Jonah Goldberg’s appearance on The Daily Show is something akin to watching someone try to earnestly unravel a ball of cooked spaghetti that’s been left in a colander to cool. Jon Stewart really wants to see the noodles laid out in an orderly fashion, but Goldberg just resists all efforts to understand him. It seems his most frequent refrain is a Ray Pekurny-esque, “It’s all in that book, ri-right there.”

http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml

For a more substantive takedown of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, read Dave Neiwert’s comprehensive recap of his efforts with Goldberg at FireDogLake. Neiwert also has a review in The American Prospect and I highly recommend the Gavin McNett’s review for Alternet, as he and the rest of the Sadly, No! team have pwn3d Goldberg pretty much since the book was first rumored back when the smallest computers were housed in large rooms and data was transferred by punch cards in 2003.

Update:
As I found the video via Josh Bolotsky at the CREDO Blog, I didn’t realize it wasn’t from last night, but from the 16th.

Also, Jon Swift’s pre-release offer of help Goldberg meet his publishing deadline by substituting chapters with LOL cats stands out as a piece of advice that Goldberg would have been wise to follow, while still maintaining a comparable level of intellectual seriousness as his final product achieved.