Conservative Author Launches Personal Attack Against President Obama
ABC News Thomas Giusto and Lindsey Ellerson report:
Conservative author Jason Mattera launched a relentless revolt today against President Obama and the leftist agenda, mocking Obama loyalists during remarks made at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Coining those who support the president as "Obama Zombies", Mattera called on young Republicans to reclaim their freedom and push back against government control.
“It's time for every young person here today to make a bold and counter-cultural statement that we are free-thinking, freedom-loving, young people who are fed up with the left's lobotomy of a generation,” proclaimed Mattera. “We must be that generation that stands athwart history yelling, "Hey Jack A**, get your government off my freedom!”
Mattera, author of “Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation”, began his remarks at the Washington, D.C. conference by joking that CPAC is the conservatives' equivalent to "Woodstock", only "unlike the left gathering, our women are beautiful, we speak in complete sentences and our notion of freedom doesn’t consist of snorting cocaine, which is certainly one thing that separates us from Barack Obama."
Not only did Mattera hit Obama for his acknowledged drug use as a youth, but he went on to ridicule feminism, diversity and homosexuals.
“The allegiance to political correctness on the college campus goes a long way toward explaining how young people in their heart of hearts actually believe that a scrawny street agitator turned presidential candidate could save mankind, renew our faith in American politics, stop glaciers from melting, curb racism, end all wars, tackle terrorism, provide us health care, pay for our college tuition, and oh while he's at it, Barack promises to send a government unicorn down to the sky to fly us up to the left's world where people dance across the streets of government owned gold, eating FDA approved candy canes, and where MSNBC is programmed on every channel,” chided Mattera. “Buyers remorse is setting in, heck even the slutty Obama girl said her crush has faded.”
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I was agreeing with everything he said until he stated Obama wanted every TV on MSNBC. I’ll bet even the President can’t stand to watch Chris the spitter, K Olberbama, or Madcow. Some nights their ratings are so low it suggests even their families aren’t watching.
Posted by: jerry | February 18, 2010, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm
That’s hilarious…he sounds like my kid!
Posted by: wow | February 18, 2010, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
The only racism being spewed is by those screaming racism every time someone doesn’t agree with Obama’s agenda.
Posted by: wow | February 18, 2010, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm
Oh my. Coulter might end up sharing her playground.
Posted by: secondlook | February 18, 2010, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm
This young man’s lack of intelligence is rivaled only by his immaturity. He is just angry that as a white, heterosexual male, he no longer enjoys special privileges. Sorry, son, but your race, sexual orientation, and sex are no longer are an automatic ticket to success. You must now actually work to get ahead…and something tells me you are going to have a hard time competing with motivated minorities. Among my students, I find that it is the white, middle-class students who have the greatest sense of entitlement.
Posted by: Clay | February 18, 2010, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm
Cheney now this hack. And while it’s funny that he sites MSNBC, we all know who he and the CPAC looney toons are watching. Any wonder these people were sent packing last election.
Posted by: pamp205 | February 18, 2010, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm
I’ve read this a couple times in a row and while Mattera’s shtick seems obnoxious (albeit no different than a Keith Olbermann) I’ve yet to find the part where he allegedly “went on to ridicule feminism, diversity and homosexuals.”
All he’s doing is pointing out that Obama proclaimed himself as the chosen one — saying at his nomination that we’d remember it as the moment “that the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal” — and people are finding it’s just not so.
So for that, says ABC News, Mattera MUST BE a gay-hating, misogynist racist. Ah, yes, THAT media bias…
Posted by: Greg | February 18, 2010, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm
Sounds tough but in High School he was a total bottom
Posted by: Stevo | February 18, 2010, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm
I thought CPAC was a Republican shindig, not a ‘teacupper’ hate fest.
Posted by: devilkev | February 18, 2010, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm
Where was his protests against gov’t control, ‘get your gov’t off my freedom’ when GWB and Cheney took so many freedoms away?
