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100 People Who Are Screwing up America

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Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at "ordinary" Americans and detest so much of what this country is about)...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 (big-wigs at some of our best colleges, whose views run the gamut from left-wing to far left-wing)...and many more. Goldberg names names, profiling the villains in his rogues' gallery, one by one, from 100 down to 1 -- and yes, you-know-who is #37. 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. 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America is about a country where as long as anything goes, sooner or later everything will go.

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Bio of Bernard Goldberg

Bernard Goldberg, 1945 Bernard Goldberg was born in 1945 and has been involved in producing the news in some form since he began his career. he started out as a writer and editor for The Associated Press in New York in 1967. In 1969, Goldberg became a producer and writer for WTVJ-TV in Miami until 1970 when he switched to WPLG-TV as an investigative reporter for two years. He joined CBS in 1972 as a producer based in Atlanta, becoming a reporter for CBS in 1974 and a correspondent in 1976. He has remained with CBS since then, joining the San Francisco Bureau from 1977 til 1981. There he covered the 1980 Presidential Campaign of former California Governor Jerry Brown and the 1976 Republican National Convention. In 1981, Goldberg joined the New York Bureau, becoming a correspondent for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather until 1988. He was also a frequent contributor to CBS news speeches during that time. In March of 1989 he was named special correspondent for 48 Hours, contributing more than 100 reports in four years. In the summer of 1991, Goldberg became a contributing correspondent to the CBS Primetime Series Verdict and the next year he helped to launch the CBS Newsmagazine, Street Stories. Goldberg eventually ended up as a correspondent for Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, winning an Ohio State Award for an Eye to Eye report on the decline of civilization in the last 30 years. He hosted the "Don't Blame Me"special one hour primetime Eye to Eye that explored the trend in American culture to not take responsibilities for their actions. In the course of his career, Goldberg spent three decades with CBS, received six Emmy nominations, an Ohio State Award and a Sigma Delta Chi Award. He wrote the book "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News" which discussed the liberal bias inherent in the news, a situation that Goldberg abhorred.

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HarperCollins

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9780061160769

Excerpt from: 100 People Who Are Screwing up America by Bernard Goldberg

Chapter One
America Bashers
Why do so many americans who ought to know better find the United States such a terrible place?

Maybe "terrible" isn't exactly the right word, but it's pretty close. So are "corrupt" and "immoral" and "dishonorable" and a whole bunch of other words just like those. America never quite seems to get it right, as far as these people are concerned. If something bad happens someplace in the world, it's got to be our fault. And not just because our plans went bad, but because our motives were all wrong. Day in and day out, in their eyes, America comes up short. This country, as far as they're concerned, is a never-ending source of embarrassment. They just don't trust America to do the right thing -- because, to them, this is a land of bottomless stupidity and eternal sin.

Whom exactly are we talking about? Unfortunately, not just drugged-out revolutionaries on the fringe, the kind of people we could simply write off as crackpots. And not mainly college kids, either, which would at least be a kind of excuse. No, the America Bashers these days are in the mainstream, in the top ranks of the nation's intelligentsia and cultural elite -- professors at some of our top schools, journalists at some of our most important news organizations, celebrities in Hollywood, and, of course, Michael Moore, the reigning king of America Bashers, who deserves a category all his own.

Moore once told a British newspaper that the United States is a country that "is known for bringing sadness and misery to places around the globe." And just hours after the attacks of September 11, he posted this lovely message on his Web site: "Many families have been devastated tonight," he wrote. "This just is not right. They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California -- these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!"

Can you imagine if Rush Limbaugh had said something like this? Not even the lunatic fringe would have embraced him. But Michael Moore says something this dumb and it doesn't even register with the cultural elite as over the line, let alone flat-out disgusting. To the contrary -- or au contraire, as they say in France where Michael Moore is even bigger than Jerry Lewis -- liberals continue to celebrate him as a national treasure, as a courageous voice of sanity. When his documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, premiered in Washington, he invited to the gala some of the city's most elite Democrats, who applauded enthusiastically throughout the movie, then, when it was over, gave him a standing ovation. Make no mistake: Michael Moore isn't the court jester. He's not a Yippie like Abbie Hoffman in 1968. Millions of mainstream liberals who once looked up to JFK are now idolizing this guy!