This clip has been everywhere. But while I’m struggling with a long post about Rashid Khalidi, I thought I’d put up this bit of McCarthyism as a placeholder.
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The Edge of the American West 
18 comments
October 31, 2008 at 1:22 pm
eric
Oh, I’m so glad you’re going to write up Khalidi. One of us should, and I tried, but I’m just tired and swamped. Go, team.
October 31, 2008 at 1:29 pm
kid bitzer
yeah, i was disappointed that sanchez did not reach through the video feed and beat goldfarb into a bloody pulp, all the while screaming “you think you’re going to come on *my* news show and smear people without a scrap of evidence? you think you can sit on your ass with your smug simper and gratuitously defame people? not on my show, you fat fuck!”
and then beat him into a bloody pulp. did i mention that?
still, that’s probably what sanchez thought about doing later, and what he did on the air wasn’t too bad, considering.
October 31, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Buster
Somebody has got to show that Goldfarb kid his future.
October 31, 2008 at 1:35 pm
eric
you fat
Bigot.
October 31, 2008 at 1:37 pm
politicalfootball
While you academics screw around with CNN, leading real-world thinkers are studying history to make sure that the U.S. stays safe. Here’s one bit that I particularly like:
October 31, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Ahistoricality
You know, I’d avoided watching this clip so far, but the reality far exceeds my expectations…. “we both know who we’re talking about”!?!?!
GMAFB
October 31, 2008 at 1:49 pm
rja
The utterly frustrating thing about people like Goldfarb is their ability to find a willing audience of paranoiacs. The other thing circling via email amongst frum people lately is a list of 30+ “not exactlys” about Obama. It is made up of statements that are, with maybe two vague exceptions, absolute fabrications. What’s worse, as I tell my friends, the original author is an actual anti-Semite, Andy Martin.
October 31, 2008 at 1:50 pm
kid bitzer
‘bigot’
okay, aqualad, we’ll see which of us looks more svelte in our skivvies.
October 31, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Josh
We can’t help it if you’re complicit in your own oppression, kid.
October 31, 2008 at 1:59 pm
kid bitzer
not very charitable of you.
look at me: i’m always happy to help oppress anyone who is complicit.
October 31, 2008 at 2:01 pm
urbino
Besides, we’ve semi-seen eric in a wetsuit already, and, personally, I hold that sufficient to make an informed judgment. Skivvie (“skivvy”? (note the punctuation, Wolfson?)) anecdotes not required.
October 31, 2008 at 2:04 pm
urbino
I still can’t take Sanchez seriously — he’s been too much of a fathead (no offense meant) for too long — but this clearly is among his best work.
Goldfarb looks like that smarmy kid you knew in high school; the one who never really knew anything, but mouthed off anyway. He needs somebody to hold him down and put dirt in his ears.
October 31, 2008 at 2:09 pm
kid bitzer
‘-vy’ singular, ‘-vies’ plural, i should think.
but the anecdotes would be ‘skeevy’, which is a whole nother thing again.
i don’t know: i worry that our unanimous loathing of goldfarb is one of those perspectival/tribal things, and that there were millions of other viewers watching him and saying, “oh yeah! he so told off sanchez! man, he just showed obama for the muslim he is! and furthermore, his silence just shows how it’s not safe to speak the truth on the msm, because the media is constantly taking away our first amendment rights!”
can i really count on my fellow-citizens to see what i see? i used to think so, back before, mmm, 1953 or so.
October 31, 2008 at 2:29 pm
JPool
Help me out here, because I’m feeling a little bit dense.
Do you all think that “We both know who we’re talking about” was just a desperate move when backed into a corner, or was it code for Jeremiah Wright, with Goldfarb aware that officially he couldn’t bring his name up but deciding that this would work as a nondenial denial? Or something?
October 31, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Vance
Both, JPool. I think most commenters I’ve seen on this have assumed it was Wright he was talking about. And yet his unwillingness to say a name does look pretty desperate. Sanchez made this almost as clear as one would like.
October 31, 2008 at 2:48 pm
JPool
Yeah, that makes sense. I would have liked Sanchez to have started guessing.
“Do you mean Sen. Biden? It’s Biden, isn’t it? Because that’s a very serious charge against a senior member of the US Senate.”
October 31, 2008 at 2:56 pm
dana
I’m glad you’re writing on it. My post would consist of a photo of me giving the McCain campaign the finger.
October 31, 2008 at 3:30 pm
urbino
I wish these anchors would start reacting to these knuckleheads by saying, “Look, that’s an idiotic thing to say and a completely illegitimate accusation if you’re going to refuse to back it up with evidence that could be refuted. You’re making a mockery of my show, so get off my air and don’t ever come back.”
Matthews interviewing Tom DeLay is another example. Why is anybody — other than Fox News — asking that guy onto their show? Hasn’t he been discredited enough, as both a political hack and an utterly corrupt officeholder, that he shouldn’t be treated as a serious, responsible source of information? Is it not even possible to be discredited anymore? Or is this one of those IOKIYAR deals? I mean, I don’t see Dan Rostenkowski or Jim Traficant providing political insight on anybody’s show.