Goldberg falsely claims that DHS reports never “use the all-purpose term ‘left-wing.’”
Goldberg falsely claims that DHS reports never “use the all-purpose term ‘left-wing.’”
Joining the chorus of conservative voices that are hyperventilating over the recently-leaked Department of Homeland Security report on “rightwing extremists,” National Review’s Jonah Goldberg wrote yesterday that though “DHS has done reports on anti-war, environmental, and other groups,” it was his “understanding is that they didn’t — and wouldn’t — use the all-purpose term ‘left-wing’ to describe those threats.” Later in the day, when a reader pointed him to an April 2001 DOE report titled “Left-Wing Extremism: The Current Threat,” Goldberg replied that he didn’t know of a report that “came out after 9/11.” But this too is wrong, considering the January 26, 2009 DHS report, “Leftwing Extremists Likely to Increase Use of Cyber Attacks over the Coming Decade.”
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Ahhh, Jonah. Never met a fact that you couldn’t ignore or distort, could you?
April 15th, 2009 at 1:02 pmAnything to foment fear.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:04 pmPoor Jonah. Living in denial. First several Conservatives knocked him for his support of Obama’s actions regarding the pirates. Now he is just delusional. Poor man.. He may need therapy.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:05 pmWait a minute; Wasn’t Jonah’s mom supposed to be the smart one?
April 15th, 2009 at 1:08 pmJonah never has known his left from his right anyway. Especially since he tried to reclassify Hitler as left-wing?
April 15th, 2009 at 1:09 pmAnd who cares what you think, Jonah?
April 15th, 2009 at 1:10 pmThis from the twit who wrote “Liberal Fascism.”
D’oh!
April 15th, 2009 at 1:11 pmJ G is seriously undereducated and ill-informed. Why does he get any platform at all?
April 15th, 2009 at 1:12 pmThe Doughy Pantload strikes another blow for Right-Wing Reality®!
(Note: “Right-Wing Reality® is a registered trademarked version of “reality” created by conservative pundits expressly for the purpose of “catapulting the propaganda” and popping up their approved agenda. It should not be confused with ordinary reality, nor should a member of the Reality-Based Community try to use it without qualified wingnut supervision.)
April 15th, 2009 at 1:13 pmJonah, when was the last time a lefty went into a church and shot people because the wanted to kill conservatives? When was the last time a lefty shot three cops because he was mad that the president was going to take away his guns? When was the last time a lefty drove a truck bomb up to a federal building and blew it up?
April 15th, 2009 at 1:14 pmI have a feeling it’s stunts like this that underlie NRO’s reluctance to allow comments.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:16 pmHey Jonah,Did you know that Lehman Brothers has a half million pounds of uranium power that they are sitting on and they got some bailout $$$$$$.just another Shill for the wealthy.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:16 pmJonah Goldberg: Upper Class Twit of the Year
April 15th, 2009 at 1:18 pmWhy precisely does Jonah the Whale want to take up the defense of the KKK, American Nazi Party and any number of secessionist and/or christian identity groups that have exhibted violent tendencies? Responsible progressives do not defend idiots who burn down laboratories to “save” the lab animals who end up dying in the blaze. Is it the paranoid delusion of the right wing mind that brings on this blather or does Jonah have skinhead connections he isn’t revealing?
April 15th, 2009 at 1:18 pmThe DHS report never mentions republicans or conservatives either. It speaks of reichwingnut fringe organizations.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:20 pmAnother lie from the doughy pantload who exploits the likely fact that his audience never checks into his statements, but takes them as gospel.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:22 pmLehman Brothers has a half million pounds of uranium
I wonder what this has to do with the claim of “yellow cake” leading up to the Iraq invasion…
Since when when have brokerage firms been allowed to purchase radioactive material?
This is truly bizarre.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:22 pmZooey Lepidoptera Says:
Jonah Goldberg: Upper Class Twit of the Year
I love the medal presentation!
April 15th, 2009 at 1:23 pmgetting legs:
Right-wing groups ‘growing’ in US
BBC News – ?20 minutes ago?
By Jon Donnison America could be facing a surge in right-wing extremism, according to a new US government report. The Department of Homeland Security study says the election of America’s first black president and the economic slump has helped racist …
ANDREA TANTAROS: Tea Parties — It’s Not Just About the Benjamins FOXNews
Right-wing extremism may be on rise, report says CNN
Kansas City Star – The Associated Press – msnbc.com – The Week Magazine
all 541 news articles »
http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ncl=1332538855&topic=n
do some clicking on the truthers and help it grow more…
April 15th, 2009 at 1:24 pmon the ed schultz show, earlier:
Eli Lake, National Security Correspondent for the Washington Times, joins the 1st hour of Wednesday’s show to discuss Department of Homeland Security sending out advisories about Right Wing Extremists.
ed said that this guy “broke” the story about the report…
huh?
April 15th, 2009 at 1:27 pmYes, this is Mr. RUC.
That’s right, I’d like to order a whale.
Thank you, yes, a very specific type of whale.
Right, one big enough to swallow an idiot named Jonah.
Friday?