Posted by: Lori | February 18, 2010, 11:50 pm 11:50 pm
Yes.. they got theirs sonny and now you want your’s. I never got anything without working for it. So much for Politics. By the way It’s not a Science. Just a mind bender of wants.
PS. They got theirs you get yours or Someone got yours and now your crying. Welcome to America.
Posted by: art | February 18, 2010, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm
“Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation”
… What the heck is wrong with the GOP these days? All of our leaders sound like whiney little drama queens. It’s one thing to be able to pick apart Obama’s agenda with facts and logic, it’s quite another to just call names, stamp ones feet and throw a tantrum.
If this is what we get in the next election, then this Republican will vote for Obama again. The GOP leadership is a joke.
Posted by: captain crunch | February 18, 2010, 11:52 pm 11:52 pm
Of course he’s standing in front of the flag. Hope he sells lots of books.
Posted by: Dennis | February 19, 2010, 12:18 am 12:18 am
Is this all you’ve got? Name calling and insults – good luck in 2010.
Posted by: elephant | February 19, 2010, 12:24 am 12:24 am
I’ve never responded to one of these articles before – lose my patience with the kind of responses posted too quickly. Just feel I must reply without looking at the other postings.
This idiot makes me ashamed of what my country has become. I’m almost 62– and a white male. I consider myself an old time conservative who believes in individuals being responsible for their lives. I also live in NYC and love the diversity in people and thought. There is no one I have ever met who demonstrates the kind of idiocy Mattera describes in Obama supporters. But, unfortunately it is too easy to create an imaginary “enemy” to rail against. We all need to stop and think about what is true; what is simply political hype; and what is simply BS espoused by those afraid of losing their privileges to people as deserving as anyone else. Don’t fall for the stupid emotional appeal of someone like Mattera. We have minds for a purpose – we should not be directed by emotional, ad hominum attacks that seem to be too common now.
Posted by: Rowland Laedlein | February 19, 2010, 12:26 am 12:26 am
If you call someone a liar and that person actually lies – is that an ad hominum attack? For example, if I call Obama an inexperienced sophist – groomed for high office because of his color and speaking ability – more than his resume – a man more prone to puffery than telling the truth – is that an ad hominum attack? Inquiring minds would like to know…
Posted by: Bill | February 19, 2010, 1:31 am 1:31 am
Exactly what freedom have they lost?
Posted by: Doug | February 19, 2010, 1:31 am 1:31 am
They removed my post because I made a personal statement about this blogger and Ms. DeMint. It was schoolyard in nature but not obscene or threatening. Obviously these guys have very, very thin skin.
Posted by: jeremy | February 19, 2010, 2:20 am 2:20 am
Americans should take their country back. Kick Obama out of office in 2012
Posted by: winston | February 19, 2010, 2:33 am 2:33 am
Rough translation of his speech:
I’m outlandish and speak in emotionally charged language to get a reaction.
Please buy my book.
Posted by: Frank | February 19, 2010, 2:46 am 2:46 am
Take their country back? From where? It was on the brink of financial collapse – so I guess the kid liked it there. Under Bush/Cheney it had shredded the Constitution – suspending Habeas Corpus in some cases – embracing torture – ignoring the clear Constitutional language about warrants for searches – I guess the kid liked that -
Obama was trying to take away the freedom of Insurance companies to screw you – the freedom of Bankers to rob you – and the freedom of lobbyists to govern you. Yeah – good luck kid getting your freedoms back. You sorry little dipstick.
Posted by: nhbob | February 19, 2010, 2:59 am 2:59 am
First, look at the source. Just another ranting hate and fear monger.
Now look at his message – revolt.
With open revolt against the first openly elected President in three elections as the subject remember that the right-wing hate groups and private militias are better armed than most law enforcement organizations. When do these fanatic radicals start calling for violence against the government?
Every time I turn on the television this country looks more and more like 1933 Germany with an out-of-control radical right threatening the government.
