Jonah Goldberg attacks the Congressional Black Caucus -LAT

[Rose Siding]

This pile just defies a clean snip. Steaming heaps everywhere you look:

*Getting a free ride. check
*They're the bigots. check
*Mentioned communism? check
*Questioned morals? check

What's the actual policy beef? Choice and equal rights and vouchers. Does disagreement on those policy issues really warrant this level of invective: Immoral freeloading bigots with communistic overtones?

See if you can find the straw man in this selection of excerpts-

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The caucus lives in a fantasy in which it is the "conscience of the Congress." Immune to the sort of scrutiny that many other groups receive, it has benefited from the soft bigotry of low expectations for decades.
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Why pick on the blacks in Congress? Because they represent black leadership in America, and it has been on their watch that black America has descended into such a mess.
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There's a lot of Marxist-infused nonsense about how economics are at the root of black America's problems. But this doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Of course poverty makes social pathologies worse, but it's the pathologies that cause poverty in the first place.
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The Congressional Black Caucus and its sundry enablers are the intellectual heirs of Moynihan's critics. Indeed, many of them are the same people. Given the state of black America, their priorities often seem otherworldly: giving felons the vote and pushing for slavery reparations.

Obviously, black America's problems are larger than the black caucus. But the caucus has failed to provide the morally serious leadership — leadership that builds on the historic social conservatism and self-reliance of African Americans — that is sorely needed.

Sorry Brady, LA saw him first.

[Cleita]

1. The LA Times has been infiltrated by the PNAC. Don't read it.

Although Jonah Goldberg isn't a card carrying member, Max Boot is and he seems to be setting the tone of the editorial page.

[Rose Siding]

4. The news reporters do good work

They're carrying the investigative pieces on the Pentagon's EPA scandal now and the protest coverage has been very fair.

But you're right about the Eds. I just happened across this blatant and nasty piece. These sleezoids are infiltrating the press with code talk and bigotry.

[maveric]

2. I'd really love to slap the shit out of Jonah Goldberg!

What a fucking moron!

[Jade Fox]

19. I'd like to slap him with an enlistment form.....nt

[muntrv]

3. Not slavery. Not Jim Crow laws.

It's the current black leaders who are putting blacks in their current state. REEEEEEETAAAAAARRRDDD!!!!!!!

[Rose Siding]

5. Winner!

Stated as a given and he's off and running.

First prize: :loveya:

[gratuitous]

6. Gee Jonah, maybe you should run for office

Then you could tell the CBC off right to their face!

{Giggle}

Jonah Goldberg, run for office.

{Tee hee}

Goldberg, actually enter the arena instead of shooting the wounded when the smoke clears.

{Chortle, chortle, guffaw}

Goldberg, actually face his accused.

:rofl:

I crack myself up.

[Critters2]

7. Jonah Goldberg should STFU, and enlist!

He's of age, and seems in good health. Could lose a few pounds, but that's what basic is for!

[a kennedy]

8. I've just started listening to "the power" radio station.....it's all

African American radio ..... I love it. Gives me such a different perspective on EVERYTHING!! It's on XM 169, two clicks up from Air America Radio.

[cantstandbush]

9. Black leadership in America has virtually no "watch."

It's not a "watch" when you have little or no real power and must depend on others to ensure you rights that are provided by the law of the land but are not enforced on your behalf. A "watch" is what Bush and the Republicans have because they control, enforce,and make new laws to benefit themselves.

[EFerrari]

10. He attacks the CBC because they are the strongest voices

for democracy in the whole country.

Badge of honor, really.

[oasis]

11. Did Jonah's momma play a role in the recent harrassment of Rep. McKinney?

Inquiring minds want to know. Lucianne is a trouble maker and manipulator(see: Linda Tripp).

She and Jonah could be coordinating a media blitz to discredit the black caucus in advance of the upcoming 2007 impeachment proceedings.

[muntrv]

12. Hey Jonah Candyass!!

Why don't you go join the Army so that you can shoot half as well as those "whiny and weak" mounties you have on the cover of that birdcage liner?

[AX10]

13. "Die Nazional Reviewen" is going to attack the strongest...

critics of Bush. That is the reason for this assault!

[Catherine Vincent]

14. He can't help who he is.

Look who is his mother!

[Name removed]

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[mitchum]

18. Yep, she spews vile things out of both ends

[Vidar]

16. The CBC ( plus Boxer & Feingold) are our very best.

[mitchum]

17. Fuck that pissy little mama's boy

[Montagnard]

20. Wish the Brothers would attack that little shit

He needs a good asswhuppen

[journalist3072]

21. Excuse me while I purge now

His rhetoric makes me physically ill.

How much more disgusting can you get?