Non-Event Horizon

December 17th, 2007 by TRex @ 10:59 pm| Posted in Bush Dead-Enders, GOP Cargo Cult, Wingnut Welfare Queens |

lolpantload

(LOLcon from Teh Sadly!)

Ugh, well, just in time for the after Xmas return season, the Doughy Pantload’s new book, “Liberal Fascism” is here. I have not had a chance to hold said doughty tome in my tiny forelimbs, but not having a working knowledge of one’s subject matter never stopped Bill Donohue, I don’t know why on earth it should stop me.

So, what follows is a review of Jonah Goldberg’s long-awaited death-blow to the dead tree publishing industry, a book so radioactively stupid that one doesn’t even have to read it to know that it’s utter crap. Anyone who has followed “Liberal Fascism” on its tortuous course (God bless you, Roger Ailes. You’re doing yeoman’s work for The Cause) from Mallomar-induced fever-dream, to “completion” to its undoubted eventual fate as bargain-bin doorstop is probably just as amazed as I am that it has actually reached store shelves and Conservative Book o’ The Month club alternate selection status.

The title alone should give any sane person pause. Anyone with any kind of grasp of world history will understand that the phrase “Liberal fascism” is as laughably oxymoronic as saying, “Germy Sterility” or “Military Intelligence”. Truly, Goldberg has authored the definitive book on the Left’s fascistic tendencies for people who have only known that there’s no “h” in the word “fascist” since, oh, the spring of 2002, when they painstakingly learned to spell the word, “Islamofascist”.

The table of contents provides us with some idea of where Goldbrick is going with his premise, which is that any person he doesn’t like is a secretly lock-stepping Nazi. Check out these chapter titles:

Chapter 2: Adolf Hitler, Man of the Left

Chapter 4: Franklin Roosevelt’s Fascist New Deal

Chapter 5: The 1960’s: Fascism Takes to the Streets

Chapter 9: Brave New Village: Hillary Clinton and the Meaning of Liberal Fascism.

And finally,

Chapter 10: We’re All Fascists Now

So basically, according to Jonah’s (un)thinking, the entirety of 20th century fascism has been a series of movements run by out-of-control hippies.

Of course, you know, he’s right. Have a look at historian Lawrence Britt’s 14 Tenets of Fascism:

  1. Powerful and continuing nationalism.
  2. Disdain for the recognition of human rights.
  3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a unifying cause.
  4. Supremacy of the military.
  5. Rampant sexism.
  6. Controlled mass media.
  7. Obsession with national security.
  8. Religion and government are intertwined.
  9. Corporate power is protected.
  10. Labor power is suppressed.
  11. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts.
  12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
  13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
  14. Fraudulent elections.

What, doesn’t that sound like every Liberal you ever met?

Of course, Dr. Pantload applies none of these rubrics in the pages of his book, preferring to go with the “cooties” route of inductive logic, i.e., 1. Girls have cooties. 2. Kathryn Jean Lopez is a girl. Ergo: 3. Kathryn Jean Lopez has cooties.

For example, from p. 19:

jonah quote

Are you with him? Some Nazis were big on natural foods. Liberals are into natural foods! Ah-HA!! Liberals are NAZIS!!! ZOMG!!

Apparently, it never entered Dr. Doughy’s head that you could follow the same line of reasoning as follows:

A. Nazis were big on physical fitness.

B. President Bush runs or rides his bike every day.

C. Quod erat demonstrandum, baby. President Bush is a NAZI!!!

But really, we should all applaud the arrival of Goldbrick’s steaming pile of offal pressed between two cardboard covers. It is possible that this moronic dreck could provide the tipping point for Wingnut Publishing, a Perfect Storm of stupid that combines untenable, nearly unreadably bad writing, terrible sales, and general global indifference to demonstrate to publishers that perhaps another Ramesh Ponnuru book isn’t necessarily their best bet for the 2008 calendar, or that maybe Dinesh D’Souza’s upcoming, “Liberals Cause Cancer” could use another year of research and revisions before it’s inflicted on a mostly blameless public.

Yes, perhaps this is where Wingnut Welfare creates its own event horizon, where the Power of Suck begins to suck itself, creating a void so profound that not even light can escape, a metaphysical convergence that devours itself like a snake swallowing its own tail. Or not. Perhaps 2008 will bring us more and more and more books by Kate O’Beirne, Norm and Mini-Norm Podhoretz, and the other do-nothing layabouts who haunt the halls of the National Review.

Which would basically mean scads and scads of new material for me to make fun of. Either way, I win. Hell, we all win.

Thanks, Jonah!

UPDATE: (Via Sadly!) And the (s)hits just keep coming.

  1. 148 Responses to “Non-Event Horizon”

  2. By Betsy on Dec 17, 2007 11:03 pm |

    #1
    ?

  3. By annagranfors on Dec 17, 2007 11:03 pm |

    who was it that came up with “Doughy Pantload”, anyway? still one of my favorites…

  4. By Betsy on Dec 17, 2007 11:04 pm |

    Hi TRex. So, are you a fan of Jonah?? Can’t tell. ;)

  5. By annagranfors on Dec 17, 2007 11:05 pm |

    it smells kinda TBoggian, but something tells me it might’ve even been the longlost MWO. god, I miss them/him/her…

  6. By madmommy on Dec 17, 2007 11:06 pm |

    You do bring the funny! Really, does anyone actually pay list price for this drek?

