Link of the Day: Dave Neiwert Reviews Jonah’s New Joint
Jonah Goldberg’s new joint Liberal Fascism: Words Mean Whatever I Want Them To dropped today, and Dave Neiwert reviews it at The American Prospect.
Goldberg, who has no credentials beyond the right-wing nepotism that has enabled his career as a pundit, has drawn a kind of history in absurdly broad and comically wrongheaded strokes. It is not just history done badly, or mere revisionism. It’s a caricature of reality, like something from a comic-book alternative universe: Bizarro history.
UPDATE, 2008/01/11 17:05 EST
Jonah Goldberg has posted a response to Dave Neiwert’s review. Neiwert has, in turn, posted a preliminary response to Jonah’s response. Keep an eye on Orcinus and NRO if you want to follow their discussion.
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January 9th, 2008 @ 20:47
Does Jonah Golberg still write about his unusual sexual fetish?:
“More importantly, as a conservative — as opposed to various flavors of liberals, libertarians, libertines, and radical queer theorists — I believe in standards, defend tradition and, despite my fondness for the Chained Heat oeuvre, would surely not want to live in a country where prison movies about saucy women with fake breasts and faker dialogue, living 20 to a cell, taking soapy showers 10 times a day, eliciting “feelings they’ve never had before,” were anything but naughty. Very naughty. So, so, so naughty.”
– May 18 2001
http://article.nationalreview......Y3MThhNTU=
January 9th, 2008 @ 21:04
Wow… I was not familiar with that one. The poor guy has obviously “got issues,” as they say.
January 9th, 2008 @ 21:15
This type of revisionism is very common with wingnuts. They can’t deal with facts.
‘Liberal facism’ is like, a new classic, fresh raisins, and jumbo shrimp.
January 13th, 2008 @ 01:38
I wonder how he would react to a harsh ascetic … like me.