Episode 19

George Orwell, “So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot” … from his essay “Inside the Whale”.

The critic who spoke of Mark Lane’s “instinct for the capillaries” was Alexander Bickel in Commentary magazine.

Liebeler, “There’s an old legend about frogs …” quoted in The Scavengers and Critics of the Warren Report by R. W. Lewis and Lawrence Schiller, p. 20.

Richard Dawkins, “They’ve won the moment you agree to have a debate …” See this interview with Dawkins.

The full statement of Life’s managing editor re. the damaging of the Zapruder film is quoted in Josiah Thompson’s Six Seconds in Dallas, pp. 217-218.

Bonnie Ray Williams’s Warren Commission testimony can be read here.

My account of post-modern Russian propaganda techniques, and their close relationship to the rhetorical style of Donald Trump, is indebted to Timothy Snyder’s persuasive book The Road to Unfreedom.

For more on the Russian media’s treatment of the MH-17 disaster see Snyder, pp. 179-182.

Snyder, “a calculated effort to undo logic and factuality,” The Road to Unfreedom, p. 151.

Putin wants to drag the West down to Russia’s level … see Snyder’s concept of “strategic relativism in The Road to Unfreedom, p. 196.

The quote from Jason Stanley comes from his book How Fascism Works, pp. 79-80.

Oliver Stone, “Who owns reality? … “ quoted by Vincent Bugliosi in Reclaiming History, p. 1436.

My account of the evolution of Roger Stone’s “Stop the Steal” slogan draws on this CNN article

A useful timeline of Roger Stone's dealings with Guccifer 2.0 and WikiLeaks is here.

Roger Stone's, “Fuck the voting, let’s get right to the violence …” was uttered in the Danish documentary A Storm Foretold.

Roger Stone, “The problem with the projectile found is that it was completely intact, without a mark on it …” The Man Who Killed Kennedyp. 340.