Leave it to a heartless Neocon, one Jonah Goldberg, to pile it on, and with malice, too! Reeling from the horrific effects of the devastating storm, "Hurricane Katrina," the city of New Orleans, on Aug. 29, 2005, came to a full stop! Thousands of its most helpless residents, many of them the poorest of the poor, mostly African-Americans, were left to their own meager devices in order to survive. As a temporary fix, emergency measures were imposed. One of them was a decision by officials to house many of its citizen/refugees in the Superdome, a stadium, that has been the home in the past to a number of NFL Superbowl games. Here is what the means-spirited Goldberg, a columnist, wrote about that relief effort:
"ATTN: SUPERDOME RESIDENTS – I think it's time to face facts. That place is going to be a Mad Max/thunderdome Waterworld/Lord of the Flies horror show within the next few hours. My advice is to prepare yourself now. Hoard weapons, grow gills and learn to communicate with serpents. While you're working on that, find the biggest guy you can and when he's not expecting it beat him senseless. Gather young fighters around you and tell the womenfolk you will feed and protect any female who agrees to participate without question in your plans to repopulate the earth with a race of gilled-supermen. It's never too soon to be prepared." (1)
Goldberg's grossly insensitive crack can be found on a blog, entitled, "The Corner." It is maintained by the "National Review Online," which itself is connected to the William Buckley-founded magazine, "National Review," (NR). It's a bastion for mostly Right Wing and Neocon zealots, like Goldberg. He is the editor of "NR Online" and a contributor to its printed version.
This is the same nasty Goldberg, who back on Jan. 25, 2003, viciously denounced the French people "as liars," made fun of their accents and even their skill at "cheese-making." He had gone totally ballistic over the fact that the government of France, led by President Jacques Chirac, had refused to go along with the Bush()-Cheney Gang's scheme to launch an unjust and immoral war against the peoples of Iraq() based on a pack of damnable lies. Goldberg also chided the French for working to lift the genocidal UN sanctions then being imposed on the Iraqi government. (2) He claimed that the sanctions hadn't really worked because of the French efforts "to undermine them." He added that the French "shame" themselves by advocating containment against Iraq, just because it had worked "in the Cold War." Goldberg then blasted France's "cry for peace," as being motivated by "a desire for oil." (3) And, did you know, that Goldberg also had once suggested that the U.S. should "bomb Canada?" (4) What a half-demented, war-mad smear artist this guy is!
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