Oooh, breaking news from the heartland of Greater Wingnuttia. Michelle Malkin is reporting that John McCain is being funded by George Soros.
I'm not kidding. She is actually saying that. It is all very complicated, and the Detailed Research Proof involves Ed Morrisey and then Discover the Networks, and frantic Googling, and the Trilateral Commission and Liberal Fascism and Otto von Bismarck and Worf and sinister Hobbits and Pop Rocks and shit.
You know, as messed up as the Dems are this cycle, I'm going to go ahead and declare that, as always, the real crazy fun is over on the other side. Malkin quite clearly wants McCain dead, his family dead, his house burned to the ground, etc. It's going to be hard to back off from that sort of kookiness -- not that I don't think they're fully capable of such gymnastics.
(Above: John McCain does not support a border fence that would prevent Hobbits from invading New Mexico. While he would cheerfully nuke The Shire, this is insufficient proof of his Conservative Zeal.)
UPDATE. This is 100% True Real, from Jonah Goldberg himself.
Did Mao, Stalin et al not use emotive tricks? Stalin cast World War II as the "great patriotic war for Mother Russia." Why is such nationalism not also right-wing?
“Whoever cries out against Jewish capitalists is already a class warrior, even when he does not know it . . . Kick down the Jewish capitalists, hang them from the lampposts, and stamp upon them.”
That wasn't Nazi rhetoric. That was Ruth Fischer, a German Communist, competing with the Nazis for the same supporters.
When I say that Nazism was essentially left-wing, I at least go to great lengths to define my terms and set the context. Certainly in the American context, revolutionary socialism is a leftwing orientation. Or at the lest, it's hardly absurd to contend as much.
Can somebody over there stage an intervention of some sort? This is getting embarrassing. Or more embarrassing. Something.
But to respond to one of Jonah's readers:
Jonah, Haven’t bought your book yet, but I will very soon. I have, however, been reading your blog religiously and am so excited that someone finally wrote a book about what I have believed for a long time. Something about conservatives being fascists just never seemed to jive with me. It REALLY didn’t fit after reading “The Road to Serfdom” and seeing it on almost every major conservatives reading list.
All right, which one of you wrote that? 'Fess up.