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 Kennedy, p. 340.