Jonah Goldberg, still a God-awful media critic

He's been throwing a pity party for Sarah Palin:

It certainly is true that nobody in public life in recent memory has been as shabbily treated as she has.

When some emailers were nice enough to remind Goldberg that he and his right-wing crew pretty much dragged Hillary (and Bill) Clinton through the mud by the collar for more than ten years, Goldberg responded [emphasis added]:

The gist of the complaints is that some right-wingers said mean things about Hillary Clinton or Janet Reno or some such. And it's true, some mean and unfair things were said about those folks. But I think a lot of these lefties seem oblivious to the fact that the New York Times, the news networks (minus Fox), David Letterman, et al aren't supposed to be scored as partisan outlets, but they are. And they've gone after Palin and her family in ways that I think are particularly egregious. Complaining about Richard Mellon Scaife's treatment of the Clintons is perfectly fair. But comparing it to the mainstream and “respectable” assaults on Palin is not persuasive.

Get me rewrite! According to Goldberg, all that `90's unpleasantness was because a few right-wingers said some “mean things about Hillary Clinton.” Which, of course, is like saying Hurricane Katrina produced some rain showers in New Orleans.

But then did you see Goldberg's utterly feeble attempt at media criticism? He claimed, specifically, that the New York Times had “gone after” the Palin family in “particularly egregious” ways. Okay, but how? Meaning, what did the Times do that was so egregious and out of bounds?

Crickets.

Goldberg, following the conservative guide to media criticism, didn't even bother to provide evidence or point to proof of the mighty Times' “egregious” behavior. He simply informed his obedient readers that the Times did something nasty and unprofessional to poor Sarah Palin and her family, and nobody at NRO even expects facts or specifics to be entered into the equation.