Jonah Goldberg calls Barack Obama a 21st century slavemaster. Actually, to be fair, he uses a clever allegory that requires much hyperventilating on my part to reach my totally unreasonable point:
There’s a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who will allegedly scrub the stain of racism from the nation, vows to run afoul of the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery.
For those who don’t remember, the 13th Amendment says: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime ... shall exist within the United States.”
See? I can’t believe I’m...taking...this…
He just called a man, let alone a black man, a slavedriver. Does this mean that Barack Obama’s newest middle name is “Massa”?
There is one benefit to Goldberg’s idiotic penchant for selling every point he makes with the most offensively wrong analogy possible - he’s about 75% of the way towards Ann Coulter’s flameout into utter irrelevance, and he’s only published one book.