“Liberal Fascism” Author Jonah Goldberg Now L.A. Times Op-Ed Columnist
“Liberal Fascism” Author Jonah Goldberg Now L.A. Times Op-Ed Columnist
The Los Angeles Times announced a major shake-up of its op-ed page today. Gone are cartoonist Michael Ramirez and liberal columnist Robert Scheer.
In their place, you won’t find any committed progressives like Scheer. Instead, L.A. Times editors chose National Review contributing editor and “Liberal Fascism” author Jonah Goldberg. Below, some of our favorite Jonah jems, coming to a “liberal media” near you:
What makes McCarthyism so hard to discuss is that McCarthy behaved like a jerk, but he was also right.
Now, I’m not in favor of pulling Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn from libraries, but let’s at least give a small nod to the fact that some material actually can be banned from libraries without the sky falling.
ATTN: SUPERDOME RESIDENTS – I think it’s time to face facts. That place is going to be a Mad Max/thunderdome Waterworld/Lord of the Flies horror show within the next few hours. My advice is to prepare yourself now. Hoard weapons, grow gills and learn to communicate with serpents. While you’re working on that, find the biggest guy you can and when he’s not expecting it beat him senseless. Gather young fighters around you and tell the womenfolk you will feed and protect any female who agrees to participate without question in your plans to repopulate the earth with a race of gilled-supermen.
More:
In praise of “The Bell Curve”:
[Charles Murray crunches] the numbers with the sort of élan and sophistication we’ve come to expect from the author of “Losing Ground” and coauthor of “The Bell Curve.”
Santorum is probably right that anti-sodomy laws are constitutional.
Nazi appreciation for anti-war activism:
GOOD FOR CINDY [SHEEHAN]! She’s rallied the Nazis to her cause (obviously unintentionally, but it’s interesting how her message resonates in such quarters nonetheless).
And, of course, Goldberg’s explanation for why he can’t be troubled with serving in Iraq:
As for why my sorry a** isn’t in the kill zone, lots of people think this is a searingly pertinent question. No answer I could give — I’m 35 years old, my family couldn’t afford the lost income, I have a baby daughter, my a** is, er, sorry, are a few — ever seem to suffice.
Many more at Eschaton.
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November 11th, 2005 at 12:18 pmYour stock is rising, #2?
November 11th, 2005 at 12:19 pmWow, just finished reading the sample of jems. Did the LAT face a budget crunch and the HR department bit the bullet? College kids in writing clubs can do better than that.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:23 pmThe LA times must be hellbent on losing subscribers. That s**t won’t fly here.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:58 pmBetween this and O’Lielly’s war on SF today, it looks like someone is mad about our rejection of Arnold’s agenda! Too bad. But very strange that the LAT can’t see that the tide is turning – the time to run this guy was last year. They missed the cultural boat.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:58 pmNo more Robert Scheer? Big f*cking mistake LAT. There are a lot of us out-of-LA libs who will no longer be bothered to visit the site.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:09 pmwhy, for god’s sake…? why…? who coughed up big money…?
November 11th, 2005 at 1:13 pmThe same reasons applied to many if not most of the 140,000+ American troops in Iraq, and they still went to fulfill their patriotic duty. Conservatives think that their sorry a**** belong here talking about the war, wrapping themselves in 9/11 and the flag, and thinking of new issues to send their “wackos” voting to maintain their power.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:18 pmIs that Katrina fantasy supposed to be funny? Wow. This clown showed up on NPR’s weekend edition too, subbing for Daniel Schorr. I guess it was to provide “balance”. I’m suspicious whenever a pundit suddenly starts appearing in several places in several media almost at once. Last year it was Tucker Carlson.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:19 pm#5 SKdeA We are thinking alike today, as well as a few others on this site, pointing out various reasons for the LAT foolish move. I just wrote to the LA Times (I read it online daily) and told them pretty much what you just wrote here, including O’Lielly’s ignorant remark about San Fran.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:32 pmProof that rightist commentators of this ilk are utterly confused is the way they invoke the words “Nazi” and “Fascism” against the left. Setting aside the fact that Fascism is a rightist ideology, these people support policies and views that can fairly be described as Fascist. If they’re so right, why are these words insults?
