Jonah Goldberg of the National Review debates journalist and editor-at-large for The New Republic Peter Beinart in a clash of leading political experts.
The debate format frames the two as proxies for the McCain and Obama campaigns. Watch and decide.
Bio
Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart is an American journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast website. Beinart worked at The New Republic until 2006, for much of the time writing The New Republic's signature "TRB" column, which was reprinted in the New York Post and other major American newspapers.
From 2007 to 2009, Beinart was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Beinart is the author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals, and Only Liberals, Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, and The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris.
Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg is an American conservative author and commentator. Goldberg is known for his contributions on politics and culture to National Review Online, where he is the editor-at-large. He is the author of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.
He also frequently appears on television, on such shows as Good Morning America, Crossfire, Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Larry King Live, Your World with Neil Cavuto and most recently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
does the american israel lobby want to fix anything.
it is people that fix themselves first before assuming
they can help anybody. besides FEMA and National security is the real terror of America.
The notion that Palin's community organizer jabs were "racist" is just hilariously unfounded. Palin is a relative lightweight who is unqualified to be VP - but it's perfectly legitimate for her to point out that being a "community organizer" is pretty unsubstantial stuff.
Questioning Sarah Palin's qualifications is not sexist. Questioning Barack Obama's qualifications is not racist. Let's get over this frivolous BS and move on to real questions.