Obama Zombies: How the Obama Machine Brainwashed My Generation

by Jason Mattera

  14. Brian Stelter, "The Facebooker Who Friended Obama," New York Times, July 7, 2008.

  15. Brian C. Mooney, "Technology aids Obama's outreach drive," Boston Globe, February 24, 2008.

  16. McGirt, "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign."

  17. Ibid.

  18. Mooney, "Technology aids Obama's outreach drive."

  19. Joe Garofoli, "Appetite for change finally draws young voters to the polls," San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 2008.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Mark Hennessy, "Obama to continue exploiting potential of web as president," Irish Times, November 11, 2008.

  22. Catherine Holahan, "Can Obama Turn Friends into Votes?" BusinessWeek Online, August 27, 2008, http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc20080825_808232.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech.

  23. Ibid.

  24. McGirt, "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign."

  25. Ibid.

  26. Ibid.

  27. Ibid.

  28. Jose Antonio Vargas, "Obama's Wide Web," Washington Post, August 20, 2008.

  29. McGirt, "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign."

  30. Jose Antonio Vargas, "Politics Is No Longer Local. It's Viral," Washington Post, December 28, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/26/AR2008122601131.html.

  31. Colin Delaney, "Obama Campaign's New Media Staff was NOT a Part of the Tech Team," Epolitics.com, January 28, 2009, http://www.epolitics.com/2009/01/28/obama-campaigns-new-media-staff-was-not-a-part-of-the-tech-team/.

  32. McGirt, "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign."

  33. Michael Cornfield, "New Technology and the 2008 Election," in Larry J. Sabato, ed., The Year of Obama (New York: Longman, 2008), p. 213.

  34. Ibid., p. 214.

  35. "David Plouffe's Strategy Update: October 14, 2008," YouTube, October 13, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R92Fg5sznLQ&feature=channel.

  36. David Saltonstall, "Obama Push for 'Text Generation' To Get the Message," Daily News (New York), October 29, 2008.

  37. Vargas, "Obama's Wide Web."

  38. "Bronx students discuss Obama's race speech," YouTube, March 28, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IldaegAB0.

  39. Vargas, "Obama's Wide Web."

  40. Ben Smith, "Largest phone bank ever," Politico, December 9, 2007, http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1207/Largest_phone_bank_ever.html.

  41. Ibid.

  42. Vargas, "Obama's Wide Web."

  43. Jim Kuhnhenn, "Obama uses speech for hightech outreach," Boston Globe, August 28, 2008, http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/08/28/

  obama_uses_speech_for_high_tech_outreach/?page=1.

  44. Ibid.

  45. Saltonstall, "Obama Push for 'Text Generation' To Get the Message."

  46. Obama '08: The Official iPhone Application, http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/iphone.

  47. Cornfield, "New Technology and the 2008 Election," p. 224.

  48. David Carr, "How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks' Power," New York Times, November 9, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.html?_r=1.

  49. Jose Antonio Vargas, "Obama Raised Half a Billion Online," Washington Post, November 20, 2008, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/11/20/obama_raised_half_a_billion_on.html.

  50. "Young Voters in the 2008 Election," Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, November 12, 2008, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1031/young-voters-in-the-2008-election.

  Chapter 3: The Dave Matthews Electoral Magnet-- And Other Ways to Manufacture a Crowd

  1. "Celebrity-packed pledge for Obama," Huffington Post, January 19, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/19/celebrity-packed-pledge-f_n_159046.html.

  2. Tina Daunt, "On the stump for Barack Obama until the final curtain," Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2008, http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/31/entertainment/et-cause31.

  3. Jay Newton-Small, "Obama's Celebrity Army," Time, February 4, 2008.

  4. "Celebrities React to Obama Win: Oprah, Pitt, Lohan, Alba, Clooney, Madonna, More," Huffington Post, November 5, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/celebrities-react-to-obam_n_141305.html.

