Doughy Pantload, has his pants rise

Jonah Goldberg has let go of one of the biggest intellectual farts of a gassy age and still manages to get his minions (the man has minions, says it all about modern American doesn't it?) to whine:

What Fresh Hell Was That?! [Mark Hemingway]

I just watched Jonah's interview on The Daily Show and my head is still spinning. What was that? The interview segment began with an apology from Jon Stewart saying that the interview lasted 18 minutes and they had to cut it. What ensued was a choppy mess, largely consisting of Stewart's heated questions and then cutting away from Jonah before he could fully respond. It's bad enough that people reviewing Jonah's book can't be bothered to read it. But inviting him on national TV, attacking the book and then randomly editing the whole thing into incoherence just seems to take things to a whole new level.

You know in television, professionals can manage to make an interview coherent IF they have a coherent subject. But when you have someone who has incoherent ideas apparently formed by watching Gilligan's Island & Star Trek for hours on end and then writes a book claiming Fascists are Liberals you get, well, six minutes of the Doughy Pantload.

I'm willing to bet the full 18 minutes pretty much has the intellectual heft of the Teletubbies without the underlying charm.

Making Jonah, "Doughywinkie".