God Help Us

From USA News and World Report, via Crooks and Liars:

In the eight weeks since Barack Obama was elected president, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism Director David Saperstein or members of his Washington, D.C.-based staff have attended roughly a dozen meetings with Obama's transition team, on topics ranging from domestic poverty and the plight of White House faith-based initiatives to foreign policy challenges like bringing peace to the Middle East.

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"There is the feeling that these are not perfunctory meetings but serious meetings with people in policymaking roles who know the process well," says James Winkler, general secretary of the public policy arm of the United Methodist Church, who says that he or his staff have attended nearly a dozen meetings with the Obama transition team so far. "This is not something meant to bring in the faith community to keep them happy but to solicit our views and ideas."

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Heading up religious outreach for Obama's transition team is Joshua DuBois, a Pentecostal and onetime associate pastor who directed religious outreach for the Obama campaign. Mark Linton, the Obama campaign's Catholic outreach director, is leading the effort to design an Obama administration version of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, and Mara Vanderslice, an evangelical Democratic operative who has helped spearhead the party's post-2004 religious outreach offensive, is now Obama's outreach liaison to religious communities.

Why?

Why include religious organizations in policy decisions? What special insight into running the government do these organizations have? What could they possibly provide for Obama that a secular advisor could not, except perhaps unaccountable monies and obedient, lock-step bodies?

Are we saying that one must believe in a god or gods to design government programs? That a belief in an ancient desert god and his covenant with a certain tribal leader is required to determine communities' needs and allocate resources in the United States in 2009?

When Bush did this with fundamentalist Baptists and Catholics and Jews it was wrong, but when Obama does this with liberal Methodists and Catholics and Jews it's okay?

Religious people have only one goal: Obey God. It's how they show their love and trust. It's how they keep up their end of the covenant. It's their duty and salvation. It saves them from death and eternal nothingness.

There is nothing, nothing, people won't do to achieve this goal. The only difference is their interpretation of God's Will, and we all know how well that usually works out.

All Dead Are Equal, But Some Dead Are More Equal Than Others

Glenn Greenwald:

No thought is given to what it is like, what emotions it generates, what
horrible acts start to appear justifiable, when you have a hostile foreign army
control your borders and airspace and internal affairs for 40 years, one which
builds walls around you, imposes the most intensely humiliating conditions on
your daily life, blockades your land so that you're barred from exiting and
prevented from accessing basic nutrition and medical needs for your children
to the point where a substantial portion of the underage population suffers from stunted growth.

Megan McArdle:

On the other side, there's a tendency to forget, or forget to mention, that
whatever the provocation, a plurality-to-majority of Palestinians constantly
and actively wish to kill large numbers of Israelis purely for revenge. Gaza wants
to be at war with Israel, and then hide behind the protections of not-quite-war,
because they haven't the foggiest hope of winning anything like a real war.

Also Megan McArdle:

Tall people are richer because they are smarter. Or so says much of the new
research, including a new paper noted by Paul Caron. The theory makes intuitive
sense, of course, and dovetails with my empirical experience.

When you're one of our nationalist, thoughtless, compassionless pundits, every death is an opportunity to congratulate one's self for not being one of the victims of one's success.

K-Lo Goes To Confession

IX Marital Bliss

K-Lo: Bless me Father for I have sinned. It's been uh, two days since my last confession, I think. I'm not sure. Maybe it's only been twenty hours. Time passes so fast; one minute it's 2008 and you're 32, and the next minute it's 2009 and you're going to be 33 and you still don't have a baby and---

Father: Kathryn Jean--

K-Lo:--all your friends already have babies and how are you going to fulfill the command to go forth and multiply when you don't have a husband? Huh? Huh?

Father: Kathryn Jean, slow down.

K-Lo: Father, if I were going any slower I'd be going backwards. Who's going to want a middle-aged girl when they can have a young one who could have lots of babies? The only reason men will marry a girl is to obey God and procreate for his Greater Glory. What if it's already too late?