November 11th, 2005 at 1:34 pmThis is a typical republican tactic. Accuse your opponent of ‘your crime’, so that when the actual evidence comes out you can claim it’s just partisan retribution. This ironically is a ‘nazi propaganda tactic’, that’s being used.
Nazis are rightwing fascists. In this era, Republicans are also rightwing fascists. NAZI=REPUBLICAN, pure and simple.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:44 pmThe really ridiculous thing about J. Jonah is not his Cro-Magnon politics, but that he can’t be bothered to even pretend that he knows what he’s talking about. See TBogg or Alicublog.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:59 pmIt is painfully obvious what they do, Ryan. You see it from the goofy trolls that come here. They call us bigots and homophobes – yeah right.
A thief always thinks others are stealing from him. Again, OBVIOUS.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:59 pmScrew the Times. I don’t get the paper but do read the linked articles I find on the web. I’m more interested in knowing where I’m gonna be able to find Robert Scheers articles as I usually really like his stuff.
November 11th, 2005 at 2:01 pmEven if you agree with him, how can you stand his prose? He’s satan’s spawn … why aren’t his 15 minutes up?
November 11th, 2005 at 2:17 pmI just removed my account at latimes.com. That’s one reader lost.
November 11th, 2005 at 2:19 pmI’m cancelling my subscription.
November 11th, 2005 at 2:38 pmOK, I can answer my own question. I was just over at The Huffington Post and apparently Scheer is gonna start writing there starting on Wednesday.
November 11th, 2005 at 3:03 pmHey, they may be hiring Jonah Goldberg, but at least they’re also hiring Max Boot.
Wait.
He’s even worse…
November 11th, 2005 at 3:05 pmThe continued collapse of the newspapers. They are always behind the crest. They are now shifting right, hard right while the nation is slamming of the breaks of the fascist mobile as we speak.
We to stay on top you shitheels.
Max Boot and Jonah Goldberg, more propaganda, less facts. More propaganda, less facts.
That is why the world wide web is kicking asses and taking names.
-GSD
By the way, Jonah Goldberg’s mother is none other than Luci-Anne Goldberg, befriender of Linda Tripp and right wing shillette. She was a Judith Miller way back when. Now her sntach smells like Lenin’s Tomb. Oh, I guess that was gratuitous, but, ah what the hell. Like Ann Clitler says, “a great punchline”.
November 11th, 2005 at 3:13 pmJONAH BLUEDRESS
Jonah needs a handle that reflects his accomplishments. I mean his career as a journalist is a consequence of his mother’s advice to Linda Tripp on saving a certain blue dress. Blue dress nepotism?
JONAH BLUEDRESS, JONAH BLUEDRESS, JONAH BLUEDRESS
November 11th, 2005 at 3:42 pmThe Chicago LA Times is going down in flames, and they think they can staunch the bleeding by MORE of what poisoned the paper for Angeleans over the last several years of rightwing Midwest LIES.
Their subscription base is 900,000 (1.2 m on Sunday) and falling. The drop in readership has shocked the Tribune Corp., and there are rumors that if it drops more, the paper will be abandoned. It is just not profitable to run a paper that has less than a million readers.
They fired the rightwing CEO; Ramirez was HATED by nearly everyone, for very good reasons –the racist pig–.
Cutting Sheer is not going to work. He will be back, after their subscriptions take ANOTHER DIVE over that mistake.
Meanwhile, Corporate Amerika tells itself that the failure of newspapers is due to the Internet, whereas in fact people read newspapers if they TRUST the newspaper, and not if they don’t.
The Chicago LA Times has lowballed and ignored the thirty or so major anti-Bush protests in Los Angeles, events that commonly draw 10,000-30,000 people. If such crowds filling Sunset Blvd. and downtown don’t matter to the bastards in Chicago, with Rove’s arm shoved up their arses, then the paper can take a flying jump off the Palisades like the Bushite Lemming Garbage it has become.
