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To: bentway who wrote (54161)	8/2/2005 12:30:14 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken Is #37) by Bernard Goldberg Our big problem in America, says Bernard Goldberg, is that we have become too tolerant: over the years, we've grown wonderfully broad-minded and accepting of things we should detest -- like foul language in public -- and close-minded about things we should revere -- like standards of public decency that everyone used to accept. "A slow poison is running through the veins of this great country," Goldberg observes, "and our tolerance of crap is just one small part of it. Because the stuff that comes out of the television and radio is only the most obvious evidence of how far south things have gone." In 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37) Goldberg (author of the #1 NY Times bestseller, Bias) fearlessly and hilariously identifies the people, famous and not-so-famous, who he believes are most responsible for our society's decline. Among Bernard Goldberg's targets are: Hollywood blowhards who think they're smart just because they're famous -- and compare Bush to Hitler while thinking that bloody dictators like Fidel Castro are cool Culture elite hypocrites -- like the Beverly Hills environmentalist-to-the-stars who screams at total strangers for driving SUV's but doesn't think twice about tooling around the country in a private jet The congresswoman who thinks hurricane names are too lily white and thinks we need more hurricanes with "black names" TV "journalists" who are so cynical and jaded that they have no idea how damaging their shameless bias, political posturing and cheap exploitation are to our country America Bashers who told us, just days after 9/11, that the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, and homophobia -- that is, when it isn't standing for jingoism, vengeance and war Learned pundits who fight back tears over so-called American atrocities in Iraq and yet never seem to cry over the genuine atrocities that are commonplace in the Islamic world The intellectual thugs at some of our best universities who make rules about what you can and cannot say at school The well-dressed corporate crooks who cook the books and steal the futures of their own employees -- because ten or twenty million a year isn't enough The trial lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits that would be laughable (if they weren't emptying our pocketbooks) Liberal pols and pundits who just keep getting angrier and think they're not only smarter, but better than everyone else -- especially those hopelessly dumb and pathetically religious folks who live in "Red States" And specifically: Ward Churchill: the crackpot Left-wing professor who compared the 9/11 victims to Nazi Adolf Eichmann -- and met requests that he apologize with increasing hostility and paranoia about infringement of his "academic freedom" New York Times columnist Frank Rich: his absurd exaggerations of the Abu Ghraib prison scandals that show just how stupid he thinks most Americans are Rick and Kathy Hilton (Paris Hilton's parents): if they gave Nobel Prizes for the mom and dad who raised the most vapid, empty-headed, inane, hollow, vain, tasteless, self-centered useless twerp in the entire country (and maybe the world), they'd be on their way to Stockholm to pick up their medal Barbra Streisand: so desperate to smear George W. Bush, she used a fake Shakespeare quote taken from the Internet to do it The celebrity couple who named their baby after a murdering thug who had become the darling of Manhattan literary society Aaron McGruder: creator of Michael Moore's favorite comic strip, "The Boondocks," which spreads far-Left paranoia and hatred in America's funny papers every day Mass murder for diversity? The actor/director who fumed on 9/11: "Why New York? New York more than any other city in the world encourages diversity of faith" -- as if Osama bin Laden were an outraged multiculturalist Randall Robinson: the Harvard Law grad who is trying to cast black Americans as perpetual victims by demanding that they be paid reparations for slavery The celebrity who said that to see a "gay naked man or woman burning the flag" made her "heart swell . . . I get choked up with pride" Oliver Stone: the much-lionized Lefty filmmaker who plays fast and loose with the facts, distorting reality in an unscrupulous and heavy-handed way, and then claims the end result is real, authentic history Howard Stern: epitome of our cultural degeneration, and of the pollution and sludge that runs through our culture today Eminem: the rap artist who gives depravity a bad name -- in a genre that is almost totally degenerate to begin with The TV interviewer who specializes in fawning celebrity interviews (in which one ditzy pop star/whore intoned that masturbation was "sacred") but still has a reputation as a serious journalist Howard Dean: how the Democratic Party's angry new National Chairman has helped legitimize a legion of wild-eyed, paranoid Leftist fanatics Al Sharpton: he's got charisma and a way with words -- as well as a moral blind spot, and racist paranoia, and a talent for murderous incitement Jesse Jackson: a walking illustration of the truth of Booker T. Washington's statement that some people "do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs" The blowhard filmmaker who declared that America "is known for bringing sadness and misery to places around the globe" and lamented that the 9/11 hijackers hit a "Blue State" instead of a Red one -- and who is revered as a hero on the Left Goldberg is no down-the-line conservative, and you are certain to disagree with some of his choices and rankings -- and probably also with his often salty language. Nevertheless, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37) is a rollicking and revealing look at 100 of the most egregious obstacles on the path of our nation's return to glory.