Father: Kathryn Jean----. Dear young lady, perhaps God has other plans for you. Have you reconsidered becoming a nun lately?

K-Lo: Sister Paul said I had to stop pretending to be a nun because it was creeping her out.

Father: A nun for real, Kathryn Jean. Your pure love for Jesus could lead you to a new direction better suited to your nature. You could become a bride of Christ instead of a bride of "Mittens."

K-Lo: Thank you Father, but I already have my life's work. I know God wants me to remind everyone in the cold, hard, cruel world to keep their eyes on Jesus and their legs crossed. Oh em gee! That's it!

Father: Yes, Kathryn Jean?

K-Lo: Everyone's been listening to me and the rest of the Godly preach abstinence, and it's been working too well! They think they shouldn't marry and reproduce when they really should be marrying and then submitting to marital bliss every time the man's man parts twitch! Where's that cheerleader uniform catalogue that I took from Derb's desk? I'll get my man yet!

Father: You know, it might just work.

And Farther Still

Shorter Victor/Victoria Davis Hanson: More dead children, please.

So Close, And Yet So Far

Megan McArdle writes a post on the Israeli/Palestine conflict that is not entirely wrong and stupid. However she ruins the effect with a few sentences of stupid:

On the other side, there's a tendency to forget, or forget to mention, that
whatever the provocation, a plurality-to-majority of Palestinians constantly and
actively wish to kill large numbers of Israelis purely for revenge. Gaza
wants to be at war with Israel, and then hide behind the protections of
not-quite-war, because they haven't the foggiest hope of winning anything like a
real war.

"Gaza" is people, most of whom probably would rather go to work, come home and play with the kids, and sleep peacefully in their own beds. I doubt they want war, and those who do probably want war so they can have a home some day. McArdle can't see people as people, because that would mean that she is one among equals, not a Special Elite among lesser mortals.

She was so close. Maybe one day she'll start editing and come up with a decent post that won't make people cringe in embarrassment for her.

Bloodthirsty Dolt Lectures Obama

Jonah Goldberg, a deeply stupid man, wipes the Special Sauce off his thick fingers and plunks out a moronic article about not-yet-President Obama's weakness on the War on Terror-ish Activities.

After 9/11, the gloves were off. The far left beseeched the government to retaliate with, at most, a proportionate response, but no one cared.

No quotes, no cites, because it's a lie.

We toppled the Taliban as a warm-up act

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Except now they control Afghanistan.

Terrorists weren’t criminals anymore, they were enemy combatants, ineligible for the Geneva Conventions.

To our eternal shame. Nice to see you admit we ignore the Geneva Conventions, though.

But the war in Iraq and reports of American zeal in the war on terror have left a sour taste in our mouths.

You mean people reacted negatively to Gitmo and Abu Ghraib. Can't imagine why. Maybe it's because they knew it would make matters worse.

That there have been no terrorist attacks on our soil only bolsters the sense that terrorism is manageable, even banal.

There would have been no terrorist attacks but incompetent Bush let Bin Laden attack the US and let the anthrax mailer get away too. Zero for two. Very impressive.

Barack Obama leads a counteroffensive from a legal establishment that wants to treat terrorists like any other criminals. Terrorists in Mumbai or Jeddah are little more than the squeegee men of the New World Order.

Movement conservatives are trivialize themselves into obscurity. Nobody deserves it more.

Would It Kill You To Stay Out Of My Vagina?

Shorter Dennis Prager: I can't get laid.

Shorter Kathryn Jean Lopez: Neither can I.

Republicans Help Save (Bad) Marriages

Some divorce lawyers say that business has slowed or that clients are
deciding to stay together because there are no assets left to help them start
over.

Who knew that the plan to extract as much money from American suckers as possible before swanning off to Switzerland's private banks was really a plot to help marriage?

Next: Republicans put lead, thallium and aresenic in the water to kill babies in the womb and prevent them from becoming teenagers and having sex. Thanks, Bush!