Still has the best crossword puzzle in the US. The rest of the paper is an eaten-away travesty.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:05 pmI am soooo sorry – progressives!!!! I guess the falling subscription rates and Scheers’ “I hate America – and what I do love – I feel guilty about” has just worn a little thin. (Ramparts, Scheer’s first editor position – now there was a “progressive” magazine!!! I think my favourite tribute to “boutique Communism” was the Che poster in the Ramparts office.) In addition, to finding his column with Arianna, you can still catch him in The Nation and the World Worker Party paper.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:05 pmI feel sorry for the LA Times. It won’t be long before poopy pants is stinking up the place.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:09 pmCommunism? You’re about 30 years out of date you hate bitch. Republican Fascism is the new world threat, and you represent it.
Get the hell out of our country you terrorist and whacko!
November 11th, 2005 at 4:14 pmMightyHermaphrodite,
Don’t you have a child to go beat, or eat the head off of? Get a life you hateful retard!
November 11th, 2005 at 4:15 pmI’m pretty sure mighty (tiny) aphrodite is a male. I suspect a very small membered male.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:22 pmAphro is clearly a lunatic. No need to respond. It would actually be mean to argue with someone so obviously on psych meds. It has to be something a lot stronger than Prozac. I don’t think it’s right to beat up on someone so sick.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:28 pmShe says she was a JAG for 12 years, and that she has 4 children. By military code, she would have been discharged if she got pregnant. So that means she was either a child bride, or she too fertility pills and should be in the national enquirer.
Her math just doesn’t add up. And when I called her on it ‘TheRef’ came and tried to lambast me for catching the discrepency. Clearly the propagandists don’t like it when you catch them in the ‘cover story lies’…
November 11th, 2005 at 4:30 pmTheo-fascists, I believe, is the best way to describe them.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:35 pmDoesn’t the cover of Jonah’s book look strikingly similar to the t-shirts worn by the Nazi Olsen Twins in publicity photos?:
http://www.womenspress.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=2109&TM=54366.97
Conicidence? I report, you decide.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:35 pmYeah, the liberal view in California is in REAL danger, ten minutes after handing Gov. Barbell the pile of shit that used to be his popularity.
Gov. Vote-Fraud is going to be RECALLED in (the already scheduled election in) July 06. That’s 7 months after we get our PAPERTRAIL back from the Diebolding of America in 1999.
CLAT wants to survive in our market, it had better hire back some of the people it fired when it took over.
But they won’t do it. The paper is doomed — for the same rightwing corpo-creep that has destroyed several big companies already.
But hey — if Vons-Pavillions wants to cut its income by half by raping their employees, the CLAT can do the same, be our guest.
Californians aren’t stupid. We actually have an educational system, and the world’s fifth largest economy.
Bush and his Rovian fellow bastards are going down.
In fact — isn’t that Dickie Cheney I see, clutching his chest? Oh, too bad, traitor.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:38 pmAhhhhh, good memory Ryan. Great, now we have hack trolls.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:40 pmPaul – How is our education system compare with other states??
November 11th, 2005 at 4:42 pmMightyPropagandists,
You cover story is busted. Go Home AssRocket.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:44 pm“Paul – How is our education system compare with other states??”
Based on your question, you should tell me, since apparently you were educated in Kansas.
Mighty aphrodite is one of George brainWashington Bushie’s nicknames.
Because he is purdy in the mirror, right, might?
November 11th, 2005 at 5:01 pmL.A. is securely in its Progressive Mayor’s hands… there’s nothing the LATimes can do to stop the march forward… or from people unsubscribing…
November 11th, 2005 at 5:04 pmRobert Scheer has always told us the truth about this illegal war. Max Boot was one of the lying neocons who told us a variety of lies about why we were going in and made a variety of wrong predictions about how it would work out. The Times publisher punishes truth and rewards mendacity, just as Bush does. He should be ashamed of himself, but these people just don’t know shame. Now, what does this do to the tired old cannard: liberal media.
November 11th, 2005 at 5:13 pmThank you, Paul for noting my typos. But seriously, how DOES the state of California rank nationally?
November 11th, 2005 at 5:30 pmWhat’s your point ma & what does that have to do with the LA Times?