    Sort of related, what ever happened to that lawsuit from wingnut authors whose publisher figured out their craptastic excretions were unsellable, and so relegated them to the alternate selection or free book category thereby avoiding paying royalties on the full price?

  7. By LoudounLib on Dec 17, 2007 11:07 pm |

    hey TRex, hey everyone — “Doughy Pantload” makes me giggle too ;-)

  8. By TRex on Dec 17, 2007 11:07 pm |

    annagranfors said

    who was it that came up with “Doughy Pantload”, anyway? still one of my favorites…

    Norbizness said it first.

  9. By isit2009yet on Dec 17, 2007 11:14 pm |

    Speaking of oxymorons, Johah could be described as a jumbo shrimp: the porch light’s on, but no ones home.

  10. By SteveAudio on Dec 17, 2007 11:14 pm |

    Jeebus!

    Them’s shore a whole lot of links in that post!

    “I kan has Jonahz Nads 4 dinnerz?”

  11. By TRex on Dec 17, 2007 11:15 pm |

    SteveAudio said

    Jeebus!

    Them’s shore a whole lot of links in that post!

    “I kan has Jonahz Nads 4 dinnerz?”

    I worked very hard on it and made it all by myself.

  12. By SteveAudio on Dec 17, 2007 11:15 pm |

    TRex said

    SteveAudio said

    Jeebus!

    Them’s shore a whole lot of links in that post!

    “I kan has Jonahz Nads 4 dinnerz?”

    I worked very hard on it and made it all by myself.

    “And ye shall know him by his workz”

  13. By isit2009yet on Dec 17, 2007 11:17 pm |

    Hard to believe that those are the actual chapter titles. Jonah should write satire…

  14. By madmommy on Dec 17, 2007 11:18 pm |

    I can’t believe it actually got published. Seems like it’s been discussed for ages!

  15. By isit2009yet on Dec 17, 2007 11:18 pm |

    madmommy said

    I can’t beleive it actually got published. Seems like it’s been discussed for ages!

    It’s not quite out yet…January is the date.

  16. By SteveAudio on Dec 17, 2007 11:19 pm |

    madmommy said

    I can’t beleive it actually got published. Seems like it’s been discussed for ages!

    And isn’t it by Regnery, vanity press for wing-nuts?

  17. By madmommy on Dec 17, 2007 11:20 pm |

    SteveAudio said

    madmommy said

    I can’t beleive it actually got published. Seems like it’s been discussed for ages!

    And isn’t it by Regnery, vanity press for wing-nuts?

    And isn’t it Regnery that is being sued?

  18. By Petedownunder on Dec 17, 2007 11:20 pm |

    It wasn’t released, it escaped.

  19. By isit2009yet on Dec 17, 2007 11:28 pm |

    It’s actually Doubleday…

  20. By Redshift on Dec 17, 2007 11:30 pm |

    OT, but I wouldn’t want any of us DFH’s to miss this gem from Huckabee, ostensibly an argument in favor of his crackpot national sales tax scheme:

    Redshift said

    “Ten thousand (people) a day go into the Social Security system because of the baby boomers,” Huckabee said. “And here’s the best part: Wait until all the aging hippies find out they get free drugs. … Fair tax creates a more stable funding stream than our current system.”

  21. By Mary McCurnin on Dec 17, 2007 11:32 pm |

    isit2009yet said

    Hard to believe that those are the actual chapter titles. Jonah should write satire…

    Repugs have no sense of satire, humor, irony, taste, style, self, justice, place, play,
    obligation, decency, direction, smell, scale, etc.

  22. By Betsy on Dec 17, 2007 11:32 pm |

    Redshift said

    OT, but I wouldn’t want any of us DFH’s to miss this gem from Huckabee, ostensibly an argument in favor of his crackpot national sales tax scheme:

    Betsy said

    “Ten thousand (people) a day go into the Social Security system because of the baby boomers,” Huckabee said. “And here’s the best part: Wait until all the aging hippies find out they get free drugs. … Fair tax creates a more stable funding stream than our current system.”

    He doesn’t want the AARP or the baby boomer vote?

  23. By LoudounLib on Dec 17, 2007 11:34 pm |

    Redshift said

    OT, but I wouldn’t want any of us DFH’s to miss this gem from Huckabee, ostensibly an argument in favor of his crackpot national sales tax scheme:

    LoudounLib said

    “Ten thousand (people) a day go into the Social Security system because of the baby boomers,” Huckabee said. “And here’s the best part: Wait until all the aging hippies find out they get free drugs. … Fair tax creates a more stable funding stream than our current system.”

    Good gawd Hucklebee, surely you can do better than that! Oh wait…maybe not.

  24. By madmommy on Dec 17, 2007 11:34 pm |

    Betsy said

    Redshift said

    OT, but I wouldn’t want any of us DFH’s to miss this gem from Huckabee, ostensibly an argument in favor of his crackpot national sales tax scheme:

    madmommy said

    “Ten thousand (people) a day go into the Social Security system because of the baby boomers,” Huckabee said. “And here’s the best part: Wait until all the aging hippies find out they get free drugs. … Fair tax creates a more stable funding stream than our current system.”

