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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:11 PM
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LOL "His essay reads like a long, fevered, Democratic Undergound post."
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"

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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:13 PM
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1. My my. .Aren't Doughy Pantload's knickers in a twist....
A lot of fuss over something nobody's going to read anyway.
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Skinner ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:18 PM
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2. Love it!
:thumbsup:
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:18 PM
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3. Thanks for the plug, Jonah! n/t
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:20 PM
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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.
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TygrBright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:21 PM
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5. Why Jonah... we didn't know you cared! n/t
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:22 PM
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6. Yeah, baby! That's awesome.
:rofl:
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:23 PM
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7. Maybe Jonah didn't like this...
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road2000 Donating Member (995 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:23 PM
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8. How noble.
"I had to let all sorts of nonsense go unrebutted just to keep it readable."

Yeah, right.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:27 PM
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10. JG couldn't argue his way out of an elevator.
lol
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:26 PM
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9. Did he mention me by username?
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mochajava666 Donating Member (771 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:39 PM
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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...

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tonysam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:41 PM
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12. Any publicity is good publicity. n/t
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 02:42 PM
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13. ACK! now I have to shower! The Doughy Pantload has been here to read our posts!
heh--read em and weep, fascist oinker
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 03:29 PM
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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.
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-27-10 03:59 PM
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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.
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