For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession
of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than
the citizens of America.
Too bad Lucianne Goldberg reached her zenith of infamy during the Clinton
impeachment, because she would make a terrific BuzzFlash Media Putz recipient.
But we can rectify that by recognizing the ongoing and significant contributions
to the degradation of journalism made by her son, Jonah Goldberg.
His pedigree of Putzdom is unchallengeable. Just consider his recollection
of his role in the pass-off of dirty linen from Monica Lewinsky to Linda
Tripp to his Mom to Drudge to Ken Starr:
My mother was the one who advised Linda Tripp to record her conversations
with Monica Lewinsky and to save the dress. I was privy to some of that stuff,
and when the administration set about to destroy Lewinsky, Tripp, and my
mom, I defended my mom and by extension Tripp... I have zero desire to have
those arguments again. I did my bit in the trenches of Clinton's trousers.
Employed by the National Review Online, Jonah is one of those right-wing
media shills who resides somewhere between Ann Coulter and David Brooks.
You just don't know which side of him is going to show up at any given
time when he regularly appears on the television "news analysis" programs
or in his writings.
Take, for instance, his recent book whose title owes much to the Coulter
school of sensational language: "Liberal Fascism." Its subtitle
is "The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics
of Meaning." There's one of those annoying smiley faces on the bright
red front cover, except this one has a Hitler moustache. Okay, was Jonah
tripping when he came up with this book, or just drunk?
Because it just doesn't make any sense. I don't think anyone ever heard the
words liberal and fascism attached before, let alone Mussolini included in
a secret leftist history of America. That must have been some blotter acid
Jonah, eh?
As a right-winger, you know that you have a problem on your hand when the "American
Conservative" pans your tome: "Liberal Fascism reads less like
an extended argument than as a catalogue of conservative intellectual clichés,
often irrelevant to the supposed point of the book."
In the American
Conservative article from January 28, 2007, the
first paragraph gets to the heart of the absurdity of Goldberg's concept
of "liberal fascism": "Not without reason was Jonah Goldberg's
Liberal Fascism widely expected to be a bad book. As many predicted from
the title, Goldberg does not content himself with rebuking those who call
anyone who disagrees with them a fascist. Instead, he invents reasons of
his own for calling anyone who disagrees with Jonah Goldberg a fascist.
Liberal Fascism confirms anew George Orwell's remark -- cited by Goldberg
without
irony -- that fascism has no meaning today other than 'something not desirable.'"
Robert Morse of Indianapolis, Indiana, nominated Jonah Goldberg as the BuzzFlash
Media Putz of the Week for connecting Hitler to liberals. In fact, Goldberg
contends Hitler was a liberal.
Next time you see Jonah peddling his "views" on television, remember
that he's living proof that the more you don't make sense, the higher your
value rises in the right-wing punditsphere. "Right-Wing Fascism" would
have made too much sense as a title, but then again Goldberg appears to
specialize in fiction.
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