    He doesn’t want the AARP or the baby boomer vote?

    Nobody ever siad the Huckster was the sharpest knife in the drawer ;0)

  25. By Redshift on Dec 17, 2007 11:37 pm |

    Betsy said

    He doesn’t want the AARP or the baby boomer vote?

    Yeah, I heard it on the radio and thought “did he really just label the entire baby boom generation ‘aging hippies’?” That’s why I just had to search for the quote when I got home.

  26. By jo6pac on Dec 17, 2007 11:37 pm |

    As an Old Hippie I’ve sure done a lot of damage.
    I don’t remember a thing, Oh that’s a GOP thing.
    Oh well if have to blame someone it might as well be me.
    jo6pac

  27. By isit2009yet on Dec 17, 2007 11:37 pm |

    madmommy said

    Betsy said

    Redshift said

    OT, but I wouldn’t want any of us DFH’s to miss this gem from Huckabee, ostensibly an argument in favor of his crackpot national sales tax scheme:

    isit2009yet said

    “Ten thousand (people) a day go into the Social Security system because of the baby boomers,” Huckabee said. “And here’s the best part: Wait until all the aging hippies find out they get free drugs. … Fair tax creates a more stable funding stream than our current system.”

    He doesn’t want the AARP or the baby boomer vote?

    Nobody ever siad the Huckster was the sharpest knife in the drawer ;0)

    Damn! I’m on Social Security disability…
    WHERE ARE MY DRUGS???? I want my drugs!

    What a maroon…

  28. By Mad Dogs on Dec 17, 2007 11:38 pm |

    I’m still trying to figure out how Jonah manages to walk:

    Jonah: Oh boy…ohhhh boy…2 more blocks ’til I get home…ohhhh boy…squeeze those cheeks harder…ohhhh boy…don’t think about beans…1 more block to go…ohhhh boy…aiiiieee…no, no, no…squeeze ‘em…ahhhhh shiiiiiiit!

    Mrs. Goldberg: Why are those dogs following you home again Jonah? And what’s that smell?

  29. By Mary McCurnin on Dec 17, 2007 11:38 pm |

    Wait until all the aging hippies find out they get free drugs. …

    Like we don’t already know.

  30. By madmommy on Dec 17, 2007 11:39 pm |

    Mad Dogs said

    I’m still trying to figure out how Jonah manages to walk:

    Jonah: Oh boy…ohhhh boy…2 more blocks ’til I get home…ohhhh boy…squeeze those cheeks harder…ohhhh boy…don’t think about beans…1 more block to go…ohhhh boy…aiiiieee…no, no, no…squeeze ‘em…ahhhhh shiiiiiiit!

    Mrs. Goldberg: Why are those dogs following you home again Jonah? And what’s that smell?

    707!!

  31. By Mary McCurnin on Dec 17, 2007 11:40 pm |

    If you wait that long for a book to come out it is going to be either very good or VERY BAD.

  32. By isit2009yet on Dec 17, 2007 11:40 pm |

    Mary McCurnin said

    isit2009yet said

    Hard to believe that those are the actual chapter titles. Jonah should write satire…

    Repugs have no sense of satire, humor, irony, taste, style, self, justice, place, play,
    obligation, decency, direction, smell, scale, etc.

    or pulse, for that matter.

  33. By TRex on Dec 17, 2007 11:43 pm |

    He doesn’t want the AARP or the baby boomer vote?

    Them baby boomers is what’s wrong with this country, y’see? They wuz awll hippies an’ went to Woodstock an’ voted for Clinton. They’re all going to be lined up and shot under the Fuckabee regime.

  34. By Persiflage on Dec 17, 2007 11:44 pm |

    isit2009yet said

    madmommy said

    I can’t beleive it actually got published. Seems like it’s been discussed for ages!

    It’s not quite out yet…January is the date.

    So we can still steal Christmas? Yeehaw!
    Sure, I could go back and check but I’m sure you’ll know, wasn’t it DP who wrote a long, confusing piece on melancholy, replete with evidence that Mommy gave him a thesaurus, without once, you know, defining melancholy?

  35. By TRex on Dec 17, 2007 11:45 pm |

    Right now on my radio show, I’m playing the “Scene d’Amour” from “Romeo and Juliet” by Hector Berlioz.

    Somehow it doesn’t sound like a 14 year old girl losing her virginity to me. Of course, where I come from that sounds like this:

    “Daddy, get off me! Yer crushin’ my cigarettes!”

    Do you guys dare me to say that on the radio?

  36. By LoudounLib on Dec 17, 2007 11:45 pm |

    TRex said

    He doesn’t want the AARP or the baby boomer vote?

    Them baby boomers is what’s wrong with this country, y’see? They wuz awll hippies an’ went to Woodstock an’ voted for Clinton. They’re all going to be lined up and shot under the Fuckabee regime.

    Hee hee ;-)

    I’m a boomer, and I would have been to Woodstock — if I’d have been older than 9 at the time!

