Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (39 page)

40. Joseph Lowery, at a Southern Christian Leadership Conference meeting, quoted in the
New Yorker,
May 6,1996.

41. Ibid.

42. Julianne Malveaux, “To the Contrary,” November 6,1994.

43. Editorial, “Newt Gingrich, Authoritarian,”
New York Times,
November 13,1994.

44. Quoted in Editorial, “And the Winner Is,”
Union Leader
(Manchester, N.H.) December 31,1998.

45. Lonnae O’Neal Parker, “White Girl?; Cousin Kim Is Passing. But Cousin Lonnae Doesn’t Want to Let Her Go,”
Washington Post,
August 8, 1999.

46. Alison Mitchell, “Centrist Senator Found Middle Ground,”
New York Times,
April 7, 2001,p. All.

47. “Mr. Bush’s Fumble,”
New York Times,
May 25,2001, p. A22.

48. Ceci Connolly, “Gore Runs into Flak on Foray into N.H.; DLC Raps Tradition-Based Campaign; GOP Hits Plans for ‘Official’ Events,”
Washington Post,
November 20,1999; R. H. Melton and Jamie Stockwell, “Allen Starts Senate Race by Attacking Robb’s Record,”
Washington Post,
March 14, 2000; Spencer S. Hsu, “Area Legislators Shed Light on Their Impeachment Votes,”
Washington Post,
February 28,1999.

49. In 1999, Kerry won a 95 percent liberal voting record from Americans for Democratic Action and a 5 percent score from the American Conservative Union. Robb got a 100 from the ADA and an 8 from the ACU. That same year, the Republicans’ ADA/ACU ratings were Trent Lott (R-Miss.), 0 / 96; Bob Smith (R-N.H.), 15/96; Connie Mack (R-Fla.), 0/91; and Don Nickles (R-Okla.), 0 / 96. Reported by the Center for International Policy’s Columbia Project, atwww.ciponline.org/columbia/senvotes.htm.

50. CNN’s
The Capital Gang,
July 24,1999.

51. Richard Cohen, “The ‘50s Are Back,”
Washington Post,
June 22,1999.

52. Howell Raines,
Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis,
New York: Anchor, 1994.

53. U.S. Newswire, transcript of press briefing by Vice President Gore, October 28,1994.

54. Michael Weisskopf, “Energized by Pulpit or Passion, the Public Is Calling; ‘Gospel Grapevine’ Displays Strength in Controversy over Military Gay Ban,”
Washington Post,
February 1, 1993, p. Al.

55. Syl Jones, “Imagine What Betty Currie Must Be Thinking Now,” Minneapolis
Star Tribune,
January 29,1999.

56. Greta Van Susteren and Wolf Blitzer, “House Judiciary Committee Releases New Batch of Starr Evidence,” CNN’s
Burden of Proof,
October 2,1998.

57. Julianne Malveaux, “Special Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy: Bon Mot from Malveaux,”
Weekly Standard,
1998.

58. Michael Musto, “La Dolce Musto,”
Village Voice,
March 2,1999.

59. Heather Mallick, “The Reconstitution of Monica Lewinsky: Kenneth Starr Violated Every Civil Right She Ever Had. But Finally, the Most Publicly Humiliated Woman on Earth Has Found a Defender in Andrew Morton,”
Ottawa Sun,
March 14,1999.

60. Quoted in “With Interview and Book, Monica Lewinsky Returns to the Media Spotlight,” CNN’s
Crossfire,
March 4,1999.

61. Liz Langley, “Clinton vs. the Uglies: There Is Going to Be a Backlash Against All This Prudery, an Era of Uninhibited, ‘70s-Type Sexuality,”
Toronto Sun,
January 10, 1999.

NOTES,
pp. 18-30

62. “Tripp: Says Scandal Made Her Aware of ‘How Ugly’ She Was,”
People,
January 12, 2001.

63. Geraldo Rivera, “Paula Jones and Writer Joe Conason Discuss Jones’ Penthouse Photos and Her Involvement in the Clinton Impeachment,”
Rivera Live,
CNBC, October 25,2000.

64. Belinda Luscombe, “People,”
Time,
August 24,1998.

65. Robin Givhans, “The Eyelashes Have It,”
Washington Post,
November 18, 2000, p.Cl.

66. Ibid.

67. Hayley Kaufman, “Go! Thursday; Fashion Victim,”
Boston Globe,
November 16, 2000, p. D2.

68. Kevin Sack, “The 43rd President: After the Vote—A Special Report,”
New York Times,
December 15,2000, p. Al.

69. Bob Herbert, “In America: The Mean Strategy Backfires,”
New York Times,
May 28, 2001.

70. Said to rape victim Jan License after her victims’-rights speech to the 1996 Republican Convention. Quoted by Media Research Council.

71. Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll, February 24-25,1999. N = 924 registered voters nationwide.

72. Discussing CBS’s skittishness on the Broaddrick story on Fox News Channel’s
O’Reilly Factor,
Rather said, “When the charge has something to do with somebody’s private sex life, I would prefer not to run any of it.” “Personal Stories,”
The O’Reilly Factor,
May 15, 2001, Transcript #051503cb.256.

73. Editorial, “Newt’s Natterings Backfiring on Him,” Tacoma
News Tribune,
November 25,1995, p. All.

74. Rob Morse, “No Newt Is Good Newt,”
San Francisco Examiner,
January 12, 1996, p. A20.

75. Richard L. Berke, “In a G.O.P. Stronghold, Support, but Little Passion,”
New York Times,
December 14,1995, p. B16.

76. Carl Rowan, “Poor Bob Dole a Hostage of GOP Zealots,”
Buffalo News,
January 13, 1996, p. 3C.

77. President Bill Clinton, February 24,1995.

78. Nancy Benac, “Mrs. Clinton Lunches with Kids, Defends Federal Lunches,” Associated Press, March 1,1995.

79. Representative Patricia Schroeder, March 21,1995.

80. Jennifer Dixon, “Showdown in the House over GOP’s Sweeping Welfare Bill,” Associated Press, March 21, 1995.

81. Matt Lauer, “Interview with President George W Bush,”
Today,
April 25,2001.

82. Matt Lauer, “Hillary Rodham Clinton Discusses Allegations Against Her Husband, Child Care, and State of the Union Address,”
Today,
January 27,1998.

83. John Roberts,
CBS Evening News,
April 29,2001.

84. Tim Russert,
Meet the Press,
April 29, 2001.

85. John Herndon, “Campaigns Against Distorted Talk Radio Continue,”
Austin American-Statesman,
January 25, 1996, p. 25.

86. Michelle Quinn, “Money Pouring in for Cub—Not Kids; Town Shocked over Skewed Priorities,”
Houston Chronicle,
May 29, 1994.

87. Kathy O’Malley and Dorothy Collin,
Chicago Tribune,
January 6,1992, p. 12.

Two. the Gucci position on domestic policy

1. Michiko Kakutani, “The Strange Case of the Writer and the Criminal,”
New York Times,
September 20,1981.

2. Glenn Kessler, “The Very Rich Pay Growing Tax Share,”
Washington Post,
March 15, 2001, p. El.

3. Editorial,
Las Vegas Review-Journal,
January 14,2002. NOTES,
pp. 31-36
210

4. “Twilight of the ERA Era; With Time Running Out, Women Rally Round the Amendment,”
Time,
July 13, 1981.

5. See, e.g., Associated Press, “Disney Executives Top Donors for Mrs. Clinton,”
New York Times,
February 25, 2000 (reporting that the top donors to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign were from the legal profession and the entertainment industry).

6. Don Van Natta Jr., “The 2000 Campaign: The Fund-Raising,”
New York Times,
April 25, 2000 (“ ‘The Republicans’ average donation is $55,’ officials said. Jenny Backus, the Democrats’ spokeswoman, said the party did not reveal its average donation because it viewed the information as proprietary.”) See also Margaret Warner, “Political Jousting,” The NewsHour, PBS online MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, April 24, 1997, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ bb/congress/april97/leaders_4-24.html (Democratic National Committee chairman Governor Roy Romer refusing to respond to GOP chair Jim Nicholson’s claim that the average donation to the Democrats is a great deal higher than the average donation to the Republicans.)

7. Amy Keller, “The Roll Call 50 Richest,” Roll Call, January 15,2001.

8. Ibid. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass., $620 million); Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J., $400 million); Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis., $300 million); Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va., $200 million); Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.L, $63 million); Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif., $50 million); Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash., $40 million, later bankrupt); Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-I11., $40 million); Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah, $30 million); Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C., $25 million); Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass., $25 million.)

9. Compare Republican Senator Bob Bennett (“Utah’s junior Senator is still reaping the benefits of his days as a CEO of Franklin International Institute . . . Under Bennett’s direction the firm went from four employees to 800 and revenues skyrocketed from almost zero to more than $80 million annually”) to Democratic Senator John Kerry (“Kerry still boasts a massive fortune thanks to his ketchup heiress wife’s wealth. Teresa Heinz was booted off Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans in 1999 when the magazine estimated her ketchup riches at $620 million, narrowly missing that year’s cutoff of $625 million.”). Amy Keller, “The Roll Call 50 Richest.”

