Quote of the day
posted at 10:30 pm on June 23, 2009 by Allahpundit
“But we’re not cynics here. Instead, we are devotees trying to track our way through Sullivan’s mental progression, disciples whose only hope lies in understanding how so great a man could so completely whipsaw from a critical view of a man he’d once supported to a sycophantic lay worshiper of another, equally obvious politician.
Some attribute this to President Obama’s pretty face. That’s demeaning. Some attribute it to George W. Bush’s stance on gay marriage – but that would be ridiculous, not merely because it would suggest that Sullivan is a one-dimensional writer obsessed with sex, but also because it would make Sullivan seem like an utter nutter for hating former Vice President Dick Cheney (a proponent of gay marriage and federalism) with the intensity of a thousand suns. (It would also raise questions about the man’s sanity in another way: Candidate Obama was clear that he opposed gay marriage, and occasionally likes to have a good laugh about angry, protesting gays. Yet Sullivan’s admiration continues.)
No. These are too prosaic, too common, too easy to destroy. What could drive a man from admiration and defense for a governor from Texas who hewed to Sullivan’s then-preferred doctrine of subsidiarity to calling him a war criminal? What could so completely rearrange a man’s entire view of the world – other, of course, than some terrible disease afflicting his mind?
The answer is obvious: The Jews.”
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It’s always the Jews.
myrenovations on June 23, 2009 at 10:34 PM
That actually makes complete sense. Considering Andy’s recent statements about neocons and jews, it neatly explains his 180 on Bush and unconditional love of The One. This a**hole is an anti-semite.
AUINSC on June 23, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Yeah, this was brilliant. Ace always does a good job dissecting Sullivan too.
Emily M. on June 23, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Oh Lord, Please NOT ANOTHER thread involving the word GAY. I’m so sick I could vomit right here.
Jeff from WI on June 23, 2009 at 10:36 PM
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. QOTD?
How about Ogabe saying today that the new climate bill that is about to be shoved down our throats will create millions of new jobs?
Bishop on June 23, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Gays for Hitler!
Sounds like a great Slogan Andy could champion…
Upstater85 on June 23, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Bwahahahahahah! k. Sullivan mockage is almost as good as Chris Mathews mockage. They are both lunatics and not in a good way.
BrideOfRove on June 23, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Sullivan’s got the jailhouse lawyer look going.
ddrintn on June 23, 2009 at 10:42 PM
I think that qualifies as a short story. I use to love to watch Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Hitchens debate bfore Mr. Sullivan lost his mind.
Cindy Munford on June 23, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Bill Clinton,as well as Obama has tossed the gays under da
bus,twice!
And,its right back to Bush!Ugharoo!
canopfor on June 23, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Like fish in a barrell :o
SouthernGent on June 23, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Like fish in barrel :o
SouthernGent on June 23, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Dayum! That’s gonna leave a mark. Are we sure Polo didn’t write that?
Pablo on June 23, 2009 at 10:46 PM
It’s like reading Cicero. This is a work of beauty.
- The Cat
MirCat on June 23, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Sullivans picture,looks like the character,that Tom Cruise,
played in Tropic Thunder!!
canopfor on June 23, 2009 at 10:47 PM
The Jews?
Nah. Needs more fiber.
Limerick on June 23, 2009 at 10:48 PM
There is a show on NBC called “The Chris Matthews Show” that airs on Sunday mornings. The show is pure excrement, of course. Sullivan is a frequent guest, as is RINO Swine Kathleen Parker. In other words, a collection of lunatics.
Norwegian on June 23, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Andrew Sullivan is a truly remarkable man. He can simultaneously believe as many as 6 contradictory things before breakfast. In all of recorded history I believe the closest runnerup could never simultaneously believe more than 4 contradictory things and it took him all day. Even Barack Obama himself, probably Andrew Sullivan’s closest living competitor, seems to be limited to simultaneously believing only 3 contradictory things and that usually takes him a week or more to work up to.