  37. By Mary McCurnin on Dec 17, 2007 11:45 pm |

    All these years I didn’t realize that the straight dudes in the 60s/70s were just waiting to whack us up side the head. Just for that I am going to stop wearing deoderant.

  38. By LoudounLib on Dec 17, 2007 11:46 pm |

    Oh T — I double dawg dare ya!

  39. By madmommy on Dec 17, 2007 11:46 pm |

    TRex said

    Right now on my radio show, I’m playing the “Scene d’Amour” from “Romeo and Juliet” by Hector Berlioz.

    Somehow it doesn’t sound like a 14 year old girl losing her virginity to me. Of course, where I come from that sounds like this:

    “Daddy, get off me! Yer crushin’ my cigarettes!”

    Do you guys dare me to say that on the radio?

    \
    I triple dog dare you!

  40. By TRex on Dec 17, 2007 11:47 pm |

    Sure, I could go back and check but I’m sure you’ll know, wasn’t it DP who wrote a long, confusing piece on melancholy, replete with evidence that Mommy gave him a thesaurus, without once, you know, defining melancholy?

    No, that was the Marble Douchebag, Tacitus.

    http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/16/late-nite-fdl-you-cant-keep-a-good-ho-down/

  41. By isit2009yet on Dec 17, 2007 11:47 pm |

    TRex said

    He doesn’t want the AARP or the baby boomer vote?

    Them baby boomers is what’s wrong with this country, y’see? They wuz awll hippies an’ went to Woodstock an’ voted for Clinton. They’re all going to be lined up and shot under the Fuckabee regime.

    The article is titled “Huckabee charms Lowcountry Crowd”…yee haw!

  42. By Mary McCurnin on Dec 17, 2007 11:47 pm |

    You are going to get in trouble like Imus.

  43. By madmommy on Dec 17, 2007 11:47 pm |

    Mary McCurnin said

    All these years I didn’t realize that the straight dudes in the 60s/70s were just waiting to whack us up side the head. Just for that I am going to stop wearing deoderant.

    Quit shaving and burn your bra too!!

  44. By TRex on Dec 17, 2007 11:48 pm |

    The article is titled “Huckabee charms Lowcountry Crowd”…yee haw!

    He is, as they say, proficient in Simpleton Speak.

  45. By msmolly on Dec 17, 2007 11:49 pm |

    TRex said

    Right now on my radio show, I’m playing the “Scene d’Amour” from “Romeo and Juliet” by Hector Berlioz.

    Somehow it doesn’t sound like a 14 year old girl losing her virginity to me. Of course, where I come from that sounds like this:

    “Daddy, get off me! Yer crushin’ my cigarettes!”

    Do you guys dare me to say that on the radio?

    I dare ya, TRex. I am listening…

  46. By Persiflage on Dec 17, 2007 11:50 pm |

    TRex said

    Sure, I could go back and check but I’m sure you’ll know, wasn’t it DP who wrote a long, confusing piece on melancholy, replete with evidence that Mommy gave him a thesaurus, without once, you know, defining melancholy?

    No, that was the Marble Douchebag, Tacitus.

    http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/16/late-nite-fdl-you-cant-keep-a-good-ho-down/

    See, I knew you’d know. Melancholy would be far too liberal for Jonah.

  47. By TRex on Dec 17, 2007 11:51 pm |

    I dare ya, TRex. I am listening…

    Shit, that’s all I need right now, to lose BOTH my jobs in under a month.

  48. By madmommy on Dec 17, 2007 11:52 pm |

    msmolly said

    TRex said

    Right now on my radio show, I’m playing the “Scene d’Amour” from “Romeo and Juliet” by Hector Berlioz.

    Somehow it doesn’t sound like a 14 year old girl losing her virginity to me. Of course, where I come from that sounds like this:

    “Daddy, get off me! Yer crushin’ my cigarettes!”

    Do you guys dare me to say that on the radio?

    I dare ya, TRex. I am listening…

    He has been dared, double dared and triple dog dared. The gauntlet has been thrown down. Of course, if he gets fired, he might come and crash on one of our couches. I don’t know if mine can support a 60 foot therapod, though the kids would be thrilled!

  49. By isit2009yet on Dec 17, 2007 11:53 pm |

    I just looked up DPs book on Amazon…ostensibly it’s 496 pages.
    How on earth can someone barely proficient in English, and not at all proficient in logic manage to fill 496 pages? Did he include his kindergarten drawings??

  50. By DrDick on Dec 17, 2007 11:54 pm |

    Evening all. From what I have seen, this is a work of such cataclysmic stupidity as to constitute an imminent public health threat. I urge all local public health agencies to immediately pull this book from the shelves before its very existence produces irreparable brain damage in the more vulnerable portions of the population.

    P.S. - Kay-Lo DOES have cooties.

  51. By msmolly on Dec 17, 2007 11:54 pm |

    Actually, I like this piece. Not familiar with it.

  52. By SteveAudio on Dec 17, 2007 11:54 pm |

    TRex:

    “Lakme”: Delibes

  53. By madmommy on Dec 17, 2007 11:56 pm |

    isit2009yet said

    I just looked up DPs book on Amazon…ostensibly it’s 496 pages.
    How on earth can someone barely proficient in English, and not at all proficient in logic manage to fill 496 pages? Did he include his kindergarten drawings??

