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"So, taking Streisand seriously, we must ask: Is she on crack?"
Posted by Stephen Green  ·   7 December 2005

It's Jonah Goldberg versus Barbra Streissand - 'nuff said.

(Hat tip to co-blogger Will Collier, who can't seem to log on this morning.)

Comments

I think Stacy banned me for all the post AU-uat game gloating.

The Goldberg column reminded me of something P.J. O'Rourke said a while back, about a review he'd done on one of Hillary's ghost-written tomes: "I did the meanest thing I could think of. I quoted her."

Posted by: Will Collier at December 7, 2005 10:25 AM

The scarriest thing I took away from Streisand's letter was that she gets her news from the editorial page.
I guess It's easier to listen to the parrot ask for a cracker than to investigate why it's hungry.
Happy Hannukah. in 2 and a half weeks!

Posted by: mad bikini blogger at December 7, 2005 10:34 AM

And what is worse, he'll be laughing as he carves her up.

Posted by: Mikey at December 7, 2005 10:45 AM

Will, your quote of PJ referring to Hillary reminds me of one of my favorites--roughly, that she "possesses a highly developed, finely attuned stupidity normally found only in the upper reaches of academia."

Posted by: JPS at December 7, 2005 11:01 AM

That was just cruel.

Posted by: Ian Wood at December 7, 2005 11:46 AM

Steve I'm so glad you posted this one. I just finished reading it a few minutes ago.

Goldberg vs. Streisand is like Lennox Lewis vs. a 7 year old cancer patient.

Still, I sure do enjoy watching Goldberg put the intellectual wood to Babs.

Posted by: John Noonan at December 7, 2005 11:48 AM

...and here I was thinking that the "principals of journalistic integrity" was a coy reference to the editorial boards of the NY Times and WaPo.

Posted by: Publius Rex at December 7, 2005 12:35 PM

I cancelled my subscription to the Morrow County Sentinel when they replaced "Jumble" with "Ask Aunt Judy".

It was blatant depuzzlefication and I was not going to be silent on the matter. I gots rights and I'll use 'em.

Posted by: alppuccino at December 7, 2005 12:44 PM

Well, now that I know this stuff is going on, I'll be watching vigilantly against the further dilution of any gamuts... bwah!

Goldberg rocks. Your title pulled the single best line, though.

Posted by: Joan at December 7, 2005 01:14 PM

The article was magnificent, it shows us poor (in 'speechifying') how to put a pretender (of knowledge) in their place! To do it so quickly and cleanly you can't even see the scars left from the blade work. I stand in awe. And the following comments were just a good...maybe better only due to brevity of said comments.

Posted by: Cheri Lawson at December 7, 2005 05:06 PM

Barbra steisand isnt on crack she is CRACKED

Posted by: spurwing plover at December 12, 2005 07:44 AM



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