Why I am Challenging Jonah Goldberg to a Fight for Charity, by Jamie Kilstein

[limpyhobbler]

I have disliked Jonah Goldberg for a very long time. For starters, he wrote a bestseller a while back called Liberal Fascism. Get it?! Liberals are like fascists….WHO MURDER PEOPLE! LOLZ! STAB! KILL! NADER!!11111

I am yet to find the relationship between wanting equal rights and a strong social safety net, as well as an end to illegal wars and torture, and…fascism, but to be fair I believe it was Adolf Hitler who once said, “I will not rest until all men and woman have free access to health care!” and then something terrible about the Jews.

You see, Jonah is not very bright, but he is very tough! So tough, in fact, he wants to smash teenagers who believe in sharing!

Last week, this video of Jonah Goldberg surfaced on the Internets. In it, he goes after “youth,” and “young voters,” claiming it was a mistake to lower the voting age to 18, and insisting youth are “stupid” and “ignorant.”
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[pinboy3niner]

1. Woo-hoo,Jamie--a lovely post

And let's not forget that the youth Goldberg calls too "stupid" and "ignorant" to vote he has no problem sending to war.

What rights should be recognized for the 18-year-olds our country deems old enough to send into combat? We had that debate long ago, Goldberg--and your side lost. So suck on it!

[Luminous Animal]

2. +1!

[limpyhobbler]

3. yep exactly.

It's ironic that his own ignorance and stupidity was so obvious by him making those comments.

[pinboy3niner]

4. He obviously didn't think it through...

...about the jeopardy to his own voting rights in suggesting an "ignorance" test.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Oh, and P.S.--I was one of those 18-year-old kids drafted (in '67)

I was 20 when I was leading a Rifle Platoon in Vietnam as an Infantry First Lieutenant, seeing people get blown away.

I lost a lot of friends--a helluva lot--in that fucking war. Others lost body parts, but survived. I got shot up, but I made it.

It's hard to express how fucking offensive it is for Goldberg to call us, or today's young troops, too stupid and ignorant to have voting rights when he has no problem sending young men and women to war.

[TahitiNut]

10. To be fair ...

... the VC and NVA had an "aging" effect on a lot of us. Hell, the teen-agers in the NVA grew up FAST. (Keerist... 15-year-olds and 16-year-olds!)

[Quantess]

6. Oh, sure. "If we don't like how they vote, take their voting rights away!"

In fact, let's just take away voting rights from everyone except white male landowners over 40. That is the only demographic that knows anything!

[Warren Stupidity]

7. K&R plus a shameless plug for the citizen radio podcast.

[11 Bravo]

8. When I was 19 I was in combat. When Jonah was 19 he was still being breast-fed by ...

the hellish beast he calls Mommy, Lucianne Goldberg.

(Google "doughy pantload&quot

[TahitiNut]

9. We grew up faster then.

Either that, or we got planted.

It's really quite remarkable how "maturational" an influence a VC RPG had on me.