Comedy gold: Lefty stunned into silence by her own hypocrisy on hate speech
posted at 7:01 pm on September 2, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Via Moe Lane, enjoy as Michelle Goldberg crashes head-on into a logical roadblock set for her by Megan McArdle. Nothing unusual in a progressive lecturing conservatives about incendiary rhetoric while remaining blissfully oblivious to the “Bush = Hitler” droppings that littered our political landscape for eight years. What’s unusual is getting to watch her cope, in real time, with the choice between (a) admitting that the left’s climate of hate was poisonous and potentially dangerous to Bush and (b) accepting that violent nutjobs are responsible for their own actions. Tough call for a liberal — either she forfeits her side’s alleged monopoly on virtue or she embraces *shudder* personal responsibility. It takes a while, but she finally settles on an answer. Good to know that the left is still virtuous.
Update: Another Michelle Goldberg golden moment, from this very same episode of Bloggingheads: “I certainly wouldn’t be shedding many tears if Dick Cheney dropped dead.”
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People call Rush Limbaugh fat because they don’t like him and they didn’t develop their wit past the 3rd grade. This is totally different.
When it comes to women, men like to comment. And so do women, strangely enough.
Asher on September 2, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Seriously? Sounds like a woman who’s cheated but hasn’t been cheated on. Hopefully she grows up at some point.
Esthier on September 2, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Liberals are so hypocritical and can never be as virtuous as they think they are, LOL.
Now that Chairman MaObama is here, I can really enjoy the irony of them turning 100% around on almost everything they screamed about when Bush was Prez.
It makes me sick and makes me laugh at the same time. This is the year when those who are smart enough to see it finally see Liberalism is a crock of crap! End of story!
Gob on September 2, 2009 at 7:59 PM
People were plotting to kill George W. Bush? Seriously?!?
Norman Blizter on September 2, 2009 at 8:00 PM
So, got to the point in the video where she compares Palin running for President being delusional because she didn’t have the credentials and Obama being supremely qualified.
The only person who is delusional here is Goldberg.
Scrappy on September 2, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Is that really a question?
Esthier on September 2, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Dude.
hillbillyjim on September 2, 2009 at 8:06 PM
I revise my previous comments a little bit…Goldberg is such a moron that trapping her in her own contradictions requires no effort…she just self-destructs…but cheers to Megan for sitting through that idiocy anyway. I would have just walked off.
AUINSC on September 2, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Consider the source.
(I wonder just how Norman got that blizter–not really)
hillbillyjim on September 2, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Getting pummeled in the Levi Johnson thread wasn’t enough for you? Had to come and make a fool of yourself here too?
Scrappy on September 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM
You can see the liberal disease in Goldbrick’s eyes
Wade on September 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Ugh!
AUINSC on September 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM
No, it is two dumb questions. Putting up signs that say “kill Bush” are a potential plots. Putting him in the crosshairs is a potential plot.
rlwo2008 on September 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Argh…. the video isn’t working.
PrincipledPilgrim on September 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Liberals hypocrites? Nuooooooooooo!!
jawkneemusic on September 2, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Hoist by her on petard. Well done Miss.
Mojave Mark on September 2, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Watch here.
Guardian on September 2, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Come back and visit when your eyes heal. Sorry ’bout that.
hillbillyjim on September 2, 2009 at 8:17 PM
It was truly brutal.
Scrappy on September 2, 2009 at 8:18 PM
If you didn’t think Michelle Goldberg could sound any dumber you should listen to her putting “reproduction rights” on the same level as human rights. Yuck.
Or watch to Ann Altouse totally make her look like the total hack she is.
Logic is not Michelle’s strength.
terryannonline on September 2, 2009 at 7:23 PM
terryannonline: I`ve been on Annes site a few times,bit I`ve
got to laugh at Goldberg going out on a cons
piracy hunt as to why Sarah Palin resigned,
good stuff!–:)
canopfor on September 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Listening to those two gave me a head ache.Especially the whiny toned LIB
Jeff from WI on September 2, 2009 at 8:24 PM
You can’t buy comedy like this!
xler8bmw on September 2, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Dude.
hillbillyjim on September 2, 2009 at 8:06 PM
hillbillyjim: My Gawd is it the same women!
A Clone maybe,or all the pent-up hate,
can change one`s looks,I dunno!!
