I dislike Steve Schmidt, I strongly dislike Jonah Goldberg.

[irisblue]

Temporary Allies in trying to correct the damage they *both* have done to our beloved country.

🔪🗡️Watching them knife each other in 80s soap opera style is enjoyable 🔪🗡️

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[Ninga]

1. Oh *snap* - Schmidt owned Goldberg... at least for this round.....

[lillypaddle]

2. Where's the unrec button?

[irisblue]

4. You like Goldberg?😱

[lillypaddle]

10. No

I like Steve, though.

[irisblue]

11. Better call, that. Steve is human, a wrong human, but human.

[madinmaryland]

3. "The only American who has built a whole career off his mommy's obsession with a blow job"

Too fucking funny!

[George II]

5. Yes. Apparently Goldberg gained his "pundit" notoriety via his mother convincing Linda Tripp....

....to record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky.

[Zorro]

6. And so fucking true!

I've never understood why the LA Times gave that hack column space.

[Basic LA]

8. Exactly!

It almost seems like a daily column from him. What's up with that?

[milestogo]

7. I dislike Republicans, even those who claim to have reformed.

[Happy Hoosier]

12. We have to have room for the reformed.

I was a conservative until I graduated from college. At that point, I could not embrace the cognitive dissonance any longer. One of the points of politics is persuasion. And we have to embrace the persuaded.

[octoberlib]

17. So you hate Elizabeth Warren? She was a

Republican until she was 47.

[irisblue]

9. Jonah Goldberg and the *Chuck Todd Analog of NPR* David Greene, Morning Edition

Are too busy being really tight buddies on NPRs Morning Edition

examplehttps://www.npr.org/2020/01/20/797885478/a-preview-of-president-trumps-impeachment-trial-in-the-senate

Title-A Preview Of President Trump's Impeachment Trial In The Senate
January 20, 20207:18 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition


I have complained here, at least twice, that Greene is too easy as he "interviews" Goldberg

[oasis]

13. Steve Schmidt has been kicking Trump's ass. Credit where it's due. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Not sure how hard Goldberg is trying

I think it's more that he didn't want to be closely associated with Trump. His cricitism is gentle at best. His "The Dispatch" runs things like

"Pence Was Right. Now Is Not the Time to Raise Taxes.
Or increase regulation. But it’s also not the time to undercut the recovery with neglect."

From 2016:

If NR were serious about opposing populist bomb-throwers, it would denounce such trash in unambiguous terms, realizing that it degrades the conservative movement and, worse, encourages the pathological habits of mind that prepare the movement's grassroots to be swayed by the poisonous extremism peddled by Donald Trump. But not only has NR failed to condemn D'Souza. One of its leading writers, Jonah Goldberg, actually makes an appearance in Hillary's America, happily lending his intellectual authority to this sham of a movie.

But wait, my liberal readers will proclaim: What do I mean by Goldberg's intellectual authority? Isn't this the same guy who wrote an insulting joke of a book titled Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning?

Indeed it is, one and the same. But here's the thing: Liberal Fascism isn't a joke. It's something far more pernicious than that — a potent blend of truth and deception, informed scholarship and an interpretive framework designed to skew the historical record in a way that actively warps readers' understanding of it.

https://theweek.com/articles/613940/how-conservative-intellectuals-decry-donald-trump-love-dinesh-dsouza

[BannonsLiver]

15. Thanks for stopping by to let us know

I’ve actually been wondering how you felt about Schmidt.

[irisblue]

16. Huh. That reads as aggrieved, is there an issue between us?

Looking forward to clearing the air

[Paladin]

18. I like the present-day Steve Schmidt.

I hate Jonah Goldberg's guts. Same goes for his unspeakable mother.