| 1. | Michael Moore (director of the Bush-bashing Fahrenheit 9/11) - Goldberg just includes this, "'They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet. . . .', Michael Moore, speaking of his fellow Americans." Michael Moore's popular films and supporters are too hateful of America that he doesn't deserve to be talked about. |
| 2. | Arthur Sulzberger (publisher of The New York Times) - The New York Times is the ultimate symbol of liberal media bias, with articles slanted to favor Democrats, racial preferences, gay marriages, and feminism. Goldberg blames Arthur's personal agenda for the Times's bias, as he quotes Arthur: "If white men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are." |
| 3. | Ted Kennedy (Democrat Senator from Mass., JFK's youngest brother) - Ted Kennedy has gained the reputation for being the "conscience" of the Democratic Party, and yet how can he have a conscience if he was against the Iraq War? Also, Ted Kennedy is known for strong, booming displays of moral indignation, which are hypocritical given his personal indiscretions (see Chappaquiddick). He and other Democrats abuse a veil of conscience. |
| 4. | Rev. Jesse Jackson (African-Amercian leader, orator, civil rights activist) - The civil rights movement once was noble and had leaders such as Martin Luther King who spoke with decency. The movement has now transitioned into a tool for blaming others for the ills of African-Americans, and Jesse Jackson is at the head of that movement. While he is a great orator, his focus is on provocation. Pioneer. |
| 5. | Anthony Romero (Executive Director ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)) - Since 9/11, ACLU has been principled about things like preventing the government from reading our library check-out records or in voicing complaints that airport security checks may unfairly target Muslims. Goldberg believes the ACLU should not be so absolutist given the current climate. Also, the ACLU, while normally a good organization, has in recent times fought for petty causes: banning the practice in public schools of holding a moment of silence because of its religious connotations; suing the Boy Scouts for holding meetings in a city park on the grounds that it is a religious organization; urging Los Angeles to remove a cross from its seal; arguing that doctors shouldn't tell wives that their husbands have AIDS; and arguing on behalf of the National Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) despite a case where someone read materials on NAMBLA's website and then kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and finally killed |
| 6. | Jimmy Carter (US Pres. 1976-1980) - Jimmy Carter, who had a lackluster presidency, is getting improper credit for being a champion of human rights. Carter has praised the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, North Korea's Kim Il Sung, and other leaders who have had bad records on human rights. He was also in Venezuela, supposedly monitoring its elections, but when discrepancies arose and protests were formed, Carter left the country and said everything was good. He then claimed that Florida's election practices were not sound. |
| 7. | Margaret Marshall (Chief Justice of the Mass. Supreme Court) - American opinion polls show a majority not in favor of marriage between homosexuals, and yet Marshall decided to author a 4-3 decision in favor of legalizing it in Massachusetts. This overturns an age-old tradition of marriage being an exclusive sacrament between males and females. The decision has consequences for the rest of America as marriages in Massachusetts may have to be recognized when gay couples visit other states. Marshall is an example of an activist judge, and she has displayed her bias in public by speaking to the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Bar Association giving them legal tips. |
| 8. | Paul Krugman (economist, columnist for NY Times) - Goldberg is unable to find a quote of Krugman's that is hysterical or extreme, so Krugman's flaw is that he consistently argues against Bush's policies without sounding foolish. |
| 9. | Jonathan Kozol (nonfiction writer) - Kozol has lectured for decades on public education standards, specifically promoting the idea that children should become critics of America. He views the education system as brainwashing, and that children should be counter-brainwashed by being skeptical of authority. Ironically, Kozol draws much of his inspiration from the educational systems of Cuba and China. Pioneer. |
