Obama Zombies: How the Obama Machine Brainwashed My Generation

by Jason Mattera

  20. Piper Fogg, "Saving the Planet, by Degrees," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2006.

  21. Jennifer Weeks, "Planet Earth 101: Why more and more campuses are seeing green in going green," Boston Globe Magazine, October 5, 2008.

  22. "What Is a Sustainable University," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2006.

  23. Lisa W. Foderaro, "Without Cafeteria Trays, Colleges Find Savings," New York Times, April 29, 2009.

  24. Ibid.

  25. Richard Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future," Chronicle of Higher Education, December 14, 2007.

  26. Will Potter, "The First Certified 'Green' Dormitory," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 26, 2004.

  27. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."

  28. Richard Monastersky, "Truth in Advertising: Middlebury College's Biomass Plant," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2006.

  29. Ibid.

  30. Ibid.

  31. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."

  32. Scott Carlson, "In Search of the Sustainable Campus: With eyes on the future, universities try to clean up their acts," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2006.

  33. Ibid.

  34. Ibid.

  35. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."

  36. Ibid.

  37. Ibid.

  38. Editorial, "Wind ($23.37) v. Gas (25 Cents)," Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2008.

  39. Ibid.

  40. Ibid.

  41. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."

  42. Marc Morano, "Celebs Ignore Death, Poverty on MTV Enviro Series," CNSNews.com, April 25, 2005, http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005-04-28/celebs.htm.

  43. Ned Martel, "Eco-Lessons Taught in a Surfer-Girl Patois," New York Times, March 28, 2005.

  44. Morano, "Celebs Ignore Death, Poverty on MTV Enviro Series."

  45. Alessandra Stanley, "Sounding the Global-Warming Alarm Without Upsetting the Fans," New York Times, July 9, 2007.

  46. Ibid.

  47. "Live Earth is promoting green to save the planet--what planet are they on?" Daily Mail (London), July 7, 2007, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-466775/Live-Earth-promoting-green-save-planet--planet-on.html.

  48. "Cameron Diaz's Potty Mouth," Radar Online, May 9, 2009, http://www.radarmagazine.com/exclusives/2009/05/cameron-diazs-potty-mouth.

  49. "More Than 700 (Previously 650) International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims," U.S. Senate Minority Report, December 11, 2008, http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm? FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=d6d95751 -802a-23ad-4496-7ec7e1641f2f.

  50. Erika Lovely, "Scientists urge caution on global warming," Politico, November 25, 2008, http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid= D0C4924D-18FE-70B2-A808D77A9C1FFFD3.

  51. Comment on Grist.org by Andy Revkin, March 8, 2008, http://www.grist.org/member/view-all/comments/2231.

  52. Andrew C. Revkin, "In Debate on Climate Change, Exaggeration Is a Common Pitfall," New York Times, February 25, 2009.

  53. Steven Milloy, "The Real Inconvenient Truth: Some facts about greenhouse and global warming," Junk Science, August 2007, http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/.

  54. Dudley J. Hughes, "Carbon Dioxide Levels Are a Blessing, Not a Problem," Environment & Climate News, Heartland Institute, May 1, 2007, http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/20952/Carbon_Dioxide

  _Levels_Are_a_Blessing_Not_a_Problem.html.

  55. Michael Asher, "Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling," Daily Tech, February 26, 2008, http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article 10866.htm.

  56. Michael Asher, "Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data," Daily Tech, August 9, 2007, http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8383.

  57. "Green fuels produce twice as much carbon as fossil fuels," Tele graph.Co.Uk, April, 14, 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenertransport/5153781/Green-fuels-produce-twice-as-much-car bon-as-fossil-fuels.html.

  58. "Think twice about 'green' transport, say scientists," Breitbart.com, June 7, 2009, http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.243153c6a091a3b942a75077729e8c92.c51&show_article=1.

