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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wiley & Sons Canada, The Limited, John
ISBN-10
0470144793
ISBN-13
9780470144794
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59789573
Product Key Features
Book Title
It's Getting Ugly Out there : the Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Corruption & Misconduct, General, Criminal Law / General, American Government / General
Genre
Law, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.4 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-029083
Reviews
"It is ugly out there and Cafferty doesn't make it any prettier. Instead, it makes it easier to understand." ( Syndicated Review by Tribune Media Services , November 4, 2007) His deep, fatherly voice may evoke the comfort of an old-fashioned, Conkrite-era news broadcast, but newsman Cafferty has made a career of saying whatever he damn well pleases: "I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me." Reading the television news correspondent's first book feels much like watching his segments on CNN's The Situation Room , in which he follows a similarly straightforward formula: denounce bad leadership, media shortcomings and government missteps with a satirical tone just above withering. From Katrina to Iraq, from immigration to terrorism, from Bush-baiting to big business, Cafferty admits to "saying some pretty outrageous stuff" in order to get his audience riled up. Aside from skewering congress, shaming rich white guys, and repudiating Anna Nicole (the "peroxide blonde never-was"), Cafferty sheds some light on his own life, sharing personal episodes about disrespecting his boot camp drill sergeants and letting his terrier defecate in the lobby of the Des Moines television station for which he was working. Without his rich vocal presence, Cafferty's tough talking cynicism can become grating, but also cuts through, with ease, a media climate thick with rigid ideology and tabloid excess. (Sept.) ( Publishers Weekly , August 13, 2007), * "It is ugly out there and Cafferty doesn't make it any prettier. Instead, it makes it easier to understand." ( Syndicated Review by Tribune Media Services , November 4, 2007) His deep, fatherly voice may evoke the comfort of an old-fashioned, Conkrite-era news broadcast, but newsman Cafferty has made a career of saying whatever he damn well pleases: "I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me." Reading the television news correspondent's first book feels much like watching his segments on CNN's The Situation Room , in which he follows a similarly straightforward formula: denounce bad leadership, media shortcomings and government missteps with a satirical tone just above withering. From Katrina to Iraq, from immigration to terrorism, from Bush-baiting to big business, Cafferty admits to "saying some pretty outrageous stuff" in order to get his audience riled up. Aside from skewering congress, shaming rich white guys, and repudiating Anna Nicole (the "peroxide blonde never-was"), Cafferty sheds some light on his own life, sharing personal episodes about disrespecting his boot camp drill sergeants and letting his terrier defecate in the lobby of the Des Moines television station for which he was working. Without his rich vocal presence, Cafferty's tough talking cynicism can become grating, but also cuts through, with ease, a media climate thick with rigid ideology and tabloid excess. (Sept.) ( Publishers Weekly , August 13, 2007), * ""It is ugly out there and Cafferty doesn't make it any prettier. Instead, it makes it easier to understand."" ( Syndicated Review by Tribune Media Services , November 4, 2007) His deep, fatherly voice may evoke the comfort of an old-fashioned, Conkrite-era news broadcast, but newsman Cafferty has made a career of saying whatever he damn well pleases: ""I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me."" Reading the television news correspondent's first book feels much like watching his segments on CNN's The Situation Room , in which he follows a similarly straightforward formula: denounce bad leadership, media shortcomings and government missteps with a satirical tone just above withering. From Katrina to Iraq, from immigration to terrorism, from Bush-baiting to big business, Cafferty admits to ""saying some pretty outrageous stuff"" in order to get his audience riled up. Aside from skewering congress, shaming rich white guys, and repudiating Anna Nicole (the ""peroxide blonde never-was""), Cafferty sheds some light on his own life, sharing personal episodes about disrespecting his boot camp drill sergeants and letting his terrier defecate in the lobby of the Des Moines television station for which he was working. Without his rich vocal presence, Cafferty's tough talking cynicism can become grating, but also cuts through, with ease, a media climate thick with rigid ideology and tabloid excess. (Sept.) ( Publishers Weekly , August 13, 2007), "It is ugly out there and Cafferty doesn't make it any prettier. Instead, it makes it easier to understand." ( Syndicated Review by Tribune Media Services , November 4, 2007)
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
973.931
Table Of Content
Preface.Prologue: This is Not the America I Know.1. The Boy in the Bubble.2. Resisting Authority.3. Shame and Shamelessness in New Orleans: Bush's Category 5 Tipping Point.4. Bordering on Insanity: Illegal Immigration.5. The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back: What Port Security'.6. Plan B - Stick to Broadcasting.7. Till Debt Do Us Part - How Bush is Eviscerating Our Middle Class.8. You Need a Very Strong Constitution to Deal with These Guys - The Patriot Act and Other Disasters.9. Culture Shock.10. Dumbing Us Down and Numbing Us Down - This Administration Doesn't Want Us to Get the Picture.11. Getting Sober.12. Is This Really World War III? Then Let's Start Fighting It Like It Is.13. The Damage Done: Frauds and Disasters on Capitol Hill.Epilogue: It's Going to Get Even Uglier Out There in 2008.Acknowledgements.Index.
Synopsis
Popular CNN commentator Jack Cafferty takes on the no-good, the bad, and the ugly in America today. From Bush to big business, from the Beltway to Baghdad, from Hurricane Katrina to House Speaker Pelosi, from Tehran to Tel Aviv, no subject is immune from Caffertys trademark sardonic, curmudgeonly, right-on scrutiny in his first bookJohn Wiley & Sons, 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."", 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.|9780470144794|
LC Classification Number
JK275.C34 2007
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