John Hawkins has an interview with Bernard Goldberg posted at Right Wing News about his new book, Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right. Goldberg is, as always, interesting and entertaining. Here is a brief excerpt:
John Hawkins:What do you think about the sort of rhetoric used on the left, particularly on the left side of the blogosphere? You know, Bush is Hitler, they’re playing up conspiracy theories, that sort of thing?
Bernard Goldberg: It’s very, very damaging because once somebody says, “Bush is Hitler,” that isn’t the beginning of a conversation, that ends the conversation. (There’s a) chapter in the book, which is kind of funny, (where) Alec Baldwin is… (compared by his wife) to Saddam Hussein. And Alec Baldwin said, “I’m not Saddam Hussein, I don’t kill people, I don’t do what Saddam Hussein does”, and I make the point in the book that Alec Baldwin is right. He has every right to say, “I’m not Saddam Hussein.” Then I said, “Alec, now go out and show that same outrage with your Hollywood friends who call George Bush Adolph Hitler.” Because that kind of Rosie O’Donnell rhetoric, where radical Christians are as bad as radical Muslims… the sort of rhetoric where Joy Behar on The View compares Donald Rumsfeld to Hitler, that kind of stuff, turns decent people off.
