The Shoe Fits

Juan Cole takes on National Review's Jonah Goldberg; there's already been a lot of commentary so I won't add to it, except to quote this:

Cranky rich people hire sharp-tongued and relatively uninformed young people all the time and put them on the mass media to badmouth the poor, spread bigotry, exalt mindless militarism, promote anti-intellectualism, and ensure generally that rightwing views come to predominate even among people who are harmed by such policies.

Yup.