Jonah Goldberg misses the fascists again
April 2nd, 2008, 10:28 am · Post a Comment · posted by fsherman
I posted some months back that right-wing pundit Jonah Goldberg, in his book “Liberal Fascism,” did his best to ignore or dismiss the existence of American fascism (which is a creature of the far right) in order to prove that fascists had somehow morphed into American liberals.
He’s still at it. British race-car driver Max Mosley was recently caught on videotape in a sex game where he plays a concentration-camp prisoner.Goldberg’s brilliant analysis:
“Mosley’s (Oswald Mosley, Max’s father) sister-in-law Jessica Mitford, one of the Mitford Sisters (natch’), was a committed Communist who wrote The American Way of Death (which by many accounts is a good book I have yet to read). When Hungarian freedom fighters were slaughtered by the Soviets, Mitford said they were “fascist traitors” who had it coming. Jessica married the Stalinist California lawyer Robert Treuhaft (this NYT obit is hagiography), for whom Hillary Clinton worked as an intern.”
A-ha! So it’s all the fault of Communism making Max a pervert, and Clinton’s part of the sex ring … or something like that.”
What Goldberg conveniently omits is that Oswald Mosley was the leader of British fascism in the pre-WW III and (like a number of Americans) opposed the war as serving “international Jewry” rather than Britain.
Hmm, British fascist father, concentration camp … No, couldn’t possibly be a connection. Obviously it has something to do with liberals. And Clinton.
(courtesy of the Huffington Post for the information)
