{"id":2384,"date":"2010-10-29T18:57:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T18:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-10-29T18:59:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T18:59:41","slug":"jonah_goldberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2384","title":{"rendered":"Jonah Goldberg Curses Darkness, Lights Match, Sets Self On Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and calls for Assange to be assassinated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One nice thing about being an amateur commentator is that I can simply go dark when I think I’ve got nothing to say. Professionals have to step to the plate, and occasionally spectacular misfires result.<\/p>\n

Today is Goldberg’s turn.<\/p>\n

So again, I ask: Why wasn’t Assange garroted in his hotel room years ago?<\/p>\n

It’s a serious question.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He then goes on to make the Flashman<\/a> case (institutional incompetence, not hypercompetence, is the rule) and then to explain that the fallout from killing such a public figure would be too severe to manage.<\/p>\n

He concludes:<\/p>\n

That’s fine. And it’s the law. I don’t expect the U.S. government to kill Assange, but I do expect them to try to stop him. As of now, the plan seems to be to do nothing at all.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now there’s a much better post buried in there, which is a variant of the “if we’re living in such a fascist state why aren’t you in a gulag?<\/i>” argument I make to people like Glenn Greenwald and my more hysterical friends.<\/p>\n

But the plain reading of Jonah’s words is that he’d be quite happy if Assange showed up facedown in his bathtub one morning.<\/p>\n

And as frustrated as I am with Assange’s bullshit, and as deeply as I’d like to see him in handcuffs in front of a judge, that’s kind of – scratch that – that’s completely outrageous.<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping Jonah is smart enough and gets wise enough counsel to follow this right up with a “My bad, I was on deadline and just had a small brain melt.”<\/p>\n

If not…well, if not I’m kinda worried.
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Jonah Goldberg said WHAT?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}