And I think that Rush is no longer a factor in the lives of rational people. There are still that hard-core of righties who will never actually change, but that’s about it. He used to be damned near mainstream.

That sure works well. As a result Rush is on no stations listened to by nobody, right?

If we ALL ignore Goldberg, and when other people ask us what we think of Goldberg, we say “Who, that idiot? I don’t think of him at all.” that does some good.

I don’t ignore Goldberg, I frankly deny him. I refuse to even let him sit on a couch at my virtual symposium. In short, Goldberg is not merely dead to me, but never born.

My daddy used to say “Never get into an argument with an idiot…It just means there are two idiots.” My dad wasn’t all that bright at times, but he nailed that one. When Goldberg spouts this stuff, and we respond, we give it credence. By addressing it, we acknowledge that he is an actual player in the game, worthy of our recognition. Why? He hasn’t earned it. He doesn’t deserve it. I don’t pay attention to Rush Limbaugh either, and Goldberg is nothing but a polysyllabic Limbaugh.

>Charlie, Goldberg’s on national TV and writes for a national >newspaper. Neiwert has no comparable soapbox. Until people like >Goldberg are laughed off the stage, we’re in deperate trouble. >Goldberg is not going to be laughed off the stage.

>You seem to be recommending the tried-and-true “he’s SO >beneath us, ignore hima and he’ll go away” tactic. It doesn’t work.

>posted by john emerson · january 26th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

You seem to be recommending the tried-and-true “he’s SO beneath us, ignore hima and he’ll go away” tactic. It doesn’t work.

He’s a parasite, a little leech who saw an opportunity to ride the coat-tails of the (actual) fascists who are trying to dominate America and reshape it into their own feudal/fascist/kleptocrat dream nation.

He would be disgusting, if he were not so utterly pathetic.

>the U.S. is doomed. Goldberg is going to successfully pull this off.

>You know, Emerson, the fate of the US might not actually depend >on Jonah Goldberg one way or the other.

>posted by lemuel pitkin · january 23rd, 2008 at 4:48 pm

I repeat: Homogeneity is not community, networks of reciprocal obligation are community. “Neoliberalism—the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action”
Market exchange is not the model for social exchange. It is not the model for community, it is an aspect of it. I’ve gotten drunk and laughed my ass off with rich and poor on three continents. People are peasants. All of them.
You sit and chatter and pretend that an education and your capacity for “reason” makes you the exceptions. It’s a joke.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

The Harvey book is sitting on my shelf. (I picked it up after seeing Doug Henwood’s review.) And you’re right, reading it would be a better use of my time than posting on this blog….