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and Obama integrity,
17
and Obama power grab,
17
and personal responsibility,
115
-16
poll about,
52
public negotiation about,
111
regulation of,
43
,
114
,
122
as right/entitlement,
115
,
118
-19,
121
and Rock the Vote efforts,
154
-55
and "shared sacrifice,"
113
; and special interests,
111
and Stewart-Obama interview,
182
and taxes,
113
,
122
,
125
and uninsured,
109
-10,
155
universal,
44
,
116
,
141
,
155
Health Care for America Now,
154
Health Choices Administration,
123
Health Choices Commissioner,
123
-24
Health Insurance Exchange,
123
Heartland Institute,
114
helping others,
201
-2
Heritage Foundation,
123
Hill, Jonah,
29
Hilton, Paris,
175
,
180
Hilton, Perez,
117
Hip Hop Caucus,
58
-59
Hip-Hop Team Vote,
59
Hoffman, Dustin,
29
Hollywood: and climate change,
89
,
101
-2
and deprogramming of Obama Zombies,
196
importance to political campaigns of,
45
-61
and success as core tenet of conservatism,
60
.
See also
celebrities;
specific person
"Hollywood Declares Themselves" (YouTube videos),
29
-31
Holmes, David,
102
Holmes, T. J.,
14
-15
Homecoming
(MTV documentary),
164
-65
hope,
13
,
23
,
151
,
152
,
203
Hot Air,
119
housing: regulation of,
43
Howett, Ciannat M.,
96
Hu, Kelly,
48
Huffington Post,
13
,
75
,
120
,
189
Hughes, Chris,
31
-33,
35
,
43
Hughes, Dudley J.,
105
-6
Humphreys, Gabriel,
115

"I got a crush on Obama" (song),
28

immigrants: and economic and social justice,
141
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania): Obama speech at,
39
Indiana University: Clinton rally at,
51
-52
individualism/individuals: and core principles of conservatives,
43
,
60
,
198
and function of government,
204
-5
Internet as promoting,
43
and message framing,
203
,
204
-5
and moneymaking,
203
Obama's comments about,
60
rights of,
204
-5
and successful entertainers,
60
.
See also
freedom; personal responsibility
inflation,
132
,
133
Inhofe, Jim,
104
International Energy Agency,
90
Internet: importance to election campaigns of,
26
,
27
-29,
31
-32,
35
-36
as promoting individualism,
43
iPhones,
20
,
43
,
206
iPods,
90
Iran,
67
,
68
,
69
,
81
,
83
Iraq War: celebrities comments about,
29
Colbert's comments about,
187
and elections of 2006,
185
Hayes-Stewart comments about,
174
-75
as major issue in elections of 2008,
165
and McCain as warmonger,
81
and McCain-Stewart interview,
183
-84
and MTV interviews,
159
-60,
163
,
164
Obama comments about,
72
poll about trust of McCain versus Obama concerning,
64
spending for,
146
,
147
young Americans having served in,
155
Irvine, Martha,
52
Islam: Obama's exaltation of,
74
Islamic radicals,
73
,
78

Jablow, Jen,
191
-92

Jack Johnson Band,
58
Jackson, Carissa,
166
Jackson, Jesse,
5
Jacoby, Susan,
190
James, LeBron,
55
-56
Japan: post-World War II reconstruction of,
25
-26
Jay-Z,
14
,
55
-56,
59
Jeter, Derek,
83
Jobs, Steve,
22
jobs,
22
,
131
-32,
133
,
137
-40,
145
,
146
,
199
-200,
202
Joe the Plumber,
50
Joel, Billy,
55
Johansson, Scarlett,
26
,
49
Johnson, Lyndon B.,
146
,
205
,
207
Johnson, Sasha,
4
Jones, Emil,
16
journalists: campaign contributions of,
11
"fake,"
192
; female,
1
-2
MTV,
165
-66
as prostitutes,
3
-7,
15
,
17
,
22
Stewart's comments about,
179
.
See also specific person
Justice Department, U.S.,
4
justice, economic and social,
140
-43

Kaiser Family Foundation,
125

Kass, John,
15
-16
Kennedy, Edward "Ted,"
32
,
130
Kennedy, John F.,
12
,
40
,
49
,
85
Kennedy, Robert,
151
Kerry, John,
32
,
161
,
177
,
181
Kiedis, Anthony,
47
King, Martin Luther Jr.,
56
,
66
,
157
Kleeb, Jane Fleming,
154
,
166
Kleeb, Scott,
166
Klein, Joe,
9
Kolasa, Matthew,
192
Kurtz, Howard,
179
Kutcher, Ashton: video by,
45
-48

LaBoeuf, Shia,
29

Larry King Live
(CNN-TV),
153
,
175
"Last Chance for Change" concerts,
56
Lauer, Matt,
172
,
178
Laws, Tirann,
165
Lear, Norman,
28
-31,
161
Lee, Brian,
157
Leibowitz, Jon.
See
Stewart, Jon
Leno, Jay,
104
liberals.
See specific person or topic
Limbaugh, Rush,
19
,
81
,
180
Lincoln, Abraham,
49
,
50
,
73
Live Earth concerts,
85
,
86
,
87
,
102
-3
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook
(Rothschild),
85
-89
Lohan, Lindsay,
53
London
Daily Mail,
103
London
Sunday Telegraph,
188
,
189
Lopez, Joshua,
157
Ludacris Band,
103
Lumpkin, Beverley,
4

Maddow, Rachel,
76

Madoff, Bernie,
200
Madonna,
48
,
86
,
103
-4
Maguire, Toby,
29
,
45
Malkin, Michelle,
206
-7
Malone, Kobutsu,
166
Marxism,
141
,
151
,
181
Matthews, Chris,
11
-12,
19
,
137
Matthews, Dave,
49
-51,
57
Mayer, John,
58
McCain, John: attack ads of,
38
and Ayers issue,
65
biographical background of,
64
campaign contributions for,
22
and climate change,
108
,
161
and deprogramming of Obama Zombies,
187
,
195
-96,
197
and economic and social justice,
141
and economy,
157
foreign policy experience of,
63
and gender wage gap,
133
and Iraq War,
159
-60,
183
-84
journalists' views of,
6
,
10
as maverick,
197
media coverage of,
10
and message framing,
203
as military man,
63
,
64
,
159
-60
MTV coverage of,
158
,
160
-61
and Palin candidacy,
7
,
53
,
54
,
170
as POW,
6
,
7
,
64
reaching out to young voters by,
108
Republican National Convention acceptance speech of,
158
,
159
salaries of female staffers of,
136
Stewart's comments about,
170
,
171
,
178
Stewart's interviews with,
183
-85
and taxes,
159
text messaging by,
41
use of online tools by,
26
-28,
36
,
39
,
42
as warmonger,
80
-81
McLaughlin, Andrew,
21
McLeod, Jaime,
166
media: and climate change,
89
and deprogramming of Obama Zombies,
196
"drive-by,"
19
and health care,
111
,
117
and media titans,
19
-22
as Obama supporters,
1
-23
White House credentials for,
3
youth-targeted,
99
-104.
See also
journalists;
specific person or organization

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