  59. Ian Murray, "Time to recycle recycling," Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 6, 2008, http://cei.org/articles/time-recycle-recy cling.

  Chapter 6: Health-Care Hypnosis

  1. "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008," Congressional Budget Office, September 2009, http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/news_con ferences/014226.html.

  2. Michael D. Tanner, "Who are the uninsured?" Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 2009.

  3. "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008."

  4. "Obama's mother of all political lies and the town hall mayhem it caused," Naked Emperor News, August 10, 2009, http://www.breitbart.tv/naked-emperor-news-obamas-mother-of-all-political-lies -and-the-town-hall-mayhem-it-caused/.

  5. "White House releases list of health executive visitors," Associated Press, July 23, 2009, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-healthcare-talks23-2009jul23.0.220833.story.

  6. David Espo, "Drug firms cut secret deal with Obama, Congress," Capitol Hill Blue, June 21, 2009, http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/18223.

  7. "The truth about health insurance," Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2009.

  8. Hilton Friedman, "How to Cure Health Care," Hoover Digest, 2001, http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3459466.html.

  9. Devon Herrick and Ariel House, "Competition, Deregulation Can Make Health Insurance Affordable," Heartland Institute, http://www.heartland.org/publications/health%20care/article/24019/Com petition_Deregulation_Can_Make_Health_Insurance_Affordable.html.

  10. Ann Coulter, "Liberal Lies About National Health Care: First In a Series," Human Events Online, August 19, 2009, http://www.hu manevents.com/article.php?id=33213.

  11. Natalie Morales, "Importance of youth vote," NBC Today show, February 4, 2008.

  12. Barack Obama, Northwestern University Commencement Address, June 16, 2006, http://www.obamaspeeches.com/079-Northwestern -University-Commencement-Address-Obama-Speech.htm.

  13. Lois Romano, "Generation Y: Ready to rock the 2008 election," Washington Post, January 10, 2008.

  14. Michael Pollan, "Big food vs. big insurance," New York Times, September 9, 2009.

  15. Jim Geraghty, "A Long and Contradictory Laundry List of Promises," National Review Online's The Campaign Spot, http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2UzZWO2YTAxNmRmMDk2ZDE4ZDB1ZTEyMTA1ZDFmNDI=.

  16. Ed Morrissey, "A brief lesson on markets and rationing," HotAir.com, July 21, 2009, http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/21/a-brief-les son-on-markets-and-rationing/.

  17. Erica Williams, "For Young Americans, Health Care Reform Is Our Fight," Huffington Post, August 6, 2009, http://www.huffington post.com/erica-williams/for-young-americans-healt_b_252858.html, accessed October 27, 2009.

  18. David Walker, "Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: Action Is Needed to Avoid the Possibility of a Serious Economic Disruption in the Future," testimony before the Senate Budge Committee, General Accounting Office, January 29, 2008, http://gao.gov/new.items/d08411t.pdf.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Shawn Tully, "5 freedoms you'd lose in health care reform," CNNMoney.com, July 24, 2009, http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_

  care_reform_obama.fortune/.

  21. Robert Book, "Who Will Make Your Health Care 'Choices'?" Heritage Foundation's Foundry blog, July 29, 2009, http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/29/who-will-make-your-health-care-choices/.

  22. "Young people the biggest losers in health care reform?" Rock the Vote press release, July 28, 2009, http://www.rockthevote.com/about/press-room/press-releases/wall-street-journal.html.

  23. Karyn Schwartz and Tanya Schwartz, "U
ninsured young adults: A profile and overview of coverage options," Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2008.

  Chapter 7: The Economic Igor

  1. Paul R. La Monica, "Behind the minimum wage debate," CNNMoney.com, September 5, 2008, http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/05/markets/thebuzz/index.htm.

  2. Ben Adler, "Democrats try to get hip to young voters," Politico, September 26, 2007, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/6015.html.

  3. Barack Obama speech at the AFL-CIO Labor Day Picnic in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 7, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Labor -Day-Reform-and-the-Fight-for-Whats-Right/.