To: bentway who wrote (54161)	8/2/2005 12:32:56 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

The exposé that may do to Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions what Unfit for Command did to John Kerry's Proof she repeatedly lied to the public, and lacks the character to lead the nation The Truth About Hillary by Edward Klein Everyone knows that Bill Clinton wanted to be President of the United States ever since he was a boy. What almost no one knows is that his wife Hillary harbored the same ambition since she was a girl -- and that her plan from the very start of their marriage was to succeed him in the Oval Office. Now, as Hillary gears up to run for President in 2008, distinguished journalist Edward Klein has produced an exposé of her darkest secrets that just might do to her presidential ambitions what the Swift Boat Veterans' Unfit for Command did to John Kerry's. Drawing on rare access to sources close to Hillary Clinton, Klein -- former editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine -- reveals a pattern of chronic bad behavior during her decades-long effort to become America's first woman president, no matter what the cost. He produces secret documents and stunning evidence to show just how much she has been willing to lie, bully, cheat, and manipulate people in her quest for power. He provides shocking new accounts of key moments in Hillary's private and political life -- revealing, for instance, what Hillary knew and when she knew it during her years as first lady, especially during her husband's impeachment. He also proves that she lied to America in her bestselling autobiography Living History. Among the many revelations in The Truth About Hillary: How Bill cheated on Hillary from the very start of their relationship at Yale - but she married him anyway, in a "Faustian bargain" that accepted his womanizing as the price of political power "Bill owes me": how Hillary allowed Bill to get away with his infidelities to make him fall deeper and deeper into her debt Clinton insider: "Hillary never wanted to be a wife. She wanted to be president" Hillary confidant confirms: she knew about Monica long before the affair became public How Hillary personally stage-managed and coordinated the damage-control effort in response to the Lewinsky scandal Juanita Broaddrick: her encounter with Hillary that told her "she knew" Bill had raped her, and that Hillary only wanted Broadrick to keep quiet The Hillary White House staffer known as "Mother Superior" charged with keeping women away from Bill -- and Bill away from them How Hillary knowingly allowed women to be hired that were regarded as "safe" for Bill to have affairs with How Hillary faked being scandalized when the Lewinsky story broke How Hillary banished the Secret Service from the White House private residence so they wouldn't witness -- and gossip about -- her and Bill's "Jerry Springer-like free-for-alls" How Hillary signed off on all major White House appointments -- including Supreme Court nominees White House usher: how Hillary used government funds for her extensive White House redecoration -- while claiming the money came from private donations Hillary and Vince Foster: an "open secret" that they were lovers. How he handled her personal affairs and guarded her secrets - and helped clean up the political messes created by Bill Hillary's shameful and illegal cover-up of the truth behind Vince Foster's death The Machiavellian political operative who has long served as Hillary's "secret consigliere" Why Hillary vetoed a settlement with Paula Jones How Hillary reacted to losing the presidency of her high-school senior class: a foreshadowing Hillary's transformation from Goldwater Republican to hippy radical. The hard-left magazine that influenced her -- she admits to having saved every issue The culture of lesbianism at Wellesley College -- and how it strongly influenced Hillary's politics The story of Bill and Hillary's meeting in a law library: blatantly untrue Hillary's radical views as editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Social Action How Hillary acted as a secret partisan agent of Ted Kennedy's during the Nixon impeachment How Hillary's flawed Watergate inquiry so muddied the "immoral acts" standard for impeachment that it called into question the ability to impeach -- and was used by the Clintons 25 years later to argue that suborning perjury and obstruction of justice was not enough The Little Rock private investigator hired by Hillary to "get rid of all the bitches he's seeing" Hillary's pattern of moving to the right -- and then lurching left again when she thinks she's in the clear Hillary's ideological roots in "gender feminism," which seeks overthrow of all "patriarchal" dominance, from government to family How Bill has gone back to his old womanizing tricks since Hillary's election to the Senate. His torrid affair with a stunning divorcee who lived near the Clintons in Chappaqua How Bill tried to talk Hillary into running for President in 2004 -- and why she refused Hillary's temporary betrayal of her old leftist allies to build a moderate image for her White House run Why Hillary regards Howard Dean's naming as DNC Chairman as a threat to her The cynical politicking behind Hillary's hawkishness on the Iraq war How Hillary banned wearing military uniforms in the White House -- and then lied about it later on How Hillary campaigned for herself under the guise of campaigning for John Kerry in 2004 -- knowing that her future depended on his not winning How Hillary made her first moves in the 2008 campaign within days of Kerry's defeat The New Hillary: how she's remodeling herself as a "God-fearing, church-going Bible reading Democrat from a Southern state" -- and is also "Botoxed to the hilt," according to a physician who knows Why one former Clinton Administration official warns: "Hillary Clinton needs to be kept away from the White House for the rest of her life"