Cheshire Cat on June 23, 2009 at 10:52 PM
I’ve never really paid attention to who Andrew Sullivan even is. I think you bloggers pump each other up or something – I agree with Bishop that the climate change tax about to be passed or even Drudge’s latest on the collapse of the big 3 TV news show’s ratings are more interesting. I just skip over this Andrew Sullivan fella, always have. Don’t care about him.
Marcus on June 23, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Read the whole thing. He tears Dandy Andy to shreds. The whole article should be QOTD.
jimmy the notable on June 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
2nd place: “Only I’m the President of the United States.”-The Lyin’ King.
3rd place: “What took you so long?”-Major Garrett
portlandon on June 23, 2009 at 10:56 PM
If it wasn’t for hotair, I would never have heard of someone named andrew sullivan. Yet, I am told in this article that he is one of the greatest conservative thinkers of our age. Forget about that accolade. Can the man even write? Isn’t he just another Perez Hilton – a smarmy gay knowitall?
keep the change on June 23, 2009 at 10:57 PM
What about the Jewish homosexuals in Hollywood………?
Seven Percent Solution on June 23, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Sullivan is proof that there is just as much clubby camaraderie in the blog world as there is in the Beltway culture. Why else would anyone take this guy’s views seriously? He’s an incoherent joke.
Siobhan on June 23, 2009 at 10:58 PM
i sent AS the link with “pretty much rips you a new one” as my comment. he wrote back “actually a few really old ones
but enjoy!”. i then responded “c’mon Andrew. man up ma brutha. don’t you think its about time you apologized to sarah?” no response as yet. (not holding my breath)
sbvft contributor on June 23, 2009 at 11:03 PM
No link to Karl’s takedown today?
Mr. Joe on June 23, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Andrew Sullivan is to Barack Obama as Kathryn Jean Lopez is to Mitt Romney.
Only difference is Sullivan is more fauning as more of a 12 year old school girl crush.
Mr. Joe on June 23, 2009 at 11:06 PM
How do we produce such …. calamities like AS in the USA?
And what is his fascination with thinking that God is just gonna all of sudden agree with him on sodomy?
Sapwolf on June 23, 2009 at 11:07 PM
That Geffen and Diller, they cannot be trusted, neocons one and all!
Mr. Joe on June 23, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Is it true he is STILL not a citizen yet? Why does the UK keep sending these people here?
Sapwolf on June 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
How about Badeaux’s piece on Sully today?
Mr. Joe on June 23, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Isn’t Andy supposed to be deported soon?
Don’t let the door hit your fat ass on the way out, Nazi Fairy.
dave c on June 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM
It’s the same article.
AUINSC on June 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM
oh you already have the link, my bad.
Mr. Joe on June 23, 2009 at 11:10 PM
I hear Shia LaBeouf is doing a sequel to the first Gobots movie.
TMK on June 23, 2009 at 11:11 PM
You have to go with the Daily Dementia graphic.
Mr. Joe on June 23, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Mr. Sullivan:
As you are a professional journalist, I and many others expect you to at least have the proper Democrat/Liberal/Muslim spelling of my people…….. Teh Eeeeevil Jooooooooooos.
Thank you for your time.
Kenneth L Solomon
Typical, Bitter, Jewish, God-Clinging, Gun Owner and Barking Mad Insane NASCAR Fan.
Per DHS findings, that officially makes me a Right-Wing Extremist…… and I’M DAMN PROUD OF IT !!
Obama doesn’t have a soul or conscience. He’s powered by an engine fueled with burning pieces of The Constitution, The Bill Of Rights and YOUR freedom.
E T Cartman on June 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I knew it! Jews. My second guess was… well also the Jews.
Dash on June 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
We don’t want them and the French won’t take them.
Joe Bloggs on June 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Sullivan or Nixon?