| 10. | Ralph Neas (President and CEO of People for the American Way) - Neas tries to demonize the Boy Scouts because of their supposed conservative agenda. He also has worked against the nomination of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. One particularly troubling case, according to Goldberg, is his attack on judge Charles Pickering. Pickering has adjudicated fairly on a couple of civil rights case, yet Neas has slammed him on civil rights. In addition, other Democrat party members repeat Neas's talking points and respect him. |
| 11. | Noam Chomsky (MIT professor of linguistics) - While he is the most-cited living author, or the "most important intellectual" according to the New York Times, Chomsky hates America. He describes the Cold War as the United States's continuation of the Nazi agenda, and he frequently points to more extreme cases of terrorism done by the US than what happened on 9/11. Chomsky is the epitome of the anti-American intellectual. |
| 12. | Dan Rather (former anchor for CBS Evening News) - Dan Rather anchored a story claiming that Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam War wasn't fulfilled in full, yet in the previous month, Dan Rather claimed that it doesn't matter what John Kerry did during Vietnam. It was also later revealed that Rather's evidence against Bush was forged. Dan Rather wanted to believe the evidence so he could slam Bush. He has bias, and either he doesn't know it or he won't admit it. |
| 13. | Andrew Heyward (Pres. of CBS News) - Heyward, with whom Goldberg had worked for at CBS, is not owning up to the phony Bush story (see next), and instead of resigning, his nearby subordinates have all had to leave. |
| 14. | Mary Mapes (former producer for CBS's 60 minutes) - Mapes aired a story based on phony documentation that George W. Bush dodged National Guard service. When doubts were revealed about the evidence, Mapes was insistent about its authenticity. Those close to Mapes say she went into journalism with an activist's mindset. Supposedly she has worked on the Bush story for five years, revealing her fanatical obsession against Bush. |
| 15. | Ted Rall (cartoonist) - Rall's cartoons appear in 140 newspapers, but are extremely cruel in their commentary. When Pat Tillman, the NFL pro who joined the Army, was killed and then treated like a hero, Rall printed in a cartoon depicting Tillman as saying, "Never mind the fine print, Will I get to kill Arabs?" Rall's public comments also describe the United States as a modern-day Third Reich or Stalinist Russia. |
| 16. | John Edwards (former Senator from North Carolina, John Kerry's running mate, trial lawyer) - John Edwards first made big bucks winning a case that used more emotion than science against a doctor who waited too long to perform a cesarean, leaving a baby with cerebral palsy. Edwards told the jury that the child "speaks to you through me. And I have to tell you right now—I didn't plan to talk about this—right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to you." John Edwards and trial lawyers pursue malpractice lawsuits like a treasure hunt, and it creates an environment of fear for doctors. He also said that people like Christopher Reeve would be able to walk if America had elected John Kerry. |
| 17. | Al Sharpton (African-Amercian leader, orator, civil rights activist) - Sharpton is inconsistent in his support for civil rights, for example by praising and standing on the same stage as Khalid Muhammad, best known for "gay-bashing, Jew-hating, anti-Catholic tirades." Sharpton didn't apologize for supporting a black woman's fake gang rape charge (Tawana Brawley). He also excited racial tensions over an eviction dispute between a black-owned record store and its Jewish landlord. What first followed were protests, but then afterwards eight people were killed in a shooting and burning of the store (Freddy's). |
| 18. | Al Gore (Vice-president 1992-2000) - Al Gore is as unprincipled and pandering a Democrat politician as any. He spoke passionately about how his sister died from smoking, but a few years before that he was throwing praise on tobacco. Also, when asked if it would be okay to execute a pregnant woman, he didn't give a straight answer, showing how he tries too hard to appease his pro-abortion constituency. He is now a loud and scary Bush-hater. |
| 19. | Howard Dean (Chairman of Democratic National Committee) - Throughout his campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination, and now during his chairmanship, Dean has maintained a rambunctious and angry attitude toward Republicans. In spite of his anger, Democrats rally around him, furthering divisiveness in politics. |
