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Title: NRO’s (Jonah) Goldberg Chastizes MoveOn, Forgets His Own ‘Spineless’ Attack On Generals In 2004
Source: Think Progress
URL Source: http://thinkprogress.org/
Published: Sep 23, 2007
Author: Atrios
Post Date: 2007-09-23 15:44:45 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 344
Comments: 10

NRO’s Goldberg Chastizes MoveOn, Forgets His Own ‘Spineless’ Attack On Generals In 2004

goldbergkennedy.jpeg On Tuesday, National Review Online’s Jonah Goldberg approvingly linked to a column by the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen, in which Cohen slammed Democratic presidential candidates for not criticizing http://MoveOn.org’s Gen. David Petraeus ad in the New York Times. Goldberg said Cohen had a “pretty good” take on the Democrats’ “spinelessness regarding Petraeus.”

In a September 11 2007 editorial, the National Review Online also took “the Left” to task for questioning the “honesty and patriotism” of Petraeus. As editor-at-large, Goldberg presumably approved of, if not contributed to, the editorial’s position.

But Goldberg hasn’t always been so critical of those who question the integrity of American generals. As Attaturk pointed out yesterday, in January 2004, Goldberg uncritically posted an e-mail from a then-active duty reader that savagely bashed generals as “a gigantic pain in the ass” who are “dishonest”:

[General Wesley Clark] acts just like the vast majority of general officers that it has been my displeasure to deal with during my 16 years in the U.S. military. Generals are, for the most part, a gigantic pain in the ass and we usually accomplish our military objectives despite their chaos-inducing presence. There are a few good generals here and there but most of them are an embarrassment. […]

- Generals are ambitious in the same way that wolverines are aggressive. It’s their defining trait. […]

- Generals are dull. I don’t mean this in the cant-tell-a-good-joke kind of way. I mean the anti-intellectual, zero-curiousity, hasn’t-read-a-real-book-in-years kind of dull. […]

- Generals are arrogant. Generals truly believe that they are completely right 100% of the time and woe to those underlings who demonstrate that this isn’t so. This trait is what makes generals so dangerous. They will ignore sound advice and do the stupidest things imaginable, all because “Well, I’m a general, dammit, I know what I’m doing and. . . ugh, what was the question again?” Generals can be damn near unreasonable when they get their minds made up and it’s almost impossible to get them to see an alternative way of doing things. […]

- Generals are dishonest. This is a tricky charge to throw out, but it’s the sad truth. I’ve seen more out-and-out lies from general officers than any other people in the military. In a weird way, they are just like professional politicians in this regard.

Apparently, it’s never appropriate to attack a general unless you’re Jonah Goldberg. (1 image)

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#3. To: Zipporah (#0)

Apparently, it’s never appropriate to attack a general unless you’re Jonah Goldberg.

Goldberg would be writing wedding/obituary announcements today for an obscure small town newspaper were it not for his mother and Monica and Linda. His talent is limited but his connections are not.

Sidebar: the photo shows Goldberg has having lost a good deal of his piggishly grotesque former physique - perhaps, an empathetic self-starvation regimen to show support for the Darfurians? hey, I'm serious the zios are always chest beating and hand wringing and shedding giant croc tears on teevee/public radio about Darfur which would be commendable but for the fact that most of the zios/neolibcons would be hard pressed to find Darfur on a world map.

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I'm serious the zios are always chest beating and hand wringing and shedding giant croc tears on teevee/public radio about Darfur which would be commendable but for the fact that most of the zios/neolibcons would be hard pressed to find Darfur on a world map.

That's because they don't have maps, see. American academic success stories on display. I bet they know what channel E Entertainment is on cable though.

“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as, uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”
--Miss South Carolina Teen USA (Caitlin Upton)(August 2007)


Or this:

Video- “The View” co-host (Sherri Shepherd) thinks Earth is flat

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