  4. James Sherk, "Raising the minimum wage will not reduce poverty," Heritage Foundation, January 8, 2007, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Labor/bg1994.cfm.

  5. Scott Mayerowitz, "Relief for Workers at Bottom: Minimum Wage Goes Up," ABC News, July 24, 2009, http://a.abcnews.com/Business/Story?id=8159485&page=1.

  6. David Neumark, "Delay the Minimum-Wage Hike," Wall Street Journal, June 12, 2009.

  7. Tim Kane, "Minimizing Economic Opportunity by Raising the Minimum Wage," Heritage Foundation, March 4, 2005, http://www.heritage.org/research/economy/wm676.cfm.

  8. "The Young and the Jobless," Wall Street Journal, October 3, 2009.

  9. Diane Stafford, "Unemployment rate hits record low for young people in July," Kansas City Star, August 27, 2009, http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1409954.html.

  10. Fred Lucas, "Obama's for Equal Pay, Yet Pays Female Staffers Less Than Males," CNSNews.com, June 30, 2008, http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=32005.

  11. Cait Murphy, "Obama Flunks Econ 101," CNNMoney.com, June 6, 2007, http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/04/magazines/fortune/muphy_pay act.fortune/index.htm.

  12. James Sherk, "Paycheck Fairness Act Unfairly Burdens Employees and Employers," Heritage Foundation, July 30, 2008.

  13. Rachel Breitman, "Young women earn more than men in big U.S. cities," Reuters, August 3, 2007, http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0334472920070803.

  14. Wendy McElroy, "Why Men Earn More," Fox News, February 24, 2005, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0.2933.148407.00.html.

  15. Fred Lucas, "Obama Pays Women Only 78 Percent of What He Pays Men," CNSNews.com September 18, 2008, http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=35972.

  16. Casey B. Mulligan, "Vote Republican if You Want Equal Pay," Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2008.

  17. Kate Sheppard, "Obama's Green Achievements At 100 Days," Grist.org, April 29, 2009, http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-29-obamas-green-achievements-at/.

  18. Hardball with Chris Matthews, MSNBC, November 5, 2007.

  19. CNN Newsroom, transcript, March 2, 2009.

  20. Nick Loris, "Spanish & Solar: A Model to Follow or a Cautionary Tale?" Heritage Foundation's The Foundry blog, September 25, 2009, http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/25/spanish-solar-a-model-to -follow-or-a-cautionary-tale/#more-15726.

  21. Tony Blankley, "The Myth of 5 Million Green Jobs," Real Clear Politics, May 27, 2009, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/27/

  economic_reality_of_5_million_green_jobs_96680.html.

  22. Report to Congress: Comprehensive Inventory of U.S. OCS Oil and Natural Gas Resources, Energy Policy Act of 2005--Section 357, U.S. Department of Interior, February 2006.

  23. "Oil Shale Development in the United States, Prospects and Policy Issues," prepared for the National Energy Technology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy by the RAND Corporation, 2005, http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG414.pdf.

  24. Michael Goldfarb, "Michelle Will Steal Your Pie," April 9, 2008, http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/04/michelle _will_steal_your_pie.asp.

  25. "Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism," April 9, 2009, Rasmussen Reports, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/

  politics/general_politics/april_2009/just_53_say_capitalism_better_than_socialism.

  26. "Petition to Redistribute GPA's," YouTube, April 17, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p8DFUnYtPo.

  27. Scott Hodge, "Tax burden of top 1% now exceeds that of bottom 95%," Tax Foundation, July 29, 2009 http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/24944.html.

  28. Gerald Prante, "Summary of Latest Federal Individual Income Tax Data," Tax Foundation, http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/250.html.

  29. Chris Edwards, "Tax Policy Under President Bush," Cato Institute, August 14, 2006, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6621.

