Conservative Kids Item ID: #437Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My GenerationProduct Information:
Item DescriptionObama Zombies uncovers the true, behind-the-scenes story of the methods and tactics the Obama campaign unleashed on youth culture. Through personal interviews and meticulous original research, Mattera explains why conservatism’s future rests upon jolting the young masses from their slumber, yanking out their earphones, and sparking a counter cultural conservative battle against the rise of the ignorant Left. Recognized as one of the country’s top young conservative activists by Human Events, Jason Mattera created an internet sensation with ambush video interviews that exposed clueless young liberals and cunning Democratic officials. Now he reveals the jaw-dropping lengths Barack Obama and his allies in Hollywood, Washington, and Academia went to in order to transform a legion of iPod-listening, MTV-watching followers into a winning coalition that threatens to become a long-lasting political realignment. The lesson from 2008 is crystal clear : When true conservatives run away, Obama zombies come out to play. In 2008, Barack Obama lobotomized a generation. For an entire year, otherwise clear-thinking members of the most affluent, over-educated, information-drenched generation in American history fell prey to the most expensive, hi-tech, laser-focused marketing assault in presidential campaign history. Twitter messages were machine-gunned to cell phones at mach speed. Facebook and MySpace groups spread across the Internet like digital fire. YouTube videos featuring celebrities ricocheted across the globe and into college students’ in-boxes with devastating regularity. All the while, the mega-money-raising engine whirred like a slot machine stuck on jackpot. The result : an unthinking mass of young voters marched forward to elect the most radical and untested president in U.S. history. Item Reviews5 Responses to “Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation”Leave a Reply |
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Let’s see here. Rave reviews by the likes of Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin. That tells me all I need to know about the credibility of this writer.
American politics is all about money and self interest. It always has been, and it always will be.
This is just written by someone who is not currently having their own self interest fulfilled. Somehow though, the author has made a lot of money out of his own little propaganda. The chances are, if you are buying this book, you are just reading what you want to read and will be very satisfied. If you want a more accurate or insightful version of events with less of a heavy bias, then clearly you need to look somewhere else.
Having looked over this book at a bookstore, merely because it has gotten some press, and having just seen this fellow on a CNN special featuring young so-called conservatives, I think they have little idea what conservatism has meant historically. The gulf between the actual ideals of preserving something important in the past and what these people are doing is vast. From the very unexciting reality that Mr. Obama is a human being, and thus has made mistakes, they draw a broad conspiracy. They are dupes of a far wider conspiracy, and not of a political sort, but a commercial one. They are children of a fast-food intellectual mindset, and a blog sense of of critical thinking. They are a lost generation. Not all, but many. This book is a paean to this Happy Meal mindset. Yes, in their playground there are zombies, and goodies and other characters. They will look back at their childhood — in fact their young adulthood with horror and shame. It is a lowbrow performance utterly. It is intellectually bereft. My only question is why my favorite of these right-wing special ed. kids was not featured. The very amusing Thomas Peters of The American Papist blog, who fits in so well with these characters in style, ambition, and “brains”.
The 2008 US presidential election was memorable and historic in many respects – the amount of campaign money that had been spent, the total number of votes cast, but most importantly because for the first time a man of African descent, Barack Obama, had been elected to the presidency. No matter where you stand politically, there was something poignant about that fact. However, what bothers many people is that for a substantial portion of the electorate Obama’s race was the only criterion upon which they based their vote. This allowed perhaps the least qualified person ever to become the most powerful person in the World, another historic event. The question, then, becomes why were so many people, especially the young ones, so willing to leave aside all semblances of critical thinking and in droves follow this grossly underqualified politician? They acted as if they had been stripped of all vestiges of individuality and rationality, in other words – they acted like zombies.
In this scathing and devilishly funny book Jason Mattera accounts some of the worst excesses that Obama zombies had indulged in before and during the election. He is especially critical of the way that the media had handled candidate and then president Obama, lionizing him beyond anything that should be acceptable in decent society. The MTV generation was all too willing to take in all this drivel and follow their messianic candidate wherever he chose to lead them. The book is written in a very accessible and entertaining style designed to appeal to the young, but some of its main messages are actually very serious: failure of the young electorate to appreciate the implications of their zombie-like behavior has dire consequences for the entire political process. There should be more Jason Matteras around to alert us to all of this.
Jason Mattera as a young writter is very interesting and knowledgeable about his subject. Obama Zombies is very up to date and fills in one’s knowledge base. He seems to have entered the fraternity of some of the excellent writers you reviewed this book. I would be interested in reading more work by this author.
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