Okay that was easy, Nixon. If it was Sullivan he would have called Graham a Christianist and Graham would have responded that the Pope was right, Sully is objectively disordered (in rational thought, not sexuality).
Mr. Joe on June 23, 2009 at 11:21 PM
AP:
NO ONE ARES ABOUT SULLIVAN ANYMORE; HE’S JOINED THE RANKS OF FISK AND CHARLES JOHNSON.
reliapundit on June 23, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Since we have copious evidence that Andrew Sullivan’s middle initial must be “S,” why does anyone waste ink and/or keystrokes on him?
landlines on June 23, 2009 at 11:28 PM
I’m really glad he can’t vote.
Tommy_G on June 23, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Sometimes snark and satire combine and meld into a sublime elixir. This is one of those times. Truly delicious.
nukemhill on June 23, 2009 at 11:29 PM
holygoat on June 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Them crazy Joooos are at it again.
infidel4life on June 23, 2009 at 11:31 PM
NO ONE ARES ABOUT SULLIVAN ANYMORE; HE’S JOINED THE RANKS OF FISK AND CHARLES JOHNSON.
reliapundit on June 23, 2009 at 11:24 PM
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By commenting on this thread you defeat the very point of your argument. Think about that.
Americannodash on June 23, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Is joining the ranks of Fisk, Charles Johnson and Sullivan the new pariah group?
Mr. Joe on June 23, 2009 at 11:34 PM
FIFY.
LeBron on June 23, 2009 at 11:34 PM
I hope Andy has it framed.
GarandFan on June 23, 2009 at 11:36 PM
There’s a few minutes I’ll never get back.
The best part of that article is the knowledge that Andrew Sullivan will read it at least 3 or 4 times and then anguish for at least a week that he’s really not worthy and the best part of that week of anguish is, he has every reason to torment.
F*** that! Or better yet quit F******* off!
All of that and $4.50 buys a latte’, not a grande’ either.
Get smart and leave genius to people who have nothing better to do.
Speakup on June 23, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Isn’t the joke really o the Atlatic, thier credibilty and the other Atlantic bloggers?
I could imagine an editor scratching his head reading this…like a thousand paper cuts to the brand that we link whore a BS artist, anti-semitic, Palin uterus stalker, conspiracy nut.
Topsecretk9 on June 23, 2009 at 11:39 PM
ack
Isn’t the joke really ON the ATLANTIC, thier credibility and the other Atlantic bloggers?
Topsecretk9 on June 23, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Not a new group, just the same old self-interested, unobjective, moral-equivalence ditch-o-hacks that all jabbering egomaniacs stumble into eventually. See Also: Dan Rather
TMK on June 23, 2009 at 11:45 PM
and of course he was a paultard
jp on June 23, 2009 at 11:46 PM
so what explains Charles Johnson? going through a similar mental crisis?
jp on June 23, 2009 at 11:46 PM
My G-d! That guy, Badeaux, is friggin’ hysterical.
progressoverpeace on June 23, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Isn’t the joke really o the Atlatic, thier credibilty and the other Atlantic bloggers?
I could imagine an editor scratching his head reading this…like a thousand paper cuts to the brand that we link whore a BS artist, anti-semitic, Palin uterus stalker, conspiracy nut.
Topsecretk9 on June 23, 2009 at 11:39 PM
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ack
Isn’t the joke really ON the ATLANTIC, thier credibility and the other Atlantic bloggers?
Topsecretk9 on June 23, 2009 at 11:40 PM
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Yes & yes. Although the Atlantic and their credibilty issue is not a major concern. For most forms of communication it is all about exposure and publicity. Good, bad or indifferent.
Americannodash on June 23, 2009 at 11:50 PM
Andrew Sullivan used to be a fine writer who managed to balance his emotional instincts with reason and clarity. Now his published meanderings are emotionally volatile and mostly irrational.