Lisa Schiffren Is So Much Fun

Lisa Schiffren says that Bristol Palin should cash in on her immorality by selling her baby's pictures because it'll annoy the liberal media.

Sometimes celebrities make a big show of giving the baby pix money to charity.
If I were advising the couple, I'd tell them to have a nice little wedding as
soon as possible.("Soon" being the operative word here.) And use the rest
for college for both of you — including whatever babysitting you need to pay
for. If there is any left, put it away for Trapp's [sic] education. This is blood money for your personal humiliation — and if you are smart you will use it to build a solid
future. It's purely a side benefit that that path would annoy the media most.

You mean the little miss hasn't married her fiance yet? But--but--Sarah Palin said they were going to get married, way back in September. If Bristol didn't care enough to give her baby a name and to have the child be legitimate, which conservatives really, really supposedly care about, why would she marry now?

Baby Tripp, who was reportedly due on December 18, takes the surname of his
18-year-old father, Levi Johnston, who said last month he plans to marry Bristol
sometime in 2009.

Oh, okay. I get it. You don't have to be married if you have a child, you just give them the father's name anyway. And you don't have to marry the mother of your child, as long as you say that some day you will do so. Seriously, I doubt anyone in Alaska will care; they have a free-wheeling reputation there. Illegitimate kids are only bad when they're the product of a teenage mother. Ummm, unwed teenage mother. Ummm, unwed teenage mother being supported by the taxpayers. Ummm, jobless unwed teenage mother without an education. Wait--I have it---jobless unwed uneducated teenage mother who is black! There you go!

Such a Nice Man

From Laura Bush's press secretary, via little Danny Drezner:

I wish that more people could have seen the president the way I experienced him.
Even if you don’t agree with him or respect his opinions or his decisions—strip
that away, if you’re able to—he is a caring human being.
I brought my mom to
the White House, to get a tour the day before Thanksgiving. The president came
in and greeted her—it was a total surprise. And on the spot he invited us to go
to Camp David for Thanksgiving. Of course, we went, and it was Disneyland for
adults. We went to chapel services before dinner. I remember we got there early.
A few minutes later the president walks in with Mrs. Bush and the family, and
you could see him looking around, and he sees my mom in the distance, and he
literally shouts at her from across the chapel, “Grace, come sit over here with
me.” And at dinner, again, he sees her, and he says, “Grace, you’re going to sit
over here next to me.” And he tilted the chair against the table so that nobody
would take her place.

That reminds me of something...What could it be?

Hitler Was Nice to His Dogs -- and Maids
From the Daily Mail:
History has condemned him as the megalomaniac who brought death and
misery to millions. But for one woman, the name Adolf Hitler evokes a smile not
a shudder. She is Rosa Mitterer, who worked as a maid for the Fuhrer at his
mountain retreat in Bavaria in the 1930s. Rosa is 91 and until now has kept a
vow of silence about her experiences. She has chosen to break it after realising
she is the last survivor of the circle who served the tyrant in the years before
he launched the Second World War.
nd [sic] her verdict on her former master: 'He
was a charming man, someone who was only ever nice to me, a great boss to work
for. You can say what you like, but he was a good man to us.'
Rosa's
remembrances of life at the court of the tyrant make gripping reading. She saw
leading Nazis come and go. Himmler, the evil party secretary; Bormann, whom she
described as a 'dirty pig'; and the club-footed, sexually-obsessed propaganda
minister Goebbels.
Rosa went into Hitler's service at the age of 15 in 1932
when she was Rosa Krautenbacher. Her sister Anni had worked as a cook at
Hitler's Berchtesgaden retreat since the late 1920s.
'She said he needed a
housemaid and I would fit the bill,' Rosa recalled. 'I remember so clearly the
first day I spoke to him in the kitchen. I said I was Anni's sister and that
made him smile, because Anni was his favourite. I only ever knew Hitler as a
kindly man who was good to me.'
12/08 10:05 AM

Oh yeah, the Hitler-mitigating crap that Jonah Goldberg likes to print because he hopes to drag liberals down by coming comparing them to Hitler. Naturally he is raising up Hitler in consequence, but Goldberg is too greedy and stupid to care. The wannabe dictators will always have craven apologists who are too busy basking in the glow of fame to realize that they're actually enjoying the light and warmth given off by exploding bombs and burning children.