And remember Beauty is skin deep,but
Ugly,is right to the bone!!ahem:)hehe.
canopfor on September 2, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Should I recognize this one, or is he new?
Esthier on September 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM
She’s not the only person!
klickink.wordpress.com on September 2, 2009 at 8:28 PM
This Michelle Goldberg is about as dumb as Ian Schwartz, proving simply that there are morons everywhere, regardless of political affiliation.
bileduct on September 2, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Facts can be pesky things to a liberal! They literally can turn them into a raving lunatic trying to protect their argument with ad hominem and strawman arguements. It is truly quite an amusing moment when it happens.
xler8bmw on September 2, 2009 at 8:29 PM
New, as far as I know. He hasn’t made one coherent comment that I know of. Pure troll.
hillbillyjim on September 2, 2009 at 8:29 PM
I haven’t read the whole thread yet, just finished with the video. Ms. Goldberg most definitely had a mirror in front of her and was primping the whole time. Too funny.
Cindy Munford on September 2, 2009 at 8:34 PM
It is a good gotcha moment…but it happens so regularly, what is the point?
I remember, in 2004, for example, when leftists would scream about the Swift Boat vets. John Kerry put his life on the line serving his country, these people have no right to criticize him – and they are a bunch of bought and paid for fascists!
Well I’d point out, they served to – so doesn’t that mean you can criticize them? And, does this mean when you liberals questioned every conservative president since Ford’s military service you were wrong?
I’d like to say I’d get Ms Goldberg’s embarrassed admission in response, but it would just be the normal fascist, theocrat, HALIBURTON!!! rigmarole in response.
18-1 on September 2, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Go to the head of the class.
8>)
hillbillyjim on September 2, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Three pointer!
ronsfi on September 2, 2009 at 8:46 PM
This is my new favorite video… thanks AP
painfulTruthDisciple on September 2, 2009 at 8:53 PM
rosa brooks!
it was goldberg versus rosa brooks when brooks drops the hitler bomb. then when goldberg objects, she has the nerve to try to make it all about “liberal fascism”.
http://bloggingheads.tv/index.php/diavlogs/427?in=00:56:00&out=01:12:58
eh on September 2, 2009 at 8:54 PM
LOVE IT
ChalkPerson on September 2, 2009 at 9:11 PM
helpless, as most libs are when confronted with logic and facts.
jdsmith0021 on September 2, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Holey moley, I’ve never heard of her before but the broad needs professional help.
Chickyraptor on September 2, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Ummmmmmm… No.
xax on September 2, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Oh God what I would give if this is the type of reporting we could get from the MSM.
The liberal is left speechless and lost in her own pathetic,hypocritical ideology.
Olberman,Matthews,Couric,Maher,and many other liberal pundits would be put in the very same position if dealt with by strong objectivity such as what Mcardle represented here.
This blatant hypocrisy put forth from a failed liberal platform knows that if they are actually held responsible for their actions and the failures of their policies, they would cease to exist.
Thank God for the Internet.
Baxter Greene on September 2, 2009 at 9:22 PM
You could see the wheels turning there. They weren’t turning very fast, but she was giving it all she had.
stldave on September 2, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Whoa….did not catch that.
I thought the messing with the hair was a nervous twitch from being put in her place by Mrs. Mcardle.
Do you think she is related in any way to John Edwards.
Baxter Greene on September 2, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Apparently some people here don’t own a mirror.
chimney sweep on September 2, 2009 at 9:33 PM
McArdle is not bad looking! Too bad she works at Andrew Sullivan’s fake pregnancy rumor mill.
Speedwagon82 on September 2, 2009 at 9:50 PM
I don’t talk much about people’s personal appearances either. But opponents of Rush call him a fat drug addict because they really can’t take him on on the issues. If people can destroy Goldberg’s “argument”, then whatever they have to say about her appearance doesn’t mean much except salt in the wound.
ddrintn on September 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM
These two to me might as well have been debating Jennifer Aniston vs. Angelina Jolie.
Marcus on September 2, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Comedy gold indeed.
SouthernGent on September 2, 2009 at 10:36 PM
What’s funny about it is that that one question and answer at the end neatly negates everything Goldberg had been righteously babbling about for the prior 15 minutes or so.
ddrintn on September 2, 2009 at 11:18 PM
I have seen this many times. Libs are not used to debating so they suck at it.
