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Crazies to the Left of Me Wimps to the Right Unabridg CD: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve |  | Author: Bernard Goldberg
Publisher: HarperAudio
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Publication Date: April 1, 2007
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In Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right, Goldberg speaks for the millions of Americans who are saying: Enough! Enough of lunatics like Rosie O'Donnell who think "Radical Christianity" is "as big a threat to America as Radical Islam." Enough of the hyperbolic liberal rhetoric comparing Bush to Hitler and Abu Ghraib to a Saddam Hussein torture chamber. And please, enough of the military-hating crazies who run San Francisco! But Goldberg has also had it with hypocritical Republicans who say they're for small government but then spend our hard-earned tax money like Imelda Marcos in a shoe store. He's also had it with weak and timid Republicans who won't stand up and fight against racial preferences, too afraid that the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of the world will call them bigots. In plain English, he's had it with Republicans who are afraid to be conservative! The 2006 election was a wake-up call, he warns, and if the wimps on the Right fail to regain their courage, recover their principles, and reclaim their sense of fiscal responsibility, the crazies on the Left just might win the White House in 2008.
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Goldberg's semi-comedic evaluation of the American political scene! July 25, 2010
J. Meeley (WA, USA)
I have to say, whether one would agree or disagree with much of what Bernard Goldberg has to say (and I'm much more the former), he certainly doesn't lack for a defined viewpoint on the issues... nor for an endless array of targets.
"Crazies to the Left of me, Wimps to the Right" is much like most of Goldberg's past efforts, in that brings the complexities of the mired political scene down to a level that common Americans can understand. While some of what he says might be a bit simplistic, or "overly optimistic" as he says of some of his thoughts here, on the details involved in some of these issues, he never loses touch with what he's talking about.
Unlike some of his past efforts, though, he doesn't just take aim at the elitist and liberal-minded intelligentsia. He has more than a few choice words for the supposed conservative movement, or more specifically, the Republican party. He's pretty much even-handed in his denouncement of how both of America's political parties have failed the people and the nation, albeit in different ways. While some might take issue with his "solutions" not being much of them, he certainly is spot on with the short-comings of both sides of the political spectrum, especially concerning how the radicals of both sides have run each of their camps into utter ruination.
As he's done before, Goldberg hits on the issues, with a touch of sarcastic and cynical wit. He provides you with enough information to understand the situation and his feelings on it, but still manages to try and keep you entertained enough to keep turning the pages. He also pulls no punches in admitting this is how he sees things, or that this is some unbiased manifesto. Die-hard loyalists to either political party will obviously not like what Goldberg has to say, but for the rest of us, it's a somewhat informative and certainly thought-provoking looking into why so little seems to change in America, no matter which side seems to be at the controls. If you are truly fed up with the usual "game play" the political scene in America has become, Goldberg's book will read like the cliff's notes version of what needs to be fixed to change it.
 More Proof that Conservatives can't be Funny March 10, 2010
Thomas W. Day (St. Paul, MN)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Radical Christianity"--whatever that means--is "as big a threat to America as Radical Islam." Really? You really don't know what "Radical Christianity" means after 8 years of it? A collection of greedy radical Christians start a holy war and you don't see any danger in that crowd?
That's the kind of question that haunts the reader while suffering Goldberg's delusions. I picked this mess up while waiting for a local library program to begin and, a few hundred pages later, I still don't know what Bernard Goldberg is capable of comprehending. The boy sets a very low bar for stupidity, and still crawls under it. He's like a stupid man's Rush Limbaugh or a more-simpleminded Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly's idiot brother.
He tries to do a conservative Rodney Dangerfield, but comes off more like Archie Bunker. He does, often and loudly, prove the John Mill saying, "Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
 Two thumbs up January 2, 2010
M. Ivey
I really enjoyed this book. Good humor with facts and opinions. His other book, '110 People,' is great, too.
great service December 24, 2009
M. Hutton
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought as a gift - have not seen it well. Looks good and came quickly.
"A conservative, don't forget, is a liberal..." September 9, 2009
Scamp Lumm (Perseus-Pisces cluster, ~100Mpc)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"...who's been mugged by reality."-Bernard Goldberg
I first saw Mr. Goldberg on the O'Reilly Factor which I now regularly watch. So, obviously, I liked what he said enough to want to start reading some of his books. Funny, how many people are like me, once a democrat, now an independent like Bernie.
"But rest assured that the true believers will never budge. In their world, George Bush is worse than the terrorists. That's their story and they're sticking to it." Hmm. What'll the world come to if we start apologizing for terrorists and reading them, enemy combatants, their Miranda rights???
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