We’ve done Jonah to death!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Spode

It’s even funnier if you can get your hands on the DVDs of the series; Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are, IMO, the *perfect* Jeeves and Wooster.

Maaaa! Billy just called me a Buerkean conservative!

Expect it in stores for 2012:

Liberal Burkean Conservativsm: The Secret History of the Progressive Left from Sojourner Truth to Trader Joe’s
by Jonah Goldberg

You’d think he’d have a broader view…

Why? Let’s see: we elect a President — a real President, not one who sneaks in thru fraud in a state run by his brother — and he appoints Supreme Court justices who actually read about what’s going on in the 94% of the world that isn’t the U.S.A., and who possibly use some of that information in their deliberations. Why is it “undemocratic” of them to do that? Is it because them furriners is EEEEEEVIL? Or just because they’re not Murkans, and any idea not originated by a Murkan is automatically wrong?

Actually, why am I even asking? We already know that Jonah just makes stuff up, including the definitions of every word he says. [Emily Litella voice]: Never mind.

Pinochet and Franco were conservative reformers. Just ask Jonah:

Pinochet’s abuses helped create a civil society. Once the initial bloodshed subsided, Chile was no prison. Pinochet built up democratic institutions and infrastructure. And by implementing free-market reforms, he lifted the Chilean people out of poverty. In 1988, he held a referendum and stepped down when the people voted him out. Yes, he feathered his nest from the treasury and took measures to protect himself from his enemies. His list of sins — both venal and moral — is long. But today Chile is a thriving, healthy democracy. Its economy is the envy of Latin America, and its literacy and infant mortality rates are impressive.

and the Opinion Journal:

Like Spain’s Franco, Pinochet was an authoritarian who resisted the Communists and created the foundation of what would become a democratic transition. What remains is a Chile that has the healthiest economy in Latin America, a free press and a competitive political system that has allowed Socialists to come to power.

They saved democracy and free market from Communism. No small feat.

They may well have used rhetoric about unifying society behind a common goal… yes, this would also make them fascist. But remember, there is no pejorative force to the world ‘fascist’. It is only a description.

As people have pointed out, Lincoln was a fascist. Martin Luther King was clearly a fascist, with his revivalist talk and his transformative dreams for the nation. J F Kennedy was a fascist. What of it? No-one should be insulted by these descriptions. Jonah could call you a fascist, and you would have no reason to take offense. You could call him a fascist, and he wouldn’t be insulted, though he would shake his head and smirk and point out that his Burkean Conservative membership makes that unpossible.

Mein Kampf is a profoundly self-serving propaganda document (which I have read). Of course he’s going to ridicule the doctrines and integrity of his competitors to justify the Nazi REVOLUTION (there are no conservative revolutions).

This guy must look at the world through his nipples.

Shiit-fingerr. The man with the shiitty touch.

Alternate history is pretty lousy with the trekkie wing of the far right for some weird reason. I say this with shame as someone more into it than he should be. I am, or at least was, also a Turtledove fanboy. But then again, I was seventeen at the time, so take that with a grain of salt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Workers_Party