Notes

Introduction

1. "Watch Online: BCN Highlights Student Reaction to Obama Win," Bowdoin campus news, November 6, 2008, http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/005623.shtml

2. Jocelyn Vena, "Young voters across the country share their reactions-- both positive and negative--to Barack Obama's election-night win," MTV News, November 5, 2008, http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098989A0016009953B5/.

3. Jason Linkins, "After The Election: Impromptu Rally At White House Draws Massive Crowd," Huffington Post, November 5, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/after-the-election-improm_n_141437.html.

4. Ibid.

5. "Video: Oh My God," MTV News, November 6, 2008, http://think.mtv.com/044FDFFFF0098989A00170099545E/.

6. Vena, "Young voters across the country share their reactions."

7. Andrew Romano, "He's One of Us Now," Newsweek, February 18, 2008.

8. Luke Russert, NBC News transcript, November 5, 2008.

9. Chris Harris, "Super Tuesday Youth Voter Turnout Triples, Quadruples In Some States," MTV News, February 6, 2008, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1581027/20080206/id_0.jhtml.

10. Albert R. Hunt, "Letter from Washington: Republicans worry as youth vote desert the party," New York Times, September 2, 2007.

11. Alex Beinstein, "Barack Obama Youth Director Hans Riemer," October 25, 2007, http://www.alexbeinstein.com/2007/10/barack-obama-youth-director-hans-riemer.html.

12. Natalie Morales, "Importance of the youth vote," NBC Today, February 4, 2008.

13. Paul Waldman, "The youth vote, the culture wars, and Barack Obama," American Prospect, November 21, 2007, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_youth_vote_the_culture_wars_and_barack_obama.

14. David Schaper, " 'Camp Obama' Trains Campaign Volunteers," National Public Radio, June 13, 2007, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyID=11012254.

15. Ryan Lizza, "Battle Plans; How Obama Won," New Yorker, November 17, 2008.

16. Olivia Ward, "Looking at how Obama brought youth to the polls," Toronto Star, November 10, 2008.

17. Ibid.

18. Andrew Chung, "Seeking out the MTV crowd," Toronto Star, February 4, 2008.

19. Ibid.

20. Michael Whack, "The "BAM" . . . The OBAMA Handshake!," Organizing for America Community Blogs, January 12, 2008, http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/michaelwhack/CVBJ.

21. Suzanne Goldenberg, "Generation gap: After a lifetime with Bush, only the hippest candidate will do," Guardian (London), February 2, 2008.

22. Romano, "He's One of Us Now."

23. "Our Fading Heritage: Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions," American Civic Literacy Program, 2008, http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/summary_summary.html.

24. Sara Hebel, "Obama, helped by youth vote, wins presidency and makes history," Chronicle of Higher Education, November 5, 2008.

25. Ibid.

26. Sara Lipka and Reeves Wiedeman, "Young voters overwhelmingly favored Obama, swinging some battleground states," Chronicle of Higher Education, November 14, 2008.

27. Ibid.

Chapter 1: The Media Muzzle and the Hope-a-Dope Mantra

1. "Obama in Jeans," CNN video, May 8, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/05/08/obama.jeans.cnn.

2. Richard Leiby, "Obama Delivers the Zingers at Journalists' Dinner," Washington Post, May 10, 2009.

3. Ashley Parker, "For Washington journalists, one night to laugh," The Caucus, New York Times blog, May 10, 2009, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/white-house-correspondents-association -dinner/.

4. Mike Allen and Michael Calderone, "Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar," Politico, July 3, 2009, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24441.html.

5. Brent Baker, "Revolving Door from Journalism to Team Obama Now Up to a Dozen," Media Research Center, July 29, 2009, http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20090729104616.aspx.

6. Richard Wolffe and Daren Briscoe, "Across the Divide: How Barack Obama is shaking up old assumptions about what it means to be black and white in America," Newsweek, July 16, 2007.

7. Ibid.

8. Daniel Schorr, "A New, 'Post-Racial' Political Era in America," NPR transcript, January 28, 2008, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18489466.

9. Lyndsi Thomas, "ChiTrib's Zuckman: Obama Success Story Just as Impressive as McCain POW Story," Newsbusters.org, July 9, 2008, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lyndsi-thomas/2008/07/09/chitribs -zuckman-obama-success-story-just-impressive-mccain-pow-story.

