Goldberg Slam Dunks Cole
The cole-goldberg spat is highlighting a number of interesting features about america’s taboo against mentioning zionism. Cole slammed goldberg over his intellectual credentials, "I think it is time to be frank about some things. Jonah Goldberg knows absolutely nothing about Iraq. I wonder if he has even ever read a single book on Iraq, much less written one. He knows no Arabic. He has never lived in an Arab country. He can't read Iraqi newspapers or those of Iraq's neighbors. He knows nothing whatsoever about Shiite Islam, the branch of the religion to which a majority of Iraqis adheres. Why should we pretend that Jonah Goldberg's opinion on the significance and nature of the elections in Iraq last Sunday matters? It does not." (Juan Cole ‘Jonah Goldberg Embarrasses Himself Once Again’ http://www.juancole.com/2005_02_01_juancole_archive.html February 5th 2005).He goes on, "Jonah Goldberg is a fearmonger, a warmonger, and a demagogue. And besides, he was just plain wrong about one of the more important foreign policy issues to face the United States in the past half-century. It is shameful that he dares show his face in public, much less continuing to pontificate about his profound knowledge of just what Iraq is like and what needs to be done about Iraq and the significance of events in Iraq." (Juan Cole ‘Jonah Goldberg Embarrasses Himself Once Again’ http://www.juancole.com/2005_02_01_juancole_archive.html February 5th 2005).
Cole returned to the issue a few days later, "Let us see what has been established. First, I alleged that Goldberg has never read a book about Iraq, about which he keeps fulminating. I expected him at least to lie in response, the way W. did when similarly challenged on his book-reading. I expected Goldberg to say, "That is not true! I have read Phebe Marr's book on modern Iraq from cover to cover and know all about the 1963 failed Baathist coup!" But Goldberg did not respond in this way. I conclude that I was correct, and he has never read a book on this subject. In the end, I am saying that Goldberg's punditry is empty. All he has to offer us is a party line and a strongly held opinion. Not all pundits are in this category. Goldberg is particularly unsubstantive." (Juan Cole ‘Goldberg v. Cole Redux’ http://www.juancole.com/2005_02_01_juancole_archive.html February 8th 2005).
Cole then raises the interesting point about why the (zionist owned) media pays the (zionist) goldberg vast amounts of money to pontificate on issues about which he has done such little background reading, "I am saying I do not understand why CNN or NPR would hire someone to talk about Iraq policy who has not read a book on the subject under discussion. Actually, of course, it would be desirable that he had read more than one book. Books are nice. They are rectangular and soft and have information in them. They can even be consumed on airplanes. Goldberg should try one." (Juan Cole ‘Goldberg v. Cole Redux’ http://www.juancole.com/2005_02_01_juancole_archive.html February 8th 2005).
Cole goes on, "But Goldberg is just a dime a dozen pundit. Cranky rich people hire sharp-tongued and relatively uninformed young people all the time and put them on the mass media to badmouth the poor, spread bigotry, exalt mindless militarism, promote anti-intellectualism, and ensure generally that rightwing views come to predominate even among people who are harmed by such policies. One of their jobs is to marginalize progressives by smearing them as unreliable." (Juan Cole ‘Goldberg v. Cole Redux’ http://www.juancole.com/2005_02_01_juancole_archive.html February 8th 2005).
He concludes, "The corporate media failed the United States in 2002-2003. The US government failed the American people in 2002-2003. That empty, and often empty-headed punditry, which Jon Stewart destroyed so skilfully, played a big role in dragooning the American people into a wasteful and destructive elective war that threatens to warp American society and very possibly to end the free Republic we have managed to maintain for over 200 years. Already severe challenges to our sacred Constitution have been launched by the Right. Goldberg is a big proponent of "profiling," which is to say, spying on people because of their ethnicity rather than because of anything they as individuals have done wrong. That is only the beginning, if such persons maintain their influence on public discourse." (Juan Cole ‘Goldberg v. Cole Redux’ http://www.juancole.com/2005_02_01_juancole_archive.html February 8th 2005).
Notice the way during their exchange that cole refuses to mention that goldberg is a zionist writing for the zionist owned media supporting a proxy zionist war against iraq. Cole probably believes he has won a decisive victory over this ignoramus but in reality goldberg has won hands down because cole has abided by the zionist taboo against talking about the role of zionism. As long as lefty progressive critics of the war against iraq continue to abide by this zionist taboo they are never going to expose and counter-act the primary cause of america’s problems – the zionist control of the american media, the zionist control over congress, and the zionist control over the presidency.
During the exchange cole pointed out that goldberg refused to fight for his country, "As for why my sorry a** isn't in the kill zone, lots of people think this is a searingly pertinent question. No answer I could give - I'm 35 years old, my family couldn't afford the lost income, I have a baby daughter, my a** is, er, sorry, are a few - ever seem to suffice." (Jonah Goldberg "On and On http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/05_01_30_corner-archive.asp#055419 February 5th 2005). Cole denounces goldberg for being a warmonger who refuses to fight in the war, "Goldberg helped send nearly 1500 brave Americans to their deaths and helped maim over 10,000, not to mention all the innocent Iraqi civilians he helped get killed. He helped dragoon 140,000 US troops in Iraq. And he does not have the courage of his convictions. His excuse is that he couldn't afford to take the pay cut! What is Goldberg going to say to the tens of thousands of reservists he helped send to Iraq, who are losing their mortgages and small businesses and have been kidnapped for 18 months at a time (not what they thought they were signing up for) by Rumsfeld? "Well guys, thanks for carrying out the policy I wanted to see, and for putting your own little girls into penury. I'd have loved to help out, but my little girl is more important than yours and besides, I like a good meal and I hear you only get MREs." (Juan Cole ‘Jonah Goldberg Embarrasses Himself Once Again’ http://www.juancole.com/2005_02_01_juancole_archive.html February 5th 2005). Cole returned to the issue, "Although I do not believe that everyone who advocates a war must go and fight it, I do believe that young men who advocate a war must go and fight it. Goldberg was in his early 30s in 2002, and the army would have taken him. An older colleague who was at Harvard in 1941 told me about how the freshman class rushed to enlist. That was the characteristic of the Greatest Generation - they put their money where their mouths were. Goldberg's response was insulting to all the soldiers fighting in Iraq who have suffered economically and who are remote from their families. I don't think there is anything at all unpatriotic about a young man opposing a war and declining to enlist. But a young man (and this applies to W. and Cheney too) who mouths off strongly about the desirability of a war is a coward and a hypocrite if he does not go to fight it. (Juan Cole ‘Goldberg v. Cole Redux’ http://www.juancole.com/2005_02_01_juancole_archive.html February 8th 2005).
Predictably justin raimondo’s blog carries a humiliating attack on this issue, ‘Jonah Goldberg: Hypocrite, Chickenhawk’ http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=0
Come on, let’s be honest about this. Goldberg has succeeded in persuading non-zionist americans to lay down their lives to protect the zionist state in palestine. Why on Earth would he want to go and do the job himself when he can get mugs to do it for him? Doubtlessly, if the zionist state came under attack he’d be the first to enlist.
posted by The Mundi Club @ 3:01 PM
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