Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism in a serious fashion. People wanted to know why I should even give it the time of day, instead of dismissing it out of hand as the profoundly unserious book it is.

Well, this is why: Because right-wingers will take that little Newspeak ball and run with it as far as they can.

It's now part of the right-wing conventional wisdom that President Obama is a "fascist." Isn't that special?