10. Jill Zuckman, "Fighting the 'Who?' factor: Candidates considered outside the top tier struggle to get even a once-over from voters," Chicago Tribune, June 28, 2007.

11. Jill Zuckman, "On the campaign trail, Palin has the folksy persona down," Chicago Tribune, September 16, 2008.

12. David Von Drehle, "Does Experience Matter in a President?" Time, March 10, 2008.

13. Ibid.

14. Richard Wolffe, "Our time for change has come," Newsweek, January 14, 2008.

15. "Obama Love Fest: NBC Reporter Admits Objectivity Difficult Amid Candidate Fervor," Breitbart TV, January 8, 2008, http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=26294.

16. Jacques Steinberg, "On the Press Bus, Some Questions over Favoritism," New York Times, March 1, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/us/politics/01press.html.

17. Joe Klein, "Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President," Time, October 23, 2006.

18. Ibid.

19. "The Invisible Primary--Invisible No Longer," Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, October 29, 2007, http://www.journalism.org/node/8187.

20. "How the Press Reported the 2008 General Election," Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, October 22, 2008, http://www.journalism.org/node/13307.

21. Eli Saslow, "As Duties Weigh Obama Down, His Faith in Fitness Only Increases," Washington Post, December 25, 2008.

22. Media Bias Facts, Media Research Center, http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/biasbasics3.asp.

23. Bill Dedman, "Journalists dole out cash to politicians (quietly)," MSNBC, June 25, 2007, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/ns/politics/.

24. "Obama's Selma Speech," March 5, 2007, http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/03/obamas_selma_speech_text_as_de.html.

25. "Obama, Clintons honor activists at Selma, Ala.," Associated Press, May 5, 2007, http://www.kcby.com/internal?st=print&id=6301042&path=/news/national.

26. "Obama's Margin of Victory: The Media," Media Research Center, http://www.mrc.org/SpecialReports/2008/obama/obama.asp.

27. Ibid.

28. Felix Gillette, "Primary Scream," New York Observer, February 5, 2008, http://www.observer.com/2008/primary-scream.

29. Martin Snap, "Barack as a Jedi knight," Contra Costa Times (Calif.), April 14, 2008, http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/martinsnapp/gGBJOg.

30. Lili Haydn, "Why Obama is like a desert lover," Huffington Post, February 29, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lili-haydn/why-obama-is-like-a-deser_b_89285.html.

31. Jose Antonio Vargas, "Obama Fervor Is Breaking on the Web," Washington Post, February 23, 2008.

32. Sam Fulwood III, "For Obama, hipness is what it is," Politico, April 24, 2009, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21522.html.

33. Ibid.

34. Ibid.

35. Alex Leo, "CNN Story On Obama's 'Swagga' The Most Embarrassing Ever?" Huffington Post, April 29, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/the-most-embarrassing-cnn_n_193095.html.

36. Ibid.

37. John Kass, "Obama's mystical (national media) disconnect from sleazy Chicago politics," Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2008, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/mediasobamaluv.html.

38. "Obama's Political 'Godfather' In Illinois," Associated Press, March 31, 2008.

39. Ibid.

40. Todd Spivak, "Barack Obama and Me," Houston Times, February 28, 2008.

41. Katie Couric, CBS Evening News, August 24, 2009.

42. Noel Sheppard, "MSNBC Anchor: 'Socialist' Is Becoming the New N-word," Newsbusters.org, August 10, 2009, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/10/msnbc-anchor-socialist-becoming-new-n-word.

43. Noel Sheppard, "Obama Official: 'At the White House, We Love MSNBC,' " Newsbusters.org, May 5, 2009, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/05/05/obama-official-white-house-we -love-msnbc.

44. Top 20 Contributors to Barack Obama during 2008 presidential campaign, Opensecrets.org, https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00009638&cycle=2008.

45. "Democratic National Cmte: Top Contributors," Opensecrets.org, https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/contrib.php?cmte=DNC&cycle=2008.

46. Suzy Jagger, "Google unveils 'trillion-dollar' clean energy program," TimesOnline, October 3, 2008, http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article4870334.ece.

