Jonah Goldberg takes his ball and goes home. "yellow belly"

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Like Mother, Like Son
by Michelangelo Signorile

http://www.nypress.com/16/28/news&columns/signorile.cfm

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Last week, a producer at Boston’s WBUR, an NPR station–the same NPR accused by the right as being at the forefront of the "liberal media agenda"–was so eager to get in touch with me that she contacted my editors at both New York Press and Newsday with urgent missives, and also sent an email via my website. She was calling from a popular program called "The Connection," hosted by Dick Gordon, and wanted me to participate on a show about same-sex marriage the following day. The other guests would be writer E.J. Graf and National Review Online’s Jonah Goldberg.

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As the producer from WBUR was trying to reach me, I was on the air myself, doing my own daily three-hour radio program, and didn’t get the messages until 4 p.m. I returned the calls and accepted. She planned to make arrangements for me to go to an NPR studio in Manhattan, but also inquired if I could do it from my studio at Sirius Satellite. She was set on having me on the show.

She called back at 6:30 to inform me that I was "off the hook" for the show: Conservative pundit Goldberg wouldn’t appear with me. The producer noted that she doesn’t usually let a guest "dictate" who the other guests are, but it was late and thus hard to find another conservative. As I wrote in a letter about the incident to Jim Romenesko’s media news page on the Poynter Institute’s site last week, that sounded pretty bogus. Finding a conservative pundit to do a radio program is about as difficult as finding a drag queen at gay pride.

What turned the macho Goldberg into a yellow belly? What could send him running from a gay columnist? According to the producer, Goldberg implied that we’d had some words–even though Goldberg and I have never spoken or even exchanged so much as an email. He did "admit," she said, that I am a "powerful" gay columnist (yes, I laughed at that one), but that
I had put out "misinterpretations" of his work.

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It is the NPR station that is most egregious here, for letting him dictate the show. The next time, I imagine, Goldberg will make sure his demand isn’t let out of the bag, and I’d bet that the NPR producer is in a bit of trouble today. But, at the very least, it’s a satisfying consolation that, every once in while, you can shine a bright light on the doings of these people and watch them scamper like a horde of roaches.
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1. Poor baby Jonah

the repulsive prick

[swinney]

2. Johnah The Whale--Mom A Whore in 60's??

I have asked him several times this question.

I met a Whore in the 60's in Brooklyn and she looks exactly like your mom would have looked years ago. A twin. She your mommy?

[beanball]

3. Jonah's mom

was one of LBJ's go to girls in the 60's but Luci heard there were bigger pricks in the republican party.

[beanball]

4. #1,000

I have arrived.