andrew sullivan c/d

'I approached him with thoughts teeming through my head and said "I gotta question: the original version of "I Want a Dog" or the Introspective take?"'

"Then he got excited (and I got excited too!)."

"No, really Andrew, Michelle and I followed up seeing Do the Right Thing by talking about how great "Domino Dancing" was. Man, can you believe some people hate that song?"

imagine a little avatar of me climbing into your web browser and punching the shit out of that post

watch the ned fall down

DJP of Persia

"My fellow Americans: at last, Guantanamo Bay has been emptied and the rule of law restored. We have made one exception for a man who once did the cabbage patch but thinks that songs like "Left to My Own Devices" and "I'm Not Scared" were somehow poor listening..."

the cabbage patch is a fine fine dance, you poor misguided dance heathen

I've no doubt, but I do not speak for the president.

Someone's upset:

And I should point out that, unlike Andrew Sullivan — a diseased criminal drug addict foreigner who should be deported

oh, that guy

Ah yes, the Other McCain. A bitter man, that one.

I don't really "get" why you guys read these ppl

It saves me the bother of having to go out looking for people to point and laugh at.

It saves me the bother of having to go out looking for people to point and laugh at.

apparently this is what I do

dan i don't have a good answer tbh

there is no reason to read andrew sullivan, he has never said anything interesting in like a decade

I like my token conservatives to at least be good trolls

I don't really "get" why you guys read these ppl

― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP)

I think it's connected to why they prefer "unintentional comedies"

my friend who is a cute hipster bear had sex w sully and they talked about ecstasy and religion afterwards

which kind of E?

I think it's connected to why they prefer "unintentional comedies"

You're likely onto something.

god Sullivan sounds like one of those guys who insists on talking meaningfully after sex

I don't always agree with him but Sullivan's not a bad political blogger. He's kind of a big puppy but that's kind of entertaining and I have learned to skip a lot of his obsessions

Sullyswoon fits perfectly w/ pattern of megacrushes I've observed that Professional Gays have had on the last two Imperial Stewards w/ a "D" after their name: "Oooooh, the captain of the team TALKED TO MEEEEE!"

Point 6 of Greenwald's latest dispatch brings the Sullivan lolz

"tmmrw, in series 56 of greenwald's ongoing series about the hypocrisies of modern political life, glenn will examine in 15 parts how american liberals defend obama. part 13, points 36 through 92 deal extensively with jonathan chait's own failings on this issue. 92 through 153, and appendixes g-k deal with andrew sullivan."

^ prefers to talk about the Robert De Niro joke

1. i don't know what that is
2. is lent over already?

doesn't greenwald's obsessions with the minutia of daily punditry bullshit annoy you at all? he's just as bad as politico, just one step removed. writing about how other writers are superficial doesn't somehow make you less superficial.

that describes what is annoying about like 95% of the political commentary I see on the internet

I'd be happy with an ocassional statement relating the minutia to the bigger picture, or noting that it is minutia. Also, it would be interesting if Greenwald suddenly began getting included in more mainstream outlets, and if the mainstream media would at least address some of these items so they would not seem like Greenwald's little hobby horses. The whole killing an American without due process issue has largely been ignored by much of the mainstream media. No one really asked Obama about it at his last press conference.

we currently have a state where it is legal to shoot and kill someone under the guise of "standing your ground"; due process is and has always been a fucking fantasy in this country

I cannot address political matters as Pope Mordy points out, but some churches do not count Fridays as part of Lent.

Go eat a capybara.

Always keep up my ACLU membership as they support legal battles for due process everywhere

xps "stand your ground" laws exist in like 16 states fyi, which obviously just strengthens your point

I'm going to respond to Goldblog's unhinged, thin-skinned rants against me in due course, but it's worth noting how he conducts debate. He resorts either to authoritah - my critics are too uninformed and dumb to engage - or to marginalization of his opponents.

lol referring to him as goldblog

i know a lot of ppl here don't like goldblog (for good reasons tbh), but sullivan really looks like a child when arguing with him.

i just found it amusing to see him accuse someone else of unhinged rants

They both seem like children to me no matter who they are arguing with.

oh plz.

Good God. The utter lack of engagement with the arguments of a book that has yet to be published is revealing - and the deployment of personal matters as a way to smear someone is exactly the same tactic as Jeffrey Goldberg's abuse of private matters, like his version of a conversation we once had

that's what this is all about. sullivan is embarrassed bc goldberg spilled the beans that his conversion on israel was about his love for obama. doesn't everyone already know that sullivan seems to know frightfully little about israel, middle east, etc and switches his opinion based on the political climate? dude's entire shtick these days is practically, "i used to believe X but now i believe the total opposite."

I'm sure I'm the last person still interested in any of this, but Sullivan in never-never land today:

"...like Joe Klein, I'm beginning to think that Eric Fehrnstrom's description of his own candidate as an Etch-A-Sketch, capable of erasing anything he has believed or said in the past instantly, is close to a disqualifying comment."

Ignoring for a second that the election is still 7-8 months away, ignoring whatever accidental truth there is to what the guy said, and ignoring that he posted this on a day where Obama reminded everyone of his own problems in that area, should he maybe take into consideration that it was something said by somebody on the campaign, not Romney himself? Disqualifying comment? "I'm suspending my campaign as of today; someone who works for me said something stupid."

Later on in the same post, he accidentally returns to reality: "But what does it say about Obama's strength that he's still polling only four or five points over this gaffe-prone robot?"

This is precisely why Etch-a-Sketch was funny exactly two seconds. A campaign aide made a remark that Reinforced A Narrative? really?

I can see where the story will make Romney needlessly squirm some more during the nomination. (Gingrich has a good ad up today.) Trying to carry the story over into the general seems silly to me.

Today on the Dish, Andrew wondered if America was on the road to post-Obamacare single payer while we detailed the specific path down that route, noted the somewhat circumscribed role of the mandate, guessed at whether the Medicad expansion would get thrown out by SCOTUS, cautioned against seeing the Constitution in black-and-white, developed a timeline for hearing the Court's decision, compared Obama's fight with the Court to Bush's, and forecasted the negative consequences of the mandate's defeat for Obama's reelection campaign.

he wondered, noted, guessed, cautioned, developed, compared, and forecasted. what a renaissance man!

so boring lately

so is this guy like a lutheran now or what

http://feministing.com/files/2012/05/newsweek.jpg

Yes, I am ready to eat jellyfish.