47. Thomas Claburn, "Google CEO Eric Schmidt Calls for Innovation Bailout," InformationWeek, November 18, 2008.

48. Rob Preston, "In Search Of An Economic Solution: Schmidt's Views," InformationWeek, December 1, 2008.

49. Ibid.

50. Owen Thomas, "Google Execs Pay $150,000 for Obama Bash," December 27, 2008, http://valleywag.gawker.com/5119039/google -execs-pay-150000-for-obama-bash.

51. "Apple, Google face FTC antitrust probe," Deal, May 5, 2009, http://www.thedeal.com/corporatedealmaker/2009/05/
apple_google_face_ftc_antitrus.php.

52. "Apple, Silicon valley line up behind Obama," October 25, 2008, http://www.9to5mac.com/apple-obama.

53. World News Tonight with Charlie Gibson, ABC, January, 4, 2008.

Chapter 2: Will You Be My (Facebook) Friend?

1. will.i.am, "Why I Recorded Yes We Can," Huffington Post, February 3, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william/why-i-recorded-yes-we-can_b_84655.html.

2. Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta, "Barack Obama and the Facebook Election," U.S. News & World Report, November 19, 2008, http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/11/19/barack-obama-and-the-facebook-election.html.

3. will.i.am, "Why I Recorded Yes We Can."

4. Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry, "The Web: 2008's Winning Ticket," Politico, November 12, 2008, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15520.html.

5. Amber Lee Ettinger, "I Got a Crush on Obama," YouTube, June 13, 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU&feature=PlayList&p=vY3x8oj4XFI.

6. "Hollywood Declares Themselves," YouTube, October 1, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olpCyDA4kYA.

7. Norman Lear, DiscoverTheNetworks.org, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1945.

8. Brooks Barnes, "Getting Out the Vote, Keeping Up with Youth," New York Times, August 1, 2008.

9. Rasiej and Sifry, "The Web: 2008's Winning Ticket."

10. Alexander Burns, "McCain camp lacked in high-tech," Politico, November 22, 2008, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15888.html.

11. David Talbot, "White House 2.0. A group of Boston geeks helped Barack Obama turn the Web into the ultimate political machine. Will he use it now to reinvent government," Boston Globe, January 11, 2009.

12. Ibid.

13. Ellen McGirt, "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign," FastCompany.com, March 17, 2009, http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/134/boy-wonder.html.

14. Brian Stelter, "The Facebooker Who Friended Obama," New York Times, July 7, 2008.

15. Brian C. Mooney, "Technology aids Obama's outreach drive," Boston Globe, February 24, 2008.

16. McGirt, "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign."

17. Ibid.

18. Mooney, "Technology aids Obama's outreach drive."

19. Joe Garofoli, "Appetite for change finally draws young voters to the polls," San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 2008.

20. Ibid.

21. Mark Hennessy, "Obama to continue exploiting potential of web as president," Irish Times, November 11, 2008.

22. Catherine Holahan, "Can Obama Turn Friends into Votes?" BusinessWeek Online, August 27, 2008, http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc20080825_808232.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech.

23. Ibid.

24. McGirt, "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign."

25. Ibid.

26. Ibid.

27. Ibid.

28. Jose Antonio Vargas, "Obama's Wide Web," Washington Post, August 20, 2008.

29. McGirt, "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign."

30. Jose Antonio Vargas, "Politics Is No Longer Local. It's Viral," Washington Post, December 28, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/26/AR2008122601131.html.

31. Colin Delaney, "Obama Campaign's New Media Staff was NOT a Part of the Tech Team," Epolitics.com, January 28, 2009, http://www.epolitics.com/2009/01/28/obama-campaigns-new-media-staff-was-not-a-part-of-the-tech-team/.

32. McGirt, "How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign."

33. Michael Cornfield, "New Technology and the 2008 Election," in Larry J. Sabato, ed., The Year of Obama (New York: Longman, 2008), p. 213.

34. Ibid., p. 214.

35. "David Plouffe's Strategy Update: October 14, 2008," YouTube, October 13, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R92Fg5sznLQ&feature=channel.

