rightwing nuts

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 6 09:07:37 PST 2002


[from Michelangelo Signorile's column in NY Press <http://www.nypress.com/15/45/news&columns/signorile.cfm> - Goldberg is the son of my neighbor, literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, who persuaded Linda Tripp to rat on Monica]


>Over at National Review Online, meanwhile, Jonah Goldberg is gleeful
>that the sniper suspects are both Muslim and black, and is hoping
>they turn out to be homosexual as well.
>
>"IS JOHN MUHAMMED A THREEFER?" he asked last week. "We know the
>Sniper is a Nation of Islam Muslim (which is to say he belongs to a
>cult that uses Islamic jargon). We know he's black. But I've got
>this nagging feeling we might find out that he also practices an
>alternative lifestyle-I mean besides from all of the murdering.
>There's just something about this Batman and Robin act-Malvo is his
>'ward'?-that strikes me as odd, in a specific way. Call it a hunch.
>Not that there's anything wrong with that."
>
>A "threefer." I think that says it all about how much sport these
>guys take in bashing whole categories of minorities. It's like: Gee,
>we might be able to smear homos now, in addition to Negroes and
>towelheads! Fun times, dude!



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