Almost daily Corner bashing

This is for anybody who was away from a computer on the day that Jonah Goldberg dove head first (after what he thought was a rare note of praise) into a deep, dark, embarrassing trap.

Here's what happened: It all started one day when God spoke to Lawyers, Guns, and Money and told its writers to send Jonah a fake email, not so subtly implying that his book barely meets the intellectual standards of a middlebrow kindergarten. They did so, and feigned enough praise that Jonah mistook it for serious kudos and posted it on his blog. LGM followed suit, posting a screenshot of the email on their site and basically calling Jonah a buffoon. This, I guess, alerted Jonah to his flub, because he took the email down (his post now reads: "It turns out the original email posted here was a prank. Okay. And therefore....?" Answer: "And therefore you're a buffoon"). Now all that's left of the evidence is the LGM post and Jonah's attempt at acting unfazed. The end.

Fortunately, if you missed all that, head on over to The Corner right now and you can read along as Jonah gets called out for journalistic malpractice by global warming skeptic Iain Murray. Jonah was "confused". Good times.