Whenever I see the fat, pasty faces of Goldberg and Erickson making excuses for bigotry, they remind me of Bull Connor. But this is not to make a Golberg + Erickson = Connor comparison. Of course not. I’m shocked you would even infer that.

Hey, when I see the same people who rant about the evils of a national ID system turn around and insist on picture IDs for voting (because of course they know that black and brown folk are less likely to have picture IDs than are Nice White Republicans), I know that consistency is not their strong suit.

“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism
as it is a merge of state and corporate power.

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benito.Mussolini.Quote.8B19

This supposed quote from Mussolini may be questionable as to its source but I can think of no better definition
for Hitler or the GOP.

increased entitlements for the aged,

oh yes German Seniors entitlements varied by religion
some were ENTITLED to early death by starvation ,bullets and gas,after all their earthly possessions went to the state Nazi swine

increased entitlements for the aged,

Back to Erickson.

According to Jonah Goldberg,…

And he expects us to keep reading after that lead-in?

The funny is worth it.

Nazi’s and GOPers need enemies Hitler had Jews, Reagan Imaginary Black Welfare Queens from Chicago who drive Caddy’s and Lou Dobbs, Glen Beck and the Tea Baggers have Mexican Immigrants. Hate the different and blame them for all your problems Never take responsibility for things that go wrong.
Hitler before he took power like Glen and Lou gave radio speeches about how the Jews were responsible for everything wrong in Germany.
Lefties however we blame the person in charge when things go wrong because that is where the Buck Stops.

Does the list of entitlements really mean that, so far as it’s on the mark, the industrialized world took all the best parts of Nazi platform planks, and we are the only ones who didn’t have that much sense?

Good deal. Let’s discuss child labor laws. JFC!

Yes, he says according to Jonah Goldberg…and just believes it without checking for himself? Not too familiar with history, just like the whole Republican party.

On February 8, 2005 Goldberg offered Cole a wager of $1,000 “that Iraq won’t have a civil war, that it will have a viable constitution, and that a majority of Iraqis and Americans will, in two years time, agree that the war was worth it.”[18] Cole refused to accept and the wager was never actually made;[19] Goldberg later conceded that if Cole had accepted the bet, Goldberg would have lost it.[20]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg

Right. Pretty much of all Western Europe = Nazis.

And Israel.

If they are still sucking on the teat of doughy’s writng for their wanker ideas then they are truly doomed.

Goldberg and others at National Review Online (including Rich Lowry) broke with conservative writer Ann Coulter over statements she made about the September 11, 2001 attacks that they considered irresponsible. Coulter stopped writing for National Review Online after the publishing of her column on September 13, 2001, opining that “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”[25]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg

Goldberg seems to have qualms about forced conversions to Christianity? Has he met the Fundy wing the Sarah Palin wing of the GOP?

If they are still sucking on the teat of doughy’s writng…

that wouldn’t be nearly so funny if it weren’t for the fact that The Pantload does in fact have man-boobs.

And I think that’s as far as I want that thought to go, at least in *my* head….

Don’t forget the southern part of this continent – the part that has emerged from its Third World stage and instituted public interest programs.

Jonah Corporations are not people by law they are but yes many Lefties would put people first above Corporations and restrict their making money.
We would also tax business to help people after living expenses who pays the most percentage of income and assets as taxes us or the rich?

omg BT thinks St Ronnie is just like Hitler.

Don’t tell Peggy Noonan (before she has her first drink of the day).

Stop it ! I’m eating. :)

too late!

Yeah, you’ve got to get up pretty early in the morning to catch Nooners sober.

“…universal education, guaranteed employment, increased entitlements for the aged, the expropriation of land without compensation, the nationalization of industry, the abolition of market-based lending . . ., the expansion of health services, and the abolition of child labor.” Which party platform does that remind you of. [sic]“

As a faithful Democrat I would only add that the rise of a blond, blue-eyed master race is central to our platform. Also.

Yeah, the Nazis were notoriously tolerant of homosexuals as well.

But, but, the RNC would never espouse the Nazi’s insane obsession with racial purity.

http://rawstory.com/2009/10/gops-facebook-photos/

No, wait.

I don’t know about the tree of liberty bu I’m sure that both Goldberg and Erickson fell out of the tree of stupidity and hit all of the branches on the way down.

-G

Jonah Goldberg is indeed the stupidest man who is publishing (although he has some real competition these days). He claimed that ‘organic’ food movements were Nazi, because Nazis believed in an ‘organic’ society, by which of course they meant that Germans were organically tied to by their blood to German soil, not that they believed in organic food. This was the basis of their demand for racial purity, for good Aryan women to have babies (they were very against abortion for Aryan women).

Goldberg is the result of people no longer being taught to read, really read, and understand the meaning and implications of what they do read. How can anyone have published such a pile of garbage?

If Obama’s oration skills are so good, why hasn’t someone nick-named him the Great Communicator?

Yep, all the history books point to gay marriage as the primary reason for the Nazi’s fall.

In modo snarkissimo:

the stupid is almost overpowering.

I just want to note that you misspelled “teh” as “the”, BT.

Goldberg is an imbecilic asshat. He employs the most tenuous “logic” to show us how Obama is just like Adolph Hitler.

Adolph has 6 letters and two vowels;
Barack has 6 letters and two vowels!

See! Obama is just like Hitler!

