Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve » (Bargain)

After spending three decades at CBS News, Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bernard Goldberg decided to come forward and blow the whistle on what he saw as his industry's tendency to slant the news to the political left. His buzzed-about book, Bias, was the controversial result.

The number one New York Times bestselling author Bernard Goldberg is back with more hard-hitting observations and no-nonsense advice for saving America from the lunatics on the Left and the sellouts on the Right.

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" - whatever that means - 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. Enough of the liberal media, in particular the New York Times, which Goldberg claims doesn't publish "all the news that's fit to print" so much as "all the news that fits our ideology." And please, enough of the military-hating crazies who run San Francisco! ("Just what this country needs," Goldberg writes, "a city with Rice-A-Roni and a foreign policy.")

But Goldberg doesn't stop with the crazies on the Left. Speaking for fed-up conservatives, he also goes after the wimps on the Right - the gutless wonders in Washington who sold out their principles for power.

He's 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 the 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!

In his most personal, provocative book yet, Bernard Goldberg argues that while conservatives still believe in important things, the jury is out on Republicans. 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.

Just My Luck: I'm on One Side and They Lose Their Minds...I Go to the Other Side and They Lose Their Cojones
Crazies to the Left of Me...     3
Wimps to the Right...     18
Q: Which One Doesn't Belong: George Bush, Don Imus, or Charles Barkley? A: Sir Charles. He's the Only One with the Guts to Tell the Truth About Race
Don Imus and Sir Charles     27
Folding Like a Cheap Accordion-and Other Ways to Pander on Race     32
Q: What's the Difference Between Fox News and Ann Coulter? A: Ann Coulter Also Drives Some Conservatives Crazy
Fox Derangement Syndrome     41
Do the Ends Justify the Meanness?     45
Just What We Need: A City with Rice-A-Roni and a Foreign Policy... and Four Other Reasons Liberals Are Even Crazier Than We Thought
Was I in a Coma When San Francisco Seceded?     51
Alec Baldwin Is Not Saddam Hussein-at Least I Don't Think So     55
John Wayne, Girly Men, and the Democratic Party     61
We're All Doomed. Or Not     64
So-called Apocalypse Now     70
How the Religious Right (and the Loony Left) Turned Barry Goldwater into a Liberal
In the Beginning...     77
Church, State, and Taxicabs in Minneapolis     83
Political Science     88
Being Liberal Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
A Witch Hunt in Durham     95
The Passion of the Left     103
Change the Channel     108
Survive This!     112
W's Catch-22     115
This Just In...     118
Good Jew, Bad Jew     122
Never Mind     132
Donkeys to the Left of Me... Pigs to the Right
His Brother Was Worse     137
The Princes of Pork     141
Extreme Makeover: Republican Edition     147
Islam Is a Religion of Peace, and If You Don't Believe Me I'll Kill You
Profiles in Foolishness     151
See No Evil     158
What's Round, Lisps, Cracks Jokes, and Kills Jews?     163
The "Moderates" Are a Little Nutty, Too     167
Good Television     173
On Second Thought...     177
All the News That Fits Their Ideology (Part 1)
My Head Wants to Explode     183
And Then There's the News That's Unfit to Print...     188
We Don't Need No Stinking Principles
It's a Wonderful Life. Or Not     195
A Rare Politician with Guts     200
Speak English, Por Favor     204
If Katie Couric Is Jackie Robinson, Does That Make Bob Schieffer Martin Luther King Jr.?
No She Isn't     211
Who Got Dan Rather?     214
What Courage?     219
Mike Wallace in Mr. Rogers's Neighborhood     223
Uncomfortable Questions     229
All the News That Fits Their Ideology (Part 2)
It's in Their DNA     239
Clueless in Manhattan     242
Letters from the Fringe     247
My Plans to Fix the World
My Plan to Fix Affirmative Action     253
My Plan for Peace in the Middle East     257
My Plan to End Pork     261
A Few Final Words...
MoveOn.Jerk     267
Why the Crazies Are on Top (for Now)     271
Acknowledgments     279