Mattera, author of the New York Times bestseller “Hollywood Hypocrites” and “Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation,” visited campus at the invitation of MSU Campus Conservatives and discussed topics such as health care, liberal bias and the actions of some Hollywood celebrities and supporters of President Barack Obama, who Mattera said don’t always practice what they preach.

Mattera also is the editor of periodical “Human Events“and runs his own website, where he often posts videos of himself interviewing prominent liberal figures on the spot about various topics or statements.

After spending nearly a year of research in Hollywood and Washington, D.C., the 28-year-old Brooklyn native said he found the behind-the-scenes actions of many major supporters of Obama — including the likes of actor Harrison Ford, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore and musical artists Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand — contradictory to the policies they support.

During his presentation, Mattera claimed Springsteen and singer Jon Bon Jovi evade high property taxes by farming on a small portion of their New Jersey properties when they advocate higher taxation for the wealthy and Ford owns seven jets and flies them frivolously while advocating for climate change, among other findings he’d obtained from his research. He said the hypocrisies surrounding some of those backing the president proved the fallacies of liberal viewpoints.

“Not even Obama’s staunchest allies are willing to live by the (liberal) policies they champion,” Mattera said.

Nick Kowalski, political theory and constitutional democracy junior and chairman of the MSU Campus Conservatives, said he believed Mattera was a good speaker to bring to the university because he was a young conservative figure who might be able to better relate to students.

“We wanted to close out the semester with a bang,” Kowalski said. “Jason is young, he can relate to kids and he’s someone not too much older with conservative views.”

Agribusiness management junior Steve Stoutenburg said he learned a lot from the presentation and believed more students would have benefited from hearing what Mattera had to say. About 15 were in attendance Thursday evening.

“It showed the truth behind Hollywood — a lot of people don’t see that perspective,” Stoutenburg said.

Mattera said he often speaks to college audiences and said he wished the alternative viewpoint he and others provide could be given a higher stage when students and their professors consider social policy and politics.

“In some classrooms, my viewpoint would either be dismissed or maligned,” Mattera said. “But as long as the seeds are planted, I’ll speak anywhere.”