Jonah Goldberg Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• ...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Rhetorical Strategies, Politics, Opponents

• In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

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  War, Reality, Government

• The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime.

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  Years, Iraq, Politics

• But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

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  Philosophy, Looks, Politics

• Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

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  Nba, Diversity, Would Be

• Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things for you. The Republicans need to get back to being the party that elicits unreasonable shrieking from their opponents. Not the other way around.

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  Crazy, Party, Needs

• Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

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  Champion, Liberty, Politics

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.394, Crown Forum

• Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative.

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  Party, Simple, Reality

• When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted, purposively asinine, or all three.

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  Hipster, Grateful, Ignorant

• Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow.

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  Party, Government, Order

• Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

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  Lying, Men, Politics

• Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

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  Guilt, Spy, President

• Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

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  Attention, Politics, Pay

• [C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

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  Ideas, Foundation, Movement

  Jonah Goldberg (2009). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.371, Penguin UK

• Bill Maher is anything but an impartial host. He sucks up to Hollywood liberals because A) he needs to get them back on the show, B) he usually agrees with them, and C) they tend to be wildly ignorant.

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  Ignorant, Hollywood, Needs

• Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Doctrine, Politics, Libertarian

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