As one of the founding conservative blogfathers, Andrew was also unusually accessible to his readers via email. I probably still have the messages he sent me during Bush’s first term. Tragically, he has become the wacky recluse who repeatedly crashes the parties of former friends, who can’t decide whether to ignore him or get a restraining order.
I feel too sorry for him now to join the public flogging. I prefer to ignore him, except in my prayers.
Terrie on June 23, 2009 at 11:54 PM
I’ve seen several cases of libs on message boards claiming conservatives were controlled by AIPAC and the PNAC group
much more than in the past
jp on June 23, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Read your Animal Farm again. Chuck is “Napoleon,” a common
lizardpig who starts out battling againstIslamic facisma cruel human, but when he becomesKing of the Lizardoids“President of Animal Farm,” he turns it into a dictatorship. He always gets his own way, makes sure nobody promotes any view but his own, and surrounds himself with bodyguards and fawning attendants.TMK on June 24, 2009 at 12:00 AM
FIFY.
Shy Guy on June 24, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Everyone wants what they can’t have. (think about it).
OldEnglish on June 24, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Speaking of Perez, here’s another version of the photo of the punch which caused him so much psychic turmoil. It’s “enhanced” in a style which Perez would find quite familiar – Warning: NSFW
wadikitty on June 24, 2009 at 12:28 AM
All liberals are self destructive.
Andi, Perez, CJ, Rosie, Rather, etc.
It’s like a ticking time bomb, just underneath the surface, waiting to go off.
faraway on June 24, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Andrew Sullivan un finochio non mangia figa da la non lo mangia nessuno catso en sera che? Eh non no so.
Americannodash on June 24, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Es ist den Juden.
Johan Klaus on June 24, 2009 at 12:43 AM
The problem with calling this a takedown is that implies the guy was ever “up” in the first place. He has sucked from day one and he has no real influence on anything at all. He is a non-entity.
echosyst on June 24, 2009 at 12:45 AM
Andrew SUllivan is pissed because he can not become a citizen of the U.S.
Its not because he is gay so much as it is because of his HIV status.
As i understand it, The Law does not allow people with HIV to become US Citizens.
So he is constantly on a work viza that can be revoked at any time.
Bush wouldn’t revoke it so Tight Glutes Andy railed against him.
Now TIght Glutes Andy is just doing what he needs to do to ensure that Obama doesn’t boot his butt out.
Thats his only issue.
He is a horrible columnist and horrible political mind and a hack of a writer.
THe only thing he had going for him when he claimed to be a conservative was that he was a gay conservative writer.
Now that he is just another douchebag liberal fellator of the current administration he is just one of millions.
But really it comes down to this…have unprotected anal sex at your own risk…and if you plan on trying to become a US citizen, wrap it always. atleast till you get your citizenship.
BillaryMcBush on June 24, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Alert – threadjacking in progress!
The Cap & Trade bill comes to the floor of the House this Friday.
- Barack Obama Jan, 2008: “When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal…under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
Call your Reps Wed and Th as many times as possible to stop this economy killer.
Continue with your regularly scheduled topic.
DerKrieger on June 24, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Let’s blame the threadjacking on the joooooooooz.
There! Got us back on topic.
Shy Guy on June 24, 2009 at 12:56 AM
Who is it that is wasting all of this energy and thought on such a meaningless douchenozzle? Good God.
Jaibones on June 24, 2009 at 12:57 AM
BUT IT WAS A BRILLIANT READ.
Poor andrew can’t even play in the same park as his critic.
BillaryMcBush on June 24, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Someone had to say it.
This man said it very, very well.
Brian1972 on June 24, 2009 at 1:06 AM
But really it comes down to this…have unprotected anal sex at your own risk…and if you plan on trying to become a US citizen, wrap it always. atleast till you get your citizenship.
BillaryMcBush on June 24, 2009 at 12:48 AM
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Your scenario explains a great many things to his shift in allegiance. Obataining a U.S. citizenship is hard to come by I guess.
