Re: "A stand that lacks moral authority," commentary, Aug. 18:Goldberg is a whack job from way back, as far as I’m concerned. He once ridiculed “Silent Spring” author Rachel Carson for saying that DDT was carcinogenic – Goldberg said it wasn’t and Carson’s claim “was based on inexact science.” It was so laughably easy to prove Goldberg was wrong (by going to the CDC and American Cancer Society web sites) that it was pathetic.
As a measure of his own moral bankruptcy, surely there is little to match Jonah Goldberg's attack on Cindy Sheehan, who supported her son's decision to go to war, whose moral stand has already cost her her marriage, and whose tenacity has impressed even those who oppose her.
Goldberg's accusation that Cindy Sheehan is a bully is nonsense. His attempts to justify the "chickenhawk" revolutionaries (who launched the Iraqi adventure) as some kind of heroes would make great material for Saturday Night Live or The Daily Show. His attempt to belittle truth and authenticity (by anchoring it to identity politics) was a truly inspired red herring. His ridicule of Maureen Dowd for writing that the closest bereaved ought to be able to write the epitaphs of their relatives' deaths is tantamount to the intrusiveness that Goldberg and the right inserted into the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
In the end, it will be said that on the brink of success the right squandered a winning hand by betting the house on an inside straight. Goldberg should go home while he still has his pants.
Here is further proof of what Burrows is claiming above, by the way.
Here is still more proof (and support for Cindy Sheehan) from Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin.
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