That is the type of “proof” that Goldberg uses to support the buffoonish nonsense he regularly extracts from his ass. It makes perfect sense to Jonah and those who view him as some kind of “intellectual.” Actually, he is what passes for conservative intellectualism these days, even though the terms “conservative” and “intellectualism” would seem to be mutually exclusive.

Goldberg is a moron that writes for other morons. The bizarre premises by which he tries to equate Obama with the Nazis are both laughable and insulting. Even he must realize that the analogy will begin to wear thin if Obama doesn’t actually start rounding up and executing people. An invasion or two, say annexing Ontario or New Brunswick and Nova Scotia would help Goldberg’s argument enormously.

If Obama really were like Hitler, wouldn’t Goldberg have disappeared already? Hitler wasn’t big on tolerating dissent, but Obama has let the wingnuts run free. How does this inconvenient truth buttress Goldberg’s asshat theory?

I think that’s the classic fallacy of “Affirming the Consequent”:

If P then Q; Q; therefore P.

I know, I know, that’s as classy as he gets…

The NDSP Platform also included:

1-2. The right to abrogate international treaties under the “sovereign nation” doctrine.

3. The right to colonize or occupy other nations for their resources.

4. Blood citizenship. No child of an immigrant could become a citizen. No non-German could become a citizen.

5. Those who are not citizens must live in Germany as foreigners and must be subject to the law of aliens.

6. Those “declared” non-citizens (minorities, those formerly naturalized, or children born within tGermany but of immigrant parent(s) could not hold public office, or vote. [Sound familiar???]

7. Jobs and food was to be prioritized to citizens as defined by the NDSP- aliens (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich.

8. Further immigration of non-Germans was to be prevented. “All non-Germans who have entered Germany since August 2, 1914, shall be compelled to leave the Reich immediately”.

9-10. The NDSP argued all citizens must possess equal rights and duties.”The first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically.” [Note this was not universal employment...but COMPULSORY EMPLOYMENT in selective tasks]. “No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community to the benefit of all”. [This was a community standard that excluded types of work as being "anti-German"...either morally or socially].

The next 8 points were their “socialist” [actually populist] agenda. It’s not actually socialist since it denies investment or any sort of State influence on the application of the wealth other than by the laws themselves. In reality it was an effort to eradicate “alien” investors and to redistribute that wealth to Germans, and even German capitalists (Jews, foreign capitalists).

11. All unearned income [ income that does not arise from work] be abolished. Prominent Jews, because of Medieval discrimination laws had become concentrated in the banking, merchandise retail and investment industries. They were thus investors in real estate, lending, and were at the core of providing capital to German industries. Their secondary profits would be eliminated as loans would be cancelled…thus benefitting the industrialist owners paying off loans.

12. The total confiscation of all war profits.

13. The nationalization of all trusts.

14. Profit-sharing in large industries.

15. Increase in old-age pensions.

16. Communalization of “large stores” (these often had sprung from the Jewish haberdashers which offered “credit”- it was simply a redistribution of wealth to “true Germans”) which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, Small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the State, the provinces and municipalities.

17. Agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements. Expropriate from the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land.

18. Ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.

19. We demand that Roman law, which serves a materialist ordering of the world, be replaced by German common law.

20. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that “specially talented” children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State.

21. The State has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.

22. We demand the abolition of the regular [professional] army and the creation of a national (folk) army [militias designed to undertake state-directed political actions- so much for the claim that the Nazis intended to disarm the people].

23. All editors and their assistants on newspapers published in the German language shall be German citizens.
Non-German newspapers shall only be published with the express permission of the State. They must not be published in the German language. All financial interests in or in any way affecting German newspapers shall be forbidden to non-Germans by law, and we demand that the punishment for transgressing this law be the immediate suppression of the newspaper and the expulsion of the non-Germans from the Reich. [So much for "minority-ownership"]

Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare shall be suppressed. We demand legal action against those tendencies in art and literature that have a disruptive influence upon the life of our folk, and that any organizations that offend against the foregoing demands shall be dissolved. [Culture Wars]

24. We demand freedom for all religious faiths in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or offend the moral and ethical sense of the Germanic race [see below comment about the Jewish religion, and which would also apply to other "materialist" religions or agnosticism or atheism]. The party as such represents the point of view of a positive Christianity without binding itself to any one particular confession. It fights against the Jewish materialist spirit within and without, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our folk can only come about from within on the principle: COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD

25. In order to carry out this program we demand: the creation of a strong central authority in the State, the unconditional authority by the political central parliament of the whole State and all its organizations.

I think he was upset about the order of things:

1. Invade
2. Kill leaders
3. Convert them to Xtianity

This presents a problem (for some), in that it is really hard to convert people (esp. leaders!) after they’re dead. I am pretty sure Doughy Pantload’s complaint was that it should go “invade, convert, kill” instead.

Then again, the Goopers seem to be trying the dead person conversion on folks like Jackie Robinson, “Republican Hero”. So maybe it was something else.

It makes perfect sense to Jonah and those who view him as some kind of “intellectual.” Actually, he is what passes for conservative intellectualism these days, even though the terms “conservative” and “intellectualism” would seem to be mutually exclusive.

Well, as a very wise man once observed:

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

John Stuart Mill, letter to the Conservative MP, Sir John Pakington (March, 1866)

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRmill.htm

Hey, let’s have someone as President who ISN’T good at speaking–whoops, we just had one for eight years and he OKed torture, prison camps, black locations, and surveillance against American citizens.

Hi Sally

Hey Beverly

Or, you could say Redstate’s review of Goldberg is “stupid exponential.”