Right-wing pundits fall out: Limbaugh eviscerates Jonah Goldberg

[RamboLiberal]

The infighting among conservatives has been notched up another degree, with Rush Limbaugh attempting to blast Jonah Goldberg out of the water for daring to suggest that President Obama deserves congratulations for the successful rescue of an American captain from Somali pirates.

Goldberg wrote on his blog at the National Review on Sunday evening, "Good For President Obama. He approved the rescue. It was the right thing to do, with no small amount of risk. And God bless the SEALs."

By Monday morning, however, Goldberg was beginning to realize he might have put his foot in it. "My morning in-box is full of snark and bile from some folks who think I shouldn't have congratulated President Obama for the rescue last night," he admitted ruefully. "But you know what? Congratulations anyway. ... I think my credentials as a critic of Obama are pretty solid. But I find the idea that I have to be critical no matter what Obama does to be exhaustingly unappealing."

But that was before the really big guns came out. By midday, it was clear even to Goldberg that Limbaugh had been letting him have it with both barrels.

Limbaugh began his Monday show by saying -- every word dripping with extreme sarcasm -- "I want to single out today, Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online for being the first that I saw to have the proper reaction to the rescue of Captain Phillips from the merchant marine organizers, and that was to congratulate President Obama for a job well done. And I think we all must agree, folks, that when Obama does something right, we gotta go out there and we've got to acknowledge it."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rightwing_pundits_fall_out_Limbaugh_eviscerates_0413.html

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[Missy Vixen]

1. Ooh! Hair pulling!

I guess this means Jonah Goldberg is off of Rush's holiday card list, huh?

:woohoo:

:popcorn:

[shanti]

17. cat fight!

:yoiks:

[tularetom]

2. In the pool for when he backs down and grovels to limpballs

I've got tomorrow morning at 9 AM

[BuyingThyme]

3. Critic credentials.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Wow, Doughy Pantload meets Oxycontin addict - a match made in heaven

Where can I buy tickets?

[MADem]

5. Battle of the Plump, Pudgy, Pontificating, Poutraged Pugilists?

What a failed fitness flabfest!!!!!!!!!

[Duer 157099]

6. "exhaustingly unappealing"?? That's the reason?

God these guys are disgusting.

He could have said "hypocritical" or "disingenuous" or "intellectually dishonest" or any other of a variety of words/phrases that would have been acceptable under the circumstances.

But the reason he gives for not being critical of Obama no matter what - is that it is exhausting and unappealing.

YUCK

[Lex]

7. They don't really know *what* to do or say.

So funny. When you have no real principles, you have nothing to guide you.

[underpants]

8. A douchebag eating a douchebag

and yes it is that unsightly

both of them

[Uzybone]

9. Can't they just let a good story pass

without turning it into a bloodfest?

[Fuzz]

10. So I guess the Republicans want to blame the military for our failure in Iraq?

[provis99]

11. two right wingers fighting is entertaining in a morbid kind of way

kind of like watching one of those nature shows where a hyena and a vulture are fighting over the dead carcass of an elephant (said elephant being the Republican party).

[baldguy]

12. Is it schadenfreude to hope for some Long Knives?

[Solomon]

13. And then Goldberg eviscerated Hannity on his show

tonight. I thought Hannity was going to cry.

[petronius]

14. Goldberg eviscerated Hannity? Wow, even though that's a true battle of the lightweights

(as most RW vs RW arguments are), I would have thought that Hannity would have been able to hold his own against JG on his own turf. Too funny, I'm slightly sorry that I missed it...

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

15. did you mean bernie goldberg?

i'm watching the replay now.

edit: you're right, though. this goldberg made hannity look like the fool he is. called his BS petty.

hannity said obama was legally required to do this and goldberg didn't know wtf he (sean) talking

about.

[classysassy]

16. Who

cares what those two clowns think?.