Obama Zombies: How the Obama Machine Brainwashed My Generation (30 page)

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 Politics 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 Month
ly
'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//files/13/87/40/f138740/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/.

17
. Alex Williams, "Jolly and Green, with an Agenda,"
New York Times
, November 25, 2007.