Almost daily Corner bashing

Jonah Goldberg sticks his very serious, thoughtful head fast into the sand:

I don't want to debate my book before people have read it for every obvious reason under the sun. But a lot of people want to discredit it and me before it comes out, either out of animus towards me or, perhaps, some more revealing worry.

Let me suggest a third option. This is the same Jonah Goldberg who, in a not-soon-to-be-forgotten post, compared Matt Yglesias to Charles Lindbergh (indicating a willingness to cast about ill-conceived criticisms knowing that Lindbergh is a code word for anti-Semite); who tried to escape ownership of that comparison by saying Lindbergh, ya know, wasn't all that bad anyhow; and who, by doing so, betrayed both his lack of understanding of Fascism and his willingness to engage in the sort of character-assassinating tactics he no doubt decries from the "liberal Fascists" he so abhors. This has nothing to do with either animus or (laugh) worry. It has to do with expecting a track record of seriousness from people who feel entitled to being taken seriously.