    Big type, double spaced, chapter titles all alone on a page, there’s all kinds of ways to stretch a page count. Bet it includes acknowledgements, table of contents and bibliography.

  54. By TRex on Dec 17, 2007 11:56 pm |

    SteveAudio said

    TRex:

    “Lakme”: Delibes

    What did you just tell me to do?

    Okay, okay, piano transcription of Lakme for end of show bumper music, coming up!

  55. By LoudounLib on Dec 17, 2007 11:58 pm |

    T, I really loved that Chopin you played during the first half.

  56. By msmolly on Dec 17, 2007 11:58 pm |

    Hey, this is cool — long distance requests!

    Edit: never knew what this was, although it is so familiar. Lakme?

    OH, opera. Got it.

  57. By DrDick on Dec 17, 2007 11:59 pm |

    TRex said

    He doesn’t want the AARP or the baby boomer vote?

    Them baby boomers is what’s wrong with this country, y’see? They wuz awll hippies an’ went to Woodstock an’ voted for Clinton. They’re all going to be lined up and shot under the Fuckabee regime.

    Except for the small fact that the Huckster is one of us Boomers his own sorry ass self. Jerkwad.

  58. By madmommy on Dec 18, 2007 12:01 am |

    TRex said

    SteveAudio said

    TRex:

    “Lakme”: Delibes

    What did you just tell me to do?

    Okay, okay, piano transcription of Lakme for end of show bumper music, coming up!

    You could also try “Boogie Bumper” by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, but that might put your employment in jeopardy.

  59. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 12:01 am |

    Hi DrD! (multi-tasking here, as usual)

  60. By DrDick on Dec 18, 2007 12:03 am |

    Hey LL. You the queen of multitasking, I think.

  61. By Persiflage on Dec 18, 2007 12:04 am |

    Am I alone in expecting one or two references in that slather of allegations in that paragraph from this alleged book?

  62. By TRex on Dec 18, 2007 12:04 am |

    LoudounLib said

    T, I really loved that Chopin you played during the first half.

    That was the Pollonaise-Fantasie in A-flat, performed by John Kane, from the album, “Homemade Chopin”.

  63. By madmommy on Dec 18, 2007 12:04 am |

    Just a reminder, cookies in the kitchen, freshly baked, and milk in the fridge. Help yourselves!

  64. By isit2009yet on Dec 18, 2007 12:04 am |

    DrDick said

    TRex said

    He doesn’t want the AARP or the baby boomer vote?

    Them baby boomers is what’s wrong with this country, y’see? They wuz awll hippies an’ went to Woodstock an’ voted for Clinton. They’re all going to be lined up and shot under the Fuckabee regime.

    Except for the small fact that the Huckster is one of us Boomers his own sorry ass self. Jerkwad.

    That, and the fact that his son lynches dogs…
    He really is a sorry ass fool.

  65. By TRex on Dec 18, 2007 12:05 am |

    Persiflage said

    Am I alone in expecting one or two references in that slather of allegations in that paragraph from this alleged book?

    Jonah don’t need no steenkin’ footnotes. If Ann Coulter can fudge the footnotes, so can Our Pantload.

  66. By TRex on Dec 18, 2007 12:05 am |

    Heading home.

    See you kids in a bit.

  67. By DrDick on Dec 18, 2007 12:06 am |

    Persiflage said

    Am I alone in expecting one or two references in that slather of allegations in that paragraph from this alleged book?

    Yes.
    References would require that Pantload actually read you know books and stuff and we all know he is too lazy and ignorant to do that.

  68. By SteveAudio on Dec 18, 2007 12:08 am |

    TRex said

    SteveAudio said

    TRex:

    “Lakme”: Delibes

    What did you just tell me to do?

    Okay, okay, piano transcription of Lakme for end of show bumper music, coming up!

    The so-called “love theme” sung by the princess & her servant is the best part, and really needs those soprano vocals.

    That said, what you have on now pretty fuckin’ rocks! (In the way good choral work should)

  69. By Betsy on Dec 18, 2007 12:10 am |

    http://texbetsy.headonradionetwork.com/2007/12/17/deported/

    A month ago, Christopher and Christine Norwood went overnight from having two teenage sons under their roof to having eight children after her friend, Esperanza Ceballos, was arrested, jailed and deported to Mexico.

  70. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 12:11 am |

    Have a good ride home, T.

  71. By newdealfarmgrrrlll on Dec 18, 2007 12:11 am |

    just looked up the hukster’s birth chart, omfg, he’s a Virgo! I am too, but i tell ya, Virgos don’t do too well as Prez. Example: LBJ. Virgos are vice-pres material. hmmmm, VICE prez? He’s a boomer (aug 24 1955) so he’s saying he’s looking forward to free drugs? Tired of what kinda payments for drugs he has to make now? And what kind of drugs, i ask, Mr Huckabee? When did you stop doing crystal meth?

  72. By isit2009yet on Dec 18, 2007 12:12 am |

    Betsy said

    http://texbetsy.headonradionetwork.com/2007/12/17/deported/

    A month ago, Christopher and Christine Norwood went overnight from having two teenage sons under their roof to having eight children after her friend, Esperanza Ceballos, was arrested, jailed and deported to Mexico.

