Shorter Jonah Goldberg: March 12, 2008
Posted by Evil Bender in News and politics, wingnuts.trackback
“Because liberals don’t say the word ‘patriotism’ enough, wankers like me get to say they’re evil.”
Seriously, even the LA Times should be embarrassed to publish this trash. Jonah Goldberg thinks Obama should talk less about unity and more about patriotism. Goldberg’s “argument” is basically that liberals don’t talk enough about patriotism, which indicates they’re not patriotic.*
The last sentence is full of the kind of head-exploding irony that only a true neocon can spout without collapsing into a gibbering wreck:
Better that our politics be an argument about why and how we should love our country, not about whether some do and some don’t.
This from the same man who argues in his book Liberal Fascism: How Everything Bad is Caused by Al Gore that liberals are fascists because we eat at Whole Foods, and that “the white male is the Jew of liberal fascism.” This man, whose violation of Godwin’s Law is so severe as to disqualify himself from any place in reasonable public discourse, is now arguing that liberals aren’t patriotic enough because they don’t use the word “patriotism” enough. I agree, Jonah: it’s disgusting when people accuse others of not loving their country as a cheap political tactic to discredit their opponents.
So now that we’ve agreed you’re despicable, please go away.
*Naturally, he doesn’t note that those politicians who, of late, have most draped themselves in the flag are the ones who have most egregiously undermined American values. They’ve lied to start wars, they’ve undermined the Constitution, destroyed checks and balances, fired public servants who refused to kowtow to them, manipulated the voting process and silenced critics. But these people Goldberg doesn’t condemn: no, he condemns those who have fought against this anti-American bullshit for refusing to go around spouting “patriotism” like Giuliani spouts “9/11″
Naturally, he doesn’t note that those politicians who, of late, have most draped themselves in the flag are the ones who have most egregiously undermined American values. They’ve lied to start wars, they’ve undermined the Constitution, destroyed checks and balances, fired public servants who refused to kowtow to them, manipulated the voting process and silenced critics. But these people Goldberg doesn’t condemn: no, he condemns those who have fought against this anti-American bullshit for refusing to go around spouting “patriotism” like Giuliani spouts “9/11″
And this is the reason – besides his raging idiocy – why I can’t take him seriously when he blathers on about fascism. When confronted with examples of proto-fascism (to borrow David Neiwert’s term) or actual fascism, Goldberg covers his eyes and shriek’s about liberals and Whole Foods.
In a just world, Goldberg would be raving on a street corner somewhere, and not polluting our discourse with his right-wing apologetic bullshit.
Jonah Goldberg would make me feel sorry for the far right, if only they didn’t foster his kind: after all, it would be embarrassing for most people to have Jonah considered to be an intellectual heavyweight of their movement.
Goldberg is such a living, breathing neocon caricature come to life that, as with Ann Coulter, I’ve wondered once or twice if they couldn’t possibly be left wing performance artists or something.