DoughyP loses his train of “thought”

Normally Jonah Goldberg has a simple and easy to follow thesis, even if typically it is insipid, poorly thought out, and based on a series of falsehoods, myths, distortions or oxymorons. Liberal fascism, for instance.

Today’s Pantload spoor in the LA Times is not up to snuff. Although it is full of Jonah’s usual twaddle, it is a hopelessly unfocused morass of unconnected themes.

Our doughy nitwit tries to weave the death of a famous man, Solzhenitsyn, the demise of an unfamous man, Peter Rodman, the fact that communism was doubleplusungood, and a couple of lines in a speech by Barack Obama in Berlin into a sort of verbal stew about how liberals-heart-communism and Barack Obama is a revisionist because. . . . as crazy as it sounds, because Obama paid homage to Berlin and the airlift which saved West Berlin — during a speech given in West Berlin — without spending the rest of his speech killing a crowd’s enthusiasm with a dissertation on the Cold War and Kissingerian realpolitik. I suspect Solzhenitsyn somehow got thrown into this mutant degenerate spawn of Jonah’s printed mental onanism because his death meant that Jonah could use name without fear, since a corpse is incapable of providing Jonah with yet another Marshal McLuhan moment.

Even by the low standards of god-awful with which we have come to expect from the Pantload’s submissions to the Times, this one fails. It’s as if he had forgot his homework and this crap was all he could come up with during the ride on the very short bus to school.