Sept 18, 2015: Media Matters: Right-Wing Media Deny Role Of Islamophobia In Ahmed Mohamed's Arrest
Fox Contributor Jonah Goldberg: Everyone Is Defending Ahmed "Because Of the Political Correctness Angle." On the September 17 edition of Fox's Outnumbered, Fox contributor and National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg argued that Ahmed's case received public attention "because of the political correctness angle," claiming that public attention would be different if Ahmed had been wearing a Confederate flag t-shirt:
Fox Contributor Jonah Goldberg: Everyone Is Defending Ahmed "Because Of the Political Correctness Angle." On the September 17 edition of Fox's Outnumbered, Fox contributor and National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg argued that Ahmed's case received public attention "because of the political correctness angle," claiming that public attention would be different if Ahmed had been wearing a Confederate flag t-shirt:
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July 8, 2015: MediaIte: Trump Steamrolls NBC Reporter, Takes Shots at Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg
On Jonah Goldberg, who compared him to a “failed man”: “I’m worth a fortune. You know, it’s interesting. I went to the best school, got great marks, everything else. I went out, I made a fortune, a big fortune, a tremendous fortune… bigger than people even understand. […] Then I get called by a guy that can’t buy a pair of pants, I get called names?” Apr 29, 2015: Jonah Goldberg: Real Clear Politics: Clinton Is Playing Her Fans for Fools
Mar 30, 2015: Jonah Goldberg: Los Angeles Times: Where do 'religious freedom' acts mention gays or lesbians?
Dec 2, 2014: New York Times: Magazine’s Account of Gang Rape on Virginia Campus Comes Under Scrutiny
Others, including Jonah Goldberg, a Los Angeles Times columnist, compared the case to rape accusations in 2006 against three lacrosse players at Duke University who were subsequently cleared and speculated that the Virginia story might be a hoax. Jan 31, 2014: Sadly No: Rip Van Goldberg
I was going to do my job, but then, I ended up with this hot dog and well… that’s clearly going to take all day. 
On The Record: Jan 16, 2014: Syndicated Columnist Jonah Goldberg's latest offering is titled "The media and Chris Christie: Going overboard in Jersey " Goldberg observes the bizarre spectacle and writes:
"Assuming he did not lie during his marathon news conference last week, the feeding frenzy surrounding New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will be remembered as one of those incredibly odd moments of elite journalistic hysteria that are difficult to explain to people who weren't there or didn't get it." He note sthat historically "Since 1961, four Illinois governors have ended up in jail, and with the exception of Rod Blagojevich, few have received comparable media attention. "Meet the Press" dedicated 33 minutes to the New Jersey scandal, including a grilling of Reince Priebus, head of the Republican National Committee, as if Christie were Nixon during Watergate (a comparison ostensibly serious people have made)." Goldbergs summary is spot on: "Christie is widely seen as a threat to whoever the Democratic nominee will be. Unlike some recent GOP nominees, who struggled to be merely lifelike, Christie has an authenticity and charisma most national Republicans lack. As ABC's Jonathan Karl put it on "This Week," Christie is "the most intriguing and colorful person" in American politics. That probably explains the overkill as much as anything. Christie is new, exciting and interesting in ways Obama once was. The difference is that when Obama was new and exciting, the media were biased in every regard and heroically skeptical of any Obama wrongdoing. "We thought he was going to be … the next messiah," Barbara Walters recently said. The ardor has diminished but the skepticism remains." Christie also embodies everything that is not Hillary Clinton which makes him her great nemesis. The media that has already nominated, elected and everything but inaugurated Hillary Clinton in 2016 does not take kindly to being crossed. It's tantamount to instigating a coop against the media. |
Jan 10, 2014: Fox News: Jonah Goldberg: White House is trying 'to kick the can' on Iran
Jonah Goldberg said Friday on "Special Report with Bret Baier" that the conflict brewing between President Obama and some of his fellow Democrats over new sanctions on Iran is because "this White House is very worried they won't be able to kick the can past Obama's term."
Jonah Goldberg said Friday on "Special Report with Bret Baier" that the conflict brewing between President Obama and some of his fellow Democrats over new sanctions on Iran is because "this White House is very worried they won't be able to kick the can past Obama's term."
Jan 8, 2014: Los Angeles Times: A lefty millennial activist takes on columnist Jonah Goldberg
On Monday, The Times posted a throwback Cold War prose poem titled, "A millennial's Rolling Stone rant offers up some tired old 'solutions.' " In it, Goldberg takes time out of his busy schedule as a professional colonialism apologist and perennial Democratic crypto-fascist hunter to condescend to a slightly lesser white whale: millennial Rolling Stone contributor Jesse Myerson.
