"Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its story selection (which is fine by me) and elsewhere. But it's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more a populist, tabloidy network."

Jonah Goldberg (at least I agree with him on something)

It turns out, Jonah Goldbergs mother Lucianne was the person who advised Linda Tripp to record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky, and save the dress. His career as a right wing pundit was launched then, when he wrote an article in the New Yorker about the ensuing media seige on her apartment. Previous to this, he taught English in Prague after graduating from an obscure college in 1991, then got a job with the American Enterprise Institute, a Conservative 'Think Tank'.

Clearly his academic qualifications and the depth of his research would make the likes of Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein shake in their boots, which is presumably why I can find not one serious academic critique of this erm, book.

It is easy however to position it from a marketing perspective- find an easily digestible 'theme', in this case that Fascists on the far Right and loonies on the Far Left have in common the aspect that they are rabid Idealogues- if you are not one of them you are an 'enemy of the people'. Conveniently employ the term Liberal to encompass all far Left lunacy (common US right wing doggerel, straight out of the PR manuals), and thus compare Liberalism to fascism. Fail to mention inconvenient differences- e.g Goldberg rails on about this theme that Liberals are 'ashamed to be white, 'want us to Lose' etc, Fascists however believe in Aryans as the Master Race, and believe military conquest and victory is a legitimate tactic to maintain our 'superiority'.

Hey Presto- prepackaged Pap for the party faithful, marketed to the usual audience thru the usual channels. Strait out of the Coulter school of 'how to make a buck in life'- no surprises then they used to work together. In short- get a public profile, define your target market, find a theme, produce something for their consumption. Don't use real big words or use too many footnotes and references.

Seeing as I could not find any serious review of this 'book' (no booner, Blogs don't count), I thought booner might enjoy the following Review :-

GAY PATRIOT- the 'Internet home for the American gay Patriot'.

Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler’s National Socialism and Mussolini’s Fascism.

Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term “National socialism”).

.... I’m glad this must-read is on its way to me now!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Gay Patriot » #1 Amazon Book: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg

Yep, Bruce the Gay Patriot has deemed it worthy to review this ground breaking scholarship even before he has read the 'book'.