Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] Milteer was in Quitman at the time of the assassination. By providing false information, someone essentially gave an alibi to a suspect known to have planned to kill the president. (p. 60) (Emphasis in the original.) Another possibility, in fact the only other possibility, is that there was no ‘someone’, and McMahon had outright […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] culture’. On the eve of the Iraq war Bush could say, ’I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.’ (I kill, therefore I am.) This, Professor Boggs comments, was merely a reflection of a deep-seated national exceptionalism and shared political consensus. Congress even passed a law in […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] face’. (p. 176) She describes one rally where Trump actually pondered having journalists killed in front of his cheering supporters: ‘I hate them, but I would never kill them’. He ‘pauses **again** and makes a so-so gesture with his hand, as if entertaining a bloodbath in the press pen’, but then rules it out, […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] of his race, religion, and place of birth, the attacks increased in frequency and virulence during the 2008 campaign’. At Republican rallies, people ‘were yelling “Terrorist”, ” Kill Him”, and “Treason”’ and all the while, ‘McCain did little to rein in Sarah Palin . . . as her rhetoric became more and more vitriolic […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)