Comments on: Journey to the Center of 20,000 Leagues Under the Bottom of the Barrel

By: Lysander Forker

Lysander Forker — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:20:33 +0000

> Chockablock?
> Is that, like, code for Obama’s fascist buttplug?

No, but you should know that my band, ‘Obama’s Fascist Buttplug’, will be playing the Whiskey next week.

By: Martini Revolution » Jonah Goldberg — The Stupid Which Never Disappoints

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:37:07 +0000

[...] haven’t read his book, but one of his apparent epiphanies is that the Nazis were pro-Gay [...]

By: HorsesAss.Org» Blog Archive » Godwin’s Nightmare

HorsesAss.Org» Blog Archive » Godwin’s Nightmare — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:58:02 +0000

[...] Sadly No! crew actually have a copy of the book and have been posting some of the most ridiculous passages. His larger argument is that the desire by liberals and progressives to improve society through [...]

By: links for 2007-12-27 | jason brown

links for 2007-12-27 | jason brown — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:21:41 +0000

[...] Jonah Goldberg claims that the Republican Party are Nazi queers The Republican Party is rife with homosexuals. The Nazi Party was rife with homosexuals. Does Jonah have to draw you a picture?? (tags: batshit.crazy conservative republican christianity gay sex fascism bigot freaky.sex) [...]

By: LFC

LFC — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:59:07 +0000

Ann Coulter must be furious. She thought she had a monopoly on bulls*** footnoting in order to attempt to create the illusion of some shred of validity.

Is Jonah’s book being sold in the fiction section?

By: Merry Christmas, From the the Absentee Blogger Who was Busy with teh Family all This Week § Unqualified Offerings

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:24:03 +0000

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By: Chris Wren

Chris Wren — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:32:18 +0000

“…it is true that some homosexuals were sent to concentration camps…”

Isn’t this a little bit like people who say crazy shit like “Sure, some Jews were sent to concentration camps – but that only proves my point that JEWS RULE THE WORLD”.

Actually, isn’t it a lot like that? As in, exactly the same?

By: Hattie

Hattie — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:51:43 +0000

Oh, cripes. He has a unique way of taking factual information and connecting the dots such a way that it adds up to lies.
It’s a form of genius, really.

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:11:55 +0000

This book has now gone off the deep end into absurd. I am glad because my efforts to make sense of it were about to undo four years of liberal blogs.

By: LiberalDirk

LiberalDirk — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:32:48 +0000

I trained as a publisher. I don’t understand how this book got published… Did Doubleday want to do a tax write off? Does Jonah Goldberg provide sexual favours?

I mean, this manuscript arrives on my desk, I’ll read it and dump it. Its bad, it is untrue and the market who find such ideas appealing are not the type of market to by 400 page books.

Even if he was paid a million dollars (hyperbole) as an advance, it would be best for the company to simply take the loss in order to preserve its reputation (and to stop further losses).

I think, as a form of symbolic protest I will never purchase a book by Double Day again. Do we have any idea who the editors involved with this book was? I would like to send them a professional critique.

By: justme

justme — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:48:28 +0000

Oh, and yeah, “chockablock” is pretty gay. Thanks for letting us know, J-Load.

By: justme

justme — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:12:29 +0000

luneylegume,

Perhaps you mean…

“I am the very model of the modern Major Asshole…”

By: justme

justme — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:02:09 +0000

Some Guy,
I’ve read middle school essays…

Well, that puts you head and shoulders above the intended audience for this load of crap.

By: Vai chegar, vai chegar. «

Vai chegar, vai chegar. « — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:49:58 +0000

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By: Percyprune

Percyprune — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:54:54 +0000

A Briton writes:

The Anglican Church is the Church formed by Henry VIII so he could get a divorce from his first wife (I think Catherine of Aragon, I’m doing this from memory). The Episcopalian Church is the American version of the Anglican Church.

It’s what the Anglican Church became after the Tudors, that is of interest to me. Essentially, the Anglican Church is ‘Catholicism Lite’. Protestantism, but with some of the ceremony and dressing up.

The spectacle of Catholicism has long been a draw for a certain kind of protestant. Charles I hankered after the opulent mass that his pretty Catholic wife, Henrietta Maria, was permitted as a treaty exception to the recusancy laws. His attempts to inflict a new prayer book on the country resulted in a rebellion of the Presbyterian Scots (who thought the new service to be Popish) and a revolution in which the King lost his head. We had a number of years of republican rule after that, by hardline protestants (not all of them Puritan) who managed to even ban Christmas. Then Cromwell died and the throne was restored, and with it the pomp of the Anglican service.

The appeal of Catholicism remains today. The iconography, the spectacle, the cultish elements. Anglican reforms have driven a few British politicians into the arms of Rome. Most notably Tony Blair, who today announced his conversion.

No surprise, that. It was clear Blair was a closet Papist and I held his dishonesty on matters of religion against him for many years.

By: jp

jp — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:11:59 +0000

Could I just say…?

“Chockablock”!!!

In a (dumbass) blogpost maybe, but in a so-called book? I’m no language snob, but really. Shame on whoever let that through.

Because we know Pantoad is beyond shame.

By: FS

FS — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:09:25 +0000

Can it be a coincidence that the character played by Elizabeth Röhm on Law & Order was a lesbian?

How is she related to Ernst Röhm, head of the SA?

And is there a conspiracy to smear everyone named Röhm with the taint of liberal fascism?

By: TBogg - “…a somewhat popular blogger” » Whoa! Look at the time! I’m outta here…

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:26:34 +0000

[...] course, now Jonah is a Big Time Serious Historian Guy, so he gets to hand off his work to his underlings (Asst. Pantload Jr.): I went and checked back [...]

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:11:37 +0000

By Jonah’s logic, the Nazis were also pro-Jew.

While it is true that some homosexuals were sent to concentration camps…

Jonah, you bastard. You… bastard.

Go sit over there with the rest of the holocaust deniers and leave polite society alone.

By: r€nato

r€nato — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:19:36 +0000

Surprisingly, he replied to my email.

Actually he responds to a lot of emails. I’ve gotten replies too.