    Compassionate Conservatism…

  73. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 12:14 am |

    DrDick said

    Hey LL. You the queen of multitasking, I think.

    Heh, thanks — you’re right, it’s sort of like juggling. When I’m on the job, I’m juggling upwards of 500+ firefighters and 125+ pieces of fire apparatus at any one time. I coulda been a contendah on the Ed Sullivan show.

  74. By Persiflage on Dec 18, 2007 12:16 am |

    TRex said

    Persiflage said

    Am I alone in expecting one or two references in that slather of allegations in that paragraph from this alleged book?

    Jonah don’t need no steenkin’ footnotes. If Ann Coulter can fudge the footnotes, so can Our Pantload.

    Obviously I’ve been reading too many liberal fascists. They have an evil tendency to try to fool you into believing them by (bastards!) actually referring to facts. Evil fuckers.

  75. By madmommy on Dec 18, 2007 12:17 am |

    Fading fast down here on the bayou. Good night all!

  76. By prostratedragon on Dec 18, 2007 12:17 am |

    Except for the small fact that the Huckster is one of us Boomers his own sorry ass self. Jerkwad.

    See what happens when you bandy words without thinking about/knowing what they mean?

    On a related front, JMM has a tale of a dubious-sounding kind of guy at Princeton. Maybe time to revisit our notions of what people might be capable of?

  77. By DrDick on Dec 18, 2007 12:18 am |

    Night MM.

  78. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 12:18 am |

    g’night MM, sweet dreams :-)

  79. By Persiflage on Dec 18, 2007 12:20 am |

    Jesus farking Christ on a tricycle! From an Aussie e-zine comes this tale of the wonderful warm welcome awaiting travellers to New York. Sorry it’s so long but I can’t link because subscription is required :

    REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Iceland’s government has asked the U.S. ambassador to explain the treatment of an Icelandic tourist who says she was held in shackles before being deported from the United States.The woman, Erla Osk Arnardottir Lillendahl, 33, was arrested Sunday when she arrived at JFK airport in New York because she had overstayed a U.S. visa more than 10 years earlier.Lillendahl, 33, had planned to shop and sightsee with friends, but endured instead what she has claimed was the most humiliating experience of her life.

    This is how Erla saw events unfold:

    During the last twenty-four hours I have probably experienced the greatest humiliation to which I have ever been subjected. During these last twenty-four hours I have been handcuffed and chained, denied the chance to sleep, been without food and drink and been confined to a place without anyone knowing my whereabouts, imprisoned. Now I am beginning to try to understand all this, rest and review the events which began as innocently as possible.

    Last Sunday, I and a few other girls began our trip to New York. We were going to shop and enjoy the Christmas spirit. We made ourselves comfortable on first class, drank white wine and looked forward to go shopping, eat good food and enjoy life. When we landed at JFK airport the traditional clearance process began. We were screened and went on to passport control. As I waited for them to finish examining my passport I heard an official say that there was something which needed to be looked at more closely and I was directed to the work station of Homeland Security. There I was told that according to their records I had overstayed my visa by 3 weeks in 1995. For this reason I would not be admitted to the country and would be sent home on the next flight. I looked at the official in disbelief and told him that I had in fact visited New York after the trip in 1995 without encountering any difficulties. A detailed interrogation session ensued. I was photographed and fingerprinted. I was asked questions which I felt had nothing to do with the issue at hand. I was forbidden to contact anyone to advise of my predicament and although I was invited at the outset to contact the Icelandic consul or embassy, that invitation was later withdrawn. I don’t know why.

  80. By isit2009yet on Dec 18, 2007 12:21 am |

    madmommy said

    Fading fast down here on the bayou. Good night all!

    Goodnight!

  81. By darkblack on Dec 18, 2007 12:21 am |

    The logical fallacies just write themselves with this penurious wad of fact-free phuque, don’t they?

    ;>)

  82. By Betsy on Dec 18, 2007 12:21 am |

    Persi, I wish that was a surprise. We are in such a fascist state!

  83. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 12:23 am |

    I’m with Betsy — that is unbelievable, but sadly it’s no surprise :-(

  84. By DrDick on Dec 18, 2007 12:24 am |

    darkblack said

    The logical fallacies just write themselves with this penurious wad of fact-free phuque, don’t they?

    ;>)

    And that is putting it mildly. I fear I just do not have the suitable vocabulary to adequately describe how bad and stupid and inane this whole thing is. should have been a postmodernist instead of a marxist.

  85. By isit2009yet on Dec 18, 2007 12:25 am |

    Persi, sometimes I’m really ashamed to be an American. We’re really not all that way, you DO know that, don’t you????

  86. By Persiflage on Dec 18, 2007 12:26 am |

    Betsy, LL - I don’t know why it surprised me. I wonder if her friends stayed in New York or went home too.

  87. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 12:29 am |

    isit2009yet said

    Persi, sometimes I’m really ashamed to be an American. We’re really not all that way, you DO know that, don’t you????

