By Jason Mattera
In 2008, Barack Obama lobotomized a iteration. for a whole yr, in a different way clear-thinking individuals of the main prosperous, over-educated, information-drenched new release in American heritage fell prey to the costliest, hi-tech, laser-focused advertising attack in presidential crusade background. Twitter messages have been machine-gunned to mobile phones at mach velocity. fb and MySpace teams unfold around the net like electronic fireplace. YouTube movies that includes celebrities ricocheted around the globe and into students’ in-boxes with devastating regularity. all of the whereas, the mega-money-raising engine whirred like a slot computer caught on jackpot. the outcome: an unthinking mass of younger electorate marched ahead to go with the main radical and untested president in U.S. historical past. famous as one of many country’s best younger conservative activists through Human occasions, Jason Mattera created an online sensation with ambush video interviews that revealed clueless younger liberals and crafty Democratic officers. Now he unearths the jaw-dropping lengths Barack Obama and his allies in Hollywood, Washington, and Academia went to so that it will rework a legion of iPod-listening, MTV-watching fans right into a profitable coalition that threatens to turn into an enduring political realignment. Obama Zombies uncovers the real, behind-the-scenes tale of the tools and strategies the Obama crusade unleashed on formative years tradition. via own interviews and meticulous unique examine, Mattera explains why conservatism’s destiny rests upon jolting the younger lots from their shut eye, yanking out their earphones, and sparking a countercultural conservative conflict opposed to the increase of the ignorant Left. The lesson from 2008 is crystal transparent: whilst actual conservatives run away, Obama zombies pop out to play.
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It repeated the postracial narrative that Obama injected into his public persona, the narrative that the media unscrupulously ran with. "6 The puff piece, masquerading as a legit report, gave credence to the lie that Barack "Typical White Person" Obama is a bridge to white Americans, that he is above and beyond the racial grievance-mongering that has defined demagogues like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Briscoe took his cue: Many of Obama's supporters are enthralled by the content of his character--by his earnest desire to heal the nation's political divisions and to restore America's reputation in the world.
Exactly the point. It's about image and not ideas. And if not being down with Obama's socialist power grab is "uncool," well then, I will settle for that label. " No joke, people! Got beef with your people? "33 Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, approves of the new Obama lingo. She told Politico it's "the most emblematic, positive thing that kids could say. " doesn't come to mind. It sounds cultlike and creepy. In promoting Obama's "hipness," CNN may have had one of its more embarrassing segments to date.
He, like every other left-wing special interest group out there, came begging like a pauper for your money. Schmidt acknowledged he is also "a big fan" of alternative energy subsidies and "startups with funny names" financed by . . 49 Um, earth to Schmidt: Consumer demand and not Washington bureaucrats should determine the types of vehicles that are offered. This guy is straight-up Obama Zombie. Like the media, Google had its own revolving door to the Obama administration. Andrew McLaughlin, Google's director of global public policy (otherwise known as the "head" lobbyist), and Katie Jacobs Stanton, Google's business development executive, were both tapped to work for Obama, McLaughlin as the deputy chief technology officer and Stanton the new director of citizen participation.
