Comments on: Total Eclipse of the Fart

By: Another Kiwi

Another Kiwi — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:04:16 +0000

People kept sending Jo-go links to the Bacon Explosion and he professed to not understand why. It would be wrong to not speculate.
1) It seems to be extremely bad for one
2) He does know enough to not talk with his mouth full.

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:51:43 +0000

jonah goldberg really is one of the worst writers ever. it is amazing.

By: Arky

Arky — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:14:42 +0000

And with that, BBBB wins the internons.

By: Daphne Chyprious

Daphne Chyprious — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:18:54 +0000

Point: well, I think his point is he’s paid not to get the point.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:42:33 +0000

that doing your part to sustain economic growth is a patriotic duty
Apparently this expectation says something about “the current state of liberalism”. Except it is also telling of “the political culture generally”… in other words, it doesn’t actually say anything specific about anyone.
Buggerybollocks. You might as well try to argue with the great Boyg.

We all know that it would be easy to round up passages from right-wing rhetoric about the patriotic requirement to sustain economic growth, and about the worth of the individual being measured by his or her contribution to economic activity, but we also know that
“Individual as a cell in the body of the economy” = organic paradigm = part of Fascist worldview;
Fascism = Liberalism;
=> anyone who has ever advocated sustaining economic growth as a patriotic duty is a Liberal by definition.

By: fillerbunny

fillerbunny — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:16:08 +0000

I don’t see the point of the point Doughy was trying to point out

By: Big Bad Bald Bastard

Big Bad Bald Bastard — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:18:02 +0000

Oh, riiiiighhht. Wingnuts absolutely detest ideas like civic duty. Everything must be motivated by the accumulation of goods.

Hey, I didn’t sign a social contract!!!

~~WOLVERINES~~ GLUTTONS!!!

By: Leon Trotsky, Exile-in-Mexico

Leon Trotsky, Exile-in-Mexico — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:53:20 +0000

Three Republicans walk into a bar. Bartender says, “Tax cuts!”

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:29:20 +0000

This quote reminds me of Permanent Shorter Republican: “Tax cuts solve every problem. Tax cuts solve every problem. Tax cuts solve every problem. Tax cuts. Tax cuts! TAX CUTS!!!!”

Stupid Republican Jokes (ambiguous adjective intentional):

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb?
Tax cuts!

Why did the Republican cross the road?
Tax cuts!

Why do Republicans wear red suspenders?
Tax cuts!

Knock-knock!
Who’s there?
Republicans!
Republicans who?
Tax cuts!

By: chocolatepie

chocolatepie — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:26:39 +0000

Moreover, I think it says something telling about the current state of liberalism — and the political culture generally — that doing your part to sustain economic growth is a patriotic duty.

God, we just had the biggest terrorist attack on American soil ever. People are confused and upset and don’t know where to turn.

I know! Let’s tell them all to GO SHOPPING!

No, our society doesn’t have fucked up priorities, the memory of a goldfish, or lack of cognitive dissonance AT ALL.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:51:29 +0000

Bitter Scribe, I wonder if that could come back to bite them in this case; after all, if it’s OK for fat, old, rich white dudes to harp on personal responsibility, why isn’t it in bounds for a black dude to do it?

By: Bitter Scribe

Bitter Scribe — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:23:19 +0000

This “don’t insult the patriotism of dropouts” stuff is just the 624,392,836th variation of one of the most tiresome wingnut tropes:

If blank is wrong when a white man does it, then why isn’t blah blah out of bounds for blacks/women/gays/liberals?

To wingnuts, this is devastatingly unanswerable logic. To the rest of humanity, it’s whining.

By: OneMan

OneMan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:08:32 +0000

…with this latest (not-)gotcha:

Or “notcha”.

“snotcha”

By: jim

jim — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:06:58 +0000

You know, there are a lot of folks on the web whose level of scholarship is just as shitty as his – but at least most of them aren’t dim enough to say so … let alone GET PAID to say so.

“The words I put in Obama’s mouth & the arguments I invented for him prove that he’s taking America on the road to perdition!”

Mean, ugly & moronic is no way to go through life, son.

By: Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist

Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:50:10 +0000

I think this is largely right. I meant to make this point and somehow let it drop from my points. But I don’t think that’s all it’s about either.

Splunge!

Jonah’s writing often reminds me of bullshit I tried in junior high school when I hadn’t done the reading for the day – this is a great example of the form.

By: joeyess

joeyess — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:45:53 +0000

Me: I think this is largely right. I meant to make this point and somehow let it drop from my points. But I don’t think that’s all it’s about either.

Is Pantload channeling Jermaine from the Flight of the Conchords?

By: Capn Fatback

Capn Fatback — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:10:26 +0000

Track #2 on Jonah Goldberg Sings Bonnie Tyler’s Greatest Hits:
“I Need a Hero . . . Sandwich”

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:07:27 +0000

Shorter Confederate Goldberg:

Literacy? Why, that is an outrage! Who does this uppity feller think he is? Say, does this mean we can bring back literacy tests for voting? Oh, erm… never mind, still a bad idea.

By: actor212

actor212 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:33:35 +0000

Moreover, I think it says something telling about the current state of liberalism — and the political culture generally — that doing your part to sustain economic growth is a patriotic duty. George W Bush c. 9/12/01

By: actor212

actor212 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:30:52 +0000

Otto from A Fish Called Wanda: It’s just as our fellow intellectual, Nietzsche (who was, like Aristotle, a Belgian) said: “What? A Great Man? I see only the actor of his own ideal.”

Pantload: Totally! And Obama’s ideal is, like, FASCISM!

N.Y. Post Cartoonist: I gotcher Nietzsche quote right here. “The disappointed man speaks: ‘I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the apes of their ideal.’” Neener neener!

Pantload: Exactly.

I’m so totally assigning this as an improv at the Studio next week…