Two Facts

1. Jonah Goldberg has the intellectual honesty and integrity of a high school plagiarist.

2. The LA Times nonetheless continues to publish his mendacious drivel.

Salon's Alex Pareene has done a splendid job of deconstructing Goldberg's latest mess, in which he asserts that "The 70% of Americans who oppose what amounts to an Islamic Niketown two blocks from ground zero are the real victims of a climate of hate, and anti-Muslim backlash is mostly a myth."

Yes, sure, absolutely. It's the bigots in this country who are marginalized by hatred.

Would that it were true. Since, unlike Goldberg, I don't find any reason why bigots shouldn't be marginalized.

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