It's Getting Ugly Out There : The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America

by Cafferty, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780470144794
• ISBN10: 0470144793
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-10
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

"Very little of my backstory qualifies as Hallmark Card material, but it may help you to make sense of the way I see and interpret what's going on around me." -Jack Cafferty For the millions who watch the "Cafferty File" on CNN's The Situation Room, Jack Cafferty stands for common sense-the much-needed voice of reason who skewers right-wing nut jobs and liberal eggheads alike. For years, he's voiced the views, hopes, and fears of the average American in inimitable style. Now, in It's Getting Ugly Out There, he brings that level-headed wisdom to bear on the most critical issues facing us today-and explains why Americans must take our country back from those who are harming it. "It's been a target-rich seven years for someone like me who enjoys pushing people's buttons and sticking pins in things that need pricking, from rich and fatuous celebrities offering foreign policy analysis to the latest lying Beltway blowhard impaling himself on his sword of pomposity. . . . Anyone familiar with my daily 'Cafferty File' segments on CNN's The Situation Room knows I'm not exactly what you'd call the mainstream media's poster boy for feel-good news and commentary. In your face is more like it." "I'm no shrink, but I have the sense Bush has carried an angry chip on his shoulder much of his pampered life, seething just beneath the good-old-boy surface." "The bottom line is that our government no longer works for us. The government works for the lobbyists who have had a big hand in influencing (if not helping to draft) legislation favoring not the average American citizen but instead big business: health insurance, pharmaceutical and oil companies, and defense contractors, among others. These are the guys who can make the kinds of political contributions that are needed to finance today's multi-million-dollar political campaigns." "We want our troops home, but we also want a new army of elected officials to march into Washington and take a fresh, uncorrupted look at the needs of the vast majority of Americans. If these two parties, however 2008 breaks, can't fix what's broken, this way of life as we've known it may vanish into some deep, dark crevasse."

Author Biography

Jack Cafferty is a CNN host and commentator who appears regularly on the network's popular news program The Situation Room, where his "Cafferty File" segments are seen by two million viewers every afternoon. Six "Cafferty File" segments air each weekday.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Prologue: This Isn't the America I Know	p. 1
The Boy in the Bubble	p. 13
Resisting Authority	p. 27
Shame and Shamelessness in New Orleans: Bush's Category 5 Tipping Point	p. 33
Bordering on Insanity: Illegal Immigration	p. 54
The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back: What Port Security?	p. 78
Plan B: Stick to Broadcasting	p. 93
Till Debt Do Us Part: How Bush Is Eviscerating Our Middle Class	p. 103
You Need a Very Strong Constitution to Deal with These Guys: The Patriot Act and Other Disasters	p. 119
Culture Shock	p. 144
Dumbing Us Down and Numbing Us Down: This Administration Doesn't Want Us to Get the Picture	p. 151
Getting Sober	p. 177
Is This Really World War III? Then Let's Start Fighting It Like It Is	p. 185
The Damage Done: Frauds and Disasters on Capitol Hill	p. 213
Epilogue: It's Going to Get Even Uglier Out There in 2008	p. 232
Acknowledgments	p. 256
Index	p. 257
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