Jonah Goldberg, NRO editor at large & chickenhawk: "The French were right"

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http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2007/01/31/jonah-goldberg-the-french-were-right/

Mike Stark describes an encounter with Jonah Goldberg, son of the hideous Lucianne Goldberg, on January 14, 2007, in the The Reliable Source's green room. An excerpt:

http://homepage.mac.com/jholbo/nutwork/images/Goldberg,%20Jonah.jpg


Me: Well, I'd begin that retrospective with the idea of going to war in the first place. I was one of the protestors in NYC in Feb 2003 - I knew we were going to war then and I knew it wasn't necessary. The French, for example, were advocating beefed up inspections. Now, I'm not sure exactly what they had in mind, but for me, that means you give the inspectors some serious military support - you give them a team of apaches, light armor and air support. They surprise whatever facility they want to inspect, demand entry within 15 minutes, and convey that the consequences of non-compliance would be that the facility would be bombed to dust. Either way, in the end, you would know if Saddam had WMD...

Jonah: Sure...

Me: And we wouldn't have 150,000 troops in an intractible situation...

Jonah: sure...

Me: So the French were right!

Jonah: Yeah, yeah...

Me: Wait a minute Jonah - I just want to repeat what I just said and remind you that you are on the record - I said the French were right... You agree...

Jonah: yeah, yeah, yeah, the French were right... but that was then...
...

Me: Wow... well thank you - this interview was really worth it!!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. one word

smarmy, bogus
okay, two words
smarmy, bogus, ignorant
okay, sorry three words
smarmy, bogus, ignorant, inane

never mind.

[npincus]

2. i once sent him a diss-ful email (soon after the Monica era)

and he responded!

I ended it with something like, "why don't you hop on your mother's broomstick and fly south".

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Would Goldberg even have any editor/column gig if he wasn't Lucianne's kid?

[BeyondGeography]

4. That was then?

As in the moment this all could have been avoided.

Then again, Jonah, what's a misguided war compared with the misdeeds of Clenis?

[BuyingThyme]

5. Well, Jonah, the inspectors had access to EVERYTHING.

And there were multiple spy planes keeping track of EVERYTHING.

They had helicopters and EVERYTHING.

And they had so much cooperation, that they had not need for "serious military support."

I guess anything short of murder, or the threat of murder, is a problem for you.