Outrage of the week: Bernard Goldberg and the coarsening of our culture

"Journalist" Bernard Goldberg has just written a book, now second on Amazon.com's bestseller list, blaming liberals for all that is wrong with American culture. The right-wing tirade targets various left-of-center figures including Paul Krugman, Jimmy Carter and John Edwards (????) for coarsening our culture while failing to hold Rupert Murdoch and other conservative media moguls accountable for the damage they've done.

The laughable thing about this is that Goldberg, a correspondent on the show Real Sports, gets his paychecks from HBO, a channel whose bread and butter is airing movies and television shows that display sex, violence and profanity (Please note, DC clipmonkey loves HBO because it is the only intelligent programming on television, but he fully acknowledges that much of its content is not appropriate for underaged clipmonkeys.). Even more laughable, in defending his book on television this week, Goldberg asked a woman to "shut up" repeatedly.

Stick to sports, Bernie.