Jonah Goldberg on Obama: 'The media have turned into head past the sphincter suck up to the guy'

[meegbear]

The Obama Derangement Syndrome officialy has begun. We know the right wing smear machine went into over drive during the general election, but I wanted to kick it off with one of the finest Conservative yes men there is, Jonah Goldberg. He once famously wondered why liberals didn't like Dick Cheney very much.

Anyway, here he is on Hannity and Colmes getting very frothy over Obama's pick of Eric Holder as AG.

Goldberg: I agree I think we should give Obama a chance to spread his wings. We should also give him a chance before we start comparing him to Lincoln. The guy's not even president yet.

Colmes: He's not comparing himself to Lincoln, he's reading the Doris Kearns Goodwin book...

Goldberg: Actually he is. Actually he is. He compares himself to Lincoln quite often in his speeches... (No, he's really not.) Alan, you keep saying that he doesn't, but he does.

Colmes: Newt Gingrich says he's impressed with how Obama is using Lincoln, do you disagree with Newt Gingrich?

Goldberg: I'm impressed with how he's gotten away with it. Yeah, I'm impressed how so many people in the media have completely turned into head past the sphincter suck up to the guy. That's impressive.

Colmes: Newt's impressed with how Obama is utilizing Abraham Lincoln as a role model.

Goldberg: Yeah. I'm impressed with how he's getting away with doing it. I disagree with Newt, uh, that he's actually using him very much as a role model. He's NOT EVEN President yet. And I find this so fascinating, the way the press wants this guy to be Lincoln. Everyone hopes he'll be like Lincoln. You know, Lincoln had to be Lincoln because we were on the verge of a civil war that racked up 600,000 American dead. Seems to me that I don't want to have a Lincoln. I don't need to need to have a Lincoln.

Wow, where to go in this rant. So is he saying that Newt is part of his sphincter club? I think we do need an exceptional president right about now, don't you? Or maybe an FDR. I'll be happy with a good effort by Obama, though. Everyone -- everyone except rabid ideologues like Jonah Goldberg -- wants Obama to succeed because we are in two wars where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and maimed, our complete economic system is in a perilous state with people losing their jobs like crazy since Bush. And Goldberg is foaming at the mouth because Obama reads about Lincoln.

This is what Conservatives will be doing to Obama all through his presidency. And I say, go for it. They are just looking like children crying that Billy took their Tonka truck away in the sandbox. Americans want real answers, not Insane Clown Posse behavior directed at the man they just elected.

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http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/jonah-goldberg-obama-media-have-complet

[marmar]

1. Jonah Goldberg is a perfect example of the mediocre times we live in.....

n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

6. And some people think auto workers are overpaid.

If you want to know who's overpaid look no further than right wing pundits like Jonah Goldberg. How I'd love to see his ass actually work for a living.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. "Thank You Mommy, For Getting Me My Job!"

Like he'd be in the biz if it weren't for his ruthless mommy.
The Professor

[Johonny]

18. I agree

he's the classic example of a talking head that apparently has no expertise. Why does his baseless opinions continue to spread across the mass media?

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Because His Mommy Is Connected. And Daddy Is Rich

Did you have any more questions that needed to belabor the obvious? LOL!
GAC

[GalleryGod]

19. I Knew the Dweeb when he was an undergrad and dodged an on campus DUI.

At least his Mom & Dad paid for the lamp post he hit :rofl: :patriot: :rofl:

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Mama's Boy. And Daddy's Boy

How freakin' precious.
GAC

[Journeyman]

2. Where was Jonah when George W. was declared a "gift from God" after September 11? . . .

Must have been getting passed through a whale's sphincter, and so didn't have the opportunity to criticize that bit of inanity when it was so prevalent.

[Lumpsum]

3. Jonah Goldberg is a fat, ugly fucking douche. nt.

[MineralMan]

4. One thing's certain:

Johah Goldberg is definitely a sphincter.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

5. Lincoln was only Lincoln because of the Civil War?

Unless we're on the verge of civil war we don't need an intelligent, intellectually curious, reflective and introspective President?

Well, why don't we try one before we get to that point, and see how it works out?

[Cleita]

7. I really dislike Mama Luciennes little fat, asshole of a son.

He's a real waste of a human being, who as far as I'm concerned, is using up air that belongs to a better person.

[TahitiNut]

8. Jonah hasn't matured past the time he'd amuse Mommy's friends with his precocious vomit.

He's beyond help - forever reprising the act of an 8-year-old prattling on about things he knows nothing about.

[11 Bravo]

10. Nobody knows sphincters like the "Doughy Pantload".

His birth canal was a sphincter, and he has spent his entire adult life examining the sphincters of powerful Republicans from the inside. Now that "powerful Republicans" has become an oxymoron, the boy is just a little confused.
After all, he was breast-fed until he was in his mid-thirties, and now that Mommy's conservative empire has hit the skids, he knows he's fucked.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. Didn't Goldberg humiliate himself awhile back, saying something stupid about Lincoln/Civil war?

I mean besides this.

[mitchum]

12. Proof that nothing but shit comes out of every orifice of Lucianne Goldberg

[JHB]

13. Amazing that a guy who knows that position so intimately...

...could be so wrong in observing it where it doesn't exist.

[gratuitous]

14. Obama's not even president yet!

Awfully uppity of Obama to be picking out a cabinet, in the opinion of the Doughy Pantload. Come on, Jonah, you know what you want to say; just say it. You'll feel better if you just say it. You won't get invited onto the teevee shows for a while, but you'll feel sooooo much better. Just say it, Jonah. Come on.

[Initech]

15. What does that mean?

[Terran]

16. I know...grammatically it's nonsensical

:shrug:

[yellowcanine]

17. Jonah is so jealous that the Democrats have Obama he can't see straight.

That is Hannity's problem also. It is why he will not let go of Ayers. He can't stand it that people like Obama in spite of his frothing.

[TrogL]

22. Jonah Goldberg has always been batshit insane

I had a flamefest with him a few years ago over gay issues.