Jonah Goldberg reads DU

[spiritual_gunfighter]

LF and the Historians (and the "Historians")

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."

Robert Paxton, an even more eminent scholar, has a rambling blunderbus of an attack on my book in which the noted scholar gets a lot of facts just plain wrong.

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.

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

[Winterblues]

1. Yayyyyyy..Yipeeeeee

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: who is he anyway...I am supposed to care I guess..:shrug:

[goldcanyonaz]

2. He can thank his success to his mother being friends with Linda Tripp.

[metapunditedgy]

9. Success?

His reputation is manufactured and his followers are just people looking for a virtual world that justifies their craziness.

[Octafish]

3. Maybe he didn't like this...

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

Heh heh.

[closeupready]

4. Many Freepers do.

It was, in fact, a pointer from a freeper that led me here initially. :)

[TexasObserver]

5. His writings all read like a right wing nut with too much Red Bull in him.

Red Bull gives him wings ... only RIGHT wings, of course.

[hlthe2b]

6. I wonder how he likes his "doughy pantsload" moniker

:evilgrin:

[JHB]

7. I'm more inclined to think he only clicks in when one of his pet trolls...

...alerts him to the occasional hornet's nest over here.


Not unexpected he despised Neiwert, who's an actual journalist and not a Wingnut Welfare case, but it's telling that he's "shocked" that Griffin also refutes him.

The one consolation is that Jonah proves Bill Buckley went to hell when he died. For a snob like Buckley every word Jonah speaks or writes is a year's worth of torment.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. Reads DU?

Hell, I'd give odds that he posts here. Gotta wonder about some of the people here.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

11. Good point n/t

[tonysam]

10. I think he is talking about one prolific poster

who shall remain nameless.