Friday, November 30, 2007

"You know who gets a bum rap? Hitler. Now I ain't saying the Holocaust was faked or anything, but you gotta--"

Shorter Jonah Goldberg: "I don't like Mussolini or fascists, but I think they had some good ideas. Like invading third-world countries and demonizing their victims as 'barbarians'."

And in case you weren't aware of the deeper irony in this, Goldberg is the author of a book entitled Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. Of course, it was originally titled Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton.

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