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And also yes of course. He poligripped his phallus member when he should’ve saran wrapped instead.
Americannodash on June 24, 2009 at 1:07 AM
People on ludes should not write
Bulldogger on June 24, 2009 at 1:10 AM
He was expecting a greencard for his support of Governor Bush.
He didn’t get it.
He got pissed and turned on the administration that he felt owed him something.
Think of him as a fatter balder gayer Ariana Huffington. A looney that faked conservative until it didn’t serve the purpose any longer.
BillaryMcBush on June 24, 2009 at 1:14 AM
oh and it wasn”t just an accidental whoops that got him ill. He advertizes on gay sex sites for unprotected anal and has been doing so for years and years…just ask Ace for the proof.
BillaryMcBush on June 24, 2009 at 1:15 AM
oh and it wasn”t just an accidental whoops that got him ill. He advertizes on gay sex sites for unprotected anal and has been doing so for years and years…just ask Ace for the proof.
BillaryMcBush on June 24, 2009 at 1:15 AM
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Okay, what really makes me wonder is his fixation of Sarah? He really never took the time to inquire from her about her thoughts on gays let alone the HIV & citizenship issues. He just went full attack mode on her. No a very smart move IMHO.
Americannodash on June 24, 2009 at 1:30 AM
Guy is a self absorbed sleezeball with an unhealthy addiction to anonymous unprotected encounters.
I was in DC when he arrived on the SCENE. Everybody new his business…was an embarrassement to the gay community then but liberals didn’t go after him and his vile behavior cause he was gay and conservatives didn’t talk about it because he was posing as a conservative.
However Mr “Milky Glutes” as he calls himself in his ads is the worst example of what is wrong with the promiscuous gay lifestyle. Utter embarrassment and frankly i would not be surprised if the early stages of dimentia have set in with him.
BillaryMcBush on June 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM
I used to make a point to watch Sullivan when he showed up to argue on CSPAN or news forums. Then again, I used to watch CSPAN and news forums.
Sullivan could debate brilliantly
However about the time the gay marriage push hardened the heart of the conservative pharoahs who refused to give it their blessing, Sullivan did a 180 faster than you can say “Pope Benedict does not support the romantic image of the gay priest much less gay marriage either”
IMHO, Sullivan’s brave new world, for which he left his motherland, turned out to be a gay bashing bust. His church of Peter of Toole and Lawrence of Arabia, or was it Becket, has gone back to celibacy and gay suppression and the romance is gone, the bloom is off the rose and it shows, in his prose
entagor on June 24, 2009 at 2:46 AM
The Right makes this guy by paying so much attention to him. Why they do I’ll never know. Maybe because he is so mentally ill and it is therefore so easy to make him look what he is, crazy.
TheBigOldDog on June 24, 2009 at 2:52 AM
But I like commenting here! :)
OldEnglish on June 24, 2009 at 3:35 AM
I still say it’s syphalis related dementia.
SuperCool on June 24, 2009 at 4:48 AM
That was possibly the most thorough, articulate, and even artistic literary evisceration I have ever read. Thanks for the post, AP. I am literally in awe.
Cylor on June 24, 2009 at 5:01 AM
It’s not the Jews.
With Andrew Sullivan, it’s always been about where he gets to put Lil’ Andrew. That trumps everything.
The reason he holds George W. Bush in contempt while quaffing deeply from the Obama Kool-aid fountain is because he knows, as we all do, that George W. Bush meant every word he said about gay marriage and that Obama is lying out of political convenience.
gridlock2 on June 24, 2009 at 5:44 AM
The author’s description of the origin of Catholic teaching gave a thrill up my leg.
AbaddonsReign on June 24, 2009 at 6:02 AM
THAT was Brilliant!
Godefroi on June 24, 2009 at 6:20 AM
I don’t understand why anybody still takes Sullivan seriously. It’s not so much his positions — as odd as some of them are — so much as the inexplicable degree of hysteria that he attaches to them.
