Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won't be reading her own long-awaited memoir, so she might as well pick up the just-released book of a former White House colleague.
A retired FBI agent, and now president of the Patrick Henry Center, Gary Aldrich previously took readers into the myriad nooks and crannies of the Clinton White House with his No. 1 best seller, "Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent in the Clinton White House."
His new book, "Thunder on the Left: An Insider's Report on the Hijacking of the Democratic Party" (Allegiance Press, $25.95), caps a five-year investigation in which he reveals how the "hard left," led by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, worships everything from political correctness to big government.
And, adds the author, when people dare call left-handed politics by its real name, centrist Republicans often come to their defense, saying those on the left are merely patriots with other opinions.
"Nonsense," Mr. Aldrich writes. "For too long, the soft-hearted right has been far too polite. We need to expose the hard left for the dangerous threat they represent."
Which is? "Gutter tactics," he says, "including a 'nanny state' mentality: the hard left sees a need to regulate everything from SUVs to cell phone use by drivers."
He also says the left is responsible for turning the media into a massive "entertainment machine," designed to slant the news and move the culture ever leftward. That's why the former G-man labels today's journalism "Big Entertainment."