November 11th, 2005 at 5:47 pm“Communism? You’re about 30 years out of date you hate bitch.” “Comment” by RyANNe
**** Try telling that to a Cuban.
“By military code, she would have been discharged if she got pregnant.” Uneducated “comment” by, RyANNe
**** It depends on your job – but thank you for caring. I was honorably discharged when I fulfilled my contract.
PP – Where did you learn to argue “your point” – The “RyANNe Neat School of Name-Calling”??? Listen, if I were a “progressive” like Scheer, I wouldn’t distance myself from the radicals of the Black Panthers. Everyone knows Eldridge got “the shaft” and that Cuba has been a “worker’s paradise” -we’ll forget the fact that many poor Cubans often die trying to leave.
November 11th, 2005 at 6:09 pmP.S. I haven’t heard how wildly successful your “strike America” day was??? A giant success?? I didn’t notice….
November 11th, 2005 at 6:13 pmThe LA Times said today “How may we worship you, almighty George?”….
November 11th, 2005 at 6:16 pmThe Minneapolis newspaper pulled a “format” change last month, coincidentally upping the righty opinions, including a regular column by a paid staffer of a local righty “foundation,” who has a Goldberg-like distaste for facts or even having a point to her bigoted diatribes. They also segregated world news into a separate section, moved up the gossip to page 2, and their headline stylebook is all about how to inject “we”, “you”, “Minnesota,” and other “local spin” that the corporate media tries to pass of as news. I cancelled my hard copy subscription and now find I can learn everything but the high school sports scores more quickly and in more detail elsewhere. Good-bye, print media!
November 11th, 2005 at 6:44 pmPaul “brilliantly” noted, “Californians aren’t stupid. We actually have an educational system, and the world’s fifth largest economy.” Comment by Paul in LA
November 11th, 2005 at 6:47 pm**** Keep up, Kindness…
Boycott the Los Angeles Times now in addition to the New York Times (although with no Judy Miller they can get off this list) and the Washington Post.
Remember, ONLY boycott papers that are supposed to be fair but then yield to the radical right. (don’t waste your time with FOX, Washington Times etc..) By focusing on media outlets like the NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, etc., we can do one of 2 things: A) Force them to abandon RW bias and become profitable with our support OR B) keep the RW bias, lose most of its customers, and still not get RWers to read their papers because RWers won’t read their papers no matter what they print.
November 11th, 2005 at 7:11 pmTsk! Tsk! There you go again Ryan. Letting your mouth get ahead of you again. MA was clearly talking about a previous position the person held. Besides, there are still several communist governments around like Cuba, China and Vietnam with a couple of other inconsequential ones. This is redundant but 30 years ago would be 1975. Remember the Warsaw Pact? Hmm, you should stay awake in history class but far too many people fail to pay attention there. I corrected your misunderstanding of pregnancy in the military on another thread but you still post that inane bit about mandatory discharge for pregnant women. Your fanciful notion that MA could not have had children during service is laughable to me and the thousands of women who bore children while serving their country.
November 11th, 2005 at 8:22 pmFor the (few) serious people here, the LA Times is losing money and readers so they are making a major shake-up to try and save the paper. That’s what companies in trouble do. I doubt very much that it is a political decision as much as you try to make it one. Contrary to what many of you seem to think, most of the people and businesses in the country are not consumed by politics.
Tut! Tut! Some people just love to be supercilious! They hate to have barbs thrown their way, but they have no shame in their own display of a patronizingly superior attitude. If we want everything on the up and up, old chap, let’s drop the condescending attitude and others will drop the sarcasm. Truly, old boy, it’s the same thing. Because your tone is more formal than some, does not mean you are more serious. Tally ho!
November 11th, 2005 at 8:36 pmGuess the LAT has decided to go strong for the easily duped and ‘too stupid to care’ demographic. But that’s the beauty of capitalism. They’ll soon have lots of newspaper supply, but no product demand.
November 11th, 2005 at 9:04 pmIf further proof of the impoverishment of the English language can be found, show it to me. If I use “liberal” and “fascist” in the same sentence then the two ideas MUST be related, right? You know, like “radical conservative” and “gay heterosexual”. Where did this little prig go to college?
