Right-Wing Media's Tenuous Grasp On Reality Slips Just A Little Bit More...
Atrios gets this one right, so go read him. Jonah Goldberg, of course, is not a very smart man. I doubt that he's less intelligent than average, but he's certainly no more intelligent than average. He's not particularly knowledgeable (despite what was apparently an extremely privileged upbringing), and not a particularly creative or interesting thinker. In fact, he's just a more-or-less average guy who inherited a soap box from which to spew his vapid so-called thoughts. But apparently some people do find his muddled ramblings worth reading. I even heard somewhere that he has a fan club...but the possibility is too pathetic to even consider.
As Atrios points out, the right flips out when there's any comparison of Bush to Hitler. But it's o.k. to call liberals evil, to call them traitors, and now to call them fascists. The right is famous for its double standards, of course, so I suppose this should come as no surprise.
Rather: extremists of both left and right are famous for their double standards. To the credit of the American left, its extremists are marginalized. Sadly, the extremists of the right are in control--not only of the right-wing media, but of the entire country.
Oh, and, incidentally: if Jonah G. were ever to call me a fascist to my face I'd punch his chubby little lights out.
Oh, and also incidentally: if you're a big fat liar, you don't get to complain if somebody compares you to Hitler. Accusing someone of employing something similar to the Big Lie strategy is not equivalent to accusing them of being a racist or a mass murderer. If Bush wanted to avoid such comparisons, he should have tried sticking to the truth.
Atrios gets this one right, so go read him. Jonah Goldberg, of course, is not a very smart man. I doubt that he's less intelligent than average, but he's certainly no more intelligent than average. He's not particularly knowledgeable (despite what was apparently an extremely privileged upbringing), and not a particularly creative or interesting thinker. In fact, he's just a more-or-less average guy who inherited a soap box from which to spew his vapid so-called thoughts. But apparently some people do find his muddled ramblings worth reading. I even heard somewhere that he has a fan club...but the possibility is too pathetic to even consider.
As Atrios points out, the right flips out when there's any comparison of Bush to Hitler. But it's o.k. to call liberals evil, to call them traitors, and now to call them fascists. The right is famous for its double standards, of course, so I suppose this should come as no surprise.
Rather: extremists of both left and right are famous for their double standards. To the credit of the American left, its extremists are marginalized. Sadly, the extremists of the right are in control--not only of the right-wing media, but of the entire country.
Oh, and, incidentally: if Jonah G. were ever to call me a fascist to my face I'd punch his chubby little lights out.
Oh, and also incidentally: if you're a big fat liar, you don't get to complain if somebody compares you to Hitler. Accusing someone of employing something similar to the Big Lie strategy is not equivalent to accusing them of being a racist or a mass murderer. If Bush wanted to avoid such comparisons, he should have tried sticking to the truth.
posted by Winston Smith at
3:24 PM
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Apparently Jonah is also writing a "serious" book about the intellectual underpinings of conservative thought...and he's parcelling out the actual research to his readers. He actually asked for a Herbert Spencer expert to help him write his own damn book. That along shows that he's both lazy and not too bright.
I wonder whether punching someone's lights out in reaction to being called a fascist might tend to reinforce the allegation rather than refute it. Isn't one of the hallmarks of fascism the use of physical violence and intimidation to repress political dissent and maintain order and ideological purity?
Yeah, but consider the concept of fighting words. There are a few things people don't get to call me. Fascist is one of them.
And if JG, someone MUCH closer to fascists on the political spectrum than I am, were to call me that...sheesh, I'd probably lose it.
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