Posted by: NovaB | February 19, 2010, 7:15 am 7:15 am
So, this guys has lots of criticism. The problem is that it is just a nonensical rant. He never points out anything that is specifically wrong; just generalizations. And he offered no ideas, no solutions. What was his point? Why do people listen to these idiots?
Posted by: Lee | February 19, 2010, 7:43 am 7:43 am
Wow… just wow. I am completely embarrassed that I have ever registered as a Republican. Apparently only the civil republicans left when I did.
This is a national disgrace. CPAC has become a convention of traitors and most of the speakers should be exiled for their apparent racist hate and anti americanism.
Posted by: tylerkad | February 19, 2010, 7:43 am 7:43 am
lol, snorting cocaine? Does this guy NOT know who George Bush is?? What a moron.
Posted by: Terd_Ferg | February 19, 2010, 7:50 am 7:50 am
anyone who can’t see the democrats want to take your money, and give it to the unions, and the great mass of people who don’t work, are kidding themselves. It is socialism they preach, and we will run out of people who want to work, to support those on the gov. dole. the democratic base reminds me of a baby bird in the nest with their mouth open, waiting for mama bird to feed them
Posted by: madmax | February 19, 2010, 8:12 am 8:12 am
Ummmm – I do believe it was George Bush who had the cocaine problem. Just sayin…..
Posted by: Office Goddess | February 19, 2010, 8:21 am 8:21 am
To Capt Crunch and Rowland,
I agree. I’ve been a life long GOPer, but it’s hard to embrace a party that is whiney and throws BS around. I want our party to state facts, support their talking points and provide solutions. So far I’ve heard none of that. I didn’t leave the GOP, the GOP left me!!
Posted by: Rogerd247 | February 19, 2010, 8:53 am 8:53 am
He speaks without wearing a tie and a vest, has the nerve to have a cheap sweater in place of them, and then says he’s against “diversity”?
But he does know how to say things that will strike home with America’s disenchanted. Obama’s handling of taxes, business regulation, etc. are far more conservative than Ronald Reagan, yet he’s a “socialist”?
Posted by: The_Mick | February 19, 2010, 9:05 am 9:05 am
I tried to warn all of you back in ’08.I know a huckster when I see a huckster. He paints a mental picture that leads his audience to envision something like Nirvana,
perfection,euphoria with him leading the way. Then just before commitment, while his listener is still entranced, he veers off to some other subject. Meanwhile our minds hear things he never promised. His words are nonetheless somehow comforting. AKA brainwashing.
Posted by: mmonroeliveson | February 19, 2010, 9:09 am 9:09 am
Too funny. Hannity Lite. What a loser.
Posted by: Jim Bob | February 19, 2010, 9:25 am 9:25 am
What an idiot. Was he BORN in 2010? In the previous administration, anyone who disagreed with the freedom robbing, greed filled, saudi loving administration was labelled “UNPATRIOTIC”. First time I’d ever heard that for expressing a dissenting opinion. I’m over 50. THIS guy is definitely unpatriotic, because he doesn’t care if Americans suffer, as long as the GOP reigns supreme.
Posted by: paintpaintpaint | February 19, 2010, 9:30 am 9:30 am
OMG, I LOVE the ‘take our country back’ crap! It’s not YOUR country – it belongs to ALL of us. And when you bozos are in charge you exclude anyone who’s not ‘like you. We DID take our country back, and elected an intelligent, compassionate, thoughtful president – the complete opposite of what you had in place for the previous 8 years. It’s going to take time to undo all the greed-sponsored, heavy handed messes Bush et al made, so we’re willing to wait for more than one year. Get over yourselves.
Posted by: paintpaintpaint | February 19, 2010, 9:37 am 9:37 am
NCPILOT10 – you should read about the Patriot Act. Also, be careful what you say on the phone, via email, etc., because for no good reason YOU could be monitored.
Posted by: paintpaintpaint | February 19, 2010, 9:39 am 9:39 am
I remember the crap the Dixie Chicks went thru when they disagreed with King George.
