For some things, Justin is the best....
That Jonah Goldberg's facile punditry masks a
truly nasty nature seems beyond dispute: after
all, here is someone who made his reputation,
such as it is, retailing sex tapes surreptitiously
recorded, "leaking" a trail of slime that
eventually slipped up a President. A more
fitting symbol of the Clinton era conservative
movement - a gaggle of remarkably
unattractive character assassins, bereft of ideas
and fixated on filth - would be hard to
imagine. Now, in his syndicated column, the
little twerp takes out after Pat Buchanan for
his now famous remark about "Soviet
Canuckistan" - but not directly. Instead,
Goldberg hisses:
"I make reference to Buchanan's remark solely
because I am positive 99 percent of you didn't
know he said it. Pat made the comment on the
unwatched program Buchanan and Press on
America's Most unwatched network, MSNBC."
Except this turns out to be not quite true.
Goldberg admits "a quick Nexis search reveals
that Buchanan's remark has been mentioned
or discussed in over 100 newspaper articles."
Gee, it looks like somebody is watching, even
if it's only a bunch of Canadians. But the
whole point of Goldberg's little riff is to not
only repeat the litany of canards flung by our
touchy northern neighbors, but to relay the
news that:
"Some Canadian newspapers tried to link the
phrase 'Soviet Canuckistan' to a website run by a racist and Holocaust-denier."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j111102.html