Ayers: Obama’s Willie Horton?

Jonah Goldberg, whose book I have really got to sit down and read, remarks yesterday:

‘Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.”

This excerpt from William Ayers’ memoir appeared in the New York Times on

The media paints the myth of some sort of glorious political Camelot otherwise called the Kennedy Administration.   Those old enough to have survived it, or willing to read some history are more apt to associate Kennedy with the Bay of

Lots going on as regards John McCain, and people’s perceptions thereof. I see Jonah Goldberg essentially saying ‘he’s not so bad’. I see also, by way of Billy Hollis at Q&O that he’s joined a group of folks saying

Byran, Hot Air, points out that Mike Huckabee had an interesting point about rebuilding I-95 rather than sending out individual rebate checks:

Mike Huckabee makes some sense on the economic stimulus. He says, essentially, if we’re going to borrow

I note from a mailnote from John that he’s managed to snarf an interview with  Jonah on his book.

A snip:

Before we really get started, give us the Jonah Goldberg definition of fascism.

A short definition would simply be

Ross Douthat at The Atlantic

Here is some free advice for liberals who don’t care much for Jonah Goldberg or his (bestselling) new volume: Either confine yourself to dismissive snark, of the sort perfected by my colleague Matt, or buckle

Glenn notes:

PROPHECY: Last week, Jonah Goldberg wrote:

Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I think we all know they will if he’s the nominee â?? and then imagine he

James Joyner, earlier today:

George Will closes a subpar (by his standards, at least) column on the silly populism of Mike Huckabee and John Edwards with this praise for Barack Obama:

Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the

I note with some amusement the flack Jonah is getting form the Left… such as Matt Stoller and Glenn Greenwald…for example, over this:

Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I

Jonah wins this one going away:

  By now you’ve probably heard that CNN made such a laughingstock of itself at the recent YouTube debate in Florida that it could only have been worse if host Anderson Cooper conducted it in

Jonah Goldberg in today’s LA TIMES:

As the hopeless but energetic presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) builds momentum in name recognition, fundraising and cross-ideology appeal, media conservatives are beginning to attack Paul in earnest

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