  5. Ibid.

  6. "Sherri Shepherd Sobs Over Obama Win," Huffington Post, November 5, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/sherri-shepherd-sobs-over_n_141398.html.

  7. "Madonna, Oprah, others react to Obama win," MSNBC, Novem- ber 5, 2008, http://www.msnbc.msp.com/id/27557276/ns/entertainment-celebrities/.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Eric Bates, "Dave Matthews speaks out for Barack Obama," Rolling Stone, April 17, 2008, http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20093048/dave_matthews

  _speaks_out_for_barack_obama.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Ibid.

  12. http://gawker.com/5005030/obamas-dirty-trick-involved-dave-matthews.

  13. Martha Irvine, "Tough Political Realities Have Quieted Youth 'Obamamania,' " Huffington Post, September 22, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090922/us-obama-youth-hangover.

  14. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS152365+03-Mar-2009+PRN20090303.

  15. Lindsay Lohan, "Uh Oh," MySpace, September 14, 2008, http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=29730276&blogID=432883808.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Ibid.

  18. "Matt Damon On Palin: 'Like A Really Bad Disney Movie . . . Totally Absurd,' Palin Responds (VIDEO)," Huffington Post, September 10, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/matt-damon-on-palin-like_n_125334.html.

  19. Lohan, "Uh Oh."

  20. Natalie Finn, "Who Knew? Sarah Palin 'Terrifies' Pink," E!Online, September 12, 2008, http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b28783_who_knew_sarah_palin_terrifies_pink.html.

  21. "T.I. & Russell Simmons Get Political At MTV VMA Awards," Access Hollywood, September 8, 2008, http://www.accesshollywood.com/mtv-video-music-awards/ti-and-russell-simmons-get-political-at-mtv-vma-awards_article_11146/.

  22. "Diddy Goes Off On John McCain For Picking Sarah Palin (VIDEO)," Huffington Post, September 1, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/diddy-goes-off-on-john-mc_n_123081.html.

  23. Maryclaire Dale, "Springsteen Rocks Obama Rally in Philly," Associated Press, October 4, 2008, http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story? selection=news/politics&id=6432174.

  24. "The Boss mourns for the USA," Daily Telegraph (Australia), October 7, 2008.

  25. George Rush and Bill Hutchinson, "Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel headline Barack Obama midtown cash bash," Daily News (New York), October 17, 2008.

  26. "Jay-Z, LeBron James get out vote for Obama," Associated Press, October 30, 2008, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27455428/.

  27. Vidya Rao, "Oprah effect: Can celebs sway voters?" MSNBC, October 25, 2008, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27227264//.

  28. Ibid.

  29. Ibid.

  30. Cindy Clark, "Stars want YOU to register to vote," USA Today, November 25, 2008.

  31. "Jam the vote," Relix, November 2008, http://www.headcount.org/docs/headcount-relix-10-08-pdf.

  32. Shannon Bond and Lea Radick, "Rock stars motivate new generation of voters," Medill News Service, August 25, 2008, http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/washington/news.aspx?id=97959.

  33. Erica Lamar, "T.I. to the people: 'Respect my vote!' " Vibe, July 30, 2008, http://www.vibe.com/news/news_headlines/2008/07/ti_respect_my_vote/.

  34. Alex Macpherson, "Film & Music: Rock & pop: Inside man: Hip-hop star TI is on unbeatable form, full of reflection, revelation and 'jammin'-ass kicks.' All he has to do now is get out of prison," Guardian (London), March 6, 2009.

  35. Kathleen Brady Shea, "Hip-hopping for the vote; A nonpartisan 'summit' in Phila. used music celebrities as an incentive," Philadelphia Inquirer, April 21, 2008.

  Chapter 4: The Peacenik Phantom

  1. "The 15th Biannual Youth Survey on P
olitics and Public Service," Harvard University Institute of Politics, Fall 2008, p. 10.

  2. Ibid., p. 12.

  3. Ibid., p. 13.

  4. Ibid., p. 12.

  5. http://www.supportbillayers.org.

