101 People Who Are Really Screwing America (Paperback)

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From Publishers Weekly

More than a mere hit list of America's most despicable individuals, corporations, affinity groups and think tanks, this droll and acerbic refresher course on the issues confronting the 21st-century United States marks Huberman's (The Bush-Hater's Handbook) latest foray into the dark side. Starting with the premise that right-wing pundit Ann Coulter is an evil alien manipulated by crypto-fascist Scientologists, he occasionally gets carried away with his modus operandi, becoming just as inanely self-righteous as the reactionaries he's decrying. Entry 67, about SUV buyers, offers some chilling statistics about the vehicles. But to argue that all SUV owners are antisocial misfits meriting utter contempt, when many a suburban soccer mom is simply trying to protect her family from being obliterated by a three-ton behemoth on the way to Disney World, is self-defeating. Though Huberman takes his readers' sympathies for granted, the unabashedly left-wing bias and sheer breadth of this frontal assault on Republican politics and culture are factually convincing. Some early entries (J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown, Candace Bushnell) may raise a few eyebrows, but overall Huberman serves up a frothy indictment to warm liberal innards. (July)
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Product Description

Perhaps one of the most ridiculous phenomena of recent years is Bernard Goldberg’s right-wing and unforgivably successful 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. The vast majority of his targets are no different from the picks of any hyperventilating fan of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly: feminists, academics, media moguls, newspaper columnists, liberals, and a few obscure cartoonists and painters. But it's thin on the right wing politicos, their media and corporate echochamber who have landed us in the mess we're in.

Jack Huberman provides us with an entertaining and informative bestiary of the real crooks, liars and cheats who are screwing up America. These are not just the people making asses of themselves or getting more media attention than they deserve. Huberman restores the likes of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, James A. Baker III, Gary Bauer Brent Bozell, Ann Coulter, Karen Hughes, Karl Rove, Leo Strauss and Ralph Reed to their rightful place in the national hall of shame, along with such oozing pustules of cultural putrefaction as the Olson Twins, Mel Gibson, William Bennett, Katie Couric, Matt Drudge, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Phil, Dr. Laura, Oprah Winfrey, Teletubbies, the Simpson sisters, and God.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Nation Books (May 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560258756
• ISBN-13: 978-1560258759
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #881,587 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Really!? Who Is Really Screwing Who?, October 15, 2009

By	xx Grim Reaper xx "The Reaper" (Closer than you think) - See all my reviews

Lets recap what has been alleged in the Media regarding Huberman's journalist practices or lack there of.
Huberman writes a blog. In order to get people to read it he "creates" quotes, that are now discredited. Then Huberman gets enough of a following that he finds publisher(s) that are willing to pay him for more of the same. When writing the book(s) he pulls out some of his own "created" quotes, in order to get somebody to buy the books. When questioned about the quotes, he sources the quotes to his own blog. Then to compound the problem he puts the same created quotes on Wiki-quotes. All in, what some say, is some sort of grand self perpetuating hit job.

Then the media, without fact checking the "created" quotes, in pursuit of, what will be described, as an electronic lynching uses Huberman's discredited and disputed quotes to do a hatchet job. The media then parade out the same tired racial spokesmen to repeat the quotes, so they might make another Tawana Brawley type fiasco. If you really want a laugh, go to NY Times and read the recount of the sealed Sharpton deposition on why he had no money to pay the libel judgment that was ordered due to his actions in Tawana Brawley case, that was only paid off when he decided to run for President. In that case he clearly did not mind repeating false statements, even after they were proven to be false. So, allegedly, proven liars, quote Huberman's "created quotes", to build some sort of pyramid media Ponzi scheme.

In pursuit of ratings, money, and their own agenda, the media demonstrates how low they can go. No matter your political persuasion, you have to know this to be wrong. Huberman is the head of this snake, and to spend a nickel on what all the overwhelming majority of the reviewers herein rate poorly, would be to support this new media abuse.

25 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Much the Same as Goldberg's Book, July 26, 2006

By	Sickle Sam - See all my reviews

Books like this are pretty much for entertainment value. Like its "conservative" counterpart, this book lists all the main culprits of the modern world, who are allegedly "screwing up" America.

The idea behind the book, of course, is laughable; in a free society, the only people capable of "screwing up America" are the American public.

You may be shocked at some of the people on Jack Huberman's list, as well as the rationale for including some of them. For example, he includes J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. Her big crime? Selling an incredibly large number of books.

Herein lies a classic problem with this book and Goldberg's more conservative book. If the Harry Potter franchise is screwing up America (I don't think that it is), then the public should be blamed for buying in to the hype. Why blame the writer simply for writing it?

Such logic will have you laughing at Huberman, rather than laughing with him. Noentheless, it's entertaining.

12 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Depressing, January 29, 2007

By	Eric Houg (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Let me start off by saying that I am not a Republican and my attitudes towards politics and the world could best be described by the word Realism.

I was looking for a FSM car ornament when I saw this book. I bought it along with the ornament and the Gospel of the FSM. I was really looking for some political humor akin to Al Franken's books, which are quite entertaining as and enlightening. I have been sadly disappointed. This book drips with the same vitriol and sanctimonious, superior attitude that every right wing blow-hard knows by rote. The only difference is a substitution of names. Also, it's not funny, it's really just depressing. In my opinion the book just highlights how low we have sunk as a society that so many of the people in the book are current movers and shakers. Further depression can be realized by looking at both the Democratic (I.E. The Other Evil) party and the current crop of presidential contenders from either side.

The only good note about this is that many of the people in the book have already gotten what they had coming to them. A key example would be Dr. Laura who has faded into near non-existence since here nude photo shoot became public.

The book is quite a good catalog of hypocrisy, deceit, corruption and moral bankruptcy so if that's what you're looking for be my guest. But, if you are looking for a laugh forget it.