07.24.2008 11:20 am
Goldberg gets an assist from alleged Serbian war criminal
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te’s got a funny column this week about Jonah Goldberg, a syndicated columnist we run on Mondays. Read “Karadzic’s Gift to Jonah Goldberg” here.
Goldberg claims in his book that liberalism and New Ageism are descended from fascism. (Honestly. That’s what he says in his book “Liberal Fascism.” (You can check it out here, at Amazon.com.)
Radovan Karadzic, is, of course, credited with being one of the masterminds of the Srebenica mamssacre, was arrested earlier this week after 13 years of hiding out.
I’m sure Karadzic will have plenty of time to read the book as he’s awaiting his trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Jamie Riley is the P-D letters editor and gatekeeper of the letters blog. Before joining the editorial page in May 2005, she was a reporter and page designer. Jamie lives in University City with her husband, Charles, daughter, Elise, and the world's best Jack Russell terrier, Logan, better known as Stinky. 
Have read the Slate/Tim Noah column three times and just can’t see what is “funny” in the column. Nor the three people here that also read it. A little sarcasm/defensiveness perhaps but nothing remotely humorous.
Now what would be funny would be to learn that when captured Karadzic had with him copies of St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial pages.
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Well, I have read 300 of the 400 pages of Liberal Fascism and it has been pretty fascinating. I have learned a lot about the history of the movement.
It should be required reading before the Nov. 2008 election, especially the part about Mussolini. There is an incredible comparison between his campaign and Obama’s, which is actually chilling.
I would like to point out why Jamie found this funny because she too is a vegetarian. I won’t comment any further on that topic. But if anyone read the Post-Dispatch Editorial on Saturday about the DNC’s convention’s food and other interesting requirements, don’t say no one warned you about the eco-fascists and what is coming down the pike if the Democrats win in November.
Jamie warned you!
One, I do not see what is “funny” in that the architect of the butchery at Srebenica, trying to “hide out” behind the facade of being a natural healer. He was probably looking for some type of absolution or most likely figured such a pose was sufficiently different from his previous one as to make him “invisible”.
As to Jonah Goldberg and the rest of of the revisionist right winger who want to recast fascism as a form of liberalism, well they have to ignore way too much history and rewrite often.
The truth of Fascism is still it is the philosophy of political power through the exercise of force and suppression by elites who seek to have the “captains of industry” be aligned with them. Fascism is neither “left wing” or “right wing” ( or if you like “liberal” and “conservative”). It is about the pure exercise of power by a ruling elite to perpetuate its’ own rule.
The historical truth is that after WW2, the US government, because of the fear of communism, turned around and gave support to the very fascists in Spain, Portugal and elsewhere in the world, that we had spent fighting in WW2.
I refer you to: “The Fascism Reader” by Aritotle Kallis for more accurate follow-up.