36. David Saltonstall, "Obama Push for 'Text Generation' To Get the Message," Daily News (New York), October 29, 2008.

37. Vargas, "Obama's Wide Web."

38. "Bronx students discuss Obama's race speech," YouTube, March 28, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IldaegAB0.

39. Vargas, "Obama's Wide Web."

40. Ben Smith, "Largest phone bank ever," Politico, December 9, 2007, http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1207/Largest_phone_bank_ever.html.

41. Ibid.

42. Vargas, "Obama's Wide Web."

43. Jim Kuhnhenn, "Obama uses speech for hightech outreach," Boston Globe, August 28, 2008, http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/08/28/
obama_uses_speech_for_high_tech_outreach/?page=1.

44. Ibid.

45. Saltonstall, "Obama Push for 'Text Generation' To Get the Message."

46. Obama '08: The Official iPhone Application, http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/iphone.

47. Cornfield, "New Technology and the 2008 Election," p. 224.

48. David Carr, "How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks' Power," New York Times, November 9, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.html?_r=1.

49. Jose Antonio Vargas, "Obama Raised Half a Billion Online," Washington Post, November 20, 2008, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/11/20/obama_raised_half_a_billion_on.html.

50. "Young Voters in the 2008 Election," Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, November 12, 2008, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1031/young-voters-in-the-2008-election.

Chapter 3: The Dave Matthews Electoral Magnet-- And Other Ways to Manufacture a Crowd

1. "Celebrity-packed pledge for Obama," Huffington Post, January 19, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/19/celebrity-packed-pledge-f_n_159046.html.

2. Tina Daunt, "On the stump for Barack Obama until the final curtain," Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2008, http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/31/entertainment/et-cause31.

3. Jay Newton-Small, "Obama's Celebrity Army," Time, February 4, 2008.

4. "Celebrities React to Obama Win: Oprah, Pitt, Lohan, Alba, Clooney, Madonna, More," Huffington Post, November 5, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/celebrities-react-to-obam_n_141305.html.

5. Ibid.

6. "Sherri Shepherd Sobs Over Obama Win," Huffington Post, November 5, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/sherri-shepherd-sobs-over_n_141398.html.

7. "Madonna, Oprah, others react to Obama win," MSNBC, Novem- ber 5, 2008, http://www.msnbc.msp.com/id/27557276/ns/entertainment-celebrities/.

8. Ibid.

9. Eric Bates, "Dave Matthews speaks out for Barack Obama," Rolling Stone, April 17, 2008, http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20093048/dave_matthews
_speaks_out_for_barack_obama.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.

12. http://gawker.com/5005030/obamas-dirty-trick-involved-dave-matthews.

13. Martha Irvine, "Tough Political Realities Have Quieted Youth 'Obamamania,' " Huffington Post, September 22, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090922/us-obama-youth-hangover.

14. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS152365+03-Mar-2009+PRN20090303.

15. Lindsay Lohan, "Uh Oh," MySpace, September 14, 2008, http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=29730276&blogID=432883808.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. "Matt Damon On Palin: 'Like A Really Bad Disney Movie . . . Totally Absurd,' Palin Responds (VIDEO)," Huffington Post, September 10, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/matt-damon-on-palin-like_n_125334.html.

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 Monthly'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/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.

18. Lawrence Solomon, "Limited role for C02," National Post (Canada), February 2, 2007, http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=069cb5b2-7d8l-4a8e-825d-56e0f112aeb5&k=0.

19. Phil Chapman, "Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh," Australian, April 23, 2008, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0.25197.23583376-7583.00.html.

20. Piper Fogg, "Saving the Planet, by Degrees," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2006.

21. Jennifer Weeks, "Planet Earth 101: Why more and more campuses are seeing green in going green," Boston Globe Magazine, October 5, 2008.

22. "What Is a Sustainable University," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2006.

23. Lisa W. Foderaro, "Without Cafeteria Trays, Colleges Find Savings," New York Times, April 29, 2009.

24. Ibid.

25. Richard Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future," Chronicle of Higher Education, December 14, 2007.

26. Will Potter, "The First Certified 'Green' Dormitory," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 26, 2004.

27. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."

28. Richard Monastersky, "Truth in Advertising: Middlebury College's Biomass Plant," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2006.

29. Ibid.

30. Ibid.

31. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."

