Liars (45 page)

“international coalitions and norms”
Tamas Magyarics, “Wilsonianism—A Blueprint for 20th Century American Foreign Policy?” (paper, Cold War History Research Center, Corvinus University of Budapest), accessed May 29, 2016,
http://www.coldwar.hu/html/en/publications/wilsonianism.html
.

“ ‘unclench your fist' ”
Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address,” (speech, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2009), The White House,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/01/21/president-barack-obamas-inaugural-address
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“nefarious jihadist designs”
Benjamin Weingarten, “Obama Makes the Worst Trade in US History: Israel for Iran,” TheBlaze, March 3, 2015,
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama-makes-the-worst-trade-in-u-s-history-israel-for-iran/
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“violating the deal's terms”
Jon Gambrell, “Iran Fires 2 Missiles Marked with ‘Israel Must Be Wiped Out,' ” Yahoo! News, March 9, 2016,
https://
www
.yahoo.com/news/iran-fires-2-missiles-marked-israel-must-wiped-071612751.html?ref=gs
.

“self-determination for oppressed peoples
”
Vladimir Lenin, “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination,”
Marxists.org
, accessed May 29, 2016,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm
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“above the advice of his national security team”
Kate Scanlon, “Former Defense Secretary Says Obama Went Against the ‘Entire National Security Team' on Egypt Coup,” TheBlaze, March 17, 2016,
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/17/former-defense-secretary-says-obama-went-against-the-entire-national-security-team-on-egypt-coup/
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“ ‘fully representative democracy' ”
CNN Wire Staff, “Obama Says Egypt's Transition ‘Must Begin Now,' ”
CNN.com
, February 2, 2011,
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/01/us.egypt.obama/
.

“monetary aid and heavy weaponry”
Spencer Case, “How Obama Sided with the Muslim Brotherhood,”
National Review
, July 3, 2014,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/381947/how-obama-sided-muslim-brotherhood-spencer-case
.

“had repressed jihadist forces”
Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank, “Islamic Militants Among Prisoners Free from Libyan Jail,”
CNN.com
, August 26, 2011,
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/26/libya.militants.analysis/
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“disarming in response to America's invasion of Iraq”
Ron Suskind, “The Tyrant Who Came in from the Cold,”
Washington Monthly
, October 2006,
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0610.suskind.html
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“aiding the ‘rebels'
”
Washington Post Editorial Board, “What Obama Botched in Libya,”
The Washington Post
, May 5, 2014,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-obama-botched-in-libya/2014/05/05/3aef7176-d47a-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html
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“jihadists diving into the swimming pool”
Tom Rogan, “Jihadists in the Swimming Pool,”
National Review
, September 2, 2014,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/386832/jihadists-swimming-pool-tom-rogan
.

“approximately sixty-five hundred ISIS fighters”
Jim Sciutto, Barbara Starr, and Kevin Liptak, “ISIS fighters in Libya Surge as Group Suffers Setbacks in Syria, Iraq,”
CNN.com
, February 4, 2016,
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/politics/isis-fighters-libya-syria-iraq/
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“ ‘hostilities' under the law”
David Bernstein,
Lawless: The Obama Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law
(New York: Encounter Books, 2015), p. xxi.

“keeping Ambassador Stevens in the country”
Robert Young Pelton, “Low Profile in Benghazi: When Political Correctness Kills,”
DangerousMagazine.com
, May 8, 2013,
http://dangerousmagazine.com/project/low-profile-in-benghazi-when-political-correctness-kills/
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“only liberal democracy in the Middle East”
Ben Shapiro, “A Complete
Timeline of Obama's Anti-Israel Hatred,” Breitbart, March 20, 2015,
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/03/20/a-complete-timeline-of-obamas-anti-israel-hatred/
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“strengthening the Palestinian Arabs
”
Charles Krauthammer, “What Obama Did to Israel,”
The Washington Post
, May 26, 2011,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-obama-did-to-israel/2011/05/26/AGJfYJCH_story.html
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“boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement”
“Kerry Adds Fuel to BDS Fire,”
The New York Jewish Week
, February 4, 2014,
http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/editorial/kerry-adds-fuel-bds-fire
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“ ‘Israel and the West Bank' ”
Jennifer Rubin, “Obama Winks at BDS,”
Right Turn
(blog),
The Washington Post
, July 2, 2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogsright-turn/wp/2015/07/02/obama-winks-at-bds/
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“ ‘greatest geopolitical catastrophe
'
”
“Putin: Soviet Collapse a ‘Genuine Tragedy,' ”
NBCNews.com
, April 25, 2005,
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7632057/ns/world_news/t/putin-soviet-collapse-genuine-tragedy/#.V03bs-crIy5
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“cyber-attacks on U.S. businesses”
“Pentagon: China's Man-Made Islands Growing, Now Thousands of Acres,”
FoxNews.com
, August 22, 2015,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/21/defense-official-china-grabs-50-percent-more-land-through-man-made-islands.html
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“ ‘open hand' policy”
“Chinese Cyberattacks on U.S. Companies Continue, Report Says,”
NBCNews.com
, October 19, 2015,
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chinese-cyberattacks-u-s-companies-continue-report-says-n447016
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“ ‘counterfeit' progressive”
Thomas Frank, “Cornel West: ‘He Posed as a Progressive and Turned Out to Be Counterfeit. We Ended Up with a Wall Street Presidency, a Drone Presidency,' ”
Salon
, August 24, 2014,
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/24/cornel_west_he_posed_as_a_progressive_and_turned_out_to_be_counterfeit_we_ended_up_with_a_wall_street_presidency_a_drone_presidency/
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“ ‘Git your black ass in the car with us' ”
Paul Kengor,
The Communist
(New York: Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink, 2012), p. 23.