The Mona Charen Marriage Laws

Mona Charen states that gays can't marry because it might lead to the Ashley twins gettin' it on.

Where do you draw a line? Once traditional marriage — supported by centuries of
civilization and the major Western religions — is undermined in the name of
love, there is no logical or principled reason to forbid polygamy, polyandry, or
even incest. Gay activists recoil from incest. But on what grounds exactly?
Suppose, after we formalize gay marriage, two 25-year-old sterile (to remove the
health of offspring argument) twins wish to marry? Let’s suppose they are loving
and committed. What is the objection? That it offends custom and tradition? That
it offends God? Isn’t that just bigotry?

The customary and traditional definition of marriage, endorsed by God in the Bible, is of a man and as many women as he can buy. But there's no arguing with this attitude because it's the truth. If two men marry, why not three? Or two women and one man? Or one man and a dozen women? Children are verboten, but if two adult siblings decide to marry, who can stop them if consent is the only deciding factor?

Steps must be taken, and fortunately we have a model to follow to forbid our society from going down the polygamy and incest crapper. All we have to do is substitute a word or three.

Nuremberg Gay Laws


Section 1
Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred blood Gays are forbidden. Marriages concluded in defiance of this law are void, even if, for the purpose of evading this law, they were concluded abroad.
Proceedings for annulment may be initiated only by the Public Prosecutor.
Section 2
Extramarital sexual intercourse between Jews and subjects of the state of Germany or related blood Gays is forbidden.
Section 3
Jews Gays will not be permitted to employ female male citizens of German or kindred blood as domestic workers under the age of 45.
Section 4
Jews Gays are forbidden to display the Reich and national flag or the national colours rainbow flags.
Section 5
A person who acts contrary to the prohibition of Section 1 will be punished with hard labour.
A person who acts contrary to the prohibition of Section 2 will be punished with imprisonment or with hard labour.
A person who acts contrary to the provisions of Sections 3 or 4 will be punished with imprisonment up to a year and with a fine, or with one of these penalties.
Section 6
The Reich Minister of the Interior in agreement with the Deputy Führer and the Reich Minister of Justice Bush Administration will issue the legal and administrative regulations required for the enforcement and supplementing of this law.
Section 7
The law will become effective on the day after its promulgation; Section 3, however, not until January 1, 1936 2009.

Angels and Minister of Grace Defend Us!

Megan McArdle's thinking process:

The theory makes intuitive sense, of course, and dovetails with my empirical
experience.

In other words, her intellectual process consists of a gut check and looking at Flicker. She might be joking, but that really is her process.

America, I know only a couple of you are reading this, but aren't you both embarrassed? This woman is extremely successful, by would-be writer standards. She's David Brooks' favorite economics blogger. She's published in major venues. And she's an idiot, with no intellectual curiosity or depth and breadth of knowledge. She's Little Jackie Horner, who puts her thumb in the pie of economics, pulls out a moronic plum, and says, "What a good girl am I." (I know, dumb, but the pills have worn off and the brain is not fully operational here. Not that my brain was working on the pills, but I was too high to care.)

Sigh. It is to depress.

Megan has been babbling about how bankers won't deliberately make decisions that would harm their banks and therefore their jobs. There's so much evidence that contradicts this view that it's embarrassing to see Megan's words in print. Bankers collected lucrative fees and/or earned bonuses that would set them up financially for life. Here Megan is, jokingly telling us that taller people are smarter, portraying herself as someone who can explain and advise and should be well-paid for it, while ignoring information that is necessary to do her job.