32. Scott Carlson, "In Search of the Sustainable Campus: With eyes on the future, universities try to clean up their acts," Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2006.

33. Ibid.

34. Ibid.

35. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."

36. Ibid.

37. Ibid.

38. Editorial, "Wind ($23.37) v. Gas (25 Cents)," Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2008.

39. Ibid.

40. Ibid.

41. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."

42. Marc Morano, "Celebs Ignore Death, Poverty on MTV Enviro Series," CNSNews.com, April 25, 2005, http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005-04-28/celebs.htm.

43. Ned Martel, "Eco-Lessons Taught in a Surfer-Girl Patois," New York Times, March 28, 2005.

44. Morano, "Celebs Ignore Death, Poverty on MTV Enviro Series."

45. Alessandra Stanley, "Sounding the Global-Warming Alarm Without Upsetting the Fans," New York Times, July 9, 2007.

46. Ibid.

47. "Live Earth is promoting green to save the planet--what planet are they on?" Daily Mail (London), July 7, 2007, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-466775/Live-Earth-promoting-green-save-planet--planet-on.html.

48. "Cameron Diaz's Potty Mouth," Radar Online, May 9, 2009, http://www.radarmagazine.com/exclusives/2009/05/cameron-diazs-potty-mouth.

49. "More Than 700 (Previously 650) International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims," U.S. Senate Minority Report, December 11, 2008, http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm? FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=d6d95751 -802a-23ad-4496-7ec7e1641f2f.

50. Erika Lovely, "Scientists urge caution on global warming," Politico, November 25, 2008, http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid= D0C4924D-18FE-70B2-A808D77A9C1FFFD3.

51. Comment on Grist.org by Andy Revkin, March 8, 2008, http://www.grist.org/member/view-all/comments/2231.

52. Andrew C. Revkin, "In Debate on Climate Change, Exaggeration Is a Common Pitfall," New York Times, February 25, 2009.

53. Steven Milloy, "The Real Inconvenient Truth: Some facts about greenhouse and global warming," Junk Science, August 2007, http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/.

54. Dudley J. Hughes, "Carbon Dioxide Levels Are a Blessing, Not a Problem," Environment & Climate News, Heartland Institute, May 1, 2007, http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/20952/Carbon_Dioxide
_Levels_Are_a_Blessing_Not_a_Problem.html.

55. Michael Asher, "Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling," Daily Tech, February 26, 2008, http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article 10866.htm.

56. Michael Asher, "Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data," Daily Tech, August 9, 2007, http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8383.

57. "Green fuels produce twice as much carbon as fossil fuels," Tele graph.Co.Uk, April, 14, 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenertransport/5153781/Green-fuels-produce-twice-as-much-car bon-as-fossil-fuels.html.

58. "Think twice about 'green' transport, say scientists," Breitbart.com, June 7, 2009, http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.243153c6a091a3b942a75077729e8c92.c51&show_article=1.

59. Ian Murray, "Time to recycle recycling," Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 6, 2008, http://cei.org/articles/time-recycle-recy cling.

Chapter 6: Health-Care Hypnosis

1. "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008," Congressional Budget Office, September 2009, http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/news_con ferences/014226.html.

2. Michael D. Tanner, "Who are the uninsured?" Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 2009.

3. "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008."

4. "Obama's mother of all political lies and the town hall mayhem it caused," Naked Emperor News, August 10, 2009, http://www.breitbart.tv/naked-emperor-news-obamas-mother-of-all-political-lies -and-the-town-hall-mayhem-it-caused/.

5. "White House releases list of health executive visitors," Associated Press, July 23, 2009, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-healthcare-talks23-2009jul23.0.220833.story.

6. David Espo, "Drug firms cut secret deal with Obama, Congress," Capitol Hill Blue, June 21, 2009, http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/18223.

7. "The truth about health insurance," Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2009.

8. Hilton Friedman, "How to Cure Health Care," Hoover Digest, 2001, http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3459466.html.

9. Devon Herrick and Ariel House, "Competition, Deregulation Can Make Health Insurance Affordable," Heartland Institute, http://www.heartland.org/publications/health%20care/article/24019/Com petition_Deregulation_Can_Make_Health_Insurance_Affordable.html.