  30. Robert Rector, Katherine Bradley, and Rachel Sheffield, "Obama to Spend $10.3 Trillion on Welfare," Heritage Foundation, September 16, 2009.

  31. Ibid.

  32. Ibid.

  33. Ibid.

  34. Ibid.

  35. Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous, The End of Prosperity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), p. 89.

  Chapter 8: I Want My MTV

  1. John Stossel and Elizabeth Vargas, "Rock the Vote; Maybe you shouldn't," ABC 20/20, October 10, 2008.

  2. "New National Poll Finds: More Americans Know Snow White's Dwarfs Than Supreme Court Judges, Homer Simpson Than Homer's Odyssey, and Harry Potter Than Tony Blair," Zogby International, August 15, 2006, http://www.zogby.com/Soundbites/readclips.cfm?ID=13498.

  3. Ibid.

  4. "Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, Will.I.Am play at Barack Obama's Democratic convention," New Musical Express, August 29, 2008.

  5. "Sheryl Crow Offers Free Albums to Voters," New Musical Express, August 21, 2008.

  6. "Sheryl Crow Exchanges Free Album Download For New Voters," Rolling Stone, August 21, 2008, http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/08/21/sheryl-crow-exchanges-free-album-download-for-new-voters/.

  7. "Sheryl Crow @ Rock The Vote Tour Richmond VA 2008," YouTube, October 28, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT35wtkLnjY.

  8. "Robert DeNiro--Election Protection," YouTube, October 28, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IzN11De9cY.

  9. Larry King, "Predicting the Youth Vote in 2008; Christina Aguilera Rocks the Vote; Luke Russert remembers his dad," CNN Larry King Live, June 25, 2008.

  10. Ibid.

  11. "Rock the Vote Launches 'Get out the Vote' Campaign," Rockthevote.com, October 14, 2008, http://www.rockthevote.com/about/press-room/press-releases/rock-the-vote-launches-get.html.

  12. Jason Rosenbaum, "How to Fight Back Against the Right," Health Care for America, August 5, 2009, http://blog.healthcareforameri canow.org/2009/08/05/how-to-fight-back-against-the-right.

  13. "Get smart like that on health care; you will care when you need it and can't get it," Rockthevote.com, http://www.rockthevote.com/issues/health-care.html.

  14. "Murs Rocks the Vote PSA," YouTube, September 19, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptXubszjdaE.

  15. "Gideon Yago," News Meat, http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=NY&last=Yago&first=Gideon.

  16. "Choose or Lose presents: Obama decoded," MTV, September 3, 2008, http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0002D79C000800992F08/

  User/Blog/BlogPostDetail.aspx.

  17. Ibid.

  18. Ibid.

  19. "It's the Senator's turn to tell his story," MTV, September 5, 2008, http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098989A001700992FE8/.

  20. "It Felt Like a History Lesson," MTV, September 5, 2008, http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098989A001700992FE6/.

  21. Ibid.

  22. "The MTV/MySpace Presidential Dialogue," December 3, 2007, http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/193255/12-of-23-the-grand-canyons-best-friend.jhtml#id=1575664.

  23. "Nation's Leading Voter Registration Groups Join Forces with MySpace for 'Ultimate College Bowl' to Register College Students to Vote," Student PIRGs, September 9, 2008, http://www.studentpirgs.org/release/news-releases/nations-leading-voter-registration-groups-join-forces-with-myspace-for-ultimate-college-bowl-to-register-college-students-to-vote.

  24. "The MTV/MySpace Presidential Dialogue."

  25. "Clinton Global Initiative teams up with MTV t
o engage college students in global action," October 12, 2008, MTV, http://mtvpress.com/activism/release/clinton_global_initiative

  _teams_up_with_mtv_to_engage_college_students_in_g/.

  26. "CP's Erica on MTV w/Bono, Alicia Keys, Shakira, Clinton," YouTube, October 29, 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaKoN6w5eZQ&feature=channel.

  27. "Christina Norman," Opensecrets.org.