My how the conservatives went after them. But they expect they can go after Obama and should not have to receive any of the crap they dished out.
I am beginning to believe the conservative movement is more about lies and no facts.
They want a civil war I will give them a civil war. The conservative movement is composed of the descendants of those that burnt four little girls to death in a church.
The conservatives are not Christians. They are the false prophets we have been warned about. They are the descendants of the Pharisees that Christ despised.
Posted by: Steve | February 19, 2010, 9:52 am 9:52 am
Problem with using Zombies for his comparison… there had to be a large corporate experiment go wrong prior to the Zombie infestation… I guess that was GWB’s reign.
I’d also like to ask… is using extreme language conservative? In my understanding, conservatives do not lap up drama… they want pragmatic solutions. I’m not hearing “Conservative” from Cheney and company… I hear Hate and fear.
Posted by: DewyB | February 19, 2010, 10:05 am 10:05 am
It’s sad that this passes as dialogue in politics. It’s more what I’d expect to see in an unstable nation or a dictatorship.
If Obama has made an error, it is in letting Congress call the shots. This has led to the loony left demanding outrageous pet projects. Worse, it has created outbursts like this from the neo-Nazi right.
I’d like to know what happened to the beliefs of conservatives like Buckley, Goldwater, and Reagan, because those claiming to be conservative now are not, not like B, G, and R were and that’s sad.
Posted by: Jim | February 19, 2010, 10:07 am 10:07 am
“our notion of freedom doesn’t consist of snorting cocaine, which is certainly one thing that separates us from Barack Obama.”
Obviously this idiot has confused Obama with Dubya!
Posted by: Nolanmar | February 19, 2010, 10:09 am 10:09 am
Having some people against you might be a badge of honor. The last “compassionate conservative” president we had (GWB) led us for eight years in which there was negative job growth; the big banks, corporations and CEOs were allowed to go wild and had to be bailed out; the deficit skyrocketed; the middle class got stomped; and Bush’s presidency ended with a depression.
If that’s what conservatives are all about, I’m not interested in seeing them in office again anytime soon.
Posted by: JAB | February 19, 2010, 10:11 am 10:11 am
Just another right wing nut job who will compel some mal-adjusted individual to fly his plane into an IRS building.
Posted by: Bill Dull | February 19, 2010, 10:20 am 10:20 am
I was really hoping that this neo-conic movement would go the way of the McCarthy era, but it appears that if you tell people the sky is green long enough, they will believe you. The country is in peril but not from Obama, it is from the whackos that want to rebel against a sitting American president. Don’t like Obama? Try moving to North Korea, and don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out.
Posted by: Bill Dull | February 19, 2010, 10:28 am 10:28 am
jerry…Like all conservatives, they think with their emotions rather than their brains and complain rather than have ideas. The Conservative Political Action Conference should be renamed to We Are A Bunch Of Whiners Conference.
Posted by: mrgmorgan56 | February 19, 2010, 10:47 am 10:47 am
(yawns) Same old, same old thing from the Repubs- attack, attack, attack; rhetoric, rhetoric, rhetoric; blame, blame, blame; etc.
When the GOP gets a *real* leader who will point out what we need to do to make jobs, manage the banks, and get the economy back up and running, *then* I’ll consider taking the GOP serious again. Until then, this Indy is not liking them at all.
P.S. – I’m not for the Demos either now. This nation is wash-up with the stupidity of voting one party in and the other out when nothing changes anyway! Sheesh! (roll eyes)
Posted by: GWP | February 19, 2010, 10:47 am 10:47 am
It’s always amusing to listen to the vile, immature, intolerant rant of some wet-behind-the-ears, drunken frat boy; arrogant enough to consider himself a man of the world with something important to contribute to the national discourse. Keep it up and maybe Rush will mention you on his show! What more could any Ann Coulter/Glen Beck wanna be hope for?
