Sound Politics: The Whims of Popular Culture

March 05, 2008

The Whims of Popular Culture

I had the exact same reaction last night as Jonah Goldberg to repeated mentions of Sandusky, Ohio. Sandusky will always = Tommy Boy in my mind.

That doesn't smell like mud, chucko.

And speaking of Jonah Goldberg, props to him for the outstanding success of his book, which is again proving the point there is an untapped demand for conservative-oriented media that has long gone unrecognized by the purveyors of movies, books, etc.

Posted by Eric Earling at March 05, 2008 07:11 AM | Email This

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1. I have had the book for a couple of weeks, but haven't started it yet. I have read excerpts and have found them to bwe entirely consistent with much of the stuff I have been saying for decades about the Obama/Howard Dean wing of the Democrat Party. I am hoping the book lives up to the reviews, the Country has needed a well documented book on this subject taht wasn't too scholarly in it's writing.

Posted by: JDH on March 5, 2008 07:15 AM

2. If you go to National Review's website you can order a signed and personalized copy of "Liberal Fascism."

Posted by: Obi-Wan on March 5, 2008 07:37 AM

3. Having read the book, I can say that it's a fine exposition of the development of fascism (basically gummint gathering control of most private life and all public life under some Great Leader or Great Idea) and the enthusiasm for it in American government beginning before the Woodrow Wilson regime and extending through the New Deal. The American expression of it had somewhat less employment of violent street mobs than the European, but there were even a few outbreaks here. Roosevelt's NRA was one of them.

Sorry, lefties, fascists aren't everyone who opposes the transnational progressive idea of the month. In fact the 'progressives' with their statism-uber-alles are closest to modern fascists. Particularly the ones who field big street mobs to hurl rocks and beat up policemen.

The flies in Goldberg's ointment are the strange disclaimers he ritually inserts every few paragraphs. Example: I'm not saying that people who once called themselves progressives were racist and therefore those who call themselves progressives today are racist, too. They're poorly executed defenses against future critics, and may have been inserted on demand of some editor, but they sure dilute the flow of ideas and come close to unneccessary apologies.

Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on March 5, 2008 10:04 AM

4. Thing was, it was Sandusky COUNTY, of which the city of Sandusky is not part, that was the holdup in Ohio.

This particualar Sanduskian prefers to forget the Tommy Boy association. All Farley ever did for me was make me appreciate John Candy, of which he was a pale imitation.

Posted by: Sandusky, OHIO on March 5, 2008 01:10 PM

5. I am going to go to the Barnes and Nobles in Downtown Seattle and ask if they have the book.

Posted by: pbj on March 5, 2008 01:13 PM

6. pbj, that's really obnoxious. God bless you! =)

Posted by: TB on March 5, 2008 02:30 PM