He should just wear a sign that says: “I’ve become unhinged.”
cruadin on June 24, 2009 at 6:22 AM
I think it is the AIDS. I think Sullivan has lost his mind. Literally. Sad but true.
Terrye on June 24, 2009 at 6:54 AM
Sullivan is British intelligentsia. It comes naturally. The gay thing initially complicated his trad. jew thoughts, because minority victims unite, but once the jews were thrown out of the minority victims club, Andrew came out of the closet. He must have had a walk-in closet.
JiangxiDad on June 24, 2009 at 7:06 AM
You should have just stopped there. Both parts of that sentence (with the one correction)are correct. The majority of gays (at least those in the public eye I should say, and all of those who are activist) are so obsessed with thier genital use identification politics that they get twisted in circles trying to relate everything to thier behavior. Of course that would drive someone crazy. For them, it is a life and death struggle, they must be accepted for what they are in anyway possible by society because that is the only way they can live with themselves. There are many gays who accept that being gay is what they are but do not need to prove to themselves or anyone else that it is in anyway normal or natural. They live productive, happy lives and are accepted , nearly seemlessly, into society. Those are the people who are hurt most by those who would flaunt and advertise thier behavior. It becomes an issue because of the activists. Thier private lives, which assumedly most would like to live with dignity and discretion, becomes a scarlet letter. A scarlet letter placed on them not by society but by the gay activists.
peacenprosperity on June 24, 2009 at 7:23 AM
Hit the nail on the head. And further, the camaraderie is more important then ideas for so called “conservative” pundits. That’s why compromise and settling for less is always pushed on us by the squishy. The whole problem with the self annointed political elite in washington and the media.
peacenprosperity on June 24, 2009 at 7:28 AM
They make the world go ’round. Or, is that the Jews? Wait…
Mommypundit on June 24, 2009 at 7:33 AM
Does he have AIDS? I’m sorry…I missed that. That’s pretty awful.
Mommypundit on June 24, 2009 at 7:35 AM
He looks like a bald Tom Arnold.
AZCoyote on June 24, 2009 at 7:35 AM
Um. Wow.
I never thought I’d see snark that could legitimately be called beautiful … but that was pretty wondrous to read.
The purest, snarkiest dismantling in history? Probably.
Again: wow.
If I were Sullivan, I’d curl up into the fetal position and cry softly for a couple weeks.
Professor Blather on June 24, 2009 at 7:51 AM
Quite possibly the best takedown ever written. Well worth reading for many reasons.
A dissection of this clown that is so thorough, biting, scathing and accurate as to render him into a buffoon crouton.
I pray that I am never the subject of such.
heldmyw on June 24, 2009 at 7:53 AM
I concluded that Sullivan was/is mentally ill a while ago (and thus, continues to be since there’s been nothing to alter his course in the interim). It’s not a conclusion I need to rethink, unfortunately.
About “the Jews” thing, what it is, I’ve (also) concluded is that people still, on a primal level, believe in the Boogey Man, the monster under the bed, the gross thing under the stairs, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE…and it’s a form of mental illness that some then transfer those primal fears onto “the Jews” because they’re encouraged to do so by others so affected.
It’s scapegoating, pure and simple, but, it has monstrous proportions in and of itself, which is WHY those so affected with this kind of thinking are unable to view their own irrationality and are, indeed, then, mentally ill.
Lourdes on June 24, 2009 at 7:58 AM
I agree. In Sullivan’s case, that’s almost certainly the contributing factor if not the cause of his mental anguish and aberrated reasoning, but it doesn’t then explain the other people without AIDs who arrive at Sullivan’s same conclusions. As to the same state of mind that affects others who don’t have AIDs as Sullivan does yet still arrive at his same conclusions, I think it really is a class of illness, a class of mental illness, like a severe phobia or some milder form of schizophrenia.
Lourdes on June 24, 2009 at 8:02 AM
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