I have no doubt that Jonah Goldberg put in many hours of work on his own version of The Runaway Soul, but part of Jonah’s charm, such as it is, is his penchant for glib smirky toss-off lines which are the reason most people bother to read him the first place. There can be great joy in reading Jonah for the intentional, and more often unintentional, hilarity of it all.
But what you really have to appreciate is the marketing plan that will initially sell Jonah as the American Jacques Barzun only to later admit that they were only kidding and that he’s P.J. O’Rourke via Mad Magazine. Maybe Cracked. It’s so hard to tell these days.
Either way, this will become known as the book that launched a thousand blogs.



15 Comments
Support this site!
Subscribe to the newsletter
Advertise on Firedoglake
Send
us your tips
Make us your homepage
About TBogg
RSS/XML Feed
“his penchant for glib smirky toss-off lines” – like no one here!
I think more likely that he will go down in history as the Alfred E. Newman of Highlights magazine. As to the many hours of “work”, I suppose scribbling down what ever he could pull out of his out in crayon qualifies, sort of.
Eventually, it will emerge that everything the Pantload had emitted, except for a few of the pop culture references, has been written by illegal aliens (Tory youths smuggled into the country via Canada) hired by Lucianne to cover up her spawn’s total lack of, well, anything viable.
And these are the guys that have been in charge for the last 7 years? Are we on the left so pathetic that we can’t knock down lightweights such as this? Such a sad, sad commentary on all of humankind.
Well, at least ol’ Pantload made this distinction … (via SN!)
“Liberal fascism differs from classical fascism in many ways, I don’t deny this. Indeed it is central to my point.”
Ya know, I may have the intellectual depth of your normal FOX News viewer. I may be a bit slow, a dim bulb, but even an ill-educated brickhead like me can spot complete and utter shit when it appears.
So this pencildick writes a 400-page book screaming about how “liberal fascism” is just another incarnation of Hitler and Himmler, and yet, it’s not.
Fuck it, just hit me in the head with the motherfucking hammer right now.
I love how the fly-leaf blurb and the pre-release publicity both take pains to tell us that the argument the Pantload presents has never been made “with such care before.” I can only guess that what they really mean by “such care” is “complete lack of care,” since just the teeny bits of the book I’ve seen have all been riddled with glaring errors of fact.
And not facts that require a whole lot of research to uncover, either–shit that takes all the effort of typing a keyword into Google.
However, I hope that Jonah’s book is held up an an exemplar of conservative thought, research, and thoroughness. Let it be paraded through the public square and Jonah hosted on a thousand talk shows. Thus will he and all he stands for be not simply discredited, but a public laughing stock for generations to come.
That’s a typo. It’s supposed to say “with such carbs before.”
“Blow, Dough?” says K-Lo. “No dough, K-Lo” says Dough. “Go, Dough” says K-Lo. “No Blow, K-Lo?” says Dough. “No, Dough” says K-Lo. This has been an enactment of a writer-editor conference at NRO.
humboldtblue, I’ll be in Redway with the motherfucking hammer in an hour. Be there or be square.
He is like a perpetual idiocy machine. The question is, has he topped the batshit insanity of Malkin’s In Defense of Internment? I still consider that the pinnacle of conservative blarting.
I almost admire his audacity for putting this out with you and Sadly, No! out there waiting, rubbing your hands. Almost.
One damn thing about this new site is the serious lack of quality snark since the changeover. I think there is a worm in the software that saps the will. For GOD’S SAKE, Doughbob has finally put out his book and THIS is all you got? Shit, Bradrocket’s TROLLS have more to say than this. Hmmmph.
See?
OK, who did Lucianne have to blow to get her son’s tripe published?
OK, who did Lucianne have to blow to get her son’s tripe published?
I’m not sure Lyndon Johnson’s corpse would lead to a book deal, but who knows?