November 11th, 2005 at 9:38 pmMuch better Ringo! Counter-condescension, sarcasm, no gutter insults. I like the new you. Yes communism is an economic system however you will find that the nations I mentioned do consider themselves to be communist. I’ll agree with you that while they call themselves that they do a poor job of actually being it! As for Ryan’s military observations: Truman did make such a rule in 1951 and it existed in less and less restrictive forms until 1976. Someone born shortly after the war would become old enough for service in the late 1960s. Capt. Phyllis Propp was the first female in the army Judge Advocate Corps in 1944 so it is mathematically possible for you to be correct but without hearing the period of service in question neither of us knows if you are. I doubt it since the window is rather narrow but it is possible. After that very good start you delve back into whackos and losers comments again thereby negating your earlier good comments. I don’t hate you Ryan. I don’t even know you. I wish you would stop the childish smears and act more mature is all but that is up to you. The last few posts have been in the right direction. Congratulations.
November 11th, 2005 at 11:45 pm[...] Welcome back to the pack, bitches! The Los Angeles Times announced a major shake-up of its op-ed page today. Gone are cartoonist Michael Ramirez and liberal columnist Robert Scheer. [...]
November 12th, 2005 at 1:35 am[...] Link: ThinkProgress on bantam-weight Jonah Goldberg’s laughable credentials. [...]
November 12th, 2005 at 1:57 amI get Scheer’s column via email subscription, which is at http://www.robertscheer.com.
Here’s the letter I sent to douche LAT publisher Jeff Johnson. I am doubting it will see the light of day:
Kudos to the new powers-that-be at the Los Angeles Times for giving Robert Scheer the boot and replacing him with such progressive voices as Jonah Goldberg. You all much be swelling with pride knowing that a liberal voice has been silenced in order to forward a more rightwing agenda– at a time when our Republican Governor just had his ass handed to him and the GOP is running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Oh, and a President at a 36% approval rating. Nice timing, fellas.. With liars like Goldberg in prominence on the op-ed page, the Times will finally become almost as irrelevant as, say, the Washington paper with which it shares its namesake. I will never subscribe to your paper. Never.
Way to go, Jeff Johnson. Congratulations on taking your own partisan views and foisting them upon the Los Angeles Times. You have not only made yourself out to be a horse’s ass, but have tarnished a once-proud paper with your drippings. Kudos, again.
November 12th, 2005 at 2:39 am[...] is gone from the L.A. Times, as ThinkProgress noted yesterday. His column will now be published by Huffington Post. 2:58 am | Comment (0) [...]
November 12th, 2005 at 2:58 amWhy is Johan Goldberg being recruited by the Los Angeles Times when he should be enlisting in the Army Reserves to fight the war of choice he supports? This chickenhawk bragged several months back that the reason he wasn’t in the military serving his Preznit was because he was overage to enlist. Unfortunately for him, the Pentagon soon put that to right and he can now enjoy the boons of the Rumsfeld military (that’s kinda like a Potemkin village). No, Goldberg then complained that he had “responsibilities” and a a career, as if that didn’t also occur to the folks who shipped out for this illegitimate war of choice at Preznit’s diktat. Goldberg has no credibility at this point. I guess the LA Times felt compelled to chase the shrinking chickenhawk fascist demographic.
November 12th, 2005 at 8:21 amCorporations are in the business of what I tell them to be in the business of – and if this includes social programs then that’s the price then need to pay.
It isn’t an either/or equasion of mindless capitalist profiteering or communism – the productive and responsible solution is somewhere inbetween.
The reasonable solution from my non-business owning perspective is to make them squeal a little but not take enough to make them give up entirely.
Given how fat and happy (and ultimately greedy) these folks are at the moment a little social profit taking is certainly in order.
November 12th, 2005 at 11:20 amMy dear follow Americans,let me tell you something of importance. In Toronto -Canada,we have four major newspapers and a host of little papers,which the little ones have been gobbled up by the big ones.The only thing that remains is their name.Out of all the media only one-dared to expose the lies from your Government.The rest,day after day,Hollocaust, poor defensless Jews and murderer saddam and of corse–WMD–they’er coming here and all that Ricin and Anthrax sh!t.How ever the Toronto Star,took the middle road and the Jewish readers and advertisers–demanded the editor be replaced. Since the replacement,the paper reads as Fox news. Now we have 100% all media Jewish reporters and all owned by the same.One paper-national post-braggs it hires mostly Jews as
November 12th, 2005 at 11:48 amreporters.
