Here's a blast from the past, from Daily Kos on January 28th, 2008:
Jonah Goldberg's faux Pultizer "nomination"
It seems back when conservative blatherer Goldberg's earlier book Liberal Fascism was published in 2008, he was trumpeting the fact that he'd been 'nominated' for a Pulitzer. In truth, his name had been 'submitted' to the Pulitzer committee, as are thousands of others each year. He was never among the few actually chosen as nominees to potentially win the award.
Four years later, he has a new book out, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, and he tries to pull the exact same trick. The dust jacket for his book proclaims that Goldberg has "twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize." Ummmm....no, he's still NEVER been nominated. Details below...
An article on MSNBC (which I came across via an email from Publishers Weekly):
In fact, as Goldberg acknowledged on Tuesday, he has never been a Pulitzer nominee, but is merely one of thousands of entrants.
When this bit of résumé inflation was pointed out by a reporter for msnbc.com, Goldberg said he hadn't meant to mislead anyone and removed the Pulitzer claim from his bio at National Review Online....And he added, "I never put it in the bio in the first place."
His publisher, Penguin Group (USA), said the error was unintentional and it would remove the Pulitzer word from his book jacket when it's time for the first reprint, "just like any other innocent mistake brought to our attention."
Yes, completely unintentional. An honest mistake.
Except, of course, that it's the exact same innocent and unintentional mistake he got caught pulling four years ago.
And of course completely innocent and unintentional on the part of the National Review, which also touted Goldberg as twice-nominated for the Pulitzer, until they scrubbed the reference. MSNBC helpfully provides links to the BEFORE and AFTER screenshots of the National Review website. They did the exact same scrub of Goldberg's bio four years ago.
Goldberg has been a Pulitzer entrant, but so are some 2000 other each year who can spring for a 50 dollar fee. As was pointed out in that diary on Daily Kos four years ago:
Work that has been submitted for Prize consideration but not chosen as either a nominated finalist or a winner is termed an entry or submission....The three finalists in each category are the only entries in the competition that are recognized by the Pulitzer office as nominees.
UPDATE: The
New York Post picks up the story:
The conservative National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg once called Al Gore a "serial exaggerator." Now it appears that Goldberg himself may be guilty of the same vice.
Cross-posted at
The Bookstore Cat.