10. Ann Coulter, "Liberal Lies About National Health Care: First In a Series," Human Events Online, August 19, 2009, http://www.hu manevents.com/article.php?id=33213.

11. Natalie Morales, "Importance of youth vote," NBC Today show, February 4, 2008.

12. Barack Obama, Northwestern University Commencement Address, June 16, 2006, http://www.obamaspeeches.com/079-Northwestern -University-Commencement-Address-Obama-Speech.htm.

13. Lois Romano, "Generation Y: Ready to rock the 2008 election," Washington Post, January 10, 2008.

14. Michael Pollan, "Big food vs. big insurance," New York Times, September 9, 2009.

15. Jim Geraghty, "A Long and Contradictory Laundry List of Promises," National Review Online's The Campaign Spot, http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2UzZWO2YTAxNmRmMDk2ZDE4ZDB1ZTEyMTA1ZDFmNDI=.

16. Ed Morrissey, "A brief lesson on markets and rationing," HotAir.com, July 21, 2009, http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/21/a-brief-les son-on-markets-and-rationing/.

17. Erica Williams, "For Young Americans, Health Care Reform Is Our Fight," Huffington Post, August 6, 2009, http://www.huffington post.com/erica-williams/for-young-americans-healt_b_252858.html, accessed October 27, 2009.

18. David Walker, "Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: Action Is Needed to Avoid the Possibility of a Serious Economic Disruption in the Future," testimony before the Senate Budge Committee, General Accounting Office, January 29, 2008, http://gao.gov/new.items/d08411t.pdf.

19. Ibid.

20. Shawn Tully, "5 freedoms you'd lose in health care reform," CNNMoney.com, July 24, 2009, http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_
care_reform_obama.fortune/.

21. Robert Book, "Who Will Make Your Health Care 'Choices'?" Heritage Foundation's Foundry blog, July 29, 2009, http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/29/who-will-make-your-health-care-choices/.

22. "Young people the biggest losers in health care reform?" Rock the Vote press release, July 28, 2009, http://www.rockthevote.com/about/press-room/press-releases/wall-street-journal.html.

23. Karyn Schwartz and Tanya Schwartz, "Uninsured young adults: A profile and overview of coverage options," Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2008.

Chapter 7: The Economic Igor

1. Paul R. La Monica, "Behind the minimum wage debate," CNNMoney.com, September 5, 2008, http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/05/markets/thebuzz/index.htm.

2. Ben Adler, "Democrats try to get hip to young voters," Politico, September 26, 2007, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/6015.html.

3. Barack Obama speech at the AFL-CIO Labor Day Picnic in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 7, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Labor -Day-Reform-and-the-Fight-for-Whats-Right/.

4. James Sherk, "Raising the minimum wage will not reduce poverty," Heritage Foundation, January 8, 2007, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Labor/bg1994.cfm.

5. Scott Mayerowitz, "Relief for Workers at Bottom: Minimum Wage Goes Up," ABC News, July 24, 2009, http://a.abcnews.com/Business/Story?id=8159485&page=1.

6. David Neumark, "Delay the Minimum-Wage Hike," Wall Street Journal, June 12, 2009.

7. Tim Kane, "Minimizing Economic Opportunity by Raising the Minimum Wage," Heritage Foundation, March 4, 2005, http://www.heritage.org/research/economy/wm676.cfm.

8. "The Young and the Jobless," Wall Street Journal, October 3, 2009.

9. Diane Stafford, "Unemployment rate hits record low for young people in July," Kansas City Star, August 27, 2009, http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1409954.html.

10. Fred Lucas, "Obama's for Equal Pay, Yet Pays Female Staffers Less Than Males," CNSNews.com, June 30, 2008, http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=32005.

11. Cait Murphy, "Obama Flunks Econ 101," CNNMoney.com, June 6, 2007, http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/04/magazines/fortune/muphy_pay act.fortune/index.htm.

12. James Sherk, "Paycheck Fairness Act Unfairly Burdens Employees and Employers," Heritage Foundation, July 30, 2008.

13. Rachel Breitman, "Young women earn more than men in big U.S. cities," Reuters, August 3, 2007, http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0334472920070803.

14. Wendy McElroy, "Why Men Earn More," Fox News, February 24, 2005, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0.2933.148407.00.html.