So to bring us back to the discusion at hand—Times is Jewish and why not pack the paper with their own kind–seems reasonable to me-it is a free country and lying to obtuse people-nothing wrong with that(if stupid to).One thing more–at least Goldberg does not hide behand a Wasp name like-Johnson–want more–Kerry (KOCH), Pearle, Faithe. Rooster Libby(LOBOWITZ), Blitzer, Turner, Murdoc,Rash Lambahhhh,–Ect.
Something to pander the next time you come across these warmongers–why are they hiding behand a masked name?–Give Goldberg some credit for his name, before it gets bad for these straight creeps and he blends along and into the YID masked bandits. At least we know by his name-he is kosher and a patron of Sinagod.
Poster 54: You like me, you really like me! Too much!
November 12th, 2005 at 12:12 pmMighty Aphrodite is even more stupid than he/she appears: Castro was installed by the CIA and has been doing stirling service for the Republican party ever since. Cuba was then used to implant pseudo-revolution in Latin and Central America, thus “justifying” murderous coups and the militarization of regions’ regimes under Pentagon and Langley direction.
November 12th, 2005 at 4:17 pm[...] The L.A. Times has completely revanted its op-ed page, fired several people and brought on Jonah Goldberg. [...]
November 12th, 2005 at 4:37 pmLA Times is finally wising up. Now it has doubled it subscriptions to four.
November 13th, 2005 at 9:09 amGoldberg is not human. If so, he is insane.
November 14th, 2005 at 12:55 pmPLEASE THINK BOYCOTT, BOYCOTT, BOYCOTT.
November 15th, 2005 at 12:01 amI will be calling LA Times tomorrow to tell them no more of their crap will be delivered to my house ever again.
Unless they get ride of JONAH GOLDBERG, and the idiot that made the decision to cut cartoonist Michael Ramirez and columnist Robert Scheer.
I did when “Time” mag put Bush’s face forward as Man-of-the-Year. I do not accept OC Register, it is also boycotted, and I guess there will be more that will not be welcome on my sidewalk.
This news just sucks!
Yes! Boycott everything you don’t agree with! It’s just too disturbing to read non-lefty arguments without breaking into tears and grinding your teeth! Viva la left!
November 21st, 2005 at 11:44 am[...] Your newest Los Angeles Times columnist: [...]
November 22nd, 2005 at 7:58 pmI will call the LA Times and tell them that because they included a writer who doesn’t represent Barbara Streisand, I won’t read it anymore and I’m telling my hollywood friends to do the same, as soon as they get back from Europe…..
November 26th, 2005 at 11:30 amI wrote this for a radio talk host and should provide some answers or at least some relief for why Jonah Goldberg.
