disappointing Choice by Pat Buchanan,”
American Renaissance
, October 2000.

28.
Ibid.

29.
Editorial,
The Spotlight
, December 4, 2000.

30.
Tom Valentine, “Interview with Liberty Lobby Founder Willis A. Carto,”
The Spotlight
, December 4, 2000.

31.
Federal Election Commission, “2000 Presidential Popular Vote Summary for All Candidates Listed on at Least One State Ballot,” update December 2001: Gore 50,999,897 (48.38 percent), Bush 50,456,002 (47.87 percent), Buchanan 448,895 (0.42 percent); John Nichols with research by David Deschamps,
Jews for Buchanan: Did You Hear the One About the Theft of the American Presidency?
(New York: New Press, 2001), pp. 86–87.

32.
George W. Bush et al. v. Albert Gore, Jr. et al.
, Supreme Court of the United States, 531 U.S. 2000, December 12, 2000.

33.
Federal Election Commission, “2000 Presidential Popular Vote Summary for All Candidates Listed on at Least One State Ballot,” update December 2001.

34.
“Doctors Remove Buchanan’s Gall Bladder,”
The New York Times
, August 19, 2000.

35.
Eun-Kyung Kim, “Will the Real Reform Party Nominee Stand? FEC to Decide,” Associated Press, August 22, 2000; Chelyen Davis, “Reform Party Spat Back in U.S. Court,”
Richmond Times Dispatch
, August 23, 2000; “Reform Factions Wage State-by-State Ballot Battle; Ballot-printing deadline: Some states hold a lottery to see if Hagelin or Buchanan get spot,”
Telegraph Herald
, August 25, 2000; Scott Lindlaw, “Buchanan Wing Again Seeks Recognition as Presidential Nominee,” Associated Press, September 5, 2000; “Reform Party Nomination Fight Moves to California Courts,”
The Bulletin’s Frontrunner
, September 6, 2000; Scott Lindlaw, “Judge Declines to Block Hagelin from Campaigning,” Associated Press, September 7, 2000; Scott Lindlaw, “Return to Long Beach: Future of Reform Party May Rest in Court,” Associated Press, September 7, 2000; “Buchanan Attorney Appeals Ballot Decision to Supreme Court,” Associated Press, September 12, 2000; Amy Franklin, “Appeals Court Denies Buchanan’s Appeal to Appear on Michigan Ballot,” Associated Press, September 12, 2000; Matthew Daly, “Buchanan Files Suit to Win Place on Reform Party Line,” Associated Press, September 13, 2000; “FEC Says Buchanan Should Get Federal Funds; Buchanan Heads to Bob Jones University,”
The Bulletin’s Frontrunner
, September 13, 2000; Richard A. Ryan, “Buchanan Vows Write-in Campaign: Reform Party Candidate’s Lawyers Plan Lawsuit Alleging Voters Denied Voting Rights,”
The Detroit News
, September 15, 2000; “Justices Block Reform Candidates: Pat Buchanan Heads for Federal Court to Argue for a Place on the State Ballot. His Rival from the Split Party Already Is On,”
Grand Rapids Press
, September 16, 2000.

36.
“The Coming Disappointment,” unsigned editorial,
Citizens Informer
, January/February 2001.

37.
Samuel Francis, “It’s Race, Stupid,”
American Renaissance
, January 2001.

38.
Samuel Francis, “Rout of the Republicans,”
Chronicles
, February 2001.

39.
Federal Elections Commission, “Federal Elections Commission, 2000 Official Presidential General Election Results, updated December 2001”: North Carolina—Buchanan 8,874; Bush 1,631,163; Gore 1,257,692. South Carolina—Buchanan 3,519; Bush 785,937; Gore 565,561.

40.
“Proposed Statewide Amendment Number 2,” Proposed Constitutional Amendments to Appear on Statewide Ballots, November 7, 2000, General Election,
www.sos.state.al.us/election/2000/general/amendlang.htm
.

41.
Alabama General Election by Counties, Amendments 1–14, November 7, 2000.

42.
Micah Altman and Philip A. Klinkner, “White Voting Versus Polling Results on Interracial Marriage: Measuring the Differences Between White Voting and Polling on Interracial Marriage,”
Dubois Review Social Science on Race
3(2), pp. 299–315.

