Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (48 page)

62. Tony Mauro, “Can a Deeply Religious Person Be Attorney General?”
USA Today,
January 16, 2001.

63. Richard Sale, “Russians Knew About Lewinsky Before Public,” United Press International, March 13,2001. (“Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin knew about President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky as early as 1996, according to former U.S. intelligence officials who said that they believe that the Russians obtained the knowledge by compromising secure White House communications.”)

64. Diane Sawyer, “Ken Starr,” 20/20, November 25, 1998, Transcript #98112501-jll.

65. George Orwell,
1984,
p. 15.

66. Chris Connelly, “Heather Heats Up,”
Talk,
February 2001.

67. Larry Engelmann, “Year in Review: Best Quotes of 2000,”
Las Vegas Review-Journal,
December 31, 2000.

68. Claire Bickley, “Keaton ‘Way Out There* as Nun She Stars in Festival-Bound Black Comedy,”
Edmonton Sun,
December 27,2000.

69. Nick Lachey, “Nobody Kisses and Tells Like Cybill Shepherd,”
Oregonian,
March 16,2000.

70. Sue Carroll, “Interview: Rachel Hunter on Life With—and Without—Rod,”
Mirror,
February 28,2001.

71. “Ventura Tries to Explain Views,” United Press International, October 1,1999.

72. Tom Brokaw, “Controversial
Playboy
Interview with Jesse Ventura,”
NBC Nightly News,
September 30,1999.

73. “You Can Say That Again,”
Columbus Dispatch,
October 1,1999.

74. Matt Bai, “Now He’s the Man to See,”
Newsweek,
October 11,1999.

75. Nancy Gibbs, Reported by James Carney with Bush and John F. Dickerson and Priscilla Painton, “Fire and Brimstone; How McCain and Bush Waged a Holy War over the Power of the Religious Right,”

76. Richard Cohen, “Wrestler v. Religion,”
Washington Post,
October 14, 1999.

77. ABC News, 20/20, October 8,1999.

78. Frank Rich, “Send in More Clowns,”
New York Times,
October 23,1999.

79. Howard Kurtz and Bernard Kalb, “Are Journalists Clueless About Christian Conservatives?” CNN’s
Reliable Sources,
March 4,2000.

80. Molly Ivins, “What Did He Say? Pure Ventura,”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
October 5,1999.

81. Jessie Milligan, “With Cancer Treatment Behind Her, Molly Ivins Is as Controversial as Ever,”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
July 3,2001.

82. Editorial, “The Body Holds Forth,”
Washington Times,
October 2,1999.

83. Robert Whereatt, “Ventura Hears Concerns of Nonreligious Community; Group Members Were Grateful That He Listened to Them and Acknowledged Their Beliefs,”
Star Tribune
(Minneapolis), December 28,2000.

84. Ibid.

85. Robyn E. Blumner, “In U.S., the Irreligious Bear the Greatest Intolerance,”
St. Petersburg Times,
December 12, 1999.

86. Allison Jones, “The Ethnic News Watch: Jackson Says: Nazi, Slavery Forces on Rise,”
Michigan Citizen,
December 24, 1994, p. Al.

87. Laurie Goodstein, “Jackson Offers No Apology for Blast at Christian Right,”
Washington Post,
December 9,1994.

88. Ibid.

89. George Orwell,
1984,
p. 154.

90. Ibid., p. 15.

91. Megan Rosenfeld, “The New Moral America and the War of the Religicos; Born Again Political Forces Not Singing the Same Hymn,”
Washington Post,
August 24,1980.

92. David S. Broder, “New Militants,”
Washington Post,
April 5,1981.

93. David M. Alpern with Howard Fineman in Washington, Stryker McGuire in Houston and bureau reports, “The New Right: Betrayed?”
Newsweek,
February 7,1983, p. 21.

NOTES,
pp. 188-199
240

94. Charlotte Saikowski, “Religious Right Throws Its Weight Behind Reagan Reelection Effort,”
Christian Science Monitor,
October 3,1984.

95. James L. Franklin, “Falwell Will Disband the Moral Majority,”
Boston Globe,
June 12, 1989.

96. Michael Fitzgerald, “Falwell Closes Moral Majority,”
USA Today,
June 12, 1989.

97. Ibid.

98. Michael D’Antonio, “Fierce in the ‘80s, Fallen in the ‘90s, the Religious Right Forgets Politics,”
Los Angeles Times,
February 4,1990.

99. Ibid.

100. 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.