On Monday, The Times posted a throwback Cold War prose poem titled, "A millennial's Rolling Stone rant offers up some tired old 'solutions.' " In it, Goldberg takes time out of his busy schedule as a professional colonialism apologist and perennial Democratic crypto-fascist hunter to condescend to a slightly lesser white whale: millennial Rolling Stone contributor Jesse Myerson.
Mar 2, 2013: Riehl World View: Jonah Goldberg’s Nonsense on CPAC
Glenn Reynolds excerpts a portion of a Jonah Goldberg item on CPAC and encourages readers to take in the rest.
Glenn Reynolds excerpts a portion of a Jonah Goldberg item on CPAC and encourages readers to take in the rest.
Nov 8, 2012: Forbes: Nate Silver, Jonah Goldberg And Conservatism's Intellectual Decline
When I was much younger, one of the things that attracted me to conservatism was the idea of being one of the “grownups in the room.” Conservatives, you see, had an image of themselves as being emotionless and data driven, unlike those cringing liberals who determined policy based purely on their feelings and emotions.
When I was much younger, one of the things that attracted me to conservatism was the idea of being one of the “grownups in the room.” Conservatives, you see, had an image of themselves as being emotionless and data driven, unlike those cringing liberals who determined policy based purely on their feelings and emotions.
May 10, 2012: Salon: Jonah Goldberg’s desperation
The National Review hack is a unique figure: Striving for seriousness, but too lazy to achieve it
The National Review hack is a unique figure: Striving for seriousness, but too lazy to achieve it
ON THE RECORD: May 2, 2012 NPR article and interview: "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?" : "Conservative critic Jonah Goldberg says he's inspired to write when he gets annoyed. "Aggravation is a muse," he says. And after speaking on a number of college campuses, he grew aggravated enough to write a book. It's called The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. "One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids in particular are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad. They'll say, you know, 'Mr. Goldberg, that sounds like an ideological statement,' when I'm talking about tax cuts or something. ... Of course it's an ideological statement. You know I'm a conservative; I was asked to come here and be a conservative," Goldberg says."
Quotes from the interview:
"What you have often in American political discourse are appeals to cliches that steal territory, steal terrain unearned by argument. And all I want is an argument. I don't care that liberals have an ideology. I want them to have an ideology. I want to have a contest of ideas. What bothers me is when they come in and they say, 'Oh, you guys are the crazy ideologues with your labels and all of the rest, and we're just pragmatists who care about sound science and the numbers and the facts' and all that.' "
"You'll get these kids who will stand up in an audience and say, 'Mr. Goldberg, I may disagree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.' You know, and the professors nod, they're so proud of this kid, and the administrators say, 'Oh, he's gonna be a statesman someday.' And, first of all, it's just a lie – this kid's not going to take a bullet for me. And second of all, it's completely not responsive. All it is, is sort of getting bravery on the cheap, claiming to be valiantly defending my right to free speech."
"As a principle, I have no problem with it. The principle behind it is society should err on the side of rights of the accused. Right? We should be careful not to convict innocent men. As a matter of utilitarianism, which I don't support ... you could make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so, my only point on that is that it should open up an argument — it should not sort of settle one because nobody disagrees with it."
"President Obama recently talked about 'social Darwinism.' ... He's against it. But here's the funny thing: Nobody is for it. There was no intellectual movement in American history called 'social Darwinism.' The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist. But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism when it never did."
"Yeah, and some of these things I absolutely agree. I think that there is something endemic — one of the reasons why some of these cliches appeal, why they have power, why they move men, is because they appeal to the hard-wiring in our human nature. We're all built from the crooked timber of humanity; we all want to live in groups; we all want to live in tribes; we all want to, you know, band together and do good things."
"This is one of the cliches that Obama invokes all the time, this idea of unity. That somehow ... if we could all act like a military unit, like the one that took out bin Laden, or if we were all just unified — if we all tried our hardest and made this the best yearbook ever! — that somehow this would be a much better country. Well, that's not what this country is about. Our country, if you read the Federalist Papers, is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in the American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob — not the mob itself."
"No, I'm not against having a government. I don't know if that qualifies as the kind of cliche that I am talking about ... The mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem — you never hear that repeated over and over again. Even on Fox, to a certain extent, you won't hear that sort of thing. It's a catchphrase, to be sure, and it's a glib catchphrase that oversimplifies things, but the context in which I was talking about it was that Ronald Reagan had said, 'In the current situation, government is the problem, not the solution.' And that is the beginning of a serious argument."
