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'Lying about rape not only makes it harder for actual rape victims to obtain justice but also produces a chilling effect that discourages real rape victims from speaking out: They’re afraid that no one will believe them because some manipulative women cried wolf one too many times.'

Loesch, Dana. Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To (p. 143). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

This book is chock full of gems: 'I was no longer part of the matriarchy and thus could see its effect. Men are ridiculed and demonized at every stage of life with barely any grace given to those early years because of their “male privilege.” They’re defamed in college. A number of stories surfaced within the past year detailing false accusations of rape made against male university students.'

'Cops don’t decide one day to ruin their lives and their family’s lives by murdering an innocent simply because that innocent is black. While the president lectured Flyover Nation, the urban leftist enclaves, by contrast, are pinkies out, above reproach.'

'Shortly before the election, Obama told a crowd in Missouri: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”89 Apparently this didn’t raise enough red flags in the next five days. But the message seems clear—if you love your country, especially if you find it “exceptional,” why exactly is your goal to “fundamentally transform” it?'

'Shortly before the election, Obama told a crowd in Missouri: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”89 Apparently this didn’t raise enough red flags in the next five days. But the message seems clear—if you love your country, especially if you find it “exceptional,” why exactly is your goal to “fundamentally transform” it?'

'But anyone who wants to be president should be able to agree that the country they want to lead is exceptional . . . shouldn’t they? Not if that president is Barack Hussein Obama II. His view of how exceptional his country is is just a little bit . . . different. He would probably call it “nuanced.” It could also be called "cowardly."'

'She pranced around towns as if she expected zombies to jump out of the windows. The mayor of the town of Hazard called the documentary “the same load of crap they’ve been doing for 40 years.”'

'All in all, Sawyer’s foray into Appalachia was a farce. It was impossible for her to conceal her bewilderment and contempt for the state she once called home. She portrayed the citizens of eastern Kentucky as if they were joyless, drug-addled fools and toothless moms who used trash cans as toilets, never washed their children, and danced for rain.'