101. Ibid.

102. David Frum, “Myth of Religious Right,”
USA Today,
July 25,1994, p. 11 A.

103. David Von Drehle, “Coalition Reaching to the Middle,”
Washington Post,
August 15, 1994, p. Al.

104. “Christian Coalition Gaining Strength,”
ABC World News Tonight,
November 3, 1994, Transcript #4219-6. (ABC anchor: “Critics—and there are many—say they fear the Coalition wants to impose its view of truth on everyone and establish a Christian nation.”)

105. Richard L. Berke, “Poll Finds G.O.P. Primary Voters Are Hardly Monolithic,”
New York Times,
October 30,1995,p. All.

106. Gary McMullen, “Coalition’s Political Power Ending; Beliefs,”
The Ledger
(Lakeland, Fla.), November 14,1998.

107. Michael Lind, “The Right Still Has Religion,”
New York Times,
December 9, 2001, Sec. 4, p. 13.

108. Eric Lichtblau, “The Presidential Transition; As Attorney General, Ashcroft’s Trial Would Be Abortion Issue; Rights: Some Fear the Nominee’s Strong Beliefs Will Bring Curbs. But He Says His Job Would Be to Uphold Law,”
Los Angeles Times,
January 10,2001.

109. Tom Brokaw and Lisa Myers, “Groups Trying to Oust Ashcroft’s Nomination,”
NBC Nightly News,
January 9,2001.

110. Brian Williams and David Gregory, “Bush Administration Beginning to Take Shape,”
NBC Nightly News,
December 22,2000.

111.
Inside Washington,
December 23,2000.

112. CNN’s
Capital Gang,
December 23,2000.

113. Kate O’Beirne, Robert Novak, Margaret Carlson, Vic Fazio, Mark Shields, “Has George W. Bush Made the ‘Right’ Cabinet Picks?” CNN’s
Capital Gang,
December 30,2000, Transcript #00123000V40.

114. William Raspberry,
Washington Post,
December 29,2000.

115. David Johnston and Neil A. Lewis, “Religious Right Made Big Push to Put Ashcroft in Justice Dept.,”
New York Times,
January 7, 2001, sec. 1, p. 1.

116. See also Mary Jacoby, “His Faith Guides; His Duty Demands,”
St. Petersburg Times,
January 16,2001. (“If Ashcroft is confirmed, he will become the highest-ranking religious right figure ever in the federal government. What would his confirmation mean for church-state separation issues?”)

117. Jeffrey Rosen, “Is Nothing Secular?”
New York Times Magazine,
January 30,2000.

118. Maureen Dowd, “Liberties; Playing the Jesus Card,”
New York Times,
December 15, 1999, p. 23.

119. Orwell,
1984,
p. 16.

conclusion

1. Sam Tanenhaus, “Innocents Abroad,”
Vanity Fair,
September 2001, pp. 286-88.

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

NOTES,
pp. 201-205
241

3. “Capitol Hill Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Supreme Court Confirmation for Judge Stephen G. Breyer, Chaired by Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-Del.),” Federal News Service, July 12,1994.

sen. kennedy: As you know, Senator Thurmond and I worked for many years with the chairman, Biden, to pass the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, the law that abolished the federal parole and created a sentencing guideline system in the federal courts. And with all the talk about truth in sentencing, it’s important to remember that we created truth in sentencing at the federal level 10 years ago. Before that time, the sentencing system was a matter of law without order. Judges in two different courtrooms sentencing two equally culpable defendants might hand down two completely different sentences. One defendant might get 10 years; another might get probation. And there was nothing the prosecutors could do about it....

4. “The Candidates Respond,”
ABA Journal,
October 1,1988.

5. From the Ring Lardner short story “The Immigrants.”

6. Blaine Harden, “2-Parent Families Rise After Change in Welfare Laws,”
New York Times,
August 12, 2001, sec. 1, p. 1. (Quoting Wendell Primus, one of the three Democratic HHS officials who resigned to protest President Clinton’s signing of the 1996 welfare reform.)

7. Clyde Haberman, “NYC; Racial Hype: Nasty Days Here Again,”
New York Times,
March 23,1999, p. Bl.

8. Andrew Sullivan, “The Way We Live Now: 4-16-00: Counter Culture; Enemies, a Love Story,”
New York Times,
April 16,2000, sec. 6, p. 28.

9. Rick Bragg, “Racer’s Death Leaves Hole in Heart of His Hometown,”
New York Times,
February 21, 2001.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ANN COULTER is an attorney and legal affairs correspondent. Her first book,
High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton,
was a
New York Times
bestseller. She lives in New York and Washington, D.C.