Responses
Some of those included on the list have responded to the book humorously. Cartoonists Jeff Danziger and Ted Rall both said it was "an honor" to be included on the list, with the latter adding "Not only am I grouped with many people whom I admire for their achievements and patriotism, I'm being demonized by McCarthyite thugs I despise." Entrepreneur Todd Goldman quipped that he "hope to be ranked higher next year."
Goldberg's book prompted a response from Jack Huberman, who wrote 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America (and Bernard Goldberg is Only #73).
Matt Kunitz (Executive Producer of Fear Factor and #69 in Goldberg's book) told the Los Angeles Times, "I look at my company; I think Michael Moore was No 1. I don't mind being in that group of people."
Ten new entries were added in Goldberg's 2006 update, 110 People Who Are Screwing Up America. Among these were the white nationalist band Prussian Blue, anti-homosexual preacher Fred Phelps, spam mailer Jeremy Jaynes, former United States Attorney General and lawyer/activist Ramsey Clark, and several Supreme Court Justices.
Barbara Kingsolver responded to her inclusion on the list in her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. She joked about the inclusion and said that she was proud to be on the list with people such as Jimmy Carter.
The book was referenced in the manifesto of Jim David Adkisson, the gunman who killed two people and wounded seven others in the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting.
Read more about this topic: 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
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