Posted by: Nolanmar | February 19, 2010, 10:50 am 10:50 am
Right and wrong. Obama has zombies but the Republicans have a zombie army, as well. Only some one registered as an independent can do anything against partisan behavior. Only people that see racism in all races can stop racism; the people that only see it in Whites just contribute to racism. Only people who believe in moderate religious belief can have hope and resist being rallied into zealotry.
Posted by: Greg | February 19, 2010, 10:54 am 10:54 am
More criticism from the same group of idiots who claim to speak for the common man and then hold their annual summit at a luxury resort in Hawaii.
Republicans can pretty much say anything they want, the more outrageous the better, because everyone sees right through them. And why not, they did it to themselves!
Posted by: RickFromTexas | February 19, 2010, 10:56 am 10:56 am
It’s Republicans and conservatives who are the arrogant elitists. “Take ‘our’ country back…”? Maybe they should remember that there are other “real” Americans who live here, too.
Posted by: mshare | February 19, 2010, 11:03 am 11:03 am
I know we keep beating this horse to death; and nothing is going to undo what has already been done; but where were these folks for 8 long years? Where were these same voices when the constitutional coup of 2000, in which Bush was declared the winner of an election he had lost; where were they on September 11, as their government turned a blind eye to the events leading up to the terrorist act, that killed thousands of Americans; where were these voices during the great $12 TRILLION dollar Bank Robbery, in which unscrupulous bankers and financiers were deregulated by the Bush administration; where were they at the beginning of the Iraq War, in which the US illegally launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, displaced 4 million (over a million abroad), destroyed entire cities such as Fallujah, set off a Sunni-Shiite civil war, allowed Baghdad to be ethnically cleansed of its Sunnis, practiced systematic and widespread torture before the eyes of the Muslim Middle East and the world, and immeasurably strengthened Iran’s hand in the Middle East and not to mention the thousands of U.S. soldiers killed in these conflicts; how about when the Bush administration’s post-2002 mishandling of Afghanistan, where the Taliban had been overthrown successfully in 2001. This current administration scares people like Jason Mattera for one reason and it isn’t the color of his suit.
Posted by: notes_from_my_foxhole | February 19, 2010, 11:21 am 11:21 am
Clay…seriously? You think this young man expects the government to take care of him? C’mon.
Posted by: s | February 19, 2010, 11:23 am 11:23 am
Unable to use their obvious racism to critique the president, these louts are resorting to spurious political claims as an indirect way of putting down the president. This is shameful, deceitful, cowardly behavior. All these claims about freedom and anti-government statements are spurious. Freedom is not just freedom from, it is freedom to and for; freedom means responsible, ethical behavior–not a cover for racism and hate.
Posted by: Dayahka | February 19, 2010, 11:31 am 11:31 am
“This young man’s lack of intelligence is rivaled only by his immaturity. He is just angry that as a white, heterosexual male, he no longer enjoys special privileges. Sorry, son, but your race, sexual orientation, and sex are no longer are an automatic ticket to success. You must now actually work to get ahead…and something tells me you are going to have a hard time competing with motivated minorities. Among my students, I find that it is the white, middle-class students who have the greatest sense of entitlement”
—WOW! That is a clear racist statement right there! You seem to be racist against white, middle class, males.
Posted by: ME | February 19, 2010, 11:37 am 11:37 am
This young man’s lack of intelligence is rivaled only by his immaturity. He is just angry that as a white, heterosexual male, he no longer enjoys special privileges. Sorry, son, but your race, sexual orientation, and sex are no longer are an automatic ticket to success. You must now actually work to get ahead…and something tells me you are going to have a hard time competing with motivated minorities. Among my students, I find that it is the white, middle-class students who have the greatest sense of entitlement.
Posted by: Clay |
===========================Work to get ahead? What a joke! You really think all of those people running over each other in Detroit were working to get their free dumBO money? You really think the union auto boss’s are working for their free dumBO money? You really think that all the new government employees hired by porkulus and shovel leaning and paper pushing are working?
