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I Got Your Hundred Screw Ups Right Here.
posted Thursday, 14 July 2005
If you didn't see the Daily Show this evening, Crooks and Liars has the video of culture warrior Bernard Goldberg's interview promoting his book, ( to which I will certainly NOT link) 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
I agree with Jon's greater point, that the blame for screwing up America is more rightly placed in the halls of government than the cult of celebrity. But another comment of Jon's intrigued me enough to make this post. Jon says in the interview is that for every liberal example in the book, there's a conservative one Mr. Goldberg ignored.
Here's the list, as supplied by goffnews over at Dkos. Who would you trade out for a fright wing example? Below are a few of my candidates. I apologize in advance for the proximity of such vermin near so many of my heroes:
| 1 Michael Moore ยทยทยท | Mel Gibson |
| 2 Arthur Sulzberger | Roger Ailes |
| 3 Ted Kennedy | Bill Frist |
| 4 Jesse Jackson | Condoleeza Rice |
| 5 Anthony Romero | Alberto Gonzales |
| 6 Jimmy Carter | Barbara Bush |
| 7 Margaret Marshall | Antonin Scalia |
| 8 Paul Krugman | Alan Greenspan |
| 9 Jonathan Kozol | Margaret Spelling |
| 10 Ralph Neas | Jack Abramoff |
| 11 Noam Chomsky | Newt Gingrich |
| 12 Dan Rather | Britt Hume |
| 13 Andrew Heyward | Bernard Goldberg |
| 14 Mary Mapes | Chris Wallace |
| 15 Ted Rall | Bill O'Reilly |
| 16 John Edwards | Dick Cheney |
| 17 Al Sharpton | Alan Keyes |
| 18 Al Gore | Tom Delay |
| 19 George Soros | Rupert Murdoch |
| 20 Howard Dean | Jeb Bush |
| 21 Judge Roy Moore | Judge Roy Moore |
| 22 Michael Newdow | James Dobson |
| 23 The Unknown American Terrorist | George W Bush |
| 24 Lee Bollinger | Lawrence Summers |
| 25 James Kopp | Randall Terry |
| 26 Dr. Martin Haskell | James Kopp |
| 27 Paul Begala | Peggy Noonan |
| 28 Julian Bond | Trent Lott |
| 29 John Green | Steve, who owes me money (I'll be darned if I'll buy Goldberg's book to find out what John Green did to get on his shit list) |
| 30 Latrell Sprewell | Curt Schilling |
| 31 Maury Povich | David Brooks |
| 32 Jerry Springer | Rush Limbaugh |
| 33 Bob Shrum | Karl Rove |
| 34 Bill Moyers | Armstrong Williams |
| 35 Jeff Danziger | Howard Stern |
| 36 Nancy Hopkins | Phillip Johnson |
| 37 Al Franken | Donald Rumsfeld |
| 38 Jim McDermott | Dennis Hastert |
| 39 Peter Singer | Richard Perle |
| 40 Scott Harshbarger | Richard Scaife |
| 41 Susan Beresford | My Ex, (I can't find any reason for Golbergian Dudgeon here, so I'm using the slot as a free fire zone |
| 42 Gloria Steinem | Laura Bush |
| 43 Paul Eibeler | Donald Trump |
| 44 Dennis Kozlowski | Dennis Kozlowski |
| 45 Ken Lay | Ken Lay |
| 46 Barbara Walters | Andrea Mitchell |
| 47 Maxine Waters | Pete Sessions |
| 48 Robert Byrd | Rick Santorum |
| 49 Ingrid Newkirk | Ann Coulter |
| 50 John Vasconellos | Pete Craddick |
| 51 Ann Pelo | Karen Santorum |
| 52 Markos Moulitsas | John Hinderaker |
| 53 Anna Nicole Smith | Brittney Spears |
| 54 Neal Shapiro | Sumner Redstone |
| 55 David Westin | David Smith |
| 56 Diane Sawyer | Amy Robach |
| 57 Ted Field | Randall "Duke" Cunningham |
| 58 Eminem | Toby Keith |
| 59 Shirley Franklin | Rudy Giuliani |
| 60 Ludacris | Ken Mehlman |
| 61 Michael Savage | Michael Savage |
| 62 Howard Stern | Howard Stern |
| 63 Amy Richards | Michelle Malkin |
| 64 James Wolcott | William Safire |
| 65 Oliver Stone | Carlton Sherwood |
| 66 David Duke | Tom Coburn |
| 67 Randall Robinson | Al Edwards |
| 68 Katherine Hanson | Grover Norquist |
| 69 Matt Kunitz | Matt Kunitz |
| 70 Jimmy Swaggart | Jerry Falwell |
| 71 Phil Donahue | Joe Scarborough |
| 72 Ward Churchill | David Horowitz |
| 73 Barbara Kingsolver | Tom Clancy |
| 74 Katha Politt | Daniel Okrent |
| 75 Eric Foner | Dick Morris |
| 76 Barbara Foley | Frank Luntz |
| 77 Linda Hirshman | Priscilla Owen |
| 78 Norman Mailer | Lynne Cheney |
| 79 Harry Belafonte | Michael Powell |
| 80 Kitty Kelley | Bay Buchanan |
| 81 Tim Robbins | Jonah Goldberg |
| 82 Laurie David | Phillip A. Cooney |
| 83 The Dumb and Vicious Celebrity | The Dumb and Vicious Congress Critter |
| 84 The Vicious Celebrity | The PNAC Apologists |
| 85 The Dumb Celebrity | The Kowtowing Press |
| 86 Chris Ofili | Benjamin James Johnson |
| 87 Sheldon Hackney | Thomas Friedman |
| 88 Aaron McGruder | Dennis Miller |
| 89 Jane Smiley | James Sensenbrenner |
| 90 Michael Jackson | Jim West |
| 91 Barbara Streisand | Marie Osmond |
| 92 Kerri Dunn | Kerri Dunn |
| 93 Richard Timmons | James Guckert |
| 94 Guy Velella | Arlene Wohlgemuth |
| 95 Courtney Love | Ted Nugent |
| 96 Eve Ensler | Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins |
| 97 Todd Goldman | Paul Wolfowitz |
| 98 Sheila Jackson Lee | Lamar Smith |
| 99 Matthew Lesko | Bernard Ebbers |
| 100 Rick and Kathy Hilton | Nick and Jessica |
That was easier than I thought.
Who's on your list?
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