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7/29/2016 8/17/16

preface; Berman EPI ~ min wage report --> echo, use by lobbyists
2013 RS doc filing 380 stories in various media one year xiii
1/2 2 mil$ to berman co, no FT employees, total payroll 46K$ all but 3500$ fundraising, 20K to berman; 6 staff "directors  500$ 15 min /wk work xiv
pages list front incl ctr accountability in sci
start with tob 80% ppl did not want smoke in rest; pitched PM that outside effort wd hide co role and up "flexibility and creativity xvii
exec at pillsbury owned BK
rept of HFCS but wd bury data if not helpful (matosko)sp
all major policy issues now affected by BS report spread by flak
Intro Lies inc:NRA 2013 3.4m$ lobby 9 PR co's; 2012c cycle 26mil$, 18m neg ads p3
frum sez extremism makes negotiation impossible; kill grandma; 
berman: tie = win =status quo p7
bad info goes thru ecosystem, with paid ad in end if  needed
Buckley v V $ = sp p9
McC -F --> soft $ (build party but drifted into elections. --> CU
LOBBY: Lee rutman rept New Am Fdn 1998 -2012 corps 12x on lobby v PACs p10
1st wm hull 1792...cf Byrd flr speeches hist reed abramoff

drutman 2.6b$ yr lobby vs legs budget 2 bll$ p 13 ?
union/left seens as no threat by lobby 0%
no one in charge of invest libby registration, so no action ever 15
1970 100 TT -> 306 by 1996
BiPart BC
Keene david acu basically extorted FedEx, said no, then attacked fedex but backed UPS (who paid ) 19
ch 1: The Birth of Lies Incorporated Tobacco
chunk online free
1953 tob co got together (before only social) after Sloan Kettering study linked tar to cancer in rats p13 --> pop mags, Joe Hill Tob indus Res Commitee 1.2 m one floor below H&K empire state 25
Frank Statement ran as ad 1954: no agreement among authorities regarding" cause of cancer p 25  pledge to find sci truth
H&K hire ex pres A cancer soc Dr C Cook ittle 28; still into eugenics, so cigs can not be cause b/c genes are 29
H&K boasted of changing coverage eg como in process 29
infiltrate ~ smoke gps 30
punked Murrow [cf award, irony] surgeon gen 1964, --> Council for Tob res 31
90's 20m/yr PR
1970's FC hacks got Nobel. 10 yrs before corrected note 39 (michaels)

Ch 2: Tobaccos Sequel Climate Change
singer sez epa cooked books on ETSJanes Black exxon sr sci july 1977 co2 GW p 35
1981 Natuna gas
1997 lee raymond denial
~ kyoto not just bs reports but train sci  to do PR 36
600K$ not counting ads 36 to raise doubt
Seitz funded legit research, but intent was to divert eg asbestos, claim doubt on cause thus not blame cigs 37
89 old cut loose, but 2001 heartland2 freds ~ commie, so anti-gov't/regs oreskes )ag 21 delingpole Watermelons 39 proxy issue
Eur APCo memo 1994: eco growth not hostage to regs
ICE 42
Morano nasty as tactic, like to attack ppl, b/c that's "where something [issue?] lives or dies" 43 (proto-Trump?]
// berman gridlock = win morano 44
~ agw biggest BS pr effort in hist2009 ACCCE 1.5m disclose lobby, but 990 28M on PR etc
flip 2009 cap and trade bill perriello dahlkemper, carney rep bonner BS lts 46 momentum, EPA est cost 146$ but Boehner sez 31K/house, # from MIT John Reilly, who sez distort 10x  politifact pants on fire; 20 gop congress cite bad # ( after?) 47 then Fox
cap & trade passed house but stuck sen then TP town hall mtgs
climategate term coin delingpole; watts said beat global warm on google search note 59 11/28/09
effect: yale 2008 -10 belief in climate change 71 to 57% (not true 2 x 10 to 20% note 60 Leiserowitz et al "CC in Am Mind"
--> Sammon memo p 50
Cli gate random hack, looked for spec terms, then cherry pick  eg Beck travesty (actually that we did not have gear to do sci right trenberth meant [satellite pgm cancelled?] = observing system to track warming 51
Mann attacked before eg Inhofe using bs cli Resv soon and sallie: c20 not warmest or most extreme (medieval warming) used by cooney to 180 b2
von storch called BS; GMI paid; Soon $ also API, exxon, koch, texaco
oreskes sez soon engr 54
mann called terrorist, killer one world go'vt socialist 54 he worries that young sci won't go into field
cooch run for gov vs Mcauliffe loss
after mann cleared (2x?0 cato still boasted of pat michaels climategate role 56 no sleep b/c 150 media gigs
2013 art'l 78 sci/author 60 inst around world verify hockey stick
Ch 3 death panels
Betsy mcCaughey long rec ~ Rx; 1994 manh fellow phd columbia ~ BC rx; newt sez turing pt; New Rep did not run BC rebuttal, but got 2nd  from bm 61; 20 yrs later J Fallows called art most destructive by a single person 61 2005 NR ed Foer apologize; bm helped by tobacco 62 w/ AEI, ATR, biz roundtable, cato, coc, cse, heartland, heritage NAM 63, but B manh inst had input on 3 part new Rep 63 No Exit”Pataki gig fired b/c unstable disloyal ditz 64 ego she → dem to run ~ him
2009 good on tv thus Fox, lie picked up by Bachmann TP caucus leader;  Wa? Post col Pants on Fire 67 then palin stand 9n front of panel with my baby w/ Down’s Syn cupp by fox baier; AP factcheck wrong; advising taken out of bill
Bm talent is lies that resonate emotionally for those who oppose on ideology 70; Frum: frenzy made dealmaking impossible 71