RobCon on September 2, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Michelle Goldberg interviewed my Dad and his brother for her book Kingdom Coming. She found out that my Dad works for USDA and, because he’s a christian, somehow decided that he was somehow proof of the rise of christian nationalism and included him in her book.
thevastlane on September 2, 2009 at 11:27 PM
This teaching moment was brought to you by those who use incendiary rhetoric when engaging the loony left. Which is the exact reason why most people have not backed off of Ochimpy since he connived his way into the white house. We know the left will squeal and relish the moments when we see oblivious douches like her realize how psychologically damaged the liberal mind is.
I love the feeling of schadenfreude in the evening…..it feels like….VICTORY!
csdeven on September 2, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Captivating!
BigMike252 on September 2, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Somewhere in a thesaurus is a partial definition of:
“persons who routinely make outrageous, untruthful and illogical statements as a means of supporting their social and political viewpoints” for the word “LIBERAL”.
Minorcan Maven on September 3, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Logic is racist!
Django on September 3, 2009 at 12:39 AM
I give the libtard credit in that realizing she was caught in a hole, she stopped digging.
Mallard T. Drake on September 3, 2009 at 1:46 AM
Allah, will you chuck the old Megan for the new one? :)
Shy Guy on September 3, 2009 at 2:11 AM
I love that screencap.
ronsfi on September 3, 2009 at 5:45 AM
That put a big smile on my face.
Cylor on September 3, 2009 at 5:58 AM
Luckily I had never heard of Michelle Goldberg before this column was published. I can forget her easily. As Winston said, he would be sober in the morning but ugly will still be ugly come sunrise.
Mae on September 3, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Before I watch the clip, who is Michelle Goldberg?
scalleywag on September 3, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Goldberg is the nitwit who wrote that book on the evangelicals in the US. Her thesis, as far as I could tell from her half hour CSPAN speech was that the religious right is somehow taking over the nation and turning it radically Christian, as opposed to the peaceful place it was without religion (whenever that was). She sounded like an idiot then, and she sounds like one now. Shocker.
TheBlueSite on September 3, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Michelle Goldberg…check out her wikipedia picture. What’s the first thing you notice??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelle_goldberg.jpg
TheBlueSite on September 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM
I’d like to walk up to Goldberg with a copy of “Culture of Corruption” and see if “you can sign your #1 bestseller for me.”
“Oops, I’m sorry, wrong Michelle.” LOL
riverrat10k on September 3, 2009 at 9:50 AM
TheBlueSite on September 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM
Bookshelf full of commie literature.
riverrat10k on September 3, 2009 at 9:51 AM
First thing I notice in that picture is that she has really creepy looking eyes.
scalleywag on September 3, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Ah, the Communist vs. Capitalist lobotomy dichotomy. It’s just “different” when it’s done by the left.
The same thing, but “different”….
karl9000 on September 3, 2009 at 10:35 AM
I forced myself to watch this, but it was painful. Ran an hour and twenty minutes, huge investment of time. But, the spent most of their time dancing around.
Opportunities were missed to nail this discussion down on some simple issues.
Bummer.
rogersnowden on September 3, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Megan McArdle’s HOT!
coffee260 on September 3, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Confronted with their own hypocrisy most Lefties fold like a lawn chair.
Even gay “rights” advocates never admit they really want financial rights extended to two people of the same sex as with married couples. Things like inheritance, medical coverage from one’s job to cover the other etc.
Only people with no moral/ethical compass whatsoever, like Bill Clinton, can make contradictory statements with a straight face and no equivocating at all. Everyone else gets flustered, and then angry and resorts to ad hominem attacks.
Neo on September 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Ms. Goldberg has consumed way too much Kool Aid!
BigMike252 on September 3, 2009 at 2:56 PM
I loved this …
The lefts hatred of anyone who they dont like is so
viscious it is insane..
So when the left cries out how they hate bush
but then immidiatly state
Oh you cant say that about obama..
Else your a racist..
Most people now are realizing that the left
is full of Bullshit..
And that we need to stand up to them and tell them
to shove it up their leftist arse..
http://www.veteranoutrage.com
ohh yea and its political dissent right ??
you leftist communists..
screw you..
veteranoutrage on September 3, 2009 at 4:39 PM
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