15. Fred Lucas, "Obama Pays Women Only 78 Percent of What He Pays Men," CNSNews.com September 18, 2008, http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=35972.

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.broadcastingcable.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.

35. Ibid.

36. Ibid.

37. Dave Itzkoff, "Can We Laugh? Yes, We Can," New York Times, November 7, 2008.

38. Frank Rich, "Throw the Truthiness Bums Out," New York Times, November 5, 2006.

39. "Colbert Roasts President Bush--2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner," Google videos, http://video.google.com/video play?docid=869183917758574879#.

40. Seth Mnookin, "The Man in the Irony Mask," Vanity Fair, October 2007.

41. Ibid.

42. Steven Daly, "Stephen Colbert: the second most powerful idiot in America," Sunday Telegraph (London), May 18, 2008.

43. Greg Mitchell, "Obama Owes Presidency To . . . Stephen Colbert?" Huffington Post, February 21, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/obama-owes-presidency-tos_b_159664.html.

44. Mnookin, "The Man in the Irony Mask."

45. Daly, "Stephen Colbert: the second most powerful idiot in America."

46. Ibid.

47. Maureen Dowd, "America's Anchors," Rolling Stone, October 31, 2006.

48. Mnookin, "The Man in the Irony Mask."

49. Daly, "Stephen Colbert: the second most powerful idiot in America."

50. "Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources," Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, August 17, 2008, http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=1353.

51. "Nearly One-Third of Younger Americans See Colbert, Stewart As Alternatives to Traditional News Outlets," Rasmussen Reports, March 25, 2009, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/life
style/entertainment/march_2009/nearly_one_third_of_
younger_americans_see_colbert_stewart_as_
alternatives_to_traditional_news_outlets.

52. Ibid.

53. Gail Shister, "Young adults eschew traditional night news for 'The Daily Show,' " Philly.com, May 13, 2007, http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/gail_shister/
20070513_Young_adults_eschew_traditional
_nightly_news_for_quot_The_Daily_Show_quot_html? page=2.

54. Ibid.

55. Mnookin, "The Man in the Irony Mask."

Conclusion

1. "Independents Take Center Stage in Obama Era," Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, May 21, 2009, http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=1516.

2. Lydia Saad, " 'Conservatives' Are Single-Largest Ideological Group," June 15, 2009, http://www.gallup.com/poll/120857/Conservatives-Single-Largest-Ideological-Group.aspx.

3. Martha Irvine, "Tough political realities quiet youth 'Obamamania,' " Huffington Post, September 22, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090922/us_obama_youth_hangover.

4. Saad, " 'Conservatives' Are Single-Largest Ideological Group."

5. David Von Drehle, "The Year of the Youth Vote," Time, January 31, 2008.

6. Jeff Mason, "Obama to raise 10-year deficit to $9 trillion," Reuters, August 21, 2009, http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE57K4XE20090821.

7. Mark Knoller, "National debt now tops $12 trillion," CBS News Political Hotsheet, November 17, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/17/politics/
politicalhotsheet/entry5686644.shtml.

8. Byron York, "Michelle's Struggle," National Review Online, February 29, 2008, http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmEyN2RkNzcwYzgyZDY2MDBiY2U5MjJ1ZGMwNDM2ODg=.

9. "Obama ASU speech: Full text," Huffington Post, May 13, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/13/obama_asu_speech_tex_n_203287.html.

10. P.J. O'Rourke, "Fairness, Idealism and Other Atrocities," Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2008.

11. Ibid.

12. University of North Carolina Economics Department, http://www.unc.edu/depts/econ/byrns_web/Economicae/HET/Pioneers/Smith.htm.

13. Wayne Crews and Ryan Young, "America's Hidden Trillion-Dollar Tax," Investor's Business Daily, May 27, 2009, http://www.ibdedito rials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?secid=1502&status=article&id=328318400128627&secure=1&show=1&rss=1.

14. "America Celebrates Tax Freedom Day," Tax Foundation, March 31, 2009, http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday/.

15. George Will, "March of the Polar Bears," Washington Post, May 22, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052102428.html.

16. Nicole Hoplin, "Obama Takes a Page from Reagan's Playbook," Human Events, October 29, 2008, http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29237.