S12 EP133: Hour 2 - Jonah Goldberg Isn’t Really Wrong
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Many of the smart set have a problem with emotion small dollar donors but is the criticism warranted.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our 2. |
| 0:12.8 | Greetings America. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here, coast to ghost. The full number this open line Friday, 8779773-725. |
| 0:23.8 | Should you wish to be on the program? |
| 0:25.9 | Yes, open line Friday, you call in about the things you so passionately care about. |
| 0:31.2 | Now, I got to talk about Jonah Goldberg. |
| 0:38.0 | Jonah Goldberg for years was at National Review. |
| 0:43.3 | Great columnist. |
| 0:45.7 | And he's moved over to the dispatch. |
| 0:48.7 | He and my buddy Steve Hayes over there. |
| 0:50.8 | I am one of the founding donors of the dispatch. |
| 0:54.1 | I guess I need to disclose to you. |
| 0:56.3 | I like the work they do. A center-right perspective, lots of good investigations of Congress |
| 1:05.0 | and the administration and foreign policy. It's center-right news. It is definitely not Trump friendly, which I don't |
| 1:14.9 | really care about one way or the other, but they do great work. They've done great work for a while. |
| 1:19.4 | And Jonah is a thought-provoking conservative. What I find so funny is he's very |
| 1:25.7 | aggressively not a Trump guy. And for years, a lot of the people who now |
| 1:33.6 | vilify him held up liberal fascism, his book liberal fascism, as one of the best books they'd have |
| 1:39.4 | read. And by the way, it's a phenomenal book. It really is. He's a brilliant writer. I'm a little jealous at his |
| 1:45.2 | writing style. But he has set him, well, people have wanted to light him on fire. I'm going to say |
| 1:50.9 | he set himself on fire, but he really didn't. Others did with something he said on CNN. And I got |
| 1:56.2 | some disagreements with him, but some agreement with him. He didn't really say anything offensive |
| 2:00.7 | other than some people want to be offended. And I need to play you this audio because we need to |
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