Posted by: Todd | February 19, 2010, 11:38 am 11:38 am
He didnt ridicule feminism, homosexuality or diversity in that quote at all. His point was that the hype for President Obama in the campgain had a chord of naieviety running through it. Stick to putting the quotes in without adding your trite and inaccurate summaries of what was said.
Posted by: undecided2012 | February 19, 2010, 11:41 am 11:41 am
If a Conservative Republican wins the White House in 2012, he or she had better hope that the Dems are kinder and do not follow the GOP obstructionism against a President. If the Dems follow the lead of the GOP’a putting politics ahead of country, we are in for a further melt down of government and nation.
Posted by: hgreen | February 19, 2010, 11:47 am 11:47 am
“…just a nonensical rant. He never points out anything that is specifically wrong; just generalizations…”
So “Hope and Change and Diversity” are specific policy solutions? Well it did certainly turn out to be the solution to getting elected while the media was supine and the electorate awash in frothy rhetoric. Our professorial President Obama unfortunately represents an ideology which despises US power and influence and ignores the pivotal role our nation has played in the world. PC is an important and poisonous element in the realization of his goals as it has been in the history of the Left. The cult of personality created by the Obama campaign and administration should be a troubling development to every American committed to the principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, Western culture, the rule of law, capitalism, and the Judeo Christian heritage. For those hate that last item remember that the supposedly Godless founders included the First Amendment in case people do not heed the bible. I apologize if that is too professorial.
Posted by: Carbon Dioxide | February 19, 2010, 11:55 am 11:55 am
I did better than comment on his pathetic performance than just comment on this blog. I wrote to him directly and told him exactly what I thought of his “emotional, lack of substance” diatribe. It will be interesting to see if he has the “guts” to respond to me. One thing that needs to be talked about with he said. He gave the impression (actually pandering) to those in attendance about college. Do you notice that those without knowledge, intelligent arguments or substance always attack college/university? Many of us attended college and I remember the same stupid “liberal socialist,
elitest” arguments being made then. If one thing college does for you is it allows you to “open your mind” and gives you the opportunity to “think for yourself”, not like Grandpa, Grandma, Mom or Dad does. I guess people like Jason are too afraid to do that. Knowledge and common sense must scare them. What a bunch of misinforming hypocrits.
Posted by: CND FOX | February 19, 2010, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm
This young Mattera does have some points and may not be totally correct, but one thing is for sure; “Obama is a one term appointee”. He has literally carpped in his own nest, is bring ing this country to financial ruin, supports the wrong people and movements and absolutely refuses to the fact that he has done nothing wrong. Next thing you know he’ll call himself GOD.
Posted by: EMRoss | February 19, 2010, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm
aLMOST FORGOT TO SIGN OFF; “WAKE UP AMERICANS”
Posted by: EMRoss | February 19, 2010, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm
CND FOX; This might be a good time to open your mind and think for yourself about this young man’s right to have his opinions (right or wrong as they may be)and express them openly. In America we have the right to free speech, free speech isn’t always nice speech.
Posted by: gollywiggle | February 19, 2010, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
Obama Zombies sounds right..the Bots lack any ability to deal in reality.
Posted by: horseforfeathers | February 19, 2010, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
Whining, whining, and more whining. You’re pathetic Mattera. Grow up and behave like a man and not a teenage girl who’s angry because her parents didn’t but her a new pair of shoes.
Posted by: jerry | February 19, 2010, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm
gollywiggle…what in the world of reality are you talking about? I never said or did not indicate that he didn’t have aright to speak his mind. I countered and made fun of what he said. He does have the right to be a biased closeminded idiot. And I have the right to listen “open mindedly” and counter what he has to say. Did you pay attention to what I said about college? Or was that too deep for you too?
Posted by: CND FOX | February 19, 2010, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm
What an embarrassing person!
Very low in so many ways…
Posted by: Nick | February 20, 2010, 9:36 am 9:36 am