Megan, I give you advise not because I'm nice or even because I'm mean, but because it's getting past irritating and approaching humiliating, and I really do hate to see that happen to people. I can't even watch tv shows that show women taking pratfalls and being publicly humiliated. I have to avert my eyes during old Meg Ryan movies. I'm begging you, McArdle, to work harder, study more, think more, and try harder. You rent a house sight unseen, no doubt because it doesn't occur to you that people fuck each other over all the time and even the Special can be harmed, out of someone's venality or greed or wishful thinking or callousness. Now, maybe my guess is wrong and Megan rejected the house for trivial matters, such as a tacky paint job or a dishwasher that doesn't work. But it all comes down to the same thing--we all have faults and failures. We all disappoint ourselves and have room to grow. We can accept that and try harder, or we can la-la-la on our merry way and never see the coming storm.

Don't Say Another Word

Megan posts in her comments about her housing disappointment:

In this case, too complicated=we still might have to sue.
Posted by Megan McArdle December 28, 2008 7:20 PM

Please, no more. Do not tell us about the landlord or your issues with him or her, your legal quandary, you mother's opinion, dear little Dan Drezner's take on your legal issue, or the dress you will wear to small claims court. Frankly, it will provide far too much information for mocking.

The Best and Brightest

The future of the conservative party:

Roger L. Simon whines about being ignored by the New York Times. He writes a book whining about being ignored, and then whines that the book is ignored. Next up: Simon whines that his whining about his book about whining about being ignored is being ignored.

Instapundit links to Megan McArdle and David Drezner's Bloggerheads about "the coming global recession." The video is fact-and insight-free, and you have to look at McArdle preen and little David Drezner pontificate. It's just sad. It's like watching a Great Dane and Boston Terrier try to discuss Sartre, and makes just as much sense.

Rich Lowry beats his chest in despair, saying that the United States as we know it will end unless all immigrants abandon their own culture for White Anglo Saxon Protestant culture. I certainly hope Mark Steyn doesn't read this, or he'll have Lowry waterboarded for advocating conformity. It's too bad that the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Mayans and many others I don't know about weren't American, or they could have had great civilisations also. Damn shame, that.

Mona Charen feels left out of all the Christ-worship her conservative friends are glorying in, and displaying as ostentatiously as possible, the better to worship the poor babe born in a stable. Hanukkah has lights and special foods and presents and that dreidel song, so there, says Charen. It's can't be easy to be Jewish among people who consider Christmas a chance to rub it in that they belong to the dominant religious group in the US.

My own private Jesus says grow a spine, for the shit is about to hit the fan and only the people who know how to think, laugh, love and dream will survive.

Oy, The Pain: Your Daily Megan McArdle

As I have my traditional post-Christmas back ache, let's be short and bitter.

"Life Imitates Art"--Actually, Art Satirizes Life. Or maybe Art Imitates Life. But Life is not imitating Art. Stop being stupid, woman. You're middle-aged and it's not cute anymore.
Also, although this is irrelevant, a little black dress is not always appropriate wear. Walking around in the day shooting blogginghead intros in a cocktail dress makes you look like vicious hag Ann Coulter, McArdle, and that's not a good look.

There's also a post that blathers on and on for no reason but to dismiss regulation. That's so last year. Much like her dress.

The Viagra Pundit Strikes Again; Lying Freak Discusses Economy

Mark Steyn, former disk jockey and high-school dropout, pens a messy, vitriol-spattered article that purports to analyze what's wrong with the economy. Because he is very ideological and very stupid, he lurches from topic to unconnected topic in an attempt to blame his imaginary enemies for the country's problems, ignoring the little fact that the President of the United States is George W. Bush, and has been for eight eternal years.

First, incredibly, Steyn blames a Kelly Clarkson song that wishes for world peace. Next, he blames Barack Obama.

What was it that then Senator Obama said on the subject? “We can’t just
keep driving our SUVs, eating whatever we want, keeping our homes at 72 degrees
at all times regardless of whether we live in the tundra or the desert and keep
consuming 25 percent of the world’s resources with just 4 percent of the world’s
population, and expect the rest of the world to say you just go ahead, we’ll be
fine.”

