JONAH GOLDBERG, BOTTOM FEEDER
Send him a one-way ticket to Soviet Canuckistan
The absolute evil of what passes for today's conservative movement may not shock my more liberal readers, but those of us on the Right who were brought up in a more salubrious time remember when things were quite different. Believe it or not, conservatives didn't always resort to smears instead of arguments – indeed, they were the most frequent recipients of smears (let the shade of Barry Goldwater testify on my behalf!). As a tiny minority during the 1950s and 60s, the organized right-wing in America was an ideologically diverse and intellectually exciting crowd – a far cry from the lockstep party-lining one-dimensional movement of war-bots we see today.
Yes, I'm so old that I can remember when National Review was interesting. How I looked forward to its bi-weekly appearance at our well-stocked high school library. Frank S. Meyer! Russell Kirk! A non-senile William F. Buckley, Jr.! What more could a teen-aged right-winger want? Some 35 years later, their places have been usurped by Jonah Goldberg, Ramesh Ponnuru, and, worst of all, the faux-Kirkean pseudo-classicist "gentleman farmer," Victor Davis Hanson. Not to mention the living ghost of WFB, who must surely howl on certain nights at the sight of his Lilliputian epigones, lightweights all.
That Jonah Goldberg's facile punditry masks a truly nasty nature seems beyond dispute: after all, here is someone who made his reputation, such as it is, retailing sex tapes surreptitiously recorded, "leaking" a trail of slime that eventually slipped up a President. A more fitting symbol of the Clinton era conservative movement – a gaggle of remarkably unattractive character assassins, bereft of ideas and fixated on filth – would be hard to imagine. Now, in his syndicated column, the little twerp takes out after Pat Buchanan for his now famous remark about "Soviet Canuckistan" – but not directly. Instead, Goldberg hisses:
"I make reference to Buchanan's remark solely because I am positive 99 percent of you didn't know he said it. Pat made the comment on the unwatched program Buchanan and Press on America's Most unwatched network, MSNBC."
Except this turns out to be not quite true. Goldberg admits "a quick Nexis search reveals that Buchanan's remark has been mentioned or discussed in over 100 newspaper articles." Gee, it looks like somebody is watching, even if it's only a bunch of Canadians. But the whole point of Goldberg's little riff is to not only repeat the litany of canards flung by our touchy northern neighbors, but to relay the news that:
"Some Canadian newspapers tried to link the phrase 'Soviet Canuckistan' to a website run by a racist and Holocaust-denier."
Goldberg regularly freeloads off his "blogger" friends, cadging material without acknowledgement, and in this case he's stealing from one Damien Penny, a Canadian whose "blog" is a compendium of reasons to hate Arabs and love Israel. Penny references this piece in the Canadian Press, in which one Nancy Carr avers:
"His reference to Canada as a 'Soviet Canuckistan' apparently has some sinister origins. It's a term frequently used by American Holocaust-denier Eric Thomson on his Web site thirdworldplanet.com, a virulently racist and anti-Semitic site."
What's sinister is this ridiculous smear, which Goldberg passes along as if it were credible. Actually, the term "Canuckistan" has been used by the Quebec nationalists as a term of contempt for the unitary state of Canada, as well as by American right-wingers – not to mention alternative music reviewers, stock traders, lovers of absinthe, traders in silver, and self-described "geek-chicks," all before Buchanan's dust-up with our neighbors to the north.
Google can be dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands. But in the right hands, it can be used to show that first dibs on "Soviet Canuckistan" must go, not to some obscure neo-Nazi, but to the dreadlocked 23-year-old "Tar/Giant" on FaceTheJury.com – a personal "chat room" and meat market – whose user profile (dated January 29, 2001) gives his location as "Soviet Canuckistan," and his sexual orientation as "heterosexual." Under "About Me," Tar/Giant writes:
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Jonah Goldberg, Bottom Feeder, by Justin Raimondo
So apparently this Goldberg is a plagiarizing POS as well as a inbred fucking idiot who even the right can't stand. Good role model for the fucktwits out there. I'm sure they love him! 