Two things:
1. I was able to make it out to JoGo’s “talk” at the DC Borders. An hour of nothing. His appearance the following day on the Daily Show contained many of the same exact “points,” almost verbatim. He spoke for about 30 minutes and then took about six questions which ate up another 30 minutes. I was unable to ask a question myself. He was able to work in the current talking point about homeless obesity = homeless must be doing okay.

2. My co-worker, the one who once said, “I knew it! Bush is a fucking liberal!” actually owns a copy of Mr. Goldberg’s “work.”

I have been amazed how many people have written me to say “I’ve been saying this all my life! Thank goodness someone finally wrote this book!” That is great kindling for a bonfire of sales.

I’m not surprised he’s amazed but I think the person saying “finally someone wrote this book” the loudest was his editor. And I think that second sentence is in there specifically to bait someone on the left into making a joke about how his book should be burned. Or maybe he’s just stupid.

1. We of the radical right shall overcome!

2. Goldberg has linked to John Emerson on Liberal Fascism. Could Sadly, No! be next? Stay tuned!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/dining/16capi.html?ref=dining

And in the “paper of record” too!

After all, those two groups opposed the kind of concentrated authoritarian power embraced by the Leninists and Stalinists and Maoists.

Presumably, there simply is a massive pile-up of every group Jonah doesn’t like on “teh Leff”, including Stalin’s notion that the New Dealers were also fascists, just like him, except not.

Of course, then we come back to that original notion that the definition of “left” and “right” have to do with whether or not there were working classes in conflict with an ownership class, and whether or not you said you wanted said working classes to displace the ownership classes in wielding power.

“Facts” are a lot more sobering when they’re backed up by actual evidence. But I’m guessing that the one you’re hanging on the right is the Holocaust. Does this mean you disagree with the pantload that the Nazis were left wingers?

Nowadays right wing nimrods just scream OH YEAH WELL COMMIES KILLED EVEN MORE as though people in developed Western economies with liberal democratic governance were expecting the sort of transitions experienced by Czarist Russia, or civil-war raged China, or carpet-bombed Cambodia.

The amount of stupid is just amazing.

They knew that.

That group was defeated.

After their defeat, where did they go? What happened to those white supremacist Southern Democrats and their voters?

They became Republicans!

Do you want a list? I know, you’ll pull out the Robert Byrd thing, but the only reason Southern Republicans don’t like Byrd is that Byrd repudiated his former racism, whereas Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, and all the other racist Republican former Southern Democrats

And I’d be glad to stack up racist statements by Republicans from 30 years ago! Or 20 years ago! Or 10 years ago!

I know! We can have a debate between all the black Republicans in Congress versus all the black Democrats in Congress! How would that sound?

progressives have nothing even remotely resembling the history of murder, warmongering and bloodshed that fascists do

What the hell? I suppose if you want to loosely identify “fascists” as loosely as you’re accusing Golberg of identifying “progressives”, then maybe so…

But here is the sobering fact: There were four genocides in the 20th century that killed over 1 milllion people, and three out of that four were done in the name of communism – in other words, left wing ideolgy, not right-wing.

I would also be glad to stack up racist statements from 40 years ago by Southern Democrats vs. NR, anytime and see who comes out on top. You may not like the result.

That’s exactly why Jonah and his drivel aren’t going to light up the salons of Europe and shine brilliantly any time soon.

The same idiots have been saying Martin Luther King was a communist. Well, not from where I sit. He was more interested in why people were living in poverty. Was there a socialist solution? Where could you go to get the answer? Social justice and civil disobedience would do what in a communist society? But what he found was that communism was the antithesis of Christianity.

So MLK decides he’s a Christian. Was he a fascist? Was he a communist? Where did he fall on the political scale? Did he try to tell people how to live or speak out about how people should be treated?

Don’t ask a Goldberg to figure it out. His head would explode trying to find a way to make it all make sense inside of his idjit head. His thing is about figuring out how to lie about what it all means.

Idiots. At least the ones who listen to this crap.

Lawnguylander, with wit like yours, I’m guessing you don’t need help. :-)

I just feel sorry for him. It’s pathetic, I know. But his biggest flaw is that he listens to the wrong people. I think deprogramming would solve many of his problems.

I could be completely wrong on this, but maybe it’s the liberal fascism that makes me want to do something to help him and the rest of the people he’s misleading, not to mention all the people whose lot in life he’d otherwise make worse.

Call me an optimistic fool, but I really think he could be less of an asshole if he worked at it, but it’s probably gonna take something cathartic to get him there.

Just for the sake of clarity, this arrangement is available only to the Doughy Pantload but not to any liberal fascists? Correct me if I’m wrong.

Okay (takes a deep breath) – Liberals used to be Commies. Conservatives used to be Fascists. Liberals are the opposite of Conservatives. Commies were the opposite of Fascists. But if liberals are now Fascists as well as Commies, and liberals are also still the opposite of conservatives, what exactly does that make conservatives?

Half-assed attempt at a joke about people being forced to read the book in prisons? Or just massive, massive victim complex: you be the judge.

God knows he’s done nothing thus far to earn the benefit of the doubt.

Jonah, seriously. Call me. We’ll get drunk, I’ll introduce you to some friends, we can have liberal sex, you can get the hell over your issues. Even your wife would most likely be grateful, as I suspect it would make you much more pleasant to be around. It’s not like you’re a complete loser with nothing to build on. But Jesus you need an intervention and some intensive deprogramming. Walk away from your mom. If David Brock can make something useful of his life, you can too. Okay? But you have to walk away from your mom first. She’s not helping anything.