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

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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."

"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."

Jack Cafferty
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As a news anchor and commentator, Jack Cafferty has been a popular TV figure for decades, but he really hit his personal stride when he joined CNN's The Situation Room in late 2005. Its daily "Cafferty Files" regularly draws an audience of 2 million fans eager to hear the host's straight-from-the-shoulder and apparently uncensored remarks on everything from inept government to the stagnation of the two-party system. In It's Getting Ugly Out There, he speaks his mind on targets left, right, and just plain greedy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470144794
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/10/2007
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.42 (w) x 9.37 (h) x 1.04 (d)

Meet the Author

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.

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.

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Posted October 24, 2007

Jack Attack

Jack is my hero. This book won't tell you much that you don't already know (if you're fairly well-informed), but it sure as heck will get you mad enough to do something about what's wrong with this country. Jack's wit and common sense are only matched by his passion. A good read.

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