| 20. | The Unknown American Terrorist - Members of the Earth Liberation Front have torched luxury homes, SUVs, and a ski resort, costing Americans millions of dollars in damages. Their goal is to protect the environment through destroying property. Their activities are similar to that of terrorists, as they operate like a loose-network of cells. |
| 21. | Julian Bond (Chairman of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)) - Julian Bond, the leader of what was once a respectable civil rights group, is now an extremist, using his organization to damage Republicans. In one case, Julian Bond referred to Republicans and their love for the "Confederate swastika." |
| 22. | John Green (angry basketball fan) - Green started a fight at a basketball game by throwing a beer can at an NBA player. Not only that, Green went around like a victim complaining when his season tickets were revoked. Green represents people who feel entitled to get mad and cuss at sport events, including at Little League games. |
| 23. | Latrell Sprewell (basketball player for Minnesota Timberwolves) - Sprewell's arrogant comments in public show just how spoiled some professional athletes have become. When referring to his basketball team, the Timberwolves, he said, "Why would I want to help them win a title? They're not doing anything for me." |
| 24. | Maury Povich (TV Talk show host) - Maury, with his self-titled show, creates segments that glorify and sensationalize trashy American behavior. Examples include "mothers who have sex with their daughter's boyfriends" or a show about mothers who let their infants become really fat. |
| 25. | Jerry Springer (TV Talk show host) - Springer helped pioneer the nasty television talk show genre. He and Povich are rottening American culture. Pioneer. |
| 26. | Al Franken (comedian and political commentator) - Al Franken goes under the guise of "satire" in order to make random and childish accusations. In an interview Goldberg had with Franken, Franken sounds like an idiot by randomly yelling the word "Liar." |
| 27. | Paul Eibeler (CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software) - Eibeler's company produces the bestselling Grand Theft Auto, a video game that simulates the killing of gays, cops, blacks, and hookers. His company is being sued for inspiring an eighteen-year old to killing three people (two of which were police officers). Goldberg doesn't believe in censorship, but he is sick of capitalists who will willingly ruin our culture to make money. |
| 28. | Ken Lay (former CEO of Enron) - Enron's executives played with their accounting books in order to fraudulently generate millions of dollars from 1996 to 2001. Company executives got bonuses throughout the boom, but when they got caught, Ken Lay pretended to be unaware of all the actions of his subordinates. Twenty-thousand employees have lost their jobs and have had their pension plans in limbo ever since. |
| 29. | Barbara Walters (media personality, former news anchor) - While Walters has interviewed some of the biggest movers and shakers in the world for decades, she is doing more harm to journalism by also interviewing celebrities and asking dumb questions. i.e. She once asked Katherine Hepburn, "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" Pioneer. |
| 30. | Anna Nicole Smith (model, TV personality) - She is now famous for her self-titled, tacky "reality TV" show, which takes the personal trash of her daily life and turns it into programming. She is part of a movement that Goldberg calls the "Vulgarization of the Personal." |
| 31. | Neal Shapiro (president of NBC News) - Neal Shapiro is selling out journalism by using the news show Dateline to promote background material for NBC's entertainment shows such as The Apprentice, Fraiser, and Friends. |
| 32. | David Westin (ABC News President) - He is partly responsible for blurring the lines between entertainment and news by putting fake journalists on air (see next entry). |
| 33. | Diane Sawyer (co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America, journalist) - How can Diane Sawyer claim the title of journalist, when she does a shallow interview with Britney Spears? Sawyer doesn't even pressure Spears hard enough about one of her songs that involves masturbation. |
| 34. | Eminem (rapper, actor) - It is sad that Eminem is an icon for millions, especially young people, since his lyrics advocate violence against women. |
