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27.
F. A. Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” reprinted in
Individualism and Economic Order
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 77.

28.
Frédéric Bastiat, “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen,” section 1.1. http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html.

29.
Mario Rizzo, “Yes, Paul: It is Hayek versus Keynes,”
ThinkMarkets Blog
, Dec. 7, 2011 http://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/yes-paul-it-is-hayek-versus-keynes/.

30.
Russ Feingold, “Feingold’s Statement on Czars,”
New York Times
, Oct. 6, 2009.

31.
Jonah Goldberg, “Re: Czars,” The Corner,
National Review Online
, Dec. 15, 2008. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/174803/re-czars/jonah-goldberg.

32.
Michael McAuliff, “Obama Tells Congress He’s Keeping His Czars,”
Huffington Post
, Apr. 15, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/15/obama-czars-signing-statement_n_849963.html.

33.
John Breshnahan, “Byrd: Obama in Power Grab,”
Politico,
Feb. 25, 2009. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19303.html.

34.
Arthur Ekirch Jr.,
The Decline of American Liberalism
(New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1955), pp. 151–52.

35.
Theodore Roosevelt, quoted at http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/theodoreroosevelt.

36.
H. L. Mencken, “Roosevelt: An Autopsy,” in
Prejudices
(Baltimore: John Hopkins Paperbacks, 1996), pp. 61–62.

37.
Charles A. Beard quoted in Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.,
Ideologies and Utopias: The Impact of the New Deal on American Thought
(Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1955), p. 132.

38.
Gordon Tullock, “Welfare Costs of Monopolies, Tariffs, and Theft,”
Western Economic Journal 5
(June 1967): pp. 224–32.

39.
Charles B. Spahr,
An Essay on the Present Distribution of Wealth in the United States
(Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1896), p. 27.

Chapter 3: The Truth Cartel

  1.
Walter Cronkite, “The First Priority of Humankind . . .” Presented to the United Nations, New York, Oct. 1999. web.archive.org/web/20071011173432/http://www.ikosmos.com/wisdomeditions/essays/mw/cronkite01.htm.

  2.
Clark Peterson, “Frank Zappa: He’s Only 38 and He Knows How to Nasty,”
Relix Magazine,
Nov. 1979.

  3.
A. J. Liebling, “Do You Belong in Journalism?”
New Yorker,
May 14, 1960, pp. 104–12.

  4.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Richard Price, Jan. 8, 1789. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/60.html.

  5.
Thomas Hazlett, “The Wireless Craze, The Unlimited Bandwidth Myth, The Spectrum Auction Faux Pas, and the Punchline to Ronald Coase’s ‘Big Joke.’,” AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Jan. 2001. http://mason.gmu.edu/~thazlett/pubs/The%20Wireless%20Craze.pdf.

  6.
Pingdom, “Internet 2010 in numbers,”
Royal Pingdom
, Jan. 12, 2011. http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/Internet-2010-in-numbers.

  7.
Peter Voskamp, “GOP Attempt to Overturn FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Fails in Senate,”
The Wrap
, Reuters, Nov. 10, 2011.

  8.
“Evening News Viewership, by Network 1980–2006,” Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Mar. 12, 2007. http://www.journalism.org/node/1346.

  9.
Brian Stetler, “CBS Evening News Ratings Tie 20-Year Low,”
NY Times Media Decoder
, Aug. 24, 2010.

10.
Chris Ariens, “Evening News Ratings: Week of Nov. 28,”
TVNewser
, Dec. 6, 2011.

11.
“U.S. Daily Newspaper Circulation Versus Number of Households,” Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Mar. 13, 2006.

12.
“Number of U.S. Daily Newspapers, 5-Year Increments,” Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Mar. 12, 2007.

13.
Joseph Plambeck, “Newspaper Circulation Falls Nearly 9%,”
New York Times,
Apr. 26, 2010.

14.
Michelle Malkin, “Fairness Doctrine Watch: Schumer Likens Conservative Opinion to Pornography,”
MichelleMalkin.com
, Nov. 4, 2008. http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/04/fairness-doctrine-watch-schumer-likes-conservative-opinion-to-pornography/.

15.
Michael O’Brien, “Obama Open to Newspaper Bailout Bill,”
The Hill,
Sept. 20, 2009. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/59523-obama-open-to-newspaper-bailout-bill.

16.
Office of Sen. Ben Cardin, “Senator Cardin Introduces Bill That Would Allow American Newspapers to Operate as Non-Profits,” (press release) Mar. 24, 2009. http://cardin.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/senator-cardin-introduces-bill-that-would-allow-american-newspapers-to-operate-as-non-profits.

17.
Dave Murray, “Obama Concernced about Newspapers,” post-gazette.com, Sept. 20, 2009. http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/09263/999253-482.stm.

18.
Mark Joyella, “Traffic Data: Cable News, Led by CNN, Crushing Newspapers on the Web,”
Mediaite.com
, May 10, 2011. http://www.mediaite.com/online/traffic-data-cable-news-led-by-cnn-crushing-newspapers-on-the-web/.

19.
“Statistics,”
Facebook.com
, retrieved Dec. 11, 2011. http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics.

20.
Reported by Dylan Stableford, “Drudge Report Drives More Traffic Than Facebook and Twitter Combined, Study Says,”
The Cutline, Yahoo! News
, Aug. 11, 2011. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/drudge-report-drives-more-traffic-facebook-twitter-combined-193516280.html.

