My Secrets Exposed

Jonah Goldberg master of insinuation:

I don't want to debate my book before people have read it for every obvious reason under the sun. But a lot of people want to discredit it and me before it comes out, either out of animus towards me or, perhaps, some more revealing worry.

At this point, I may as well fess up. I mock Jonah Goldberg because I'm a closet fascist and I want to pre-emptively discredit his a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care lest the Mussolini shrine (or is it Charles Lindberg) we keep in the basement between Spencer's room and the laundry machine be exposed. Brian Beutler has other theories.

Comments

Ah, Lindberg! We've missed the misspelled aviation pioneer here at MY.com - his presence usually indicates either some Goldberg-bashing or some MY-smearing is going down.

Posted by otto | July 3, 2007 8:18 AM

What's amazing about Jonah Goldberg is these sort of vague accusations of anti-Semitism, or the employment of anti-Semitism by association, is that these are precisely the kind of attacks he has complained vociferously about in regards to affirmative action and anti-black racism. There's a bloggingheads where he whines on about how conservatives are always being portrayed as racists without actually being accused specifically. And yet he has no problem swirling the waters around MY and tiptoeing just up to the line of calling him an anti-Semite (or, to use every Israel apologists second favorite smear, a self-hating Jew.)

Posted by Freddie | July 3, 2007 8:28 AM

Hint to Goldberg: your mocked because you attempt to use an unwritten book to score "points". Grow up.

Posted by Jeffrey Davis | July 3, 2007 8:31 AM

'where he whines on about how conservatives are always being portrayed as racists without actually being accused specifically..'

Hey if that's his whine, I would be glad to directly and specifically accuse him and his BFF uberboys at the Corner of being racists. So there.

Posted by gregor | July 3, 2007 9:19 AM

"Laundry machine?"

Posted by Ted | July 3, 2007 9:28 AM

Is that Herbert Spencer's room you pass on the way to the laundry? Part of the Social Darwinist, felangist, lefty, organic food cabal.

Posted by Klein's Tiny Left Nut | July 3, 2007 9:56 AM

Goldberg is what we used to call in school yard basketball a "self check".

That meant the player was so bad, that he checked himself. No one had to cover him.

In Goldberg's case, as a pundit he's a 'self check'. You don't have to worry about mocking him, as he does such a good job of it himself.

Mocking Goldberg, then, is sort of a piling on (another sports analogy) activity. That is, piling on after he's already tackled himself.

He's living proof that you don't have to have even a remedial understanding of civics to get published every week in a major daily newspaper publication.

In a just world, he'd be out in the street complaining about the lack of work and the need for socialized medicine.

Posted by Tim | July 3, 2007 10:01 AM

Wait wait wait, I thought you mocked Jonah because you're an anti-semite. Now I'm all confused.

Posted by lemuel pitkin | July 3, 2007 10:17 AM

So his position is that we are unjustified in guessing the content of his book based on its (ever changing) subtitle? Is he admitting the subtitle is just a marketing ploy, completely unconnected with his thesis? Didn't he say there would be a chapter on Hillary? Does this mean there will be one on Hegel, too? He says: "I'll let them shadow box with an argument I'm not making." But what about the rest of the title? Isn't it eminently reasonable to assume that a book titled "Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from X to Y" plans at a minimum to argue that X and Y are...liberals tempted by totalitarianism!?

Posted by Jack | July 3, 2007 10:19 AM

I am sure Jonah thought all those kids in middle school and high school (and probably college too) were also filled with animus and worry.

More and more Jonah Goldberg is reminding me of a DC version of Ignatius O'Reilly.

Posted by AJ | July 3, 2007 10:55 AM

I've considered every obvious reason under the sun for reading his book and I've still got nothing.

Posted by FS | July 3, 2007 3:04 PM

I don't think MY gets the entire "peg" on which Mr. Goldberg's book hangs at all, possibly due to his youth.

A fascist, of which the Nazi's were one variety, was a Socialist, someone into collective economics, whose 'collective' was usually ethnic, based on what is currently called identity politics. Is there anybody in here and now US politics who think this way, and who would be they be?

Lefties have been tossing around the words 'fascist' and 'Nazi', without any clue as to what the words actually mean, i.e. idiotically, since at least the 50's and anyone can see the 'tradition' is still alive and well in the here and now. Fact of the matter, I think that someone has actually dug up an early Cold War KGB directive pushing the whole thing, why waste such potentially useful idiots! Mr. Goldberg's would be readership, I suppose, is all the people who have been listening the lefties engage in such envelope pushing stupidity for all their adult lifetimes. I don't know if the whole thing matters to them enough to buy his book, probably not enought for me.

Too bad MY's sweepstakes entry, no using the word 'backstabber' means you're a Nazi, is probably to late to get a chapter. Maybe he should have noted the Mr. Golberg is nice to his dog too.

Posted by j mct | July 3, 2007 3:35 PM

I started to write up a little history of fascism and how it connects and doesn't to the Third Reich, but I just want to hear what the bizzaro-land Nazi Liberal theory of history made out of things like the Night of the Long Knives or that Churchill was more unfriendly to capital than Hitler. I think in this version of history WWII is nothing but a competition of Socialist factions.

Posted by Ed Marshall | July 3, 2007 4:01 PM

Remember that blowjob scene in *Pink Flamingos*?

You know: "This is the greatest gift (glorp) that any mother (slobber) can give her son!"

Well, that was actually Jonah and Lucianne.

Posted by Kevin Carson | July 4, 2007 12:38 AM

A fascist, of which the Nazi's were one variety, was a Socialist, someone into collective economics, whose 'collective' was usually ethnic, based on what is currently called identity politics. Is there anybody in here and now US politics who think this way, and who would be they be?

And the stupid just pours out....

Posted by Col Bat Guano | July 4, 2007 11:57 AM