| 35. | Ludacris (rapper) - Like all rappers, Ludacris popularizes ignorance and anti-social behavior. |
| 36. | Howard Stern (radio talk show host) - Howard Stern's popular radio show makes fun of retarded people. His show also involves pornographic scenes that are usually performed on the Stern set and are then recounted live on public radio. He has also become a representative for First Amendment rights, but not because of any provocative political commentary. Rather, Stern is fighting for the right to make auditory pollution. |
| 37. | Oliver Stone (film director) - Stone twisted facts in JFK (1991) to imply that the CIA, FBI, and Armed Forces conspired to assassinate Kennedy. Another one of Stone's films Nixon (1995) puts words into historical figures' mouths in order to demonize the United States government. His anti-American films unfortunately get misconstrued as truths by the public. |
| 38. | Phil Donahue (TV talk show host) - Donahue "Launched TV's first modern television talk show in 1967" by characteristically dashing into the audience to grab commentary from ordinary people. Donahue has had too much of an influence on TV to be forgiven for his relativist comparisons of the US to Communist Russia, and for his support of radical feminism and gay activism. Pioneer. |
| 39. | Harry Belafonte (entertainer, human rights activist, made "Day-O" song famous) - Belafonte criticized African-American former Secretary of State Colin Powell as kissing-up to Bush and the white establishment. Why can't blacks be conservative? |
| 40. | Tim Robbins (actor) - Robbins is a vocal anti-war protester, and he has made claims that al Qaeda fundamentalism is similar to fundamentalism in the US government. He also says he's about peace, but he's also mean to people. |
| 41. | The Dumb and Vicious Celebrity (ex: Linda Ronstadt, Martin Sheen, David Clennon, Janeane Garofolo) - Celebrities draw undue attention to stupid things they say, such as Garofolo saying, "a gay naked man or woman burning the flag [gives me] pride." |
| 42. | The Vicious Celebrity (ex: Alec Baldwin, Wallace Shawn, Sean Penn, Janeane Garofolo) - Celebrities get away with extreme statements such as Sean Penn saying that President Reagan's Alzheimer's is karma. |
| 43. | The Dumb Celebrity (ex: Cameron Diaz, Fred Durst, Kate Hudson, Janeane Garofolo) - Celebrities get attention for their political statements because they are famous, not because they have anything useful to say, which in most cases, they don't. |
| 44. | Michael Jackson (singer) - Goldberg doesn't elaborate on this inclusion, but Jackson probably made the list for being such a public clown, and therefore an embarrassment to all Americans. |
| 45. | Barbara Streisand (singer, actress) - How can such a beautiful and talented singer have the heart to bash Bush? |
| 46. | Courtney Love (singer, guitarist, widow of rockstar Kurt Cobain) - Author reserves only the word "Ho" for his criticism. My guess is that while Courtney Love is a role model for young women, she has been arrested multiple times, in one case for throwing a microphone stand and hitting a man on the head, in other cases for drug-related charges. |
| 47. | Eve Ensler (author of the play The Vagina Monologues) - Her play is silly for its over-use of vagina-related content, and it is offensive for excessive anti-male content. What's worse is that she is backed by prominent females such as Oprah Winfrey and Brooke Shields, making Goldberg feel un-hip for not liking the play or its message. |
| 48. | Todd Goldman (cartoonist) - Goldman is making a living with boy-bashing T-shirts such as "Lobotomy: How to Train Boys" or "Boys Are Smelly ... Kick them in the Belly." Author is frustrated that condemning boys is acceptable, while as condemning other groups and minorities, such as blacks and Jews, is a hate-crime. |
| 49. | Sheila Jackson Lee (Houston Democrat Representative) - She requested that hurricanes also be given African-American names. Goldberg finds it stupid to request affirmative action in the naming rights for a weather phenomena that is loathed. |
| 50. | Matthew Lesko (infomercial personality) - He promotes dubious methods on how to milk the government for "free money." He is a symbol for self-centered free-riders. |
| 51. | Rick and Kathy Hilton (heirs to Hilton Hotel chain, and parents of Paris Hilton) - They deserve blame for raising Paris Hilton to be a empty-headed socialite who became famous for starring in a home sex video. |