September 10, 2008
I'll Ignore Media Requests, So Please Charge Me with Murder
I'm not going to link Andrew Sullivan nor The Atlantic, the magazine that continues to destroy their reputation by paying him a salary for unmitigated hate, but it is amusing, in an Amy Winehouse kind of way, as he allows his naked (and please, let it be only figurative) adoration of Barack Obama to combine with his irrational hatred of Sarah Palin to produce gemstone-quality insanity.
His latest?
In response to Sarah Palin's rather rational decision to not take questions from the same media that savaged her and her family for days after she was announced as John McCains running mate, Sullivan take umbrage with a primal squeak.
If you want to know what it's like to live in Putin's Russia, the Republican party is giving you a good taste. This is the most appalling dereliction of duty by the press that I have ever seen in my adult life. If they had any integrity, they would stop covering her at all under these conditions. We're now well into the second week in which someone who could be president of the United States next January has not been available to the press.
Why, it's a perfect metaphor, isn't it?
Freezing out those who attacked her and her family with a string of false rumors and innuendo (many of which can be traced directly to Sullivan itself) until she has a no-questions-barred interview with a talented journalist is exactly the same thing as journalists critical of Putin continuing to wind up dead!
Master of Projection: Andrew Sullivan
Posted by: w3bgrrl at September 10, 2008 02:13 PMObama wouldn't go on fox news for months, or O'Reilly for even longer. And he was smart to do so. Unscripted moments in hostile territory are dangerous for all politicians. Sullivan is a moral coward since he knows he will never have to interview her and perhaps be humilitated himself. He is egging on his compatriots to cast the first of many stones.
Posted by: mytralman at September 10, 2008 02:59 PMWhat happened to Andrew? Just a few years ago, he actually had rational thoughts. Did he catch BDS from Arianna?
Posted by: Don at September 11, 2008 08:02 AMSullivan got his panties in a wad over gay marriage and has never been sane since.
Posted by: Kevin at September 11, 2008 08:37 AMYeah, a long time ago I used to think Sullivan was a fairly rational guy. He's been unhinged for most of the Bush presidency, however. I doubt I can ever bring myself to respect his opinion (or even read it) again. His loss. Ranting left-wing moonbats are a dime-a-dozen these days.
Posted by: John at September 11, 2008 10:31 AMI was an enthusiastic reader of Sullivan post-9/11 and got much solace from his sanity in a sea of insanity, so it's been very disappointing to see him descend into a sewer.
From my perspective, what happened to him is this: He fully supported Bush and the Iraq war; then Rumsfeld's botched handling of it, Bush's refusal to fire Rumsfeld, and finally the torture revelations, pushed him over the edge.
For Sullivan, he had given his support to people who then did some really bad things, in his name in a way, and he was so angry that he completely flipped allegiance and latched on to a really smart, smooth guy who seemed like the antidote.
It's unfortunate that he's so far gone now he can't see the ways McCain is closer to that earlier Sullivan in terms of handling the war and foreign policy. Sullivan is trying to atone by going to the opposite extreme. Also sad that he apparently can't get any satisfaction from the fact that sanity prevailed, in that Bush finally fired Rumsfeld, adults were put in charge of the war, and things are finally going in the right direction -- the direction Sullivan originally wanted to see.
Perhaps Sullivan will get another epiphany and become a thoughtful, independent commentator with a conservative bent again; but from my perspective, Sullivan has done to me what Bush did to him, and I'm unlikely to take him seriously again regardless of which way his ideology floats.
Posted by: Ronald Hayden at September 12, 2008 03:00 PMI *understand* why Sullivan's apparently insane rants are newsworthy, but I never felt any touchy-feely connection with him so, for me, he's just another sad victim of BDS (which is quickly mutating into MPDS).
Posted by: DoorHold at September 14, 2008 01:30 PM
