No list of this sort would be complete without this shining example of the Congressional Black Caucus at it's best.
Posted on 07/05/2005 6:51:42 AM PDT by Liz
The number one New York Times bestselling author of Bias---Bernard Goldberg---delivers another bombshell -- this time aimed at ...100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
No preaching. No pontificating. Just some uncommon sense about the things that have made this country great -- and the culprits who are screwing it up.
Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at "ordinary" Americans) ... the Hollywood Blowhards (incredibly ditzy celebrities who think they're smart just because they're famous) ... the TV Schlockmeisters (including the one whose show has been compared to a churning mass of maggots devouring rotten meat) ... the Intellectual Thugs (bigwigs at some of our best colleges, whose views run the gamut from left wing to far left wing) ... and many more.
Goldberg names names, counting down the villains in his rogues' gallery from 100 all the way to 1 -- and, yes, you-know-who is number 37. Some supposedly "serious" journalists also made the list, including the journalist-diva who sold out her integrity and hosted one of the dumbest hours in the history of network television news. And there are those famous miscreants who have made America a nastier place than it ought to be -- a far more selfish, vulgar, and cynical place.
But Goldberg doesn't just round up the usual suspects we have come to know and detest. He also exposes some of the people who operate away from the limelight but still manage to pull a lot of strings and do all sorts of harm to our culture. Most of all, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America is about a country where as long as anything goes, as one of the good guys in the book puts it, sooner or later everything will go.
This is serious stuff for sure. But Goldberg will also make you laugh as he harpoons scoundrels like the congresswoman who thinks there aren't enough hurricanes named after black people, and the environmentalist to the stars who yells at total strangers driving SUVs -- even though she tools around the country in a gas-guzzling private jet.
With Bias, Bernard Goldberg took us behind the scenes and exposed the way Big Journalism distorts the news. Now he has written a book that goes even further. This time he casts his eye on American culture at large -- and the result is a book that is sure to become the voice of all those Americans who feel that no one is speaking for them on perhaps the most vital issue of all: the kind of country in which we want to live.
Top 10 of Goldberg's "100 People"
1. Michael Moore, filmmaker
2. Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times
3. Ted Kennedy, Democratic U.S. senator, Massachusetts
4. Jesse Jackson, Democratic African-American activist
5. Anthony Romero, American Civil Liberties Union's executive director
6. Jimmy Carter, former Democratic president
7. Margaret Marshall, chief justice, Massachusetts state Supreme Court
8. Paul Krugman, columnist at The New York Times
9. Jonathan Kozol, education scholar and author
10. Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way
and the AARP.
Quote:
the Times's new publisher, Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr ... was a sixties anti-war activist who famously declared that in a confrontation between an American and a North Vietnamese soldier he'd want to see the American get shot."
Unquote.
Stanley Kurtz (NRO on line, June 5, 2001)
Take your pick from this list:
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individual.asp
What does the AARP stand for exactly. I know its something for old people.
I'm surprised, in light of recent events, it took 28 posts for these names to come up
agh..American's = Americans
If we started a thread.."The Top Ten Freepers who are always screwing up Free Republic"...would it be yanked?
American Association of Retired Persons. They are resisting social secuity reform most mightily.
admin....please yank this post
A person would think he had done enough damage as president and retire, but he keeps going on like the Energizer Bunny.
There is more than ten screwups in the formerly respectable opposition party, The Republican Party, so the list would be too long.
Hey! How did Pelosi and Reid sneak into your list!
In no particular order:
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Al-Queda)
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Al-Queda)
Ward Churchill
Howard Dean
Kim Gandy, President of NOW
Randi Rhoads (bloatmistress of Air America Radio)
Maureen Dowd
Frank Rich
Ingrid Newkirk, President of PETA
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-Al-Queda)
Yeah, the usual suspects.
No list of this sort would be complete without this shining example of the Congressional Black Caucus at it's best.
I figure I should post this if I mentioned Maureen Dowd, isn't this a rule that if you mention or post something about Maureen Dowd your supposed to have a picture of Catherine Zeta Jones?
ABC
NBC
CBS
CNN
VIACOM
TIME/WARNER
PBS
TED TURNER
PARAMOUNT
UNIVERSAL
DISNEY'S MIRAMAX AND TOUCHSTONE.
What is it supposed to be that these unnamed people are screwing up? What should they be doing?
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