Who’s the surrender monkey?

A correspondent came upon a three year old article by Robert Knight of the Family Research Council about Jonah Goldberg’s rush to surrender to the homosexual rights movement. As Knight put it:

In “Time to Face the Facts: Gays Gain Victory” (June 20, Townhall.com), [Goldberg] also notes that Sen. Rick Santorum got a load of liberal buckshot for restating a Supreme Court sodomy decision, and that Attorney General John Ashcroft tried, but failed, to cancel a “gay pride” celebration at the Justice Department.

“It is all but impossible to say a negative word about gays in public settings,” he observes, adding that Canada is moving fast to legalize so-called “gay marriage.”

Mr. Goldberg, who disparaged the French people as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys,” and has written some witty stuff from time to time, suggests that it is time for us to pull down the flag and surrender to “gay” militants. In the face of a velvet onslaught from less than 2 percent of the population, he counsels conservatives to make “some painful capitulations – intellectual, moral, philosophical and financial.”

Isn’t that amazing? Most conservatives, when they see the tyranny of liberalism (a.k.a. “political correctness”) encroaching, have an instinct to fight it. Goldberg’s instinct is to surrender to it—and, given that he’s beyond shame, to trumpet his surrender in the plainest terms. And this person is not only a leading contributor at National Review, but one of their “stars,” a featured name at NR conferences and on NR cruises.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 21, 2006 06:52 PM | Send