Aarp favor advising
Ch 4 debt
Reinhart and rogoff: debt 90% of gnp, growth cut in ½. 2010, not peer rev; Taxed Enough Already TP, used by ryan on budget fy 2013 75Widely picked up msnbc bloomberg niall ferguson “law” used to justify eur austerity 77
Grad student assigned? Got data, thot he messed up;  drop to 2.2% but not neg; excel error that changed history
Picked up by pete peterson annual i-part summit bc, pelos, ryan; fix the debt college campus ; reinhart chair, spoke at summit; 

Ch 5 On the Border of Truth Immigration Reform
Heritage rector and  richwine amnesty cost 6 bill$, demint tout; “intellectual godfather of welfare reform” 94
2009 diss immigration lower us IQ (advisor chls murray)John tanton beekeeper neo nazi beat dream act 101 kris kobach; Am Renn FAIR; $ from Pioneer Fund (earlier shockley) 102
Numbersusa → cncl of conservative citizens --? Dylann roof 103
Ch 6: Two Dangerous Weapons Guns and Lies
BAT wanted to reg some long guns, but BO allowed guns in n parks 109
90% ppl 75 of nra want univ bkgnd checks 110
Manchin and toomey tried to head off real change, but beat anyway; after sandy hook NRA laying low but John Lott u chic, yale wharton school; 100 TV appearances, hundreds of citations 114Aid aud law did not lower kia, not true 114Shooter pick gun free zones, thus laws kill people (actually ⅓)1998 bk more guns, less crime → nra bible; stanford law rev ~; national academy of science ~; gary kleck fla ~1997 paper said 98% for defense only brandished; survey 2400 he said, but all lost in computer crash, and no budget/staff
Sock puppet mary roshOnly correlation is more guns  lead to more aggravated assaults 123
Fall 2013 SYG testimony; said guns make black people safer (~ stats); ted nugent on bd
Ch 7 One Lie One Vote Voter I D Laws
Rick davis mccain mgr ~ ACORN
5 yr investigation turns up almost nothing, mostly accidents
Kimberly pride 1 yr in jail  because thought ok to vote on probation `129
Iglesias took voter fraud seriously 9but not enough for WH rove; Ashcroft initiative s'posed to be oh civil rights and fraud, but mostly fraid; 131
Mon filled in absentee for dtr away at college, turned herself in when found dtr also voter 150$
Alan wilson SC said dead vote, big investigation found nothing; 133
All ginned up by hans S (fla recount team)  → DoJ lawyer for ast AG Civil Rights div
Tom d pushed texas to redirect when not time; dems fled to okla (scotus ~ 2006)
Ga ID; hans got gins Lott guy to study
6 congress and AG ~ nomination FE, recess appt, withdrew
Fox ppl support; 36 states have voter ID 139V applewhite 93 year old markech mlk ID stolen, no birth certif
Gop turzai said ID would let romney win
2012 bk w/ wsj john fund 
CA loretta sanchez election 14 mos 1.4million $ no prosecutions 143
True the Vote ~ college for no dorn #; hans s also alec; 1/s bills based on alec model
Souter dissent; ½ ppl of color vs 4% white lack ID 147

