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The latest offering from the author of "The Bush-Haters Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the Last 100 Years" and "Bushit," "101 People Who are Really Screwing America" is a right wing rogue's gallery (with a few other non-political types like "Dr. Phil" and "The Obnoxiously Loud and Constant Cell Phone User" tossed in). It's the kind of book that should come with a dartboard.

Huberman works backwards from the 100th (actually the 101st) to the number one person who is f**king over Americans. (Here's a hint: it's not George Bush, but rather the guy who is really the president -- you know, Mr. Snarling Bad Shot.)

The book is a terrific response to the tome of the bizarre former CBS reporter, now turned right wing hit man author, Bernard Goldberg. Last year, Goldberg penned "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37)." In Huberman's subtitle, he notes of the 101 people who are "really" screwing America that Bernard Goldberg is only #73. It must be a deflating let down for Bernard, who so much wants to be in the Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh league of demagoguery.

Remember the pop-psychology book, "I'm Okay, You're Okay." Well, Huberman allows you to feel okay in not liking these creeps -- and then reminds you why you find them loathsome. The publisher's note on the back of the book even calls the 101 people listed in Huberman's roster of shame, "oozing pustules of cultural putrefaction." Ouch!

By the time you reach public enemy # 1, Dick Cheney, Huberman lacerates old Dick in a few short paragraphs, rendering him a hypocritical, snarling, sleazebag.

As for #2, our very own destroyer-in-chief, Huberman writes one paragraph in a sort of Bush rap that skewers the village idiot in the White House.

There might be a couple of people or groups that Huberman blasts who you might not agree are worthy of such virulent scorn, but two out of 101 is a pretty good record.

As we read through "101 People," we kept thinking, "and there's plenty more where they came from." It's like the book version of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

You keep thinking, all these people should be shunned by society. But, instead, they are at the pinnacle of power.

How did that happen?

Oh man, we have indeed been screwed.

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