The scientists over at Sadly, No! have procured a copy of the masterpiece and are attempting to ingest the contents. We hope their insurance is paid in full.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Just in time for Xmas!
Oh mah gawd! From the department of too stupid to exist without mama's nurturing enablers comes the greatest work of scholarship that a young man can pay strangers to perform. Dear lawd it's true, the day of retarded reckoning has arrived! Spongehead Loadpants done finished his book!
The scientists over at Sadly, No! have procured a copy of the masterpiece and are attempting to ingest the contents. We hope their insurance is paid in full.
The scientists over at Sadly, No! have procured a copy of the masterpiece and are attempting to ingest the contents. We hope their insurance is paid in full.
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Zoinks!
*faint*
Facism:
(1) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
(2)the philosophy, principles, or methods of fascism.
Yeah that sounds like liberals. Damned liberals seizing absolute unstoppable power, putting people into free speech zones, invading other countries for fun and lynching people because of their skin color.
Fuck you and die, you right wing projecting mother fuckers.
Someone in the progressive/leftist/liberal/non-wingnut blogosphere has to take charge, divvy up the book paragraph by paragraph and assign each blogger a tiny morsel from which to wring the snark. Otherwise it's going to be a feeding frenzy and someone's going to lose a dorsal fin.
Judging from the cover blurbs and the table of contents alone, this doughy pastiche is going to keep non-wingnut bloggers busy until mid-2008.
I believe The Hon. Dr. St. Rev. Bradley S. Rocket, Esq, PhD, MD is the only one brave enough to read Teh Pantload's obscenity ... I fear for his sanity.
Sadly, the book won’t actually be available until after Xmas (Jan. 8th). What a disappointment, huh?
Funny thing on Amazon where they have the “People who bought this book…” section, the first one is: “Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery (Hardcover)”
From the editorial review:
Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism and Mussolini's Fascism.
Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term “National socialism”). They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life. The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control. They loathed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities—where campus speech codes were all the rage. The Nazis led the world in organic farming and alternative medicine. Hitler was a strict vegetarian, and Himmler was an animal rights activist.
Do these striking parallels mean that today’s liberals are genocidal maniacs, intent on conquering the world and imposing a new racial order? Not at all. Yet it is hard to deny that modern progressivism and classical fascism shared the same intellectual roots. We often forget, for example, that Mussolini and Hitler had many admirers in the United States. W.E.B. Du Bois was inspired by Hitler's Germany, and Irving Berlin praised Mussolini in song. Many fascist tenets were espoused by American progressives like John Dewey and Woodrow Wilson, and FDR incorporated fascist policies in the New Deal.
Fascism was an international movement that appeared in different forms in different countries, depending on the vagaries of national culture and temperament. In Germany, fascism appeared as genocidal racist nationalism. In America, it took a “friendlier,” more liberal form. The modern heirs of this “friendly fascist” tradition include the New York Times, the Democratic Party, the Ivy League professoriate, and the liberals of Hollywood. The quintessential Liberal Fascist isn't an SS storm trooper; it is a female grade school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore.
These assertions may sound strange to modern ears, but that is because we have forgotten what fascism is. In this angry, funny, smart, contentious book, Jonah Goldberg turns our preconceptions inside out and shows us the true meaning of Liberal Fascism.
In this angry, funny, smart, contentious book, Jonah Goldberg turns our preconceptions inside out and shows us the true meaning of Liberal Fascism.
What heinous fuckery ...
The were into organic farming... Well, there you go. Case closed!
No wonder it took him so long to squeeze this stool out. He was probably laughing too hard.
red tory spaketh thusly:
"The were into organic farming... Well, there you go. Case closed!
No wonder it took him so long to squeeze this stool out. He was probably laughing too hard."
Sorry RT but I must disagree. He weren't laughing at all. Why every time he'd see the word organic, well, he'd see the word organ and that's a dirty word. So he'd have go wash himself off and cry 'til it were better. Damn librul fascists.
Irving Berlin, of course, is described by Wikipedia as "a political conservative", and also wrote the fascist anthem, "God Bless America"...
I really don't know what to say, I really don't. If this is meant with serious intent as a serious piece of political research then all I can say is I am glad it is coming out as modern conservativism is on its wane instead of near its peak, it could actually have done real damage then. As it is you know this is going to be hailed as some sort of masterpiece by too many on the right these days and while the prospect of the snark it provides is nice I have to say the prospect of having this suddenly becoming the authoritative explanation for why I and all "lefties" are the inheritors of Hitler, racism, and totalitarianism and their foot soldiers in trying to bring about total ruin for all freedom loving people does not thrill me.
Yes, I know, a bit sarcastic for me, but you all know its coming, too many of these people only look for confirmation of their beliefs by someone they already consider "sound", like JG is considered to be. I have already heard more than enough about how Nazism and Hitler was a lefty and it is wrong to claim that he represented the extreme right despite all I was ever taught about it by those that actually fought them and who worked in sensitive enough positions with sufficient political understanding to understand exactly what they were fighting. I find this revisionist history so as to paint everyone that they oppose "the left" in all its many forms the inheritors of all the worst evils of the 20th century just one more indication of how inherently unbalanced their basic perspective on life is and also what makes them and their product so dangerous. We need to have a balanced approach in life, as I see a dynamic balancing between various opposing tensions, that seems to be the best way of protecting us from extremism becoming the driving force in a society, be it social, religious, political, whatever.
Sorry, seeing something like that chapter listing was just something that caught me aback in its pure fantasy being passed off as serious reality, even coming from someone like JG. I long ago accepted that both the mainstream theories of the political right and left have their merits and that both of them when taken to extremes do terrible things to human societies, Communism for the left and Fascism for the right. The fact that JG and those like him cannot accept that reality is just so sad and to be honest disturbing. I tend to take a centrist view because in most things that will tend to be the most reasonable manner of dealing with fellow human beings when differences exist. I am not blind though to the concept of a vice being made of a virtue, something it would appear far too many conservatives these days have, to the detriment of all. They are so caught up in their own virtuousness that they completely miss how they have turned them into vices, perverting their true meanings and become that which they decry in their opponents. Projection at its most basic, and if it were not for how dangerous it has shown itself to be in the last couple of decades I would find it incredibly laughable/funny instead of at best grimly so.
Man what a disturbing chapter listing from someone supposedly so mainstream as JG is considered.
shorter goldberg: "don't call people fascist, you fascist!"
for the umpteenth time, do these people ever read what they've written?!
KEvron
as always Jon Swift is ahead of the curve on this one
http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/06/jonah-goldbergs-shining.html
Ha! I'd forgotten about his LOL-Jonah thing. That was priceless.
Can we just tattoo "Thou shalt not use false equivalency" backwards on his forehead and be done with the Pantload?
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