After the big disappointments of watching Jon Stewart give both Lou Dobbs and John Bolton free rides in interviews of late, Jon made up for it last night by slicing and dicing this horrid Right-wing wonk.
The silliness of all this is that Goldberg gets the definition of fascism all wrong. Fascism is the sharing of power between the Military, corporate leaders, and the Church under the control of an all powerful charismatic strongman. The direct opposite of what he contends in his very silly book, Liberal Fascism, in which he defines fascism as organic farming, environmentalism, multiculturialism and Hillary Clinton.
Jonah Goldberg is the son of Lucianne Goldberg who began her career as a political spy for Richard Nixon infiltrating the McGovern campaign. She went on to final fame as the conduit between Linda Tripp and Matt Drudge to break the Monica Lewinsky story. The last we saw of her was as a regular guest on the very short lived Matt Drudge Show on Fox News. If this fails to connect the dots as to just what Lucianne Goldberg is, close your eyes and imagine Ann Coulter 40 years from now. There ya go. Well, so much for the Second Commandment of putting the sins of the fathers’
upon the children for three generations. That one needs to be carved into the walls of every courtroom in America! Do these people ever actually read those things?
Jonah Goldberg is a syndicated columnist because his mother made calls. And believe you me, the last thing anyone wants to do is cross Lucianne Goldberg. Jonah could have made his new very silly book, Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning much shorter and far more appropriate with the title My Mother the Fascist.
Like Rush Limbaugh, Jonah Goldberg’s commentaries are mostly about his visceral hatred of liberals and all that is liberal. What sets him apart is his mix of Right-wing Libertarian prater and Neo-conservative blather. As you can see from the video interview, his slovenly overweight appearance fits well with the attractive crowd he and his mother hang with.
There has also been an ongoing feud between Jonah Goldberg and fellow liberal Blogger Juan Cole who may have something to say about this today.