I'm grateful to the person on the
"Daily Show: Taking it to the Next Level" diary who posted the complete list from Bernard Goldberg's political commentary book,
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.
Since I didn't see another diary on the subject, I decided to throw together my own list of the people who are really destroying the country I love, through propaganda, short-sightedness, lust for power, and greed.
My mom offered a few suggestions, and I checked some names on the net, but this is mostly off the top of my own head. It's not in strict order, but like is grouped with like: and generally speaking the worst offenders are the closer to the top of the list.
Goldberg has his opinion, and mine is quite different. There are only two or three people who made both lists. Oddly enough there were quite a few people on Goldberg's list I had never heard of. And I thought I was really keeping on top of things. So I deliberately tried to pick names for my list that most people here would know.
I would expect that the dedicated activists on this site would immediately recognize almost every name and know exactly why that person was included among this infamous hundred.
Then I thought it might be a fun Plamegate break, especially for the newbies among us, to include an awareness information question with the list:
How many names did you recognize immediately? For how many names could you give a quick explanation, to someone who had never heard of the person, for why that name is on the list?
So please review the names and answer the poll question below. And if I left out someone really obvious, please tell me that also.
The 100 People who are REALLY screwing up America
TrueBlueMajority's draft
1.Karl Rove
2.George W. Bush
3.Dick Cheney
4.Donald Rumsfeld
5.Ann Coulter
6.Grover Norquist
7.Rush Limbaugh
8.Condoleezza Rice
9.Bill Frist
10.James Dobson
11.Tom DeLay
12.Walden O'Dell
13.Richard Perle
14.Paul Wolfowitz
15.Paul Gigot
16.Wes Pruden
17.Alberto Gonzalez
18.John O'Neil
19.Bill O'Reilly
20.Nathan Sproul
21.Bob Novak
22.Trent Lott
23.Mitt Romney
24.Orrin Hatch
25.Bill Rehnquist
26.Antonin Scalia
27.Clarence Thomas
28.Jim Sensenbrenner
29.Rick Santorum
30.John Ashcroft
31.Mitch McConnell
32.John Cornyn
33.J. Kenneth Blackwell
34.Pat Buchanan
35.Michael Savage
36.Sean Hannity
37.Laura Ingraham
38.David Horowitz
39.Michele Malkin
40.Dinesh d'Souza
41.Armstrong Williams
42.Alan Keyes
43.Robert Bork
44.Roy Blunt
45.Norm Coleman
46.Karen Hughes
47.Mary Matalin
48.James Baker
49.Roger Ailes
50.Katherine Harris
51.Jeb Bush
52.Rupert Murdoch
53.Jonah Goldberg
54.Ken Mehlman
55.Saxby Chambliss
56.Oliver North
57.Chuck Colson
58.Laura Schlesinger
59.Ralph Reed
60.Bill Kristol
61.George Will
62.Priscilla Owen
63.Janice Rogers Brown
64.Edith Brown Clement
65.Edith Jones
66.Tony Perkins
67.Arnold Schwartzenegger
68.Jesse Ventura
69.John Thune
70.Tucker Carlson
71.Phyllis Schafly
72.Paris Hilton
73.Britney Spears
74.Ward Connerly
75.Judge Roy Moore
76.John McLaughlin
77.Brit Hume
78.Tony Snow
79.William F. Buckley
80.Jerry Falwell
81.Kay Bailey Hutchison
82.Rudy Giuliani
83.Fred Barnes
84.Bernard Goldberg
85.Zell Miller
86.Bobby Jindal
87.George Pataki
88.George Steinbrenner
89.Kenneth Lay
90.David Duke
91.George Allen
92.Charlton Heston
93.Newt Gingrich
94.Bill Bennett
95.Henry Kissinger
96.Benny Hinn
97.Bruce Tinsley
98.Rich Lowry
99.Tammy Bruce
100.Peggy Noonan