Good god, Jonah Goldberg is dense

[DemocratSinceBirth]

He compared the Confederate flag to the Japanese flag and said we let them keep it after we defeated them. We Let them continue to fly it over Japan. We didn't let them fly over it the Philippines.

[Iliyah]

1. Makes you wonder about GOPers brain capacity huh

[Solly Mack]

2. His mother is Lucianne Goldberg.

And they are both alike.

His mother Lucianne Goldberg’s history is sordid enough. In 1972, she was paid by a friend of Richard Nixon to spy on the McGovern campaign and the reporters covering it, posing as a member of the press. She became an anti-women’s liberation activist and campaigned against the Equal Rights Amendment. Eventually she became a literary agent (and ghostwriter) specializing in gutter-scraping attack jobs, starting with unauthorized celebrity biographies and branching out, when Bill Clinton was elected, into conspiratorial books accusing him and Hillary of various crimes. The “Vince Foster was murdered by the Clintons” story? That’s one of hers. (As was the best-selling book on the O.J. Simpson case by racist ex-LAPD detective and convicted perjurer Mark Furhman, who became a right-wing folk hero despite the fact that he was responsible more than anyone for the case against Simpson falling apart.)

She lucked out when she fell upon Linda Tripp, a White House secretary with a deep disdain for the Clintons and a penchant for gabbing with the press. Goldberg was introduced to Tripp in 1993, and Goldberg pushed Tripp to help out with a tell-all expose of the Clinton White House (focusing on conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Vince Foster) for years. The problem was, Tripp’s problems with the Clinton White House were largely based on matters of style — George Stephanopoulos’ dirty hair and Bill Clinton’s flirting — that is, until Tripp befriended Monica Lewinsky after both had been sent to work at the Pentagon. Goldberg convinced Tripp to secretly record her conversations with Lewinsky, promising her a major publishing payday. She then convinced Tripp to go to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff, who’d eventually break the Lewinsky story.

Jonah was there for much of this. His apartment was the scene of meetings between Lucianne and Linda Tripp that would define the rest of the Clinton era. He was privy to the contents of the (illegally recorded) Lewinsky tapes. In 1998, he published a Talk of the Town piece in (Tina Brown’s) New Yorker, in which he played the wry observer of the chaos his mother has wrought. By the end of 1998, young Jonah Goldberg had an enviable contributing editor gig at the National Review, the most prominent conservative magazine in the country. Before Lewinsky, Jonah Goldberg had been writing and producing public television documentaries on gargoyles

[progressoid]

4. Ugh. That explains a lot.

I didn't know about her.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Hmmm

this is the Imperial Japanese Flag



This is the current flag of Japan

http://wallpaperswide.com/japanese_flag-wallpapers.html

It is exactly the same flag...

Granted, if he is thinking of what was painted on the side of Fighter planes, he does, sort off have a point.



But that would be like telling us that this is the US Flag as well.



There are days these people make me smile, not necessarily for good fun reasons though. And it is not because they are stupid either. This is politics.

[dflprincess]

5. Perhaps he doesn't understand that the Confederacy ceased to exist 150 years ago

not unlike the other yahoos who cling to this rag.

[gratuitous]

6. After all, his nickname is "the doughy pantload"

So, dense comes naturally.