Jonah Goldberg, A Daily Show January 16, 2008
I don't consider myself to be capable of writing about early-20th century history, just don't know enough. I try not to go on here about any subject in which I'm not conversant. Goldberg evidently has none of those reservations. It looks to me like somebody wanted another book linking "liberal" to an inflammatory term in the way previous screeds from wingnuttia have done so with "treason" and "terrorism." The resulting book gets pimped with the author going around like some kind of fucking expert. Thanks to Stewart for throwing a bit of a wrench into the works, as shown above.
I'll depend on David Neiwert to address the particulars in Goldberg's horrendous book. He's posted a series of illuminating reviews here, here, and here.
This is the bottom line:
Neiwert: Goldberg, who has no credentials beyond the right-wing nepotism that has enabled his career as a pundit, has drawn a kind of history in absurdly broad and comically wrongheaded strokes. It is not just history done badly, or mere revisionism. It?s a caricature of reality, like something from a comic-book alternative universe: Bizarro history.Go ahead and criticize me for not actually having read Goldberg before posting this. I have a stack of more important things to read.
Posted by The Owl on Jan 17 at 11:17. Filed under: Wingnuttia
