Please note that some of the links referenced in this work are no longer active.
1. Lost for Words
1. Fredthompsonshow.com, interview archives, July 16, 2009.
2. Fox News, The O’Reilly Factor, July 17, 2009.
3. MSNBC, Morning Joe, July 31, 2009.
5. www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1319/death-panels-republicans-fox-viewers.
6. http://nypost.com/2015/07/12/end-of-life-counselling-death-panels-are-back/.
7. Patrick Buchanan opinion piece, Creators.com, 2009, www.creators.com/opinion/pat-buchanan/sarah-and-the-death-panels.html.
8. Edelman Trust Barometer, 2016 Annual Global Study, edelman.com. If you are between twenty-four and sixty-four, are college educated, in the top 25 percent of household income for your age group, and consume a fair amount of general and business news, you meet Edelman’s criteria for “informed public.”
9. Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism (New York: Basic Books, 2012), p. 196.
10. Amy Gutmann and Dennis Frank Thompson, The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), p. 214.
11. Times (London), February 28, 1975.
12. Tony Blair, speech to the Reuters News Agency, June 12, 2007.
13. John Lloyd, What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics (London: Constable, 2004).
14. BBC Pulse, National Representative Sample, 2011.
15. Ipsos MORI, BBC News Economy Research for BBC Audiences, 2012.
16. House of Commons Treasury Committee, The Economic and Financial Costs and Benefits of the UK’s EU Membership, May 2016.
17. BBC News, May 27, 2016, www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36397732.
18. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.80.4.