Robyn Blumner vs Bernard Goldberg.

[Dr.Phool]

From today's St. Pete Times. A few of the folks REALLY screwing up America.

Magnificent 7, they're not
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By ROBYN E. BLUMNER, Times Perspective Columnist
Published August 14, 2005

According to the new book by conservative author and journalist Bernard Goldberg, 100 people are to blame for the sad state of our country, and most are decidedly liberal.

In 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken is #37), Goldberg insists that people like Eminem, Courtney Love and Maury Povich, who contribute to America's corrosive culture, and those like Barbra Streisand, Barbara Kingsolver and Bill Moyers, who are outspoken liberals, are our nation's greatest villains. His naive rantings take aim largely at the entertainment and infotainment industries, as if changing to a steady diet of Ozzie and Harriet would fix things. You know: bring our troops home, pay off our national debt and make prescription drugs affordable.

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So, here are the seven people (space won't allow for more) I think are screwing up America. I am leaving off all current elected officials and Supreme Court justices, because they would take up the whole list. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would be Nos. 1 and 2 (with Bush being 2), and that would be too predictable.

No. 7: Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza.

In addition to having been a major contributor to antiabortion groups in the late 1980s, Monaghan is intent on transforming parts of America into Catholics-only territory. His Ave Maria project already includes Ave Maria University, Ave Maria College and Ave Maria Law School, where orthodox Catholicism is incubated in young minds and future leaders. But he also has joined with a local Florida developer to build the town of Ave Maria in Collier County. About the future town, Monaghan said in a speech: "We're going to control all the commercial real estate, so there's not going to be any pornography sold in this town. We're controlling the cable system. The pharmacies are not going to be able to sell condoms or dispense contraceptives." I wonder if the medical advances derived from stem-cell research will be barred from Ave Maria's hospitals.

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http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/14/Columns/Magnificent_7__they_r.shtml


It's pretty good. Read the whole thing.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

1. Great Article .. Thanks Dr.Phool!

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[Serial Mom]

2. Her list could by my list!

Good article!


And I bought pizza ONCE from Domino's about 2 years ago only out of desperation in my more than 40 years of eating pizza and never would again!

[wli]

3. company town? sounds very Rethuglican n/t