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DES MOINES — There was no doubt about the sentiments of many of those at author Mitt Romney’s book-signing at the Des Moines Public Library Monday. “I’d be interested if he ran” for president again, Scott Newland of Des Moines said as he thumbed through Romney’s “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness.” Among those waving Romney campaign-like signs and wearing Romney t-shirts, Shirley Woodruff was more direct about wanting to see the former Massachusetts governor make another run for the Republican nomination. “He’s at least honest,” she said, displaying a photo of herself and Romney’s wife, Ann. “He has...

Looks like the Pasadena City Hall May Day (anti-tax) event was sort of a low turnout, with probably just over 100 people showing up (at 4 pm on a Friday before people got off work). So of course because of the low turnout the Pasadena Star News put it on the front page and made it look as stupid as possible. But I thought it was interesting how differently one can describe 100 people: Reporter Dan Abendschein said "dozens" showed up for the May Day event. Meanwhile, April 30 the Pasadena Star News ran an AP blurb re swine flu...

Just finished watching Goldberg giving a talk in a bookstore. Very funny anecdotes. A great speaker. He handled a couple of planted hecklers in the audience like a master, and conducted a very rational appeal for decency and civility in American life. If you get a chance, I highly recommend the program.(Now I gotta buy the book!)

So how does it feel to be included in Bernard Goldberg's latest clip job, ''100 People Who Are Screwing Up America"? ''I'm shocked," says MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins, the woman who blew the whistle on Harvard president Lawrence Summers's musings about women's inability to succeed in the ''hard" sciences. Hopkins has three other quotable reactions: (1) ''It's a book?" (2) ''Why is Larry Summers not on the list?" and (3) ''Who is Bernard Goldberg?" Goldberg is a former CBS correspondent turned literary genius who has managed to summon three best-selling books from the bile of his ruined career. The people...

WEB EXCLUSIVE By Carl Sullivan Newsweek Updated: 12:26 p.m. ET July 30, 2005 July 30 - Everyone loves lists. They certainly sell magazines. (Think “The 10 Hottest Stocks” or “5 Easy Ways to Please Your Man.”) They apparently sell books, too. Bernard Goldberg’s “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37)” is No. 6 on The New York Times Best-Sellers list. A former CBS News reporter, Goldberg became a lightning rod in the debate over the news media’s alliances when he published “Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News” in 2001 and...

Talk about appearing blindfolded before a kangaroo court. Then again, CBS newsman-turned-author Bernard Goldberg might not have recalled before appearing last night on CNBC's "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch" that the host was a lead member of the Clinton/Gore communications team in 1992. "I've been doing this a long, long time, and I have never, ever, ever, never -- I could say never and ever 10 more times -- experienced what I just went through," Mr. Goldberg told Inside the Beltway late yesterday after he taped the show, which is to air tonight, from Miami. "Deutsch disagreed with everything,...

Bernard Goldberg has been on a spirited crusade against the left for three books now —the number one New York Times bestseller Bias, the bestselling Arrogance, and his latest book, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. Goldberg, an Emmy-winning journalist, is a former correspondent on the CBS program 48 Hours. Galley Girl spoke by phone to him in Miami. GG: You used to be a liberal. What happened? BG: What happened? Liberals happened. I want to make a distinction between your run-of-the-mill liberals and the cultural elite liberals, who really speak for liberalism in America today. Most liberals obviously...

I've made up my mind. I don't like Bernie Goldberg. Matter of fact, I hate him. Who does this man think he is? I've spent the better part of two decades exposing the outrages of the liberal media, and during most of that time, Bernie Goldberg was earning a comfortable living in that very industry. Along the way I'd thought about writing a book about media bias, but before I could do that, Goldberg decided there was a problem with bias and decided to write a book about it, and "Bias" shot to the top of the New York Times...

Paris Hilton's parents; the Rev. Al Sharpton; the guy who gave us "Fear Factor;" and Rep. Jim McDermott. At first glance, they don't have a lot in common. But they are linked for eternity in a new book, "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken Is # 37)." McDermott, as it happens, is No. 38. The Democratic congressman from Seattle apparently doesn't pose as big a threat to democracy as comedian-and-leftist radio talkster Franken. But McDermott presents more of a problem than, say, feminist Gloria Steinem, at No. 42, or Enron's disgraced chief executive, Kenneth Lay, who...

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...

Paris Hilton's parents; the Rev. Al Sharpton; the guy who gave us "Fear Factor;" and Rep. Jim McDermott. At first glance, they don't have a lot in common. But they are linked for eternity in a new book, "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken Is # 37)." McDermott, as it happens, is No. 38. The Democratic congressman from Seattle apparently doesn't pose as big a threat to democracy as comedian-and-leftist radio talkster Franken. But McDermott presents more of a problem than, say, feminist Gloria Steinem, at No. 42, or Enron's disgraced chief executive, Kenneth Lay, who...