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Jonah Goldberg Inks Big Book Deal, World Expecting To Be Blown Away

by Jim Newell  5:50 pm December 7, 2009

In honor of Jonah Goldberg’s hot new million-dollar book deal, we thought we’d re-share this great moment from our nation’s most greatest political thinker ever. When’s your book coming out, average reader? [Gawker]

{ 39 comments }

ManchuCandidate December 7, 2009 at 5:55 pm

Jonah Goldberg, RW writefare Queen.

Way Cool Larry December 7, 2009 at 5:56 pm

yet another reason to weep for our country– JoGo has a million dollar book deal

Radiotherapy December 7, 2009 at 5:57 pm

He needs a prop.

stew December 7, 2009 at 5:57 pm

Wonder what he does on LBJ’s birthday…

suchsweetthunder December 7, 2009 at 5:58 pm

I’m hoping to ink my first deal next week. It’s on an incredibly boring topic, which makes it a lot like Goldberg’s book, except I’m probably going to get a one figure (finger?) advance.

kewlguy42069 December 7, 2009 at 5:59 pm

Ever since he saw his first fax machine, young Jonah had always wondered how they squeezed those documents through such tiny wires.

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 7, 2009 at 5:59 pm

Okay, this is weirdin’ me out. Why didn’t anyone tell me JoGo was the PHB.

ella December 7, 2009 at 5:59 pm

Mom’s his agent?

hockeymom December 7, 2009 at 6:04 pm

Good thing the internet wasn’t invented in 2007. That would have BLOWN Jonah’s mind.

shortsshortsshorts December 7, 2009 at 6:06 pm

We need to xerox this post by the thousands and e-mail it to everybody we know— immediately.

AnSnarkist December 7, 2009 at 6:09 pm

The writers at National Review Online are a series of boobs (and not the good kind).

dum librul December 7, 2009 at 6:15 pm

JoGo? Why are you guys moving from “Doughy Pantload” to “JoGo?” The original is timeless.

In other news, a couple days ago I was at the Borders in Pentagon City and overheard a guy asking for help finding “Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg.” This person was not only actively and knowingly engaging in Jonah Goldberg consumption, but was not too ashamed to announce it in public! The girl gave him a sort of pained look while walking over to the appropriate section (Morbidly Obese Beneficiaries of Semen-Caked Dresses? Is there such a section in Borders?).

Extemporanus December 7, 2009 at 6:24 pm

Jonah Goldberg once paid a million bucks for a Bob Novak-George Will tag team, and he’d like you to know that—even though Novak was dead—it was worth every penny.

Godot December 7, 2009 at 6:28 pm

[re=473422]dum librul[/re]: I thought Mike Huckabee was the Doughy Pantload?

Way Cool Larry December 7, 2009 at 6:30 pm
SayItWithWookies December 7, 2009 at 6:32 pm

What kind of airplane will he be taking his bus tour in?

twoeightnine December 7, 2009 at 6:36 pm

Which tumblr blog did he start?

Hooray For Anything December 7, 2009 at 6:39 pm

Good question, Wonkette. Sadly, my book, entitled “Hitler Lovers: Why Liberals Want to Have Sex with Your Dead Aborted Black Baby (And I’m Not a Racist for Saying That)”- has yet to find a publisher. According to my agent, I’m having problems selling the book because publishers said it wasn’t Jesus-y enough and because I admitted that scientists make a good point with that whole evolution thing.

comicbookguy December 7, 2009 at 7:01 pm

No no no. First I need a senile old man to name me his VP running mate. Then I say a bunch of stupid shit on TV. Quit my job. Get a book deal. Profit!

For the troops. Also.

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 7, 2009 at 7:08 pm

Hooray for Anything: I’m sure you can cancel all the bad out by simply titling a chapter: “Slavery: It Never Happened in America”. Rightie revisionists will get all hot and bothered over that.

Johnny Zhivago December 7, 2009 at 7:17 pm

By interfence, I’d like to know exactly what kind of fax machine ‘sometimes’ transmits the actual paper a message is printed on???

AnnieGetYourFun December 7, 2009 at 7:18 pm

[re=473457]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Cargo.

Accordion-o-rama December 7, 2009 at 7:45 pm

I love the image of Romney’s press guy running a U-haul full of blank paper through a fax machine, one sheet at a time. And frankly, I can’t imaging a better use for his time.

Come here a minute December 7, 2009 at 7:49 pm

If I had a million dollars, we wouldn’t have to eat Kraft dinners,
but we would eat Kraft dinners, of course we would, we’d just eat more.

Zadig December 7, 2009 at 8:23 pm

Jonah Goldberg always wondered why he’d lost his first apartment and had his car repossessed. After all, he always made sure to fax the payments on time. He never trusted those wicked, deceitful Fax Machines again, forever.

Sparky McGruff December 7, 2009 at 8:31 pm

[re=473496]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: I’m not sure if it should be “Slavery never happened”, or if it should be “Why Slavery was the Best Gift of All, and You’re Not Racist”

Decker December 7, 2009 at 8:54 pm

In honor of Jonah Goldberg’s hot new million-dollar book deal…

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Decker December 7, 2009 at 8:57 pm

And there goes my feeble attempt at concrete poetry, dribbling down like LBJ’s jizz on Lucienne Goldberg’s face.

Lionel Hutz Esq. December 7, 2009 at 9:19 pm

There is no God.

CanadianBacon December 7, 2009 at 10:29 pm

You call it a best selling book, I call it a voluntary stupid tax. My new book, Conservative Socialism will be on sale April 1. Chapter 3 is titled Karl Marx, the closet capitalist. Chapter four is devoted to Sarah Palin’s plan for reducing CO2 in the atmosphere by shooting them from an airplane.

Marlowe December 7, 2009 at 10:55 pm

Call me Jonah. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

…….

And who was the stewart on thePequod?
Dough-boy.

Larry McAwful December 7, 2009 at 11:06 pm

Word has it that while Jonah Goldberg was working on this book, he had as many as three editorial assistants on hand to wipe the Wite-Outâ„¢ from his monitor when it got too thick.

El Pinche December 7, 2009 at 11:15 pm

Johan Goldberg , still a twelve sandwich eating human bolillo.

El Pinche December 7, 2009 at 11:16 pm

[re=473621]El Pinche[/re]: Johan, Jonah…same loaf.

sezme December 8, 2009 at 12:23 am

Heh, heh: “usually.” Sometimes, though!

Mr Blifil December 8, 2009 at 1:17 am

At least he didn’t turn purple like his brother. Not counting the massive discolored patches of skin that seethe and ooze beneath his clothing.

LowerdPeninsula December 8, 2009 at 2:25 am

If there wasn’t proof, before, that Jonah is inking a book deal is proof-positive that there is no Christian, Muslin, and/or Jewish god (the jury is still out on Shiva, Ganesh, Vishnu etc…).

BTW, this has inspired me to write my own book:

“8 is not enough: The Tiger Wood’s Story”

Alternate Title:

“Two Above Par: The Tiger Woods Story”

or:

“How many licks does it take to get to the center of a whore-pop?”

norbizness December 8, 2009 at 9:24 am

His first book buried the notion of American meritocracy; this book is just pissing on its grave.

Darkness December 8, 2009 at 10:28 am

The Tyranny of Cliches

I think he mixed up the used napkin that had his book title on it, with the post-it that had his review of Going Rogue on it. The book title is Fuck You I Got Mine from My Mom, but it’s too smudged for him to read it now after those two racks of ribs he stuffed in his face.

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