News and Politics | January 24, 2008 | 4 comments

Jonah Goldberg vs. Jon Stewart

source: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=147884&title=jonah-goldberg

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Goldberg, in an interview tries to argue the rise of liberal fascism in America. Now when I saw Naomi Wolf's take on it, she was very intelligent about and actually opened my ears to what's happening in the US. However, Goldberg is using labels to assume that practically everything is fascism, right down to organic food.
Watch this humorous yet horrifying interview.
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4 comments // Jonah Goldberg vs. Jon Stewart

  • neokn
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      neokn  
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    • Jonah Goldberg's rebuttal can be found on the on link below if anybody wants to read it.

      Just as MornRail said, its very hard to understand and a historical mumble-jumble. Read this paragraph for example:

      "Indeed, American progressives, particularly before Hitler arrived on the scene in the 1930s, were openly sympathetic to Italian fascism. This isn't to say they copied it (or the fascism of Soviet Russia), as many claim. But rather that the ideas that gave birth to and fueled American progressivism -- philosophical pragmatism, Bismarckian "top-down socialism," Marxism, eugenics and more -- share common intellectual sources and impulses with those that gave us both socialism and fascism."

      That doesn't even make sense. He's putting together Bismarck Germany, Marxism, and fascist soviet Russia? What does fascist soviet Russia mean? Thats an oxymoron!

    • 4 years ago
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  • crob80227
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      crob80227  

    • Good Lord is this guy a nutjob psycho. He kept insisting that the Progressives of the 1910-1920 were "evil" because they wanted labor rights for workers, because they banned child labor, because they insisted that wages be paid in cash and not in credit redeemable only at the company store. But this is not unusual, really. ALL Conservative have a deep pathological hatred of all standards and regulations. When Upton Sinclair exposed that the meat industry was abusing it's workers and also selling beef contaiminated with disease and tumors -- and the government stepped in and made it illegal to do either -- the Conservatives called that improvement to worker health and safety "intolerabel fascism!" When the Progressives sucessfully petitioned the government to outlaw child labor (no more 5 year old working in the coal mine) again the Conservatives screamed "intolerable fascism!" Conservatives are psychotic. That they can think child labor in the 1920's in America was a good thing (and that using child labor in China is a good thing now) shows us just how crazy they are.

    • 4 years ago
  • MornRail
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      MornRail  

    • And yes, the interview was edited so you may think it was biased but I read Jonah's rebuttal in the LA times and he still sounded like a fool.

    • 4 years ago
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