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Leading young conservative Jason Mattera was applauded by Rush Limbaugh when he took the heads off the Obama Zombies and was praised by Andrew Breitbart and Mark Levin for tackling Hollywood Hypocrites. His "ambush interviews" of top liberals have become Internet legends. He is the founder of the mostrar mais conservative watchdog site Daily Surge. mostrar menos

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(note: this was among my to-be-reviewed books that ended up in the hands of the wrong people when moving 4/1/18 - see https://btripp-books.livejournal.com/206862.html for details - I did brief reviews of these lost books on recall)
(finished 11/17/17)
I hated the previous administration, and so any book casting them in a bad light is likely to be of interest to me. I'm not sue how this one got into my hands (dollar store?), but I looked forward to getting into it. Unfortunately, it primarily served to get me pissed off, with the slimy tentacles of that vile crew getting into every interest area of the younger generation and driving their falsehoods into “common knowledge” territory. I had a lot of notes in this one as well, but it would have just ended up as a rant more than a review.… (mais)
 
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BTRIPP | 1 outra crítica | May 9, 2019 |
Interesting topics but sophomore level writing.
 
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starkravingmad | 1 outra crítica | Sep 30, 2012 |
I'm having a hard time writing about this book. Yes, it's a great overview of the gross liberal hypocrisy of Hollywood. Yeah, it's extremely galling, and I think even liberals would find it interesting, since it documents how these people espouse their same ideals in public and snub them in private. And yes, it's important to recognize their hypocrisy because, like it or not, these celebrity blowhards do hold political sway (remember, 66% of voters 18-29 went for Obama -- you think that would have happened without high profile and popular celebs shilling for him?).

But it seems to me that there's a more basic truth to gain from the facts in this book. Why is there so much hypocrisy in liberal causes? Do they not really believe in "going green" or the validity of welfare programs or affirmative action? I can't think of any conservative principle that high-profile conservatives vehemently claim to support but regularly flout. And maybe that's because, according to Peter Schweizer as quoted in Hollywood Hypocrites, "conservatives who abandon their principles and engage in hypocrisy usually end up harming themselves and their families...liberals who do the same usually benefit." Maybe this says something about the principles themselves.

Jason Mattera does a great job of emphasizing that he doesn't blame these Hollywood hypocrites for trying to be "tax efficient" (read: pay less) or for making violent movies or for engaging in capitalism or owning guns or for flying private jets everywhere. What Mattera, and hopefully any reasonable reader, objects to is the fact that these celebs simultaneously demand that other people stop doing such things. These people want you to put YOUR money where THEIR mouth is, even though they have unreasonably big mouths and even bigger wallets. They want to restrict your freedom, knowing they have enough influence and/or dough to sidestep the restrictions.

The only thing I don't totally appreciate about Jason Mattera is his name-calling. His other book, Obama Zombies, was the same way. Now, it's obviously used for comedic effect, and it's NOT hateful or vulgar (like, say, Bill Maher), but I do think it gives detractors something to focus on so they can ignore the book's facts and argument.
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edenic | 1 outra crítica | Apr 2, 2012 |
This book is about how the team behind Obama's 2008 campaign won the hearts of college students. The author uses this chance to tackle several hot topics, providing data I hadn't seen before, which in my mind balances out some of the issues at hand.

Though interesting, this book was difficult to read at times. The author writes in the speaking voice of a 20-year old, so at times, you don't want to take him seriously. Another problem I had with this book is that for all of it's anti-Obama campaign speak, I actually became very impressed with what they were able to pull off. Maybe if the Republicans were a little more innovative, they'd have a better hand at this game.

In the end, I read this book to maintain balance. I don't support the Democratic or Republican parties. Like Lewis Black says, our bipartisan system is like a bowl of shit staring in the mirror at itself. The Republicans spend too much time farting and the Democrats spend too much time sniffing those farts.
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Aerow | 1 outra crítica | Aug 15, 2011 |

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