RE: Mark Goldberg
What’s the world coming to? It takes almost no time at all for it to go off the tracks. I turn around for a moment to get the grape stains out of some Saturnalia garb, and come back for a luxuriant read of my favorite blog only to find……that a poisonous little mushroom has sprouted here in the comments section! Best, perhaps, to get the tongs out and have a quick look at the specimen before the herbicide that Brian has so kindly and effectively spritzed on it takes more of a toll.
Mmm, yes, interesting…. Upon examination, what we find here is a larval variety of lefty shill masquerading as a Young Foreign Policy Professional. Note the crinkles in the cap, a marker of cogitatus falsus often seen in the European stock, now showing up more often in American clones…. Forgive my amusement; but, it’s really a treat. — Socialist “human rights” summer camp in The Netherlands (sophomore stoner summer abroad?) does not a Foreign Policy Professional make. (1), (2)
Enough with the botany……
Mr. Goldberg’s oeuvre in The American Prospect reveals that he has been quite taken up with John Bolton. Mr. Goldberg’s proudest moments to date seem to be his series of hit pieces on Ambassador Bolton. Check the whole Goldbergian oeuvre at TAP: ( http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?name=View+Author§ion=root&id=1132 ). Here’s one of his Bolton screeds, “The Arsonist”: ( http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10734 ). It looks as though the assessment of his Tufts Yearbook about him is proving prescient: “Oh, Mark, what a guy! He’d run over his nearest and dearest, if he had any, to be first to climb into uncle George Soros’ wallet. Way to go, Marko!”(3) If we judge by his Sheherazade routine about Ambassador Bolton, I think we can rest assured that Mr. Goldberg has found a place nestled all cozy in amongst the Benjamins in Mr. Soros’ hip pocket. (4)
As for Mr. Goldberg’s attempt at an attack on Ms. Rosett’s latest archeological dig into the transgressions of the now, Heaven Thanks!, former S.G., the saintly Kofi, it has all the hallmarks of his budding personal slash and burn pulp fiction techniques as Brian has so cogently noted. The UN fanboys don’t like the public light of day shone on the murky, hypocritical goings on of the denizens of Turtle Bay, especially the K-man. Such dreams of glory they have nurtured, but how quickly they wither when UN corruption and hypocrisy are exposed to public scrutiny. Makes a fellow cross. Here’s a news flash for Mr. Goldberg: there is such a quantity of scandal and corruption buried wide and deep at the UN, that, in the happy event that Ms. Rosett were to be cloned a thousand thousand times, her bazillions of selves, even with their combined brilliance, would have to work very long and hard indeed to bring all the UN horrors out into the open. We’re talking M-theory-eleven-dimension-spacetime-infinite-quantities of corruption and scandal here. It’s no wonder that the UN lads get nervous and tetchy whenever Ms. Rosett brings forth a new revelation.
The music’s not over just because Kofi has left the building.
A few final observations for Mr. Goldberg….. Don’t be surprised at not being taken seriously. When you shill for the likes of the UN kleptocrats, and regurgitate liberal Demo talking points for a living, don’t imagine that your motives and connections are invisible. When you live on George Soros’ (4) and Ted Turner’s (5) dime, don’t imagine that no one will notice. Don’t imagine that your words will be taken for anything but the propaganda and cheap attempts at character assassination that they are. Go back under your rock.
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***Notes/or/ See How Easy it is to Screw with Your Subject/or/ Slash and Burn for Everyone:
(1) This is true: He does/did belong to this organization: ( http://www.ypfp.org/ ), and does allude to his human rights jaunt to the Netherlands one summer while at Tufts in this interview for the organization: ( http://www.ypfp.org/StepfordWonk?PHPSESSID=43a6ac0466b1401b03c08b169f9f1c93 ).
What I didn’t bother to mention (why burden the reader with extraneous facts that don’t support my slash and burn anyway!): he’s done some time with the New America Foundation ( http://www.newamerica.net/ ), a DC think tank.
(2) This is true, if tartly put: “Socialist ‘human rights’ summer camp in The Netherlands……..” A little research on the Board of Directors and associates of ( http://www.humanityinaction.org/ ), leads one to the conclusion that they must have responsive readings from Marx and Lenin.
(3) Almost pure fiction. But catchy, no? And besides, who’s to know….
He did go to Tufts. However, his Yearbook entry said: ….. Tough luck: Tisch Library is closed on week-ends during vacations. So, we’ll have to wait for next week for these deathless words.
(4) True. George Soros’ Open Society Institute is a donor to Mr. Goldberg’s employer, The American Prospect, which shills for the Demos and whatever liberal cause du jour is being pushed at the moment.
Root around on the web, and have a look at The American Prospect donor list. Amongst others you will find: The Annie E. Casey Foundation (donor to every liberal group under the sun), the JEHT (Justice, Equality, Human dignity, and Tolerance) Foundation, another group, like the Tides Foundation, that acts as a front for donors who don’t want their names tied to the organizations they fund, called donor-advised funding. The list goes on.
That Mr. Goldberg no longer works for The American Prospect, and thus, may no longer be accepting George Soros’ shilling, is a minor point that need not trouble the reader or disturb our hit-spiel, erm, narrative…. For the record, when last sighted, Mr. Goldberg was at liberty, as a free-lance journalist. I don’t know where he has been published lately (You’re right, I’m totally uninterested in finding out.)
(5) True. Ted “I’m a Socialist at heart.” Turner’s United Nations Foundation ( http://www.unfoundation.org/ ) is the only donor mentioned for the blog, UN Dispatch ( http://www.undispatch.com/index.html ), which shills for the UN. Is this to be Mr. Goldberg’s new perch? Mr. Turner’s many colorful pronouncements can be found in profusion on the web.
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There. See how easy that was. A little bit of fact, a hearty dollop of fiction, some nasty prose, all simmered in a nice vicious broth. Fun for the whole family. What a life!
