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

Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xvii, [1], 269, [1] pages. Index. Inscribed by author to Howard Kurtz on fep. Jack Cafferty (born December 14, 1942) is a former CNN commentator and occasional host of specials. In the summer of 2005. Cafferty is the author of the book It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America. The book is a satirical critique of political and social issues, including the long arm of big business, the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina, expanding on many of themes covered on Cafferty's Situation Room segment and chastising the growing culture of sensationalism and tabloid journalism in modern news media. Portions of the book are autobiographical, describing Cafferty's childhood and short-lived military career as well as his foray into journalism. According to Cafferty: "Very little of my back story 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." Howard Alan Kurtz (born August 1, 1953) is an American journalist and author known for his coverage of the media. Kurtz is the host of Fox News Channel's Media Buzz. He is the former media writer for The Washington Post. Kurtz joined Fox News in 2013. For years, Cafferty voiced the views, hopes, and fears of the average American in inimitable style. In It's Getting Ugly Out There, he brings 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 him 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 his daily 'Cafferty File' segments on CNN's The Situation Room knows he's not what you'd call the mainstream media's poster boy for feel-good commentary.