  6. "Bill Ayers," Discoverthenetworks.org, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Dinitia Smith, "No Regrets for a Love of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen," New York Times, September 11, 2001.

  9. Jack Stripling, "In Defense of Ayers," Inside Higher Ed, October 14, 2008, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/14/ayers.

  10. Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father electronic edition (New York: Three Rivers, 2004), p. 100.

  11. William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, "Obama's Youth Shaped His Nuclear-Free Vision," New York Times, July 4, 2009.

  12. "Sen. Barack Obama Delivers Remarks at The MTV/MySpace Presidential Forum," CQ Transcriptions, October 29, 2007.

  13. Ibid.

  14. Broad and Sanger, "Obama's Youth Shaped His Nuclear-Free Vision."

  15. Michael D. Shear and Howard Schneider, "Obama's Worldwide Star Power Finds Limits," Washington Post, September 20, 2009.

  16. "Envisioning A World Without America," Investor's Business Daily, September 18, 2009, http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=338166890369546.

  17. Ryan Lizza, "Making It," New Yorker, July 21, 2008.

  18. "Sen. Barack Obama Delivers Remarks at the MTV/MySpace Presidential Forum."

  19. Mark Steyn, "Come west, young man," National Review Online's The Corner, March 27, 2008, http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzU4YjIwMTBjNDdjZmRiNzkwMGUwNGEyMzMxMzE5OWU=.

  20. Jim Michaels, "Thousands of Enemy Fighters Reported Killed," USA Today, September 26, 2007.

  21. Nile Gardiner, "Barack Obama's Top 10 Apologies: How the President Has Humiliated a Superpower," Heritage Foundation Web Memo 2466, June 2, 2009, http://www.heritage.org/research/europe/wm2466.cfm.

  22. "Remarks by President Obama at Strasbourg Town Hall," White House Office of the Press Secretary, April 3, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-President-Obama-at-Strasbourg-Town-Hall/.

  23. "Obama's interview with Al Arabiya television," January 27, 2009, http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/01/27/65096.html.

  24. "Remarks by President Obama to the Turkish Parliament," White House Office of the Press Secretary, April 6, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-By-President-Obama-To-The-Turkish-Parliament/.

  25. Alex Alexiev, "Obama's Fantasy Islam," National Review Online, June 11, 2009, http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWUwODZjNjhkNDJhNjE5YzllOTZkZjZiZjdlZjZkZjl=&w=MA==.

  26. Steve Benen, "American exceptionalism . . . ," Washington Monthly's Political Animal, April 5, 2009. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_04/017614.php.

  27. "Obama Calls Chavez Gift a 'Nice Gesture,' " Fox News, April 19, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/19/obama-calls-americas-summit-productive-demands-follow/.

  28. Jake Tapper, "President Obama Jokes About Ortega Rant," ABC News, April 17, 2009, http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/president-ob-20.html.

  29. "Deepak Chopra," "Can We Stop Being a Super Power, Please," Huffington Post, July 20, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/can-we-stop-being-a-super_b_241254.html.

  30. Ibid.

  31. "Americans Are Most Likely to Base Truth on Feelings," Barna Group, February 12, 2002, http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/5-barna-update/67-americans-are-most-likely-to-base-truth-on-feelings.

  32. Joel Achenbach, "BYU Democrats and More Utah Pics," Washington Post's Achenblog, January 31, 2008, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/2008/01/byu_democrats

  _and_more_utah_pi.html.

  33. Keith Olbermann, "Republicans have hijacked 9/11," MSNBC, September 10, 2008, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26645619/.

  34. "Generation 9/11: Education professor conducts landmark survey of college students' responses to September 11, 2001," University of Texas at Austin Feature Story, http://www.utexas.edu/features/2005/generation/index.html.

  35. Sharon Jayson, "Will 9/11 define a generation?" USA Today, September 11, 2006.

  36. Melissa Dahl, "Youth vote may have been key in Obama's win," MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27525497.