Quotes from the interview:
"What you have often in American political discourse are appeals to cliches that steal territory, steal terrain unearned by argument. And all I want is an argument. I don't care that liberals have an ideology. I want them to have an ideology. I want to have a contest of ideas. What bothers me is when they come in and they say, 'Oh, you guys are the crazy ideologues with your labels and all of the rest, and we're just pragmatists who care about sound science and the numbers and the facts' and all that.' "
"You'll get these kids who will stand up in an audience and say, 'Mr. Goldberg, I may disagree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.' You know, and the professors nod, they're so proud of this kid, and the administrators say, 'Oh, he's gonna be a statesman someday.' And, first of all, it's just a lie – this kid's not going to take a bullet for me. And second of all, it's completely not responsive. All it is, is sort of getting bravery on the cheap, claiming to be valiantly defending my right to free speech."
"As a principle, I have no problem with it. The principle behind it is society should err on the side of rights of the accused. Right? We should be careful not to convict innocent men. As a matter of utilitarianism, which I don't support ... you could make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so, my only point on that is that it should open up an argument — it should not sort of settle one because nobody disagrees with it."
"President Obama recently talked about 'social Darwinism.' ... He's against it. But here's the funny thing: Nobody is for it. There was no intellectual movement in American history called 'social Darwinism.' The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist. But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism when it never did."
"Yeah, and some of these things I absolutely agree. I think that there is something endemic — one of the reasons why some of these cliches appeal, why they have power, why they move men, is because they appeal to the hard-wiring in our human nature. We're all built from the crooked timber of humanity; we all want to live in groups; we all want to live in tribes; we all want to, you know, band together and do good things."
"This is one of the cliches that Obama invokes all the time, this idea of unity. That somehow ... if we could all act like a military unit, like the one that took out bin Laden, or if we were all just unified — if we all tried our hardest and made this the best yearbook ever! — that somehow this would be a much better country. Well, that's not what this country is about. Our country, if you read the Federalist Papers, is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in the American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob — not the mob itself."
"No, I'm not against having a government. I don't know if that qualifies as the kind of cliche that I am talking about ... The mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem — you never hear that repeated over and over again. Even on Fox, to a certain extent, you won't hear that sort of thing. It's a catchphrase, to be sure, and it's a glib catchphrase that oversimplifies things, but the context in which I was talking about it was that Ronald Reagan had said, 'In the current situation, government is the problem, not the solution.' And that is the beginning of a serious argument."
May 1, 2012: CNN: Jonah Goldberg on The Piers Morgan Interview: "You pried it out of me...begged me for an answer...you're cross examining me"
On Monday evening "Piers Morgan Tonight" welcomed conservative columnist and author Jonah Goldberg to the program for a fiery discussion on politics, and foreign policy.
On Monday evening "Piers Morgan Tonight" welcomed conservative columnist and author Jonah Goldberg to the program for a fiery discussion on politics, and foreign policy.
Feb 6, 2005: AntiWar: Jonah Goldberg: Hypocrite, Chickenhawk
In addition to his NRO and TownHall.com scribblings, fat-assed Little Jonah regularly appears on CNN, shooting off his cake-hole in support of Lieutenant AWOL, Bush’s War, torture policies, and the Republican Party, activities for which he is presumably rewarded handsomely by his conservative sponsors, despite the fact that he is a fool.
In addition to his NRO and TownHall.com scribblings, fat-assed Little Jonah regularly appears on CNN, shooting off his cake-hole in support of Lieutenant AWOL, Bush’s War, torture policies, and the Republican Party, activities for which he is presumably rewarded handsomely by his conservative sponsors, despite the fact that he is a fool.
Apr 9, 2001: Spinsanity: Jargon 101: Pardons and Punditry
The Clinton pardon scandal provided the occasion for a particularly brutal piece by Jonah Goldberg of the National Review Online. Goldberg attacks articles on the mess by of two other commentators, Joe Conason of Salon.com and E. J. Dionne Jr. of the Washington Post. Goldberg's piece is a classic example of these sub-rational techniques, which Phil Agre has called the "new jargon" of political punditry. Full of aggressive ad hominem attacks, powerful linguistic associations, and deniable presuppositions, Goldberg's column never address the merits of his targets' arguments.
The Clinton pardon scandal provided the occasion for a particularly brutal piece by Jonah Goldberg of the National Review Online. Goldberg attacks articles on the mess by of two other commentators, Joe Conason of Salon.com and E. J. Dionne Jr. of the Washington Post. Goldberg's piece is a classic example of these sub-rational techniques, which Phil Agre has called the "new jargon" of political punditry. Full of aggressive ad hominem attacks, powerful linguistic associations, and deniable presuppositions, Goldberg's column never address the merits of his targets' arguments.
Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American conservative syndicated columnist and author. Goldberg is known for his contributions on politics and culture to National Review Online, of which he is editor-at-large. He is the author of Liberal Fascism (2008), which reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. He appears on such television programs as Special Report with Bret Baier, Good Morning America, Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Real Time with Bill Maher, Larry King Live, Your World with Neil Cavuto and most recently the Glenn Beck Program and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. From 2006 to 2010 he was a frequent participant on bloggingheads.tv.
