Obama Zombies: How the Obama Machine Brainwashed My Generation (32 page)

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 to 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.

28
. Brian Stelter, "Back from the war and on MTV's radar,"
New York Times
, July 28, 2008.

29
. Scott Keeter, Juliana Horowitz, and Alec Tyson, "Young Voters in the 2008 Election," Pew Research Center Publications, November 12, 2008, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1031/young-voters-in-the-2008 -election.

30
. Jenn Abelson, "MTV wants digital army to bring back the buzz,"
Boston Globe
, January 12, 2008.

31
. Jane Fleming Kleeb, "What happened to the NH Youth Vote?" NDN, January 1, 2008, http://ndn.org/node/1751.

32
. Carissa Jackson, "Students Saying No to War, Yes to Schools," MTV, September 17, 2008, http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098A1400008009934F2/
User/Blog/BlogPostDetail.aspx.

33
. Brian Rich, "Rise of the Christian Left," MTV, November 3, 2008, http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098A06900170099518D/.

34
. Cassidy Hartman, "Philly women on Palin," MTV, September 12, 2008, http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098A0C60017009932F1/.

Chapter 9: The Dynamic Duo: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert

1
. Mary Katherine Ham, "Jon Stewart to Sarah Palin: '[Expletive] You,"
Weekly Standard
's The Blog, October 19, 2008,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/
2008/10/jon_stewart_to_sarah_palin_exp.asp
.

2
. Jessica Torrez-Riley, "Jon Stewart at NU," Beantown University blog, October 17, 2008, http://beantownuniversity.blogspot.com/2008/10/jon-stewart-at-nu.html.

3
. Jacques Steinberg, "An All-Out Attack on 'Conservative Misinformation,' "
New York Times
, November 1, 2008.

4
. George Rush and Joanna Rush Molloy, "Palin Unappealin' to Jon,"
Daily News
(New York), October 9, 2008.

5
. Tim Graham, "Jon Stewart Trashes Novak as Heartless 'Vampire Demon,' Enemy of Democracy," Newsbusters.org, September 19, 2006, http://newsbusters.org/node/7747.

6
. Joel Topcick, " 'The Daily Show' Welcomes GOP to the Twin Cities,"
Broadcasting & Cable
, August 24, 2008, http://www.broadcasting
cable.com/blog/BC_Beat/10210-_The_Daily_Show_Welcomes_GOP_to_the_Twin_Cities.php.

7
. Bill Moyers, transcript, PBS, July 11, 2003.

8
. Michiko Kakutani, "Is Jon Stewart the most trusted man in America?"
New York Times
, August 15, 2008.

9
. Tom Brokaw, "Jon Stewart: The 2005 Time 100,"
Time
, April 18, 2005.

10
. Kakutani, "Is Jon Stewart the most trusted man in America?"

11
. Jon Weisman, "The Groundbreakers: Television: Jon Stewart,"
Daily Variety
, October 31, 2008.

12
. David Smith, "How a satirist became America's most influential TV personality,"
Observer
(London), September 14, 2008.

13
. Leonard Doyle, "You can't be serious: How a comedian became the most influential voice in American politics,"
Independent
(London), August 19, 2008.

14
. "Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America's most trusted newscaster?"
Time,
http://www.timepolls.com/hppolls/archive/poll_results_417.html
.

15
. "Journalism, Satire or Just Laughs? 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,' Examined: Attacking Politicians: Who Gets Ridiculed," Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, May 8, 2008,
http://www.journalism.org/node/10956
.

16
. Ibid.

17
. Ibid.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Ibid.

20
. Ibid.

21
. Tom Leonard, "Palin is a dream to satirists,"
Daily Telegraph
(London), October 14, 2008.

22
. Gary Levin, "Behind the convention's 'Daily' grind; Jon Stewart on the road in Denver,"
USA Today
, August 28, 2008.

23
. Kakutani, "Is Jon Stewart the most trusted man in America?"

24
. Scott Whitlock, "Matt Lauer Lauds Liberal Jon Stewart: 'Respected and Listened To,' " Newsbusters.org, August 28, 2008, http://news busters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2008/08/28/matt-lauer-lauds-liberal-jon-stewart-respected-listened.

25
. Howard Kurtz, "No joke: Jon Stewart takes aim at 24-hour cable news 'beast,' "
Washington Post
, August 26, 2008.

26
. Ibid.

27
. Levin, "Behind the convention's 'Daily' grind."

28
. Kurtz, "No joke."

29
. DParker, "The debt we owe Jon Stewart," Daily Kos, October 4, 2008,
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/4/135834/621
.

30
. Ibid.

31
. "Obama's
Daily Show
Interview," Huffington Post
,
October 29, 2008,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/29/obamas-daily-show-intervi_n_139123.html
.

32
. Ibid.

33
. Mo Rocca, AOL news blog, August 24, 2007, http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/08/24/jon-stewart-interviews-barack-obama/.

34
. "
Daily Show
interview with John McCain," April 24, 2007,
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-april-24-2007/sen--john-mccain-pt--1
.