Congressman On Author's Notorious List
While this list is too much fun to miss, sadly, I think the point is lost on Rep. 'Baghdad Jim' McDermott.
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Goldberg, author of 2001's "Bias", has a clever concept for this new book.
The biggest surprise: that it was covered at all in the Seattle 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 lumbered in at No. 45.
Can't wait to see the book, meanwhile, it's in the Amazon boxes to the right. The book's link is first, the CD version, second.
I believe George Bush and Dick Cheney are number 1 and 2 in the book. James Dobson is number three followed by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly at 4, 5 and 6.
ReplyDeleteProbably 50% of American would agree and about 90% of the rest of the world. Of course that 50% who support George Bush doesn't can what the rest of the world thinks.
Actually, Mr. Smarty Pants, Michael Moore, Arthur Sulzberger, and Ted Kennedy are numbers 1, 2, and 3 in his book. But of course, that doesn't matter to someone like you, now does it? Since when do facts matter to liberals?
ReplyDeleteOh, and guess what, YOU GUYS LOST!
"Since when do facts matter"
ReplyDeleteCertainly not to Repuplicans when it comes to trumping up intelligence and creating fear to justify war.
You won because the RNC knows how to manipulate stooges better that the DNC. Just ask Armstrong Williams or James Gannon Guckert.
What a surprise... A rightwing guy thinks lefties are bad for the country?
ReplyDeleteAnd this is news why...?
Perhaps the problem with the Hiltons and the daughter they raised is that they were immunized from reality by millions in unearned, undertaxed inherited wealth. The only difference between the Hiltons and a lot of other coupon clipping babies is their brazen leveraging of their own wealth-accumulation-supported decadence to make even more money. That is a thoroughly capitalist activity, one which I'd think would induce a lot of head-spinning cognitive dissonance in any free-market conservative who attacks it.
ReplyDeleteDoes Mister Goldberg suggest stiffening taxes on estates anywhere in his book, as opposed to the current conservative campaign to repeal the so-called "death tax" and ensure that we will have many, many more Paris Hiltons in the years to come?
BTW, yes I think even the worst government bureaucrat would do a better job spending Paris Hilton's money than Paris Hilton does.
Any conservative who rails against
Paris Hilton is a hypocrite unless he/she also rails against the accumulation of unearned wealth that made Paris Hilton possible.