  37. Matthew Kalman, "On Gaza TV, Hamas' bunny brainwashes kids, declaring 'I will eat the Jews!' " Daily News (New York), February 12, 2008.

  38. David Horowitz, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2006), pp. 40-41.

  39. Ibid., p. 45.

  40. Ibid., p. 46.

  41. "Clark: Getting 'shot down in plane' doesn't make McCain qualified," CNN, June 29, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/29/clark.mccain/index.html.

  42. Jim Geraghty, National Review Online's The Campaign Spot, April 8, 2008, http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjFlOWO0ODUlYmVmMjJmZjg4YWVmNDhjYjVkZmJjMzk=.

  43. "Harkin Suggests Military Background Makes McCain Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief," Fox News, May 22, 2008, http://www.fox news.com/politics/elections/2008/05/22/harkin-suggests-military-background-makes-mccain-unfit-to-be-commander-in-chief/.

  44. Matthew Balan, "Schultz Defends His 'McCain is a Warmonger' Comment on CNN," Newsbuster.org, April 7, 2008, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2008/04/07/schultz-defends-his-mccain- warmonger-comment-cnn.

  45. Fred Hiatt, "The Belligerent vs. the Naif?" Washington Post, May 26, 2008.

  46. "Politics, Civilian and Policy," Military Times Poll, December 31, 2007, http://www.militarycity.com/polls/2007activepoll_politics.php.

  47. "Politics, Civilian and Policy," Military Times poll, December 31, 2007, http://militarycity.com/polls/2007guardreservepoll_politics.php.

  48. Asheesh Siddique, "Infighting: Do We Root for the Home Team?" Campusprogress.org, June 27-30, 2006, http://www.campusprogress.org/features/972/infighting-do-we-root-for-the-home-team.

  49. "The 15th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service," Harvard University Institute of Politics, Fall 2008, p. 18.

  Chapter 5: Global-Warming Ghouls

  1. David de Rothschild, The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change--or Live Through It (New York: Rodale, 2007), p. 143.

  2. Tombari Bonkoo, "Obama the Only Presidential Candidate to Promote Live Earth Concert," Associated Content, July 7, 2007, http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/304735/obama_the_only_pres idential_candidate.html?cat=47.

  3. Ibid.

  4. De Rothschild, The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook, p. 142.

  5. Ibid., p. 134.

  6. Ibid., p. 58.

  7. Ibid., p. 50.

  8. Ibid., p. 94.

  9. Ibid., p. 90.

  10. Ibid., p. 38.

  11. Ibid., p. 92.

  12. "Media Hype on 'Melting' Antarctic Ignores Record Ice Growth," The Inhofe EPW Press Blog, March 27, 2008, http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=F1 F2F75F-802A-23AD-4701-A92B4EBBCCBF.

  13. Henry Payne, "Polar Bears: More Journalistic Malpractice," U.S. Senate Report Debunks Polar Bear Extinction Fears," National Review Online's Planet Gore, May 15, 2008, http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjI5YmIzNzgxMjE3NDJkZTkyMDMyOGY0OGZiZTM5ZTk=.

  14. Greg Keller, "Environmental alarms raised over consumer electronics," Seattle Times, May 13, 2009, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/

  nationworld/2009214989_apeugreenergadgets.html.

  15. George Monbiot, "Drastic action on climate change is needed now--and here's the plan," Guardian (London), October 31, 2006, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/oct/31/economy.politics.

  16. Andrew C. Revkin, "Whose Climate Is it, Anyway?" New York Times, November 2, 2007, http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/whose-climate-is-it-anyway/.<
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  17. Alex Williams, "Jolly and Green, with an Agenda," New York Times, November 25, 2007.

  18. Lawrence Solomon, "Limited role for C02," National Post (Canada), February 2, 2007, http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=069cb5b2-7d8l-4a8e-825d-56e0f112aeb5&k=0.

  19. Phil Chapman, "Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh," Australian, April 23, 2008, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0.25197.23583376-7583.00.html.