And boy, we took the great man’s words to heart. SUV sales have nosedived,
and 72 is no longer your home’s thermostat setting but its current value
expressed as a percentage of what you paid for it. If I understand then Senator
Obama’s logic, in a just world Americans would be 4 percent of the population
and consume a fair and reasonable 4 percent of the world’s resources. And in
these last few months we’ve made an excellent start toward that blessed utopia:
Americans are driving smaller cars, buying smaller homes, giving smaller
Christmas presents.

And yet, strangely, President-Elect Obama doesn’t seem terribly happy about
the Obamafication of the American economy. He’s proposing some 5.7 bazillion
dollar “stimulus” package or whatever it is now to “stimulate” it back into its
bad old ways.

Yes, Obama said we have to consume less, and therefore the nation bought fewer toys for their children. This does not have any relationship to reality, in which people are losing jobs, worried about losing jobs, or helping relatives who are losing jobs. It has nothing to do with the credit crunch or shrinking stock portfolios or vanishing retirement funds. It's such a stupid thing to say, but of course it's not his last. Steyn also says the rest of the world wants America to consume, to keep them afloat. "The message from the European political class couldn’t be more straightforward: If you crass, vulgar Americans don’t ramp up the demand, we’re kaput," said Steyn. He offers no numbers, quotes or even personal anecdotes to support this statement; he seems to assume that to read his words is to experience undiluted Truth. And he's still not done.

Steyn finally returns to innocent Kelly Clarkson, and her lyrics that call for peace, at the birthday of the Prince of Peace. A desire for peace is childish, he says, as if killing is a proof of maturity, and the words of Jesus of Nazareth never existed. Mark Steyn actually says, "A state in which lives aren’t torn apart will be, by definition, totalitarian: As in The Stepford Wives or The Invasion Of the Body Snatchers, we’ll all be wandering around in glassy-eyed conformity." As you all know, this is an utterly stupid, senseless, callous statement. Obviously Steyn either doesn't have the faintest idea of the meaning of totalitarianism or doesn't care. He seems to think it is the same thing as being replaced by robots or alien pod people. He does not think about the lives that are being torn apart, and he unthinkingly assumes he will never be one of them.

That's the strange part. For a man who fears the sight of a pregnant Muslim woman the way George Bush fears horses, Steyn doesn't seem afraid for himself, as if his anti-Muslim paranoia is nothing but musical comedy dialogue, with a sweet, innocent soprano ingenue (the US) and Fu Manchu-like foreign villains (everyone else). It's the fertility of the Muslims that bothers him. The erect, hard will to successfully reproduce little Muslims. Europe, however, is limp. 'To Martin Wolf’s list of a Europe “too inert, too complacent, too weak,” we might add “too old...”' Steyn says. But the US, Steyn's adopted homeland, is different, which is "why economic recovery will be driven by the U.S., and not by Euro-Japanese entities long marinated in Obamanomics." To Steyn the US is, indeed, a hard-driving, forceful and fecund nation.

Finally Steyn drags pedophilia into the mix, for little discernible reason other than to up the ante on fear of sexual penetration.

The Viagra Pundit is a very strange and off-putting bundle of sexual obsessions, who still fits seamlessly into The Little Corner at National Review On-line, where they laud him as hilarious and brilliant, the worthy colleague of Jonah Goldberg, Cliff May, Victor Davis Hanson, and so many others.

McArdle For Rent; Attic Empty, Basement Full of It

For reasons too complicated to go into, I'm back on the rental housing market,
and it's basically impossible to find anything on Craigslist because of all the
listings responding to, as far as I can tell, a surging demand that exists only
in urban legend.

You know what? This really doesn't matter. Sure, it's symptomatic of McArdle's lack of competency, knowledge of how the world works, and grasp on reality, but in the end, it only affects her and whomever is putting her up and storing her copious personal possessions until she finds a place.