10. Doron P. Levin, “Maker of Documentary That Attacks G.M. Alienates His Allies,”
New York Times,
January 19, 1990. (Quoting Pauline Kael in the January 8 issue of the
New Yorker
magazine.)

11. Jacques Ellul,
Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes,
New York: Vintage Books, 1965, p. 166.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid., p. 74.

14. Denise Hamilton, “The People’s Pornographer;
Hustler’s
Larry Flynt Is Flying High with a Purified Publishing Empire and a New Movie About His First Amendment Fights,”
New Times Los Angeles,
October 24,1996.

15. Crispian Balmer, “Porn King Flynt Seeks Dirt on President Bush,”
Yahoo News,
copyright © 2001 Reuters, May 16,2001.

16. Alan Johnson, “Hollywood Should Clean Up Its Act, Says Actor Sheen: ‘West Wing’ Star Rallies Democrats on Dayton Visit,”
Columbus Dispatch,
September 24, 2000.

17. Denise Hamilton, “The People’s Pornographer.”

18. Dan Horn, “
‘Larry
Flynt’s Return Is an Attempt to Return Cincinnati to the Past. He Came Back with the Intent of Lowering our Community Standards,’ “
Cincinnati Enquirer,
May 2,1999.

19. Denise Hamilton, “The People’s Pornographer.”

20. Ibid.

21. Carol Felsenthal,
Phyllis Schlafly: The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority,
Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1982, pp. 63-64. At the time, it was technically Radcliffe, of course, but no one knows what that is anymore, and she was in class with Harvard boys.

22. Ibid., p. 56.

23. Ibid, p. 65.

24. See George Gilder,
Men and Marriage,
New Orleans, La.: Pelican Publishing Co., 1987, pp. 101-103.

NOTES,
pp. 36-42

25. Carol Felsenthal,
Phyllis Schlafly,
pp. 114-16.

26. John Updike, “Is Sex Necessary?: A History of the Revolution,”
New Yorker,
February 21,2000 (reviewing
Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History,
Boston: Little, Brown, 2000).

27. “Onward, Women!,”
Time,
December 4, 1989. (“The superwoman is weary, the young are complacent, but feminism is not dead. And, baby, there’s still a long way to go.”)

28. “After the Storm; Free from Silence: Ms. Steinem,”
Primetime Live,
ABC News, January 23,1992.

29. Liz Smith, “A Contretemps over Mort,”
Newsday,
December 17,1991.

30. “After the Storm”
Primetime Live.

31. “1936-1986 Year by Year; An Almanac of Victories, Disasters, Heroes and Hurrahs,”
Time,
Fall 1986, Special Issue.

32. “After the Storm,”
Primetime Live.

33. Jim Salter, “Conservative Matriarch Schlafly Tries to Remain Relevant on the Right,”
Chicago Tribune,
August 1,1996, p. 2.

34. “The Attack Machine,”
New York Times Magazine,
November 12,1995.

35. Scot Haller, “Picks & Pans; The Muppets Take Manhattan,”
People,
July 16,1984.

36. Kristin McMurran, “Harlan Ellison: Scarred by the Insults of Childhood, a Manic Fantasist Slashes Back at the World,”
People,
December 2,1985, p. 97.

37. Maria Wilhelm, “People San Francisco’s No. 1 Nun in Drag, Sister Boom Boom, Tries Out a New Habit: Marriage to (Gasp) a Woman,”
Time,
October 7,1985.

38. Scot Haller, “If Papa Won’t Preach It, Young Ron Reagan Will, with a TV Pitch Promoting Safe Sex,”
People,
July 13,1987.

39. Howard Fineman, “Among the Believers,”
Newsweek,
July 26,1999. (“ ‘The perception at the grass roots is that the fix is in,’ fumed Phyllis Schlafly, a founding mother of the New Right.”)

40. Jerrold K. Footlick with Martin Kasindorf, Diane Camper, Susan Argrest, Pamela Ellis Simons, “Legal Battle of the Sexes,”
Newsweek,
April 30,1979. (“ ‘We now have a whole new class of impoverished women not equipped to go into the work force,’ snaps Schlafly.” [sic])

41. Jane O’Reilly, “And Ladies of the Club; Women in Dallas Showed Signs of Comfort, and Discomfort,”
Time,
Septembers, 1984.

42. Diane Roberts, “For a Good Time, Call the Democrats,”
St. Petersburg Times,
August 20, 2000. (People for the American Way gala at the Beverly Hills Hilton including “feminists like Gloria Steinem,” where guests were “handed a party favor they could use: Right to Choose condoms printed with the relevant Web address.”)

43. Larry King prediction quoted in “Yearenders, Predictions: A Sampler,”
The Hotline,
January 4,1993.