What I’m referring to is the destruction of France as an idea, as a shining fromagerie on a hill, serving as a beacon of asininity to left-wing radicals and a siren to kleptocratic third-world dictators who, after a career of mass-murder, want decent medical care, a good lawyer, and a fresh croissant:
Goldberg, Kevin Holtsberry, and Steve Dillard take exception to the assertion in my recent post on The Conservative Minority that “the modern Conservative Moment seems to be dominated by the shrill nonsense of Coulter and Jonah Goldberg and Michael Savage and Neil Boortz.”
First, it’s a good sign that conservatives at least recognize that being associated with these people is counterproductive. [...]
[Goldberg]’s on the list almost exclusively by virtue of his book, Liberal Fascism, and the recent controversy over it. While I get the desire to rebut the notion that Fascism is right-wing phenomenon and therefore somehow comparable to American mainstream conservatism, the argument that American liberals are proto-Fascists is quite silly. The use of inflammatory titles, while an excellent publicity vehicle for selling books, is decidedly unhelpful if one’s purpose is to advance serious argument.
Oh, yeah, and comparing Jonah Goldberg to shrill and unbalanced Bush-haters like Paul Krugman – that’s totally helpful and serious*. Whatever, Che.
* NOT!!!!
February 5, 2008 at 8:29 pm
…and when they came for the Aqua Velva users, there was nobody left to speak up for me.
February 5, 2008 at 8:30 pm
“…at night, the ice-weasels come…”
February 5, 2008 at 9:02 pm
That joke has been done before and better.
February 5, 2008 at 9:20 pm
FTW!
February 6, 2008 at 2:25 am
Hilarious.
February 6, 2008 at 7:14 am
You’re an excellent writer. You should be making a living at this.
February 6, 2008 at 8:27 am
You should be making a living at this.
Easy to say. Have you bought his book yet?
February 6, 2008 at 12:12 pm
When I mock the reich,
I mock the reich right.
February 6, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Poorman,
You do realize that propositions 93-whateverthefuck were put on the ballot by referendum, right?
The people you pay to negotiate gaming contracts did their jobs, but some folks (CA and Nevada gaming interests) didn’t like them and used that very California option of a referendum to force a vote.
This is from the official voter’s guide for Prop 93, but applies to all of them:
“The bill approving the compact amendment with the Pechanga tribe would have taken effect on January 1, 2008. However, this proposition, a referendum on SB 903, qualified for the ballot. As a result, SB 903 was put “on hold,” and the compact amendment and MOA can take effect only if this proposition is approved by voters.”
So, by voting “NO” you were, in a sense saying, “Hey, I don’t think you know how to negotiate a gaming contract! Let ME get involved”.
The “I don’t want to decide these things!” position was a “Yes” vote. You screwed up.
Democracy is a bitch sometimes.
PS – Love your writing.
February 6, 2008 at 1:12 pm
D’OH!
Fortunately, California isn’t as dumb as me.
February 6, 2008 at 1:20 pm
“Liberal Facism”??
Pehaps “Liberal Totalitarianism”? Replete with big government and better mind police. The whole notion of our ever expanding Leviathan (i.e. Hobbes) scares the bejeesus out of me. Furthermore, facism as envisaged early on by Mussolini, was meant to be a union, a bringing together of the country under a new concept of nationhood. Hmmmm sounds a little familiar to me right now.
February 6, 2008 at 2:17 pm
My God, if Jonah’s lost the libertoonians it can only mean one thing: they don’t see any profit in the sequel.
February 6, 2008 at 7:02 pm
What’s the big deal about Goldberg’s book? It’s only sold about 100,000 copies and that pales into total insignificance compared with, for example, one of the Harry Potter books.