55. The Liberty Lobby Fortress Crumbles

  
1.
The Spotlight
, July 9, 2001 (“You are holding in your hands the last edition . . .”).

  
2.
Judge Ruston G. Maino, “Decision,”
Legion for the Survival of Freedom v. Carto, Fischer, Vibet, Furr, Furr and Liberty Lobby
, Superior Court of California, N64584, December 15, 2000 (“The Forbearance Agreement is hereby set aside and plaintiff may proceed to collect on the judgment”); “Judge Says: Seize Liberty Lobby,”
The Spotlight
, December 31, 2000.

  
3.
Judge Gladys Kessler, “Memorandum Order,” filed September 10, 2001,
In Re: Liberty Lobby, Inc. Debtor
, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Civil Action no. 01-1505 (GK) and Bankruptcy Case no. 01-1234 (describes Teel’s order of June 29, 2001, and July 2, 2001, and denies Liberty Lobby’s plea for a stay); Andrea Billups, “Liberty Lobby Goes Under, Ends
Spotlight
Publication,”
The Washington Times
, July 10, 2001.

  
4.
The transition and transformation cited here was movementwide, rather than just related to
The Spotlight
’s circulation figures, which had been slipping since President Reagan took office.

  
5.
Sanford Griffith, “Insider Reveals New Facts About Weber & Cronies,”
The Spotlight
, January 15, 2001; Sanford Griffith, “Conspirator Exposed,”
The Spotlight
, January 22, 2001; Sanford Griffith, “Weber’s Buddy: JDL Chief Irv Rubin,”
The Spotlight
, January 29, 2001; Sanford Griffith, “Are You in Mark Weber’s Secret File?,”
The Spotlight
, February 5, 2001; Sanford Griffith, “Weber Found His Guru in the African Desert,”
The Spotlight
, February 12, 2001; Sanford Griffith, “‘Famous Historian’ Might Get Fired,”
The Spotlight
, February 19, 2001; Sanford Griffith, “Is Weber Sabotaging Revisionism?,”
The Spotlight
, March 15, 2001; Mark Weber, “A Response to Recent
Spotlight
Attacks,” April 3, 2001, homepage.mac/lsf/news/010403mwresponse.html (Weber described these attacks as “rubbish”); Mark Weber, interview with author, August 13, 2001, Weber denied the substance and the tenor of the attacks.

  
6.
“Listing of cases between Willis Carto and the Legion for the Survival of Freedom (current as of 2/15/2001),” homepage.mac.com/lsf/litigation/cases.html; “The Willis A. Carto Information Site,” homepage.mac.com/lsf/index2.html.

  
7.
Rafael Medoff and Alex Grobman,
Holocaust Denial: A Global Survey—2007
, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

  
8.
David John Cawdell Irving v. Penguin Books Ltd. and Deborah E. Lipstadt
, in the High Court of Justice Queen’s Bench Division; Deborah E. Lipstadt,
History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving
(New York: HarperCollins, 2005); “Holocaust Denier Irving Is Jailed,” BBC News, February 20, 2006.

  
9.
“13th IHR Conference: A Resounding Success,” Institute for Historical Review,
Journal of Historical Review
19, no. 3; “Thirteenth Conference Marks Revisionist Renaissance,” Institute for Historical Review,
IHR Update
, July 2000.

10.
“International Conference on Revisionism and Zionism Set for Beirut,”
News from IHR
, December 26, 2000; David Saks, “Strong Objections to Beirut Holocaust Denial Conference,”
The South African Jewish Report
, March 9, 2001; “Beirut ‘Revisionism and Zionism’ Conference Called Off,” Institute for Historical Review, March 30, 2001; Leonard Zes-kind, “Middle East Meets West in Beirut, Will Jürgen Graf Risk Leaving Iran,”
Searchlight
, April 2001.

11.
Daniel Schorr, “The Iranian Effort to Mount a Holocaust Denial Campaign Is Linked With the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis,”
The Christian Science Monitor
, December 22, 2006; President George W. Bush, “Statement on Holocaust Denial Conference Sponsored by Iranian Regime,” press release, December 12, 2006.