“ ‘whole hour piss in their faces' ”
Paul Kengor,
The Communist
(New York: Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink, 2012), p. 24.

“ ‘horses, cattle, and furniture' ”
Paul Kengor,
The Communist
(New York: Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink, 2012), p. 25.

“ ‘lukewarm liberals' ”
Paul Kengor,
The Communist
(New York: Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink, 2012), p. 239.

“home for his interracial marriage
”
Toby Harnden, “Frank Marshall Davis, Alleged Communist, Was Early Influence on Barack Obama,”
The Telegraph
, August 22, 2008,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/2601914/Frank-Marshall-Davis-alleged-Communist-was-early-influence-on-Barack-Obama.html
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“ran to six hundred pages
”
Paul Kengor, “The Washington Post Sugarcoats Obama's Communist Mentor,”
American Thinker
, March 26, 2015,
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/the_washington_empostem_sugarcoats_obamas_communist_mentor.html#ixzz3VanoJC9E
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“testimony in front of the U.S. Senate”
Paul Kengor, “Dreams from Frank Marshall Davis,”
The American Spectator
, October 12, 2012,
http://spectator.org/34799_dreams-frank-marshall-davis/
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“photographs of nude women”
Jim Hoft, “Your Right to Know: More Racy Photos of Obama's Mother Discovered (Video),”
TheGatewayPundit.com
, June 19, 2012,
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/your-right-to-know-more-racy-photos-of-obamas-mother-discovered-video/
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“should Hawaii ever need to be targeted”
Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “Frank Marshall Davis: Obama's ‘Communist mentor'?”
The Washington Post
, March 23, 2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/03/23/frank-marshall-davis-obamas-communist-mentor/
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“drink together”
Paul Kengor, “Dreams from Frank Marshall Davis,”
The American Spectator
, October 12, 2012,
http://spectator.org/34799_dreams-frank-marshall-davis/
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“ ‘African, and an American' ”
“From the Vault—Barack Obama—Sep 1995,” YouTube video, 56:42, from “Barack Obama Speaking at the Cambridge Public Library,” on 22-City View, September 20, 1995, posted by “22-City View—Cambridge, MA,” March 12, 2015,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5JlqDnoqlo
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“ ‘get used to these frustrations' ”
“From the Vault—Barack Obama—Sep 1995,” YouTube video, 56:42, from “Barack Obama Speaking at the Cambridge Public Library,” on 22-City View, September 20, 1995, posted by “22-City View—Cambridge, MA,” March 12, 2015,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5JlqDnoqlo
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“ ‘black people have a reason to hate' ”
Bob Unruh, “See Obama Admit Seeking Advice from Communist,”
WND.com
, April 15, 2015,
http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/see-obama-admit-seeking-counsel-from-communist/
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“ ‘picturing him there' ”
Paul Kengor, “Obama's Purge: Why Has Frank Marshall Davis Been Quietly Removed from ‘Dreams from My Father,' ” TheBlaze, October 3, 2012,
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama%E2%80%99s-purge-why-has-frank-marshall-davis-been-quietly-removed-from-dreams-from-my-father/
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“ ‘planet on which we reside' ”
Gerald Horne, “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party,”
Political Affairs
, March 29, 2007,
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/rethinking-the-history-and-future-of-the-communist-party-41925/
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“purged Davis's name”
Tiffany Gabbay, “Why Was Obama's Audio Book Version of ‘Dreams from My Father' Purged of All References to Communist Mentor?” TheBlaze, October 3, 2012,
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/03/why-would-obamas-audio-book-version-of-dreams-from-my-father-have-been-purged-of-all-references-to-communist-mentor/
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“ ‘satisfaction of radical ends' ”
Glenn Beck, “Van Jones, In His Own Words,”
FoxNews.com
, September 1, 2009,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/09/01/van-jones-in-his-own-words.html
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PART II: THE LIES

INTRODUCTION: THE GREAT LIE

“a ‘moderate' and a sellout”
Clare Foran, “What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Real Progressive'?,
”
The Atlantic
, February 4, 2015,
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/progressive-sanders-clinton/459978/
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“ ‘find a more accomplished and passionate progressive' ”
Dan Merica, “Clinton ‘a little disappointed' Sanders' Comments,”
CNN.com
, February 3, 2016,
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/03/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sander-disappointed/
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“ ‘the root of that word . . . is progress' ”
Gregory Krieg, “What ‘Progressive' Means to Hilary Clinton vs. What ‘Progressive' Means to Bernie Sanders,”
CNN.com
, February 5, 2016,
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-progressive-fight/
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“ ‘I make no bones about it' ”
Maya Rhodan, “President Obama: ‘I Still Believe in a Politics of Hope' ”
Time
, February 11, 2016,
http://time.com/4215851/barack-obama-springfield/
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“ ‘that we can change the gun culture' ”
Liz Kreutz, “Clinton Holds Emotional Town Hall with Family Members of Sandy Hook Victims,” ABC News, April 21, 2016,
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/emotional-town-hall-hillary-clinton-concerted-effort-undermine/story?id=38580530
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“This is how we will be judged”
Barack Obama and Joe Biden, “Remarks by the President and the Vice
President on Gun Violence” (remarks, Washington, D.C., January 16, 2013), The White House, Office of the Press Secretary,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/16/remarks-president-and-vice-president-gun-violence
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“ ‘Wheeler controlled the Prohibition Bureau' ”
John Kobler,
Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
(Boston: Da Capo, 1993), p. 274.

“ ‘costs many lives and long years of effort' ”
Lily Rothman, “The History of Poisoned Alcohol Includes an Unlikely Culprit: The US Government,”
Time
, January 14, 2015,
http://time.com/3665643/deadly-drinking/
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