    Earlier tonight I was talking on the phone with my friend in the UK, and that subject came up. He assured me that it’s not Americans that are disliked — it’s the current regime. But still…

  88. By isit2009yet on Dec 18, 2007 12:31 am |

    LoudounLib said

    isit2009yet said

    Persi, sometimes I’m really ashamed to be an American. We’re really not all that way, you DO know that, don’t you????

    Earlier tonight I was talking on the phone with my friend in the UK, and that subject came up. He assured me that it’s not Americans that are disliked — it’s the current regime. But still…

    I think that the rest of the world gave us a pass after 2000, figuring we didn’t know what we were getting with Bush, and then we had the sympathy of the world after 9/11. Once Bush was re-elected, though, a lot of that sympathy began to fade. I can’t blame them.

  89. By Persiflage on Dec 18, 2007 12:33 am |

    isit2009yet said

    Persi, sometimes I’m really ashamed to be an American. We’re really not all that way, you DO know that, don’t you????

    Of course I do! I was sharing my shock as a friend, not trying to make you guys feel bad about your country. I mean, she HAD broken the rules back in 1995, they had a perfect right to say “nope, we don’t trust you to leave on time because you haven’t in the past”. It was the shackles and isolation that stunned me.

  90. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 12:34 am |

    isit2009yet — exactly. The rest of the world must be thinking “wtf?!” about us as a whole.

  91. By isit2009yet on Dec 18, 2007 12:35 am |

    Persiflage said

    isit2009yet said

    Persi, sometimes I’m really ashamed to be an American. We’re really not all that way, you DO know that, don’t you????

    Of course I do! I was sharing my shock as a friend, not trying to make you guys feel bad about your country. I mean, she HAD broken the rules back in 1995, they had a perfect right to say “nope, we don’t trust you to leave on time because you haven’t in the past”. It was the shackles and isolation that stunned me.

    And Jonah Goldberg is going to say that liberals are fascists. Down the rabbit hole again…

  92. By isit2009yet on Dec 18, 2007 12:36 am |

    LoudounLib said

    isit2009yet — exactly. The rest of the world must be thinking “wtf?!” about us as a whole.

    I think that a lot…

  93. By SusanD on Dec 18, 2007 12:37 am |

    Frankly nothing this regime does surprises me anymore. And it is a regime, not an administration. Every time I watch Keith Olberman I smile and cringe at the same time. I keep waiting for them to take him away.

  94. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 12:38 am |

    SusanD said

    Frankly nothing this regime does surprises me anymore. And it is a regime, not an administration. Every time I watch Keith Olberman I smile and cringe at the same time. I keep waiting for them to take him away.

    They’ll take away KO when they pry him away from my cold dead fingers ;-)

  95. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 12:45 am |

    I’m sorry that KO wasn’t there tonight, of all nights, after Dodd exhibited his leadership. Would have been great to hear Keith’s take.

  96. By Persiflage on Dec 18, 2007 12:47 am |

    isit2009yet said

    I think that the rest of the world gave us a pass after 2000, figuring we didn’t know what we were getting with Bush, and then we had the sympathy of the world after 9/11. Once Bush was re-elected, though, a lot of that sympathy began to fade. I can’t blame them.

    OK, I do not represent the rest of the world but here was my take.
    Bush - holy shit, 300 plus million people and THIS is the best they can come up with? If Clinton hadn’t been such a horny bastard, this mightn’t have happened.

    9/11 - OK, I don’t know how to break this to you but remember all that “we’re all Americans now” sympathetic stuff? You thought it was because we felt bad for you and we did BUT we all felt it so deeply because we all have people living in New York. We all had people who died too. Not that you’d know it now. If I hear Bush say “they killed 3,000 of citizens” one more time, you’ll be able to hear me scream. “They” killed a very distant cousin of mine from Adelaide. I don’t believe he was ever a US citizen.

  97. By Redshift on Dec 18, 2007 12:48 am |

    DrDick said

    References would require that Pantload actually read you know books and stuff and we all know he is too lazy and ignorant to do that.

    Nah, he’d just ask readers with no known qualifications to do it for him (again.)

  98. By SusanD on Dec 18, 2007 12:50 am |

    I’m sure KO’s observations would have been pointed. Especially as both he and his guests have been quite open in talking about the “wuss” factor displayed by Reid, Pelosi and the gang. Dodd showed ‘em how to do it right.

  99. By SusanD on Dec 18, 2007 12:52 am |

    Persi, that is something that has stuck with me too. Every time I hear something about “The 3000″. I know that many countries were represented in that number.

  100. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 12:52 am |

    Persi, spot on.

  101. By isit2009yet on Dec 18, 2007 12:53 am |

    LoudounLib said

    SusanD said

    Frankly nothing this regime does surprises me anymore. And it is a regime, not an administration. Every time I watch Keith Olberman I smile and cringe at the same time. I keep waiting for them to take him away.

    They’ll take away KO when they pry him away from my cold dead fingers ;-)

    I am SO with you on that!

  102. By Tengrain on Dec 18, 2007 12:54 am |

    I can almost smell the Little Sharpie ink right now as they remainder this tome.

    Regards,

    Tengrain

  103. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 12:55 am |

    isit2009yet — kindred spirits! ;-)

  104. By Persiflage on Dec 18, 2007 12:58 am |

    SusanD, thanks, I was afraid I might offend people and I really don’t want to do that, just give an outside perspective. I know that here, the first reactions of lots of people to 9/11 was “Oh God, isn’t cousin Beryl’s daughter on holiday in New York?”

