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| Author: Bernard Goldberg
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 84321
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0061252581
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9780061252587
ASIN: 0061252581
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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 the right wing trope of the day... May 26, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
pretend you're really "neutral" and "in the middle" all while spouting rightwing propaganda, and many Americans are just stupid enough to believe it. See Bill O'Reilly.
 Thanks for reiterating, May 12, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
God love Bernard Goldberg. The guy had spent years being indoctrinated in the liberal ways of NY and CBS but is smart enough to evaluate the arguments. He's become a Republican and does a nice job of laying out the arguments. If you are a follower of politics this might be a refresher course but if you are starting to wade in, this is a great book. He rightfully gives both sides their fair share when deserved. Good book.
 A "right on" look at the left April 12, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great read. The book is well written from a right wingers point of view. I do not agree with all his points, but it certainly explains the positions.
Offers Nothing Of Actual Value Or Even Importance. April 4, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Bernard Goldberg is one of the current, more lower-level conservative authors who pretend to unmask the great Liberal tide that has swept media, print and music outlets everywhere, threatening our culture and national security. And like his good friends Bill O'Reilly, Laura Ingraham and everyone else at Fox News, Goldberg's latest offering offers very little in valuable discussion, debate or even analysis of important issues, current events and social conflicts."Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right" is nothing more than a simplistic, sly little example of random thoughts and grievences thrown together to get a good $24 out of your pocket.
Like Ingraham, Goldberg has a tendency to obsess himself with subjects that have little importance when it comes to discussing the current state of the world, just look at all the pages he devotes to Rosie O'Donnell and controversial comments she made on a program that has little if any cultural value. Goldberg rants and spits endlessly on how O'Donnell is a threat to America, her and any other TV celebrity that espouses some sort of anti-Bush point of view. Goldberg uses this as a springboard to go after TV and movies in general, losing himself in nostalgic passages about "the way things used to be" 40 years ago. Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan, and other figures of high historical value also warrant a keen analysis by Goldberg. This isn't a call for progress, more like the opposite.
The foreign policy sections of "Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right" are just as bad and delusional. Goldberg dangerously simplifies current debates in America about the constitution, executive power and torture. When touching on the subject of secret CIA prisons, Goldberg never bothers to actually cite scholarship, discuss the issue or even adequately describe what it is he is defending, instead he chops it all down to "we have secret prisons but it's not as bad because the Islamofascists want to blow themselves up and kill us all!" This is what Goldberg considers to be keen foreign policy discussion? No wonder right-wingers hate Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn or even Keith Olbermann, their points or books are probably too much for them to just get past page 10. Goldberg goes on to back the disastrous Iraq war (of course), finding again, simplistic, hollow excuses for why the bloodbath in Iraq should continue.
"Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right" simply offers nothing for the modern reader to help understand the debates raging in modern America. There is no doubt a well-written, detailed way to make a conservative argument, consider Newt Gingrich, but authors like Goldberg and Ingraham basically make money by taking a stroll to the local mall, jotting down what it is they hate about modern TV, modern teenage dress, modern music, whatever, and then transfer it to typed manuscript format, go on Fox News to promote it and then go laughing all the way to the bank. Luckily, like Hannity and all the rest, books like this have a limited shelf life and aren't read much as the years pass, in fact, Goldberg will be lucky if this even stays in print for another five years if not less.
I guess that would make him a far right reactionary March 2, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wow, this guy wrote a "word book." The title seems to imply that he is a moderate, i.e. those on the left are crazy and those on the right are wimps. However, if those on the right are wimps, then arguably they do not go far enough for this guy; thus, he would actually be to the right of the wimps.
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