7 People Who are screwing America

[MattSWin]

According to the new book by conservative author and journalist Bernard Goldberg, 100 people are to blame for the sad state of our country, and most are decidedly liberal.

In 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken is #37), Goldberg insists that people like Eminem, Courtney Love and Maury Povich, who contribute to America's corrosive culture, and those like Barbra Streisand, Barbara Kingsolver and Bill Moyers, who are outspoken liberals, are our nation's greatest villains. His naive rantings take aim largely at the entertainment and infotainment industries, as if changing to a steady diet of Ozzie and Harriet would fix things. You know: bring our troops home, pay off our national debt and make prescription drugs affordable.

On the final page, Goldberg invites readers to come up with their own list.

So, here are the seven people (space won't allow for more) I think are screwing up America. I am leaving off all current elected officials and Supreme Court justices, because they would take up the whole list. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would be Nos. 1 and 2 (with Bush being 2), and that would be too predictable.


http://sptimes.com/2005/08/14/Columns/Magnificent_7__they_r.shtml

[Ravenseye]

1. love her number 1 for Rove

Rove took a guy who used family connections to avoid Vietnam, who was a fall-down drunk ne'er-do-well until age 40, who failed at business until Daddy's friends came to the rescue, who held so little curiosity about the world that he didn't bother to travel, and made him president - twice. Rove is by far the man who has done the most to screw up America. Goldberg put Michael Moore in the top spot. It's no contest.

[DBoon]

2. I nominate Grover Norquist

and David Horowitz

radio talk show hosts are too numerous and too easy a target, but their impact has been devastating.

[klyon]

3. The sad state our county is in is caused by so called journalists

like Goldberg who fail to understand the principles on which our country was founded. Who fail to understand that in this country having other view points is American and is necessary to maintaining a health democracy. Accusing and blaming people you disagree with is not going to win any arguments with me. Goldberg is spewing hate and nothing more.

KL

[Roland99]

4. Apathy by the American public is much more harmful than one "journalist"