That’d be great! Thanks!
April 15th, 2009 at 1:27 pmhttp://wegoted.com/
April 15th, 2009 at 1:28 pmRightwing Extremists are more of a threat than Islamic groups. I say let us free the Gitmo prisoners and send these reactionaries there instead.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:28 pmHoward the Duck Says:
Rightwing Extremists are more of a threat than Islamic groups. I say let us free the Gitmo prisoners and send these reactionaries there instead.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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Piss off, Trajan. You aren’t fooling anyone.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:30 pmNo reason to worry about facts when you are repeating right-wing talking points.
We all know that facts and figures have that inconvenient liberal bias.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:31 pmLeft-wing extremists likely to increase the use of cyber-attacks? Crack down on them, deter the threat. I welcome the report.
Right-wing extremists, on the other hand, should receive special treatment and free diaper changes from DHS because their representative element, passed off as mainstream conservatism, cannot take even a line-item of criticism.
Their ability to screw up big time is protected by “freedom” and any accountability is “tyranny”.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:36 pmRightwing Extremists are more of a threat than Islamic groups.
Nah, just on the same level, that’s all…
April 15th, 2009 at 1:39 pmI do find it interesting that left-wing terrorism manages to maintain a philosophy of protecting human and animal life, only inflicting damage on property. You certainly don’t see that attitude from right-wing terrorists.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:40 pmJonah Goldberg is the reason I cancelled my subscription to the LAT several years ago. He is a worthless, steamy, pantload portraying a chickenhawk but has never even worn a uniform, much less heard an incoming round. Jonah has as much credibilty as his worthless mother.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:40 pmThis from the asswipe who got his career start from his mommy, Lucianne Goldberg, who advised Linda Tripp to record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky and to save the dress. Of course, it helps that Jonah’s wife (Jessica Gavora)was the former chief speechwriter and a senior policy adviser for ex-Attorney General John Ashcroft.
In truth, this guy is just another well-connected rightwing idiot, cashing in on his mommy and wifey’s accomplishments.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:42 pmWhere’s the whale I ordered!!
April 15th, 2009 at 1:54 pmI cannot understand for the life of me how this guy became somebody that anybody listens to. Worse, he acts like he is some sort of respected scholar and people buy into it. I think Joe Sixpack nailed it above:
“In truth, this guy is just another well-connected rightwing idiot, cashing in on his mommy and wifey’s accomplishments.”
April 15th, 2009 at 1:56 pmIt’s pure tyranny when all the government can survey among lefties is that they go a little too far playing on the internet. lefties are the same people who plotted to dump urine and feces on hardworking, successful people arriving at the Republican National Convention.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:05 pmNice one, Prod. You worked “libs spit on troops” and George Soros into a deluded whine about a report from the Department of Homeland Security.
That shows some serious troll chops. Your buddy Reist couldn’t come up with that much craziness in one two-sentence rant — although he gets credit for bringing up feces.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:11 pmOn Faux Noise this morning, one of the blonde women said in an odd question, “What is rightwing extremism?” Just hold a mirror, honey…
April 15th, 2009 at 2:30 pmOval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says:
On Faux Noise this morning, one of the blonde women said in an odd question, “What is rightwing extremism?” Just hold a mirror, honey…
Rule: if you have to ask, it’s you.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:33 pmI think the reaction from conservative commentators is that the worst of them have actively promoted extreme-right ideas and fostered paranoia. They know it too, or they wouldn’t be so freaked out about this report. And honestly, to use the meme of “supporting our troops,” as a justification for slamming the report’s concerns about disgruntled veterans is more than stupid. Disgruntled vets have joined extremist groups on both the right and the left for years.
April 15th, 2009 at 3:15 pmThe Right has been thinking of ways to spit on veterans since Vietnam–earlier, if you count black WWII vets in the South.
While there are no documented accounts of hippies spitting on returning troops, the Right has been hurling gobs at vets like George McGovern, John Kerry,Max Cleland, Jack Mutha, and, when they aren’t available, their mothers.
And just to be fair, I won’t just mention Timothy McVeigh, but the DC Sniper as well, who was arguably a left-wing extremist.
You’re quiet on Walter Reed abuses. You’re silent on reductions in veterans’ benefits. But you’ll wave any rag around in the air if you think you can score a point, only to drop immediately afterwards.
The sanctity of the commander in chief,the War on Terror, Christianity, taxes, Supporting Our Troops–you respect none of it. You love nothing except winning.
Which is why you go insane when you lose.
April 15th, 2009 at 3:24 pmProud Says:
I love how the report mentions vets as a threat. You libs have been finding more and more ways to spit on the troops since Vietnam….
First of all, “liberals” didn’t write the report, idiot. It’s the same DHS career staffers who have been there the whole time. What they’re concerned foris the forthcoming spike of PTSD sufferers returning from the war you created for no reason, returning to hear your pundits screaming about revolution and arming yourselves against the tyrannical governmental threat. Just statistically speaking, that’s going to create some violent problems. You people really should start taking at least a little responsibility for what you’re trying to do to harm our veterans and society at large.
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