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IssuesJonah Goldberg: "Obama won't be able to take a shower without fear of" one of the Clintons "prepar[ing] to plunge the knife into his back"
In his August 15 syndicated column, headlined "Nightmare on Dem Street," National Review Online
editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg wrote of former President Bill Clinton and Sen.
Hillary Clinton's appearances at the Democratic National Convention:
"Bill and Hillary are back. And forever more, Barack Obama won't be able
to take a shower without fear of that curtain snapping back, as a woman -- or
is that a man? -- prepares to plunge the knife into his back."
Goldberg also compared the Clintons to fictional
horror movie characters Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Dracula, writing:
"Freddy Krueger always comes back. Jason re-emerges from the pond one
more time. Dracula had so many comebacks, nobody was surprised to see him
hanging with Abbott and Costello." Additionally, Goldberg wrote: "If the monster-movie thing is too offensive for you Clinton
voluptuaries out there, think of it like this: They're like Richard Gere in
'An Officer and a Gentleman' (who, coincidentally, is hounded by a
charismatic black dude but never gives up)." He added:
They've
got no place else to go. And I was right. The Clintons are back. The coffin lid has sprung
open, the seal of the crypt has been broken, the mutant virus has escaped the
lab. Both Clintons
will speak at the Democratic convention, and Hillary will get her
I-told-you-so's. In the horror flicks, it's not that the creatures are
impervious to damage, it's that no matter how much you hack them up, they seem
to come back again. And again. And again. The Clintons have been horribly damaged, but they
press on.
As Media
Matters for America has documented, Goldberg is not the first
media figure to suggest the Clintons
would use violence against Obama and other political opponents.
From Goldberg's August 15 column:
For
months now people have been saying to me, "Do you really think they're
gone?" "Is it finally over?" "Is the coast clear?"
The
questions have been in response to Barack Obama's supposedly yeoman service in
putting an end to the Clintons
in public life.
My
response to those who believe our long national nightmare is over has always
been: "Have you seen no monster movies?"
Freddy
Krueger always comes back. Jason re-emerges from the pond one more time.
Dracula had so many comebacks, nobody was surprised to see him hanging with
Abbott and Costello.
Of
course the Clintons
will be back.
If the
monster-movie thing is too offensive for you Clinton voluptuaries out there, think of it
like this: They're like Richard Gere in "An Officer and a Gentleman"
(who, coincidentally, is hounded by a charismatic black dude but never gives
up).
They've
got no place else to go. And I was right. The Clintons are back. The coffin lid has sprung
open, the seal of the crypt has been broken, the mutant virus has escaped the
lab. Both Clintons
will speak at the Democratic convention, and Hillary will get her
I-told-you-so's. In the horror flicks, it's not that the creatures are
impervious to damage, it's that no matter how much you hack them up, they seem
to come back again. And again. And again. The Clintons have been horribly damaged, but they
press on.
[...]
But
fixating on the plot is never a good idea with monster flicks. The point is
that the story is always the same.
And so
it is this time as well. Bill and Hillary are back. And forever more, Barack
Obama won't be able to take a shower without fear of that curtain snapping
back, as a woman -- or is that a man? -- prepares to plunge the knife into his
back.
Published: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:37:36 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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