LOL "His essay reads like a long, fevered, Democratic Undergound post."

[Hissyspit]

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjI0MGZiMzQ3NGI2MjgwZGUzYzc3NGZkMTNhNWIwMjY=

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

LF and the Historians (and the "Historians")   Jonah Goldberg

Over at the History News Network a few serious historians and a few pretend ones launched a bizarre and at times delusionally paranoid attack on my book — two years after it came out (Thanks to Michael Ledeen for being a voice of sanity, by the way). I'm not surprised by the absurdities and insults from someone like David Neiwert, but I was really shocked at how completely unhinged Roger Griffin is. He's a serious scholar of fascism. His essay reads like a long, fevered, Democratic Undergound post. Personally, I found some of it hilarious. I would like it if in the future all of you could call me "Journalist Goldberg."

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Of course I'm biased, but I think the wild, nasty overreactions — I'm like Holocaust denier David Irving and LF is like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion — says a lot more about my attackers than it does about me or  my book. I also think that I have the better argument in rebuttal. But again, I'm biased. Judge for yourself. My response is here and you can find the links to everyone else there as well. My apologies for making it so long. But as long as it is, I had to let all sorts of nonsense go unrebutted just to keep it readable.

Note: LF is "Liberal Fascism"

[annabanana]

1. My my. .Aren't Doughy Pantload's knickers in a twist....

A lot of fuss over something nobody's going to read anyway.

[Skinner]

2. Love it!

:thumbsup:

[mzteris]

3. Thanks for the plug, Jonah! n/t

[joeybee12]

4. Goldberg can't even spell... He spelled "Jackass Goldberg"...

Journalist Goldberg.

Don't worry, Mommy's Boy, we're more than happy to call you the jackass you are.

[TygrBright]

5. Why Jonah... we didn't know you cared! n/t

[EFerrari]

6. Yeah, baby! That's awesome.

:rofl:

[Octafish]

7. Maybe Jonah didn't like this...

The Economics of Fascism

Specifically this part...

Mussolini said Fascism was ''opposite of Liberalism.''

Heh heh. The GOOGLE.

[road2000]

8. How noble.

"I had to let all sorts of nonsense go unrebutted just to keep it readable."

Yeah, right.

[EFerrari]

10. JG couldn't argue his way out of an elevator.

lol

[arcadian]

9. Did he mention me by username?

[mochajava666]

11. Goldberg serves as a good comic relief

I love the term Liberal Facism. It's so Orwellian.

We have always been at war with Eurasia...

[tonysam]

12. Any publicity is good publicity. n/t

[librechik]

13. ACK! now I have to shower! The Doughy Pantload has been here to read our posts!

heh--read em and weep, fascist oinker

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. So an essay by a Professor of Modern History reads like a DU post?

Hey, it's quite a compliment to us. Here's the essay: http://www.hnn.us/articles/122473.html

It's not fevered or unhinged at all. It is, however, totally contemptuous of Goldberg and his book. Griffin is an expert on fascism; Goldberg is obviously deeply hurt that his book is taken apart and dismissed so easily by someone who he'd like to get some respect from.

[Chulanowa]

15. The only people who haven't panned this chicago steamer of a book...

Are people who can't read.

Jonah needs to take a look at the writing on the wall.