I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president. Jonah Goldberg More Quotes by Jonah Goldberg More Quotes From Jonah Goldberg (T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist, stupid, imperialistic, simplistic, etc. ' and that alone is proof of their intellectualism. So long as you call America “racist,” you could add that an enema is as good as a toothbrush and some professor of “communications theory” would applaud. Jonah Goldberg communicationstupidamerica Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks? Jonah Goldberg wallcuttingwise When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it. Jonah Goldberg holocaustpigsdirty Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter. Jonah Goldberg principleswantlong 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. Jonah Goldberg partygovernmentorder And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive. Jonah Goldberg mindwantlong Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism Jonah Goldberg championlibertypolitics I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers. Jonah Goldberg camelschildrensex John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile. Jonah Goldberg john-kerryjuvenileokay I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop! Jonah Goldberg poopdogthinking The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy. Jonah Goldberg liarslyingfall Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland. Jonah Goldberg new-yorkwaramerica There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes. Jonah Goldberg lastsexamplesuccessful 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. Jonah Goldberg partycrazyneeds But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems. Jonah Goldberg choicescountrypeople Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings. Jonah Goldberg empiricismcontradictorystudy But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more sure that disagreement with him is proof of ignorance, bad faith or dogmatism. As a candidate, he insisted his real opponent was 'cynicism,' and in his address last week, he returned to this trite formulation, insisting again he was bravely battling the cynics. Jonah Goldberg ignorancerealideas I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on account of the fact that Donald Trump won. Jonah Goldberg factspeoplethinking ...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents. Jonah Goldberg rhetorical-strategiesopponentspolitics 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. Jonah Goldberg ignoranthollywoodneeds
