andrew sullivan c/d

I wouldn't feel too guilty about that. For all the hubbub he makes about the importance of supporting independent journalism and all of that, so much of what that blog does is link to outside content and other sites' reporting and analysis. If anything I feel guilty that I'm supporting that aggregation over sites that do actual journalism.

I understand outside sites benefit greatly from his links, too, so it's a symbiotic relationship, but still, one party is doing significantly more work than the other

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/01/28/a-note-to-my-readers/

welp

that post endorsing Chait was a suitable last straw

RIP - i read sullivan for a year or two back when he was still at the atlantic. some things he always did well (primarily social issues) and some things he has always been horrible with (geopolitics)

still read him every day, often nervously

And now, where will you go?

Damn, end of an era. Can't believe he's crossing the blogger rubicon

https://twitter.com/johnjcook

it's always been hard to take this dude seriously because of his support of the iraq invasion. how can someone so "smart" be that dumb?

as a general rule, you won't go too far wrong ignoring any political writer who was wrong on iraq in 2003

see also: jonathan chait

I can't think of any political writer that was right on iraq in 2003 unless Seymour Hersh counts

the general preponderance of willful ignorance and cynical opportunism was mind-blowing

why does anyone care about andrew sullivan

gay rightwingers are funny

is there any issue on which he's still a rightwinger?

being 'a rightwinger who's not really a rightwinger' seems like such a great shortcut to undeserved attention

yeah that was a cheap shot but after yesterday's political correctness bullshit he deserves it

xp

is there any issue on which he's still a rightwinger?

― Mordy, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 2:32 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

charles murray

Most of his shit these days is aggregated, with the occasional splenetic outburst to remine people tbat he's a dick and his "A Prayer for Today" twaddle.

Dude was editor of Thw New Republic during its 18th Brumaire phase; every mastheas Dem waa as conservative and insufferable as he.

loves Obama, still a rightwinger

Was gonna make that B- joke.

i lol'd

is there any issue on which he's still a rightwinger?

― Mordy, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:32 PM (32 minutes ago)

uncritical adoration of ronald reagan?

or i dunno, maybe that's a bipartisan thing at this point

the recent bell curve apologist stuff...

The timing of this is really a slap in the face, just a year after going all in on this ad-free independent blogging model, touting himself as a model for others to follow.

And accepting a ton of money from readers to do so, right?

Yup. Also for all his self-congratulatory posts about what a strong community his team and his readers have created, the truth is it's not strong enough to survive with out him and his distinct voice and perspective. There's no way that site will carry on as a reader-sustained, ad-free venture without him. It's over.

http://mashable.com/2013/01/03/andrew-sullivan-daily-dish-third-million/

Time to cash out, suckers!!

wow that's crazy

Happy Tenth Anniversary of Andrew Sullivan's Previous Blogging Hiatus

As you can see in the accompanying screenshot of Sullivan's Dish archives, in the nine months following Sullivan's 2005 announcement that he was stepping down from blogging, he updated The Dish 1,564 times.

Andrew Sullivan is not retiring from blogging.

http://tktk.gawker.com/happy-tenth-anniversary-of-andrew-sullivans-previous-bl-1682343500

It's a lucrative gig and he's good at it, so yeah it doesn't seem unreasonable to speculate he'll be back. Especially if he remains financially vested in the Dish; the incentive to return to blog up the 2016 election has got to be huge.

people aren't gonna come back to his pay model after getting burned

Not to get too speculative/cynical, but he could use this as his hiatus to parachute away from the dish, then return to blogging in the year to cover the elections for some other site that would probably pay much better. The hunger for election coverage is going to be huge, and I could see a few sites bringing him on as a renter the way NYtimes did Nate Silver

lmao the dean hits on what's really important

https://twitter.com/rxgau/status/560554662815076352

(yes that is from like 1min ago heh)

Checked in hourly during the last few months of the 2008 election. Not too often the past few years.

oh xgaupaws

"he could crank it out ps eat shit"

Great now I'm gonna be singing "Fuck any pipsqueak" to the tune of "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" for the rest of the day

"What does Robert Christgau do in bed? You know, is he a pipsqueak-fucker?"

Charles Pierce:

Andrew Sullivan has given up blogging again until he starts blogging again. (Too bad, I was hoping to be called a Fifth Columnist again, having been born too late for the Red Scare.) During the Chait-Coates dust-up, Sullivan chimed in with another defense of his tenure as editor, and another explanation of why the sourest bilge of scientific racism, spruced up by The New Republic for a new century, was worthy of debate. The fact is that TNR, which already was headed for Crazytown because it was owned by a bigot and a maniac, accelerated in that direction under his command. And it wasn't just The Bell Curve, either. It was Betsy McCaughey's tobacco-industry knob-gobbling hit-piece on Hillarycare. It was using Stephen Emerson, a crackpot so garish that even Fox News won't have him any more, to "debunk" the October Surprise story. It was he who was her editor when Shalit began to steal everything that wasn't nailed down from other publications. Her reward was to write a completely meretricious piece on affirmative action at The Washington Post. He also hired Stephen Glass, which turned out to be good for a laugh, anyway. (He seems to have been a little weak on the editing aspects of being an editor.) For those of us who watched what happened to that magazine, and who chafed under the entire notion that, on the big issues of the past 35 years, it had anything to say about progressive politics beyond the bacon-wrapped scallop liberalism of a very insular Beltway circle jerk, and who believed that political writing in this country could use a lot less TNR in its DNA, this has been a very good week.

the bacon-wrapped scallop liberalism of a very insular Beltway circle jerk

ok this lily is way gilded - circle jerks are insular by definition, no? - yet "bacon-wrapped liberalism" deserves enshrinement

jerks within jerks

depends on how big the circle is

you could all be facing out i guess

take it the sex droughts thread, guys

http://pando.com/2015/01/28/andrew-sullivan-is-not-the-future-of-journalism/

Wow. Thanks, J.D. And I started reading the dear in 2001.

Here's what this man was posting in March 2003: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2003/03/page/3/