Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation

Jason Mattera

Mar 2010 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

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.

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.

Obama 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 countercultural conservative battle against the rise of the ignorant Left.

The lesson from 2008 is crystal clear: When true conservatives run away, Obama zombies come out to play.

Ratings and reviews

I read this with an open mind willing to hear how I had been "duped". Instead what I came across was a few interesting tidbits on how President Obama reached out to so many people and convinced them to vote for him with ruthless political tactics... and unnecessary insults. Yes, he did use text messages. Yes, he did win the media over. Yes he did use internet resources such as YouTube and a website of his own. However, this did not lead to "Zombification", it lead to more people feeling they should vote for him. Clearly Mattera would not have written a book like this if it had been McCain who had created such a large political machine. The bias, though admittedly clear through it's title, is disgusting when the writer claims to be presenting only facts to prove this zombification. In one passage while writing about how more than 60% of the staff at both Google and Apple (clearly liberal machines) donated to Obama (which, for the record, may be construed as evidence that highly educated people slightly preferred Obama to McCain) half a page is dedicated to comparing these "beta-male" types to television icons like Screech from Saved by the Bell and Carlton from Prince of Bel Air. All to simply state that these "Dorks" who "couldn't land the prom queen in high school, and couldn't now" direct their affection towards Obama instead. If you want any useful information on how Obama ran such a successful campaign and what we can learn from it, steer clear of this book. If you want some mid-range middle school humor with very few facts and even fewer solid, fact-based opinion, this is your new favorite book.

This book uses all rhetoric. It takes about the abomination of professors supporting Obama by 12 to 1 to McCain but doesn't point out that liberal policies simply support funding education more , so of course professors would support this , but instead he decides to insult them etc... He doesn't talk at all about the issues at the time and acts as though those policies didn't help end a recession. It doesn't persuade anything to think differently, it just makes those feel better who already believe what the author believes.

Uninspired, hackneyed, same old. Ironic that he's talking about brainwashing - and I'll even agree that the Obamachine did a lot of that - while rehashing the same points that fear-of-the-status-quo republicans have been making since 2007. They weren't valid then. They're not valid now. There are good arguments against Obama, most made from the left, almost no genuine ones made from the right. This isn't either.

About the author

Jason Mattera is the New York Times bestselling author Obama Zombies and Hollywood Hypocrites. He served as the youngest editor of a national periodical, Human Events, and as a broadcaster with the legendary news talk radio 77 WABC in New York City. His “ambush interviews” of top liberals, including Vice President Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, disgraced IRS official Lois Lerner, and Hillary Clinton, have become Internet legends. Ann Coulter crowned Mattera a “national treasure,” Michelle Malkin says his work is a “heat-seeking missile aimed at the Cult of Obama,” and POLITICO named him Washington, DC’s “bad boy reporter.” He is the publisher of the hard-hitting news and entertainment site Daily Surge.