Ch 8 Shut That Whole Lie Down Abortionskipped

Ch 9 A Lies Last Gasp Gay Marriage:Morality not enough to beat, must have legal basisRegnerus study u texas , scalia
ch 10 defeating Lies inc
⅓ ppl say rather pay fine than ACA 11/14
Lies enable policy that otherwise would look “cruel, irrational or extreme: 189
Lies sticky
Berman: once commons sense/knowledge installed, hard to dislodge 190
Mooney found gop denier went up with ed level; also BO Muslim
More sci and number literacy increases polarization
We worry more about faux pas of calling a liar than damage lies cause; you lie about non cit acing ACA, but law toughened anyway; caving bad because it rewards, and compromise just leads to more demands to cave more 193
TV prefers debates to news; 2014 MMA study National climate assessment coverage: cable 14% sci, 36 pols, 50% nonexperts 
Filter bubble book
Ex berman Daily Caller exec editor
“Hack” policy systemWin even when lose (b/c delay is win?) because partial implementation of rule benefits them 197

https://www.amazon.com/Lies-Incorporated-World-Post-Truth-Politics/dp/0307279596
Publisher: Anchor (April 19, 2016)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0307279596ISBN-13: 978-0307279590  http://www.salon.com/2016/04/20/lying_is_their_business_ari_rabin_havt_on_the_industry_thats_grown_to_create_and_disseminate_right_wing_propaganda/
Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters  “Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics.
...you look at the quote-unquote tobacco scientists, and then if you look at a lot of the people I cite in the book, it’s very easy to say—you hear this all the time with climate scientists—”these are people who sold out for money.” It’s really easy to say that. That’s not true in most of these cases. There is financial gain, let’s not toss that to the side, but these people do it for ideology.
For example, in the case of climate, if you look at the ideology of some of the distinguished researchers that were coming out who were climate deniers, a lot of it is anticommunism. Why? Because they believe that big government and government intervention in such a large scale problem invariably takes a road towards more government control, hence, communism.
It seems to me that while the climate denialist movement started with this well-funded industry attempt to find some dirt on climate scientists, the attacks really got traction because all of these right wing ideologues started dog-piling these scientists. What happened there?
You have a hack of East Anglia University, which was a pretty unknown university to people outside this world, where a bunch of emails from climate scientists all around the world discussing their research get exposed. They’re people on an email list together, and when people are on an email list together in the confines of friends, they talk in a fairly casual manner because you assume good faith. If you take things out of context when people are speaking in a casual manner, especially scientists, you end up with ideological weapons that can be used.
Ken Cuccinelli, who was then attorney general of Virginia and trying to run for governor, tried to get climate scientist Michael Mann‘s records from UVA, where he had been a professor. You have investigations launched, all of which find, of course, that there’s nothing wrong.
At the same time, people who are ideologically interested in trying to shoot down global warming constantly use “Climategate” as an excuse. Back in my old Media Matters days, when we got an inbox with a bunch of internal Fox emails, one of the ones I mention in this book was an email where the Washington managing editor ordered reporters to kind of cite climategate when talking about climate change. So you see this repeatedly carried out through the media to convince people that, “Oh, this proves that climate change is just some giant liberal scam,” which is what a lot of people believe somehow.
The death panels issue is a crystalline example of how industry needs come together with right-wing ideology to push this ridiculous idea into the public and it somehow takes off. How did that happen?
You have Betsy McCaughey, who is a known liar. Ezra Klein had written back in 2009 that the thing about Betsy McCaughey is, “She’s an exciting liar”. So her lies work.
In the 1990s, she’d written an article called “No Exit” in The New Republic, which became an infamous piece that the right, people like Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole and Bill Kristol, heralded as the piece that brought down the Clinton health care bill. It was full of lies about the Clinton health care bill, but in a pre-internet age it took a long time to debunk it, almost a decade.  The New Republic only apologized for it years later...