  105. By isit2009yet on Dec 18, 2007 1:01 am |

    SusanD said

    Persi, that is something that has stuck with me too. Every time I hear something about “The 3000″. I know that many countries were represented in that number.

    Every damned Repug candidate, I think, has referred to the “3000 Americans” that died on 9/11. Have any of them EVER been to NYC?
    St. Rudy might be the only one who hasn’t referred to the victims that way…

  106. By LoudounLib on Dec 18, 2007 1:02 am |

    Persi, definitely no offense taken whatsoever.

  107. By Persiflage on Dec 18, 2007 1:02 am |

    Well I give credit to watertiger. She calls the victims of 9/11 “citizens of the world”

  108. By TRex on Dec 18, 2007 1:04 am |

    Fresh post:

    http://www.iamtrex.com/?p=91

  109. By isit2009yet on Dec 18, 2007 1:04 am |

    LoudounLib said

    isit2009yet — kindred spirits! ;-)

    Absolutely!

  110. By Persiflage on Dec 18, 2007 1:05 am |

    St. Rudy might be the only one who hasn’t referred to the victims that way…
    —————
    I’ll take your word for it isit2009yet, I don’t plan on listening to any more Rudy than is absolutely inescapable.

  111. By DrDick on Dec 18, 2007 1:07 am |

    Think I will toddle off to bed. Take care and enjoy the snark.

  112. By SusanD on Dec 18, 2007 1:08 am |

    The whole “3000 Americans” thing is consistent with the R’s attitude though. It’s as if they believe life is only important for “Americans”. They don’t even bother to keep account of the numbers of people they have killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. “They don’t count” takes on a new and sinister meaning with this bunch of foaming-at-the-mouth nationalistic warmongers.

  113. By Persiflage on Dec 18, 2007 2:14 am |

    SusanD. I agree that for Repubs furriners don’t count. Funny though, a front-page post at another website of a leftist nature today advised us that the Afghanistan war has been going for 6 years, twice as long as WW2. Ahem.

  114. By "Fair and Balanced" Dave on Dec 18, 2007 11:49 am |

    I’m a boomer, and I would have been to Woodstock — if I’d have been older than 9 at the time!

    Well I was 11 at the time and I couldn’t go either (Mom and Dad were, like, so unfair!!!)

    :-(

  115. By dosido on Dec 18, 2007 2:09 pm |

    Hey ya TRex,

    can’t wait for this guy to start crying when his book is given away for free to book clubs and then remaindered.

    I’m sorry you put yourself through this. No wonder your dino friends are extinct!

  116. By looseheadprop on Dec 18, 2007 2:46 pm |

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    This was brilliant. Thank you. I enjoyed so much.

  117. By Cynic on Dec 18, 2007 9:26 pm |

    Trex:
    Well, here I am. Another loyal fan. Another bookmark…..another must read before I start a day. More power to ya.

    Cynic

  118. By BCPipes on Dec 18, 2007 10:04 pm |

    “Liberal Fascism”, by Jonah Goldberg, comming by the pallete-load to a recycling center near you.

  119. By myboysherman on Dec 18, 2007 10:19 pm |

    The post includes a glaring error. The cooties argument is not analogous to the Goldberg argument.

    1.Girls have cooties.
    2. Kathryn Jean Lopez is a girl.
    3. Kathryn Jean Lopez has cooties.

    The above happens to be valid (unlike Goldberg’s argument):
    If A then B
    A
    Therefore B

    On the other hand,
    “Nazis were big on natural foods. Liberals are into natural foods! (therefore liberals are Nazis)”

    That’s invalid (but it is analogous to Goldberg’s argument):
    If A then B
    B
    Therefore A

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent

  120. By JWSwift on Dec 18, 2007 10:37 pm |

    isit2009yet said

    Mary McCurnin said

    isit2009yet said

    Hard to believe that those are the actual chapter titles. Jonah should write satire…

    Repugs have no sense of satire, humor, irony, taste, style, self, justice, place, play,
    obligation, decency, direction, smell, scale, etc.

    or pulse, for that matter.

    Yeah, you’d need a heart for that!

  121. By Jack Coleman on Dec 18, 2007 10:47 pm |

    Do you allow conservatives to comment here, or are you censorious weenies like the crew at Crooks & Liars?

  122. By What would Zeus do? on Dec 18, 2007 11:01 pm |

    JWSwift said

    isit2009yet said

    Mary McCurnin said

    isit2009yet said

    Hard to believe that those are the actual chapter titles. Jonah should write satire…

    Repugs have no sense of satire, humor, irony, taste, style, self, justice, place, play,
    obligation, decency, direction, smell, scale, etc.

    or pulse, for that matter.

    Yeah, you’d need a heart for that!

    And a bit more than a half a wit.

  123. By Jack Coleman on Dec 19, 2007 4:00 pm |

    Good for you, my hat’s off to you!

  124. By montag on Dec 21, 2007 2:04 am |

    Shorter Jonah: “Ha-Ha-Ha!!! You’re rubber and I’m glue!!!

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