Good luck, McArdle. Knowing you, you're going to need it.

Jonah Goldberg is Beneath Contempt

Jonah Goldberg, famous conservative intellectual, is lazy, stupid and dishonest. This, of course, is not new information, but it bears repeating when the man in question writes for USA Today, The LA Times, and the National Review. Goldberg's entire repertoire is proof of his lack of character and intellect, but occasionally a certain article will provide an especially good example of his incompetency.

This article from 2003 is a stunning yet also predictable example of Goldberg's opportunism and dishonesty. This article was written around the time he started working on Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, his learned tome devoted to comparing liberals to Hitler.

We may be living in the worst period of Holocaust denial since the Nuremberg trials. I'm not referring to the twisted morons who insist that the Holocaust never happened the way the Monty Python guys insisted the parrot wasn't dead. I'm referring to the legions of Holocaust deniers in the Democratic Party, on the Web, on college campuses, in the mainstream press and, most acutely, in my e-mail box every morning, who reduce to the Holocaust to a triviality.

In America today - never mind Europe and the Middle East - ostensibly sophisticated and enlightened people see nothing particularly controversial about comparing George Bush to Adolph Hitler and the United States of America to Nazi Germany.

The examples are everywhere. Vanity Fair magazine asks if Richard Perle and Joseph Goebbels were "separated at birth." Whole Web sites are dedicated to the most astoundingly stupid and superficial comparisons between George Bush and Hitler (they both liked dogs, for example).

Comparisons of Bush to Hitler denigrate the Holocaust. Yet comparisons of liberals to Hitler do not, because----Goldberg says so. Goldberg has made a career of doing just what he is decrying here in 2003. What further proof is needed that Goldberg is nothing but an ideologue with connections whose career is spent lying, manipulating and denigrating his imagined enemies for beer money and tv time?

At every event protesting war, Bush, America, this, that and the other thing, one can find pictures of various administration officials in SS garb or bearing Hitler mustaches.

This statement come from the man who put a smiley face with a Hitler moustache on the cover of his book. Goldberg has no shame and no intellectual honesty. None. It's a personal insult to each and every liberal that he gets away with comparing liberals to Hitler.

If your son is murdered and I claim that it never happened, I am denying the existence of a crime. But if your son is murdered and I compare that tragedy to losing your car keys, that is a form of denial, too. And this is precisely what the "Bush equals Hitler" crowd is doing.

Let's try this with the word "liberal" instead of "Bush." "And this is precisely what the "Liberals equal Hitler" crowd is doing." See how that works? It could go either way, couldn't it?

Because when you say he's no different from Hitler, you are also saying that
Hitler is no different from George Bush. And that means that Hitler's crimes
were no worse than George Bush's "crimes." And whatever you think of what George Bush has done or might do, if you think any of it is the moral equivalent of the Holocaust, you are in effect saying the Holocaust really wasn't that bad.

The funny thing is, Goldberg is doing just that . By quoting emails and others supporting the idea that liberals are descendants of fascists, Goldberg, a Jew, is saying Hitler really isn't all that bad. For instance, he quotes Hitler's maid:

'She said he needed a housemaid and I would fit the bill,' Rosa recalled. 'I
remember so clearly the first day I spoke to him in the kitchen. I said I
was Anni's sister and that made him smile, because Anni was his favourite. I
only ever knew Hitler as a kindly man who was good to me.'

Why on earth would Goldberg print this post and others mitigating Hitler? Because he thinks it shows the connection between liberals and Hitler, between attempts to help society and attempts to put society under the utter control of a militarist, totalitarian state. And he does this for money and fame. Never forget that. By his own definitions, he betrays fellow Jews for money.

Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men

Merry Christmas!

Shorter Jonah Goldberg

I drink, therefore I am.

More Jonah The Philosopher:

This may sound like the usual conservative caterwauling about social unraveling and balkanization. But it isn’t.