Jonah Goldberg: Smarter Than Jessica Simpson, Funnier Than Leukemia
By As appalling as Jonah Goldberg’s comments about “playing the class card” are, make sure to scroll down for his earlier comments:
I think it’s time to face facts. That place is going to be a Mad Max/thunderdome Waterworld/Lord of the Flies horror show within the next few hours. My advice is to prepare yourself now. Hoard weapons, grow gills and learn to communicate with serpents. While you’re working on that, find the biggest guy you can and when he’s not expecting it beat him senseless. Gather young fighters around you and tell the womenfolk you will feed and protect any female who agrees to participate without question in your plans to repopulate the earth with a race of gilled-supermen. It’s never too soon to be prepared.
Yep, putting tens of thousands of poor people, many of them about to become homeless, many of them with severe health problems in a extremely humid building with rapidly failing plumbing and dwindling food supplies–pure comedy gold! But there I go playing the class card again–hell, Jonah had to wait three minutes for a cab yesterday, and who’s to say that wasn’t a million times worse? Then there’s his non-apology apology:
Perhaps Professor Bainbridge — of whom I am a fan — thinks something really awful will befall the denizens of the Superdome and therefore making a joke at their expense is wrong. My guess is that it will simply be a really unpleasent time for the remainder of the day, but hardly so unpleasent as to sanctify them with refugee or some other victim status.
He’s as prescient as he is funny! But what’s most disturbing is his assertion that being a “refugee” is just a “victim status” with which one is “sanctified,” as if being homeless is no big deal. This isn’t conservatism in any meaningful sense; this is just reprehensible.
However, I can’t really agree with Ethan’s title for Goldberg, for the reasons stated by Lindsay. Similarly, I don’t think it’s appropriate to call him a “wanker”; wanking, after all, is a source of pleasure, and pleasure is something that is not associated in any way with Goldberg’s writings. Asshole? Same thing; you might take them for granted, but I’m sure you’d miss it if you didn’t have one, which you can’t say for Goldberg’s attempts at humor. Maybe Jonah “Tits on a Bull” Goldberg? Hmmm. For that matter, I should probably revise my title; I think I’m libeling Simpson…
…in fairness, Cornerites are willing to show some compassion: on behalf of the lost home of Jefferson Davis. Yeah, the lost home of somebody who led a movement to commit treason on behalf of slavery is the real tragedy here.