Mr. Bernie Ward,
An ardent listener to your nightly radio spot. Right now I’m putting together this email for you as I’m listening to your program, and I may have the answer to the confusing question why Americans are voting against their own self interests and how quick and irresistibly they believe the lies from the Right. . And the basic answers are that their (White America) sense of history and self-worth has come into question. To them this is unacceptable—at any and all cost; which is what’s happening at this moment. Realistically, all this began to manifest when Ronald Reagan was elected as president. But in all honestly, I believe it really started with the Vietnam War and its shocking and unacceptable conclusion: we lost. And it wasn’t just the war we lost—we also lost our president, Richard Nixon. This sent a shock wave, border to border and coast to coast of White America. This proved that the war was a phony and President Nixon a liar. This forced Americans to question the very core of their moral foundation and their sense of purpose—their purpose of self-righteous, which they believe is their destiny and guided by the Light from above. All this imploded when Nixon tanked. But within a couple of years a new and up coming Right Wing movement (the neo-conservatives) went to work, scoring one victory after another in their religious sectors, in their communities. And I believe all this was spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation. The Foundation’s tactics: Accuse the liberals of anti-family, anti-God, anti-America, anti-mother, anti-marriage, anti-fetus and in short: anti-liberal all around. With the help of the “liberal†media they made the word liberal an expletive (remember the “L†word?). And all this was funded by the multi-right wing millionaires and corporations. And I believe you know who and what they are. What this movement accomplishes was to exonerate America of its failures, and blame “The Fall†on the dirty, rotten, and back-stabbing liberals. And these Americans went for it, hook, line, and sinker. They had no choice: To accept otherwise, they would have to question their entire “white†history. Without this history—or myth—they will have to accept a more realistic one—according to Ward Churchill. White Americans found that to be totally unacceptable. And for these Americans they are ready to accept any politician, any judge, and any president—any lie—that’ll tell them what they want to hear, especially when Jesus Christ is now considered as part of their American history. That’s why they are more than ready to believe such phonies as Reagan, the first Bush, and this latest disgrace, Bush, Jr. But with the present Americans, it gets worse: they are willing to sacrifice their children’s and their grandchildren’s future, just so they can either be swept up by the Rapture in time or die in their sleep; the complete misery of others had become their sinful and foremost pleasure. Mr. Ward, to me these are the worst and the most rotten cowards any nation unfortunately is straddled with; stinking vermin who aren’t fit to be scurrying about. Their malicious intentions toward Social Security, Medicare, pensions, childcare, the Iraq War and the support for the bankruptcy bill are but short examples of how far these Americans have sunk. The talk I hear is that these Americans are the dumbest pile of rocks on the planet. Wrong: It’s worse. Sept. 11 and the Iraq War only provide further excuses for these self-proclaimed “patriots†to stab their fellow neighbors in the back by trying to dismantle our civil rights—and are the first to turn against our war heroes like John McCain and Max Cleland in a second; a knife behind the door. To them, this further justifies the degradation to our veterans, the hacking away at their medical and financial benefits while allowing fantastic tax breaks go to the rich and corporate America who wouldn’t lift a finger to help our veterans or our nation. So, for these pro-veteran and pro-morality Americans to believe in this new White Direction, provided by the ultra-extreme Republicans, it all proves that they have gone soft between the ears and soft between the legs. In short, STARK, RAVING PSYHOCITICS, not stupid. It’s important to understand this. This is the very core why they can’t or won’t be reached. For any animal can be “educated†—even a flatworm. And that is the answer why these Americans are voting against their own self-interest as they are steering yours, mine, and theirs—and our country—into the toilet.
A. Gomez, April 23, 2005 12: 50 am
December 8th, 2005 at 5:46 pm[...] Jonah Goldberg – the right-wing pundit who was recently given a regular column in the LA Times – attacked reporter Jill Carroll early this morning on the National Review’s website: MAYBE IT’S JUST ME [Jonah Goldberg] But Jill Carroll is increasingly starting to bug me. The details are still murky and it’s hard to appreciate what she’s been through. And maybe JPod’s right about Stockholm syndrome. And maybe the media’s selectively choosing what to show of her statements. But it would be nice to hear her say something remotely critical of her captors, particularly about the fact that they murdered her translator in cold blood. I’m very glad she’s alive, but I’m getting a very bad vibe. More, no doubt, to come. [...]
March 31st, 2006 at 9:37 am[...] These are my stages of Jonah Goldburg grief: first reaction is to roll my eyes. Second reaction is to throw up. My third reaction is to pretend I didn’t have the misfortune of reading his goofy schtick. I want to pretend that there aren’t burlesque whores who gaze upon a drowned American city, see the inevitability of more to come, and then shrug and go back to their act. [...]
April 21st, 2006 at 6:41 pm[...] These are my stages of Jonah Goldburg grief: first reaction is to roll my eyes. Second reaction is to throw up. My third reaction is to pretend I didn’t have the misfortune of reading his goofy schtick. I want to pretend that there aren’t burlesque whores who gaze upon a drowned American city, see the inevitability of more to come, and then shrug and go back to their act. [...]
April 21st, 2006 at 6:41 pmStrange move to make for yet another cog in the MSM “liberal’ media.
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Job well done.
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Interestingly, this was on CNN last week.
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