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See Who Makes The List of Cultural Villains
By Dean George, The Indianapolis Star
September 3, 2005
Americans and jihadists may never agree on democracy for Iraq, women's fashions or the benefits of indoor plumbing, but they probably share one opinion: Much of American culture is a cesspool of crassness, incivility and immorality.
In his third New York Times best-selling book, eight-time Emmy winner and former CBS News senior correspondent Bernard Goldberg decries the decomposition of American culture.
"A slow poison is running through the veins of this great country, and our tolerance of crap is just a small part of it," Goldberg notes. "This is a book about those people, a whole bunch of different people who are screwing things up in a whole bunch of different ways."
Prior to revealing "The List", Goldberg tees off on the different types of cultural villains in concise, no-holds-barred chapters, including: America Bashers, Schlockmeisters, the Pinstripe Crooks, Intellectual Thugs, Hollywood Loudmouths and the American Jackals.
Quick to note that no two people will agree on "The List", Goldberg confesses there are a lot of liberals on it, "not so much because of their left-of-center politics, as because of their willingness -- make that their eagerness -- to live up to the most embarrassing stereotypes many of us hold about today's cultural elites."
Laurie David, an eco-chic Hollywood environmentalist and the wife of "Seinfeld" creator Larry David, is one example. She likes to pull alongside SUV drivers, harassing and reviling them as "terrorist enablers," even though David doesn't like flying commercial and prefers using Gulfstream jets that carry about 2,100 gallons of fuel.
Novelist and social critic Barbara Kingsolver wrote in an op-ed piece right after 9/11, "Patriotism threatens free speech with death. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Who are we calling terrorists?"
Abortion rights activist Amy Richards, after getting pregnant by her boyfriend and learning that she was carrying three fetuses, asked her obstetrician, "Is it possible to get rid of one of them? Or two of them?" After learning that two of the fetuses were identical twins, Richards found her choice psychologically comforting. "The twins go, the stand alone stays, 'a shot of potassium chloride to the heart' takes care of the whole thing."
for full article:
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050903/OPINION/509030422/10...
See Who Makes The List of Cultural Villains
By Dean George, The Indianapolis Star
September 3, 2005
Americans and jihadists may never agree on democracy for Iraq, women's fashions or the benefits of indoor plumbing, but they probably share one opinion: Much of American culture is a cesspool of crassness, incivility and immorality.
In his third New York Times best-selling book, eight-time Emmy winner and former CBS News senior correspondent Bernard Goldberg decries the decomposition of American culture.
"A slow poison is running through the veins of this great country, and our tolerance of crap is just a small part of it," Goldberg notes. "This is a book about those people, a whole bunch of different people who are screwing things up in a whole bunch of different ways."
Prior to revealing "The List", Goldberg tees off on the different types of cultural villains in concise, no-holds-barred chapters, including: America Bashers, Schlockmeisters, the Pinstripe Crooks, Intellectual Thugs, Hollywood Loudmouths and the American Jackals.
Quick to note that no two people will agree on "The List", Goldberg confesses there are a lot of liberals on it, "not so much because of their left-of-center politics, as because of their willingness -- make that their eagerness -- to live up to the most embarrassing stereotypes many of us hold about today's cultural elites."
Laurie David, an eco-chic Hollywood environmentalist and the wife of "Seinfeld" creator Larry David, is one example. She likes to pull alongside SUV drivers, harassing and reviling them as "terrorist enablers," even though David doesn't like flying commercial and prefers using Gulfstream jets that carry about 2,100 gallons of fuel.
Novelist and social critic Barbara Kingsolver wrote in an op-ed piece right after 9/11, "Patriotism threatens free speech with death. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Who are we calling terrorists?"
Abortion rights activist Amy Richards, after getting pregnant by her boyfriend and learning that she was carrying three fetuses, asked her obstetrician, "Is it possible to get rid of one of them? Or two of them?" After learning that two of the fetuses were identical twins, Richards found her choice psychologically comforting. "The twins go, the stand alone stays, 'a shot of potassium chloride to the heart' takes care of the whole thing."
for full article:
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050903/OPINION/509030422/10...
