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

    By Jack Cafferty

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    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."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateDec 16, 2010
    ISBN9781118039250
    It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America

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    • 5/5
      I'll admit it - I was a Jack Cafferty fan before I read the book, and now I think I'm a little in love with him. They don't make 'em like Jack anymore. His unfailing political and cultural BS detector is spot on and unapologetic. I even enjoyed his autobiographic asides, which he presents in a clear, true voice without the petulant whining that too often accompanies modern personal histories. What happened to the little boy who shouted, "The Emperor's not wearing any clothes!" - well, he's all grown up and working at CNN.
    • 3/5
      There are probably more F-bombs in this book than Dick Cheney could shake a stick at, so it isn't for the easily offended. I, personally, appreciated some of Cafferty's insights. I'm probably revealing my stupidity here, but, like one of Cafferty's viewers who said, "I want President Bush to catch every terrorist he can. I have nothing to hide, so he can tap anything he wants," I couldn't imagine how government wire-tapping could possibly affect me in my non-controversial, completely legal, and boring life. Now I get it: if we went down the secret checklist the administration uses to decide who gets wiretapped, my favorite presidential candidate would probably meet all the requirements. Coincidence? I'd like to think so, but at this point it seems my own paranoia about Bush and his colleagues has a way of bearing itself out. The chapters that cover the political events of the last seven years are a bit rambling at times. It seemed somehow awkward that Cafferty often quotes himself (literally, in quotation marks). And the chapters on his personal life seem like they belong in another book--they're interesting--I just didn't think they connected to the other chapters. But, overall, this was a funny and informative read.
    • 3/5
      Jack Cafferty does commentary for CNN. He has been in the media for forty years. I haven't watched him before now, and probably won't watch him after reading his book...mostly because I hold those in the media to a higher standard of knowledge than most. They should really know what's going on, right? Yet Cafferty was favorable to George W. Bush as a candidate, buying his "uniter" and "bringing integrity back to the White House" rhetoric. I didn't, for one simple reason. I read Molly Ivin's book Shrub, and it was a record of venality and incompetence that has run true to form in the Bush administration. In other words, the information was out there, just as the information about the lack of WMDs and the lack of a link between Saddam Hussein and Al Quaeda was out there before the Iraq war, but had little public exposure. Cafferty does rant about the media's attention to such things as Anna Nicole Smith and the lack of attention to important stories, and does blame the media consolidation and need to make a profit, but also the public. Sickeningly, he reports that the CNN coverage of Smith's death quadrupled their ratings!!!I also agree with Cafferty that the Bush administration may be good for the country in that its incredible level of arrogance, ignorance, and corruption may have awakened voters to the need to throw the bums out, and keep throwing them out, until they get the message and pass real reforms.
    • 5/5
      If you think George W. Bush is the greediest and dumbest President we've had in the last 50 years then you will enjoy this book. It is a concise record of the idiotic things that have gone on the past six years. And Cafferty relates many of the emails he has received after his reports on CNN and many of them are hilarious.

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