21.
Kamelia Angelova, “Glenn Beck: Why This Is The Most Dangerous Era Of Our Lifetime,”
Business Insider,
Dec. 27, 2011.

22.
Ibid.

23.
BITG research by Richard Greenfield.

24.
Lauren A. E. Schuker, “Glenn Beck Faces Big New Test as New Show Bows,”
Wall Street Journal,
Sept. 12, 2011.

25.
Glenn Thrush, “Pelosi: ‘I’m not afraid of August,’”
Politico,
July 23, 2009, http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0709/Pelosi_Im_not_afraid_of_August.html.

26.
Rich Noyes, “TV’s Tea Party Travesty
,”
Media Research Center, Mar. 2010. http://www.mrc.org/specialreports/2010/TeaParty/Scorning.aspx.

27.
Annie Gowen, “City: Rat Population Has ‘Exploded’ Around Occupy D.C. Camps,”
Washington Post, Breaking News Blog
, Jan. 9, 2012. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post_now/post/city-rat-population-has-exploded-around-occupy-dc-camps/2012/01/09/gIQA6AoylP_blog.html.

28.
Tim Graham, “Omitting for Obama: How the Old Media Deliberately Censored New Media Scoops in 2009,” Media Research Center, 2010. http://www.mrc.org/specialreports/2010/OmittingforObama/ExecutiveSummary.aspx.

29.
Dan Gainor, “Fire and Ice,” Business & Media Institute, Media Research Center, May 17, 2006. http://www.mrc.org/bmi/reports/2010/Fire_and_Ice.html.

30.
W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm, “Creative Destruction,”
Library of Economics and Liberty
. http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/CreativeDestruction.html.

31.
Tom Price, “Journalism Standards in the Internet Age,”
CQ Researcher
, vol 20–35, Oct. 8, 2010.

32.
David Brooks and Gail Collins, “Old Media vs. New Media,”
NY Times Opinionator Blog
, June 30, 2010. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/old-media-v-new-media/.

33.
Ibid.

34.
Brink Lindsey, Jonah Goldberg, and Matt Kibbe, “Where Do Libertarians Belong: A Reason Debate,”
Reason.com
. Aug.–Sept. 2010. http://reason.com/archives/2010/07/12/where-do-libertarians-belong/singlepage.

35.
Brian Stetler, “Debunkers of Fictions Sift the Net,”
New York Times
, Apr. 4, 2010.

36.
Rick Santelli,
Squawk Box, CNBC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or-EKjfVCoA.

37.
Robert Seidman, “Cable News Ratings for Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009,”
TV by the Numbers
, Jan. 28, 2009. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/01/28/cable-news-ratings-for-tuesday-january-27-2009/11700/.

38.
Michael Polanyi,
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958).

Chapter 4: Don’t Hurt Others and Don’t Take Their Stuff

  1.
Transcript, Van Jones Address to Netroots Nation 2011. Retrieved from Northwest Progressive Institute. http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2011/07/transcript-van-jones-urges-netroots-to-lead-the-way-in-rebuilding-the-american-dream.html.

  2.
http://vanjones.net/.

  3.
Jeff Zeleny, “A Socialist? Obama Calls Back to Insist No,”
New York Times,
Mar. 8, 2009.

  4.
“Remarks by the President on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas,”
WhiteHouse.gov
. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/06/remarks-president-economy-osawatomie-kansas.

  5.
Saul Alinsky,
Rules for Radicals
(New York: Vintage Books, 1989), p. 130.

  6.
Frédéric Bastiat, “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen” (1850). http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html.

  7.
Transcript, Van Jones Address to Netroots Nation 2011,
op. cit
.

  8.
Adam Smith,
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
(1789), Part 2, section II, reprinted by Library Classics, (1984) Indianapolis, Indiana pp. 83–84.

  9.
Peter Hamby, “Axelrod Suggests ‘Tea Party’ Movement Is ‘Unhealthy,’”
CNN.com
, Apr. 19, 2009. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/19/axelrod-suggests-tea-party-movement-is-unhealthy/.

10.
Organizing for America memo, “2 Phone Calls on 9/11,” Sept. 11, 2009. Retrieved from
Heritage Foundation
. http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/highlightedversion.jpg

11.
Jonathan Allen and John Bresnahan, “Sources: Joe Biden Likened Tea Partiers to Terrorists,”
Politico
, Aug. 1, 2011. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60421.html.

12.
Alicia Ciccone, “Occupy Wall Street Causing Problems on Main Street,”
Huffington Post
, Oct. 4, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/04/occupy-wall-street-poses-challenge-to-main-street_n_993306.html.

13.
Emma Brown and Del Quentin Wilber, “Air and Space Museum Closes after Guards Clash with Protesters,”
Washington Post
, Oct. 8, 2011.

14.
John Nolte, “Occupy Wall Street: The Rap Sheet So Far,”
Big Government.com
, Dec. 9, 2011. http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/.

15.
Meghan Barr and Ryan J. Foley, “Occupy Protests Cost Nation’s Cities at Least $13M,” Associated Press, Nov. 13, 2011.

16.
Alessandra Rizzo and Meera Selva, “Police Fire Tear Gas as Protesters Riot in Rome,” Associated Press, Oct. 15, 2011.

17.
Matt Kibbe, “What Sets the Tea Party Apart,”
Human Events
, Nov. 14, 2011. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47501.

18.
Cady Lang, “Chained Up,”
360 Magazine
, Dec. 13, 2011. http://360magazine.org/2011/12/chained-up/.

19.
Ibid.

20.
Ibid.

21.
Craig Kanalley, “Occupy Wall Street: At Zuccotti Park, Conflict Arises Among Occupiers,”
Huffington Post,
Oct. 22, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-kanalley/occupy-wall-street-zuccotti-park_b_1026400.html.

22.
Ibid.

23.
Transcript, Van Jones Address to Netroots Nation 2011.