Jonah is a thin skinned little (9+ / 0-)
wingnut welfare recipient.

To prove my assertion, witness his response to an email that I sent him this morning.

A little back story.

Over at SadlyNo I read a post that His Whaleness put up regarding the “culture of dependency”. To which I responded thusly;

Subject: Dependency???? Heh, Indeed!
Date: August 21, 2007 11:56:25 AM CDT
To: JonahNRO@aol.com

Even a cretinous lay-about like you deserves some of that “dependence”, Jonah. C’mon, admit it. You wouldn’t be where you are now without a little wingnut welfare, now would you Pantload?

I know, not very adult-like.

To my surprise he responded:

From: JonahNRO@aol.com
Subject: Re: heh
Date: August 21, 2007 12:19:52 PM CDT
To: xxxxxxx@mac.com

I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. None, zip, zero. But, I can tell you’re an ass, so don’t bother explaining yourself.

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

ya think I touched a nerve?

I do.

As for not knowing what I was talking about?

Bullshit.

I don’t think they take themselves seriously anymore in ‘The Corner’, if they ever did. The only way to take it is to read it all as parody.

(btw, ‘is ‘The Corner’ not about the dumbest name, the corner of where, a street corner, a football corner, the corner of a seedy Amsterdam bar, where?)

I tend to attribute that to stupidity rather than an incapability for shame. Take a look at who Jonah’s editors are. The editor of National Review is Rich Lowry, who doesn’t seem to pay attention to much of anything (aside from slavish recitations of the party line, that is). As for the online version, the editor is Kathryn Jean Lopez, an utter cretin who seems to be profoundly incapable of anything resembling original thought. These days, there’s really no one at NR who can point out to Jonah that he’s being a dolt.

If they were capable of feeling shame, would they allow themselves to be associated with Jonah Goldberg?

Actually, I’m beginning to think the Doughy Pantload may be some kind of “diversity talisman” in the mind of his Wingnut Welfare Wanker fellows. At some level, the WWWs must believe that if a man who wasn’t toilet-trained until well into puberty can earn a good living as a “pundit”, then all their brave theories about how anybody can be successful must be true, right?

Certainly it’s not a question of diligence or dedication, because Jonah’s entirely web-based output is a demonstration of how lazy and uncommitted he is, so it must be that the C.R.E.A.M. always rises…

Actually, that’s probably the best explanation of the College Republican dude who fondled the penises of sleeping roommates: he was posing as the Invisible Hand Wanker, the Republican version of Santa Claus. (Every election, IHW brings kickbacks, tax cuts, plum government jobs, and wingnut welfare to good Republicans everywhere.)

Tick vs. Tardigrade?

The Tardigrade Appreciation Society informs us that
“lolling about in its warm, mushy home, the tardigrade is kind of the microbiological equivalent to a damp couch potato slacker. [...] with an impenetrable exoskeleton and powerklaws of doom,this tiny fella is not to be messed with.”

Doughy Pantload has the unmistakable ring of a Tick character…

Maybe we need to start thinking about a comic featuring the Blogger Hall of Justice and our favorite wingnut super villians…

I didn’t endorse [those posts], or any other comments, as anything more than interesting. When I put up omnibus email posts like that, I think that’s self-evident.

So Jonah’s saying that it’s self-evident that he hasn’t done any fact-checking, doesn’t care to do any fact-checking, and is just posting anything that’s bright and sparkly enough to catch his eye.

Well, as a matter of fact, that *is* self-evident, so Jonah’s actually being honest here It’s also self-evident that Jonah’s definition of “interesting” is rather peculiar, in that it *doesn’t* mean “interested in learning more about this topic” or “interested in assessing the truth of what some random person from the Internet told me” or even “interested in taking two minutes to glance at what Wikipedia has to say about the matter so that I don’t look like a complete ignoramus in front of the whole internet for the 30,000th time.” “Interesting” to Goldberg apparently just means “sounds kinda cool.”

What’s puzzling too is that he survives in spite of his obvious incompetence. As a practical matter, you’d think that the conservative blogosphere in general would slowly learn not to trust anything Goldberg says because it’s highly likely that he’ll need to correct it before too long.

If I ever get the time and audience, I’d love to do an HTML-style takedown of Jonah. I have never encountered anyone else who so assiduously defends his own ignorance and sloth

This whining about being banned here? Not only did it never happen, if it did the Real Gary could take it…

M

“Are you gonna finish that…?

If anything, the failure of foreign aid to Africa is a result of the free market, not the aid itself.