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Note to Howard Kurtz: Andrew Sullivan is not “right-leaning”

“Our people are doing the vetting. Even if some of it is hitting dead ends, other ones are striking direct hits,” Moulitsas says. His role, he adds, “is to sit back and let the citizen journalists do their job, and I amplify the stuff that shakes out.”

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hahaha:

This just in, Gay activist Andrew Sullivan who backed Jean-Francois Keri-Heinz and has a man crush for O’bama may have left the mainstream conservative reservation sometime back….

sven10077 on September 1, 2008 at 11:46 PM

Howard Kurtz? Has he MET reality?

Gatordoug on September 1, 2008 at 11:51 PM

My first instinct was to scoff at “citizen journalists.” But then I realized, the actual journalists are just reading Kos and going on the air with it. So why not? Okay, the Kos Kidz are journalists. It’s not like the profession can sink any lower.

Jim Treacher on September 1, 2008 at 11:51 PM

Wow .. on so many levels.

wise_man on September 1, 2008 at 11:54 PM

I guess the Atlantic Monthly likes having Batboy on the payroll?

Topsecretk9 on September 1, 2008 at 11:54 PM

some media commentators say Palin is fair game, not just

because she is running for national office but because she is a self-described “hockey mom” who told the nation that her eldest son is headed to Iraq.

“Once she’s brought her children in as selling points, unfortunately the bad comes in with the good,” says Lisa Bloom, a Court TV anchor. “She’s integrating her mom quality as a key part of her résumé. We didn’t do that in the press; she did that.”

CanadianGuy on September 1, 2008 at 11:57 PM

I guess there is someone other than Allahpundit posting in headlines now. Good.

Buddahpundit on September 1, 2008 at 11:57 PM

What a complete whitewash of the sewer that is the left-wing blogosphere. Ace ran a quote from a Kos poster today that basically said the hell with the truth, let’s just keep making sh!t up and throwing it, because it’s fun and the Rethuglicans deserve it.

rockmom on September 1, 2008 at 11:58 PM

Howard Kurtz’s listings for bloggers’ political leanings apparently only goes up to 2003, when Bush announced he would sign the Defense of Marriage Act. Someone needs to send Howie a copy of the 2008 edition.

jon1979 on September 1, 2008 at 11:58 PM

So none of this would have happened if Palin hadn’t mentioned she has kids. Believable.

Jim Treacher on September 1, 2008 at 11:59 PM

Kurtz is also showing his sexist colors here. To any woman who has been pregnant, the smear about baby Trig is close to a blood libel. It’s just about the worst thing you can accuse a woman of doing, short of murder. It’s like the crazy Muslims who accuse the Jews of drinking their children’s blood. Kurtz just reported what happened like it was a rumor that Palin threw a spitball in high school. Unbelievable.

rockmom on September 2, 2008 at 12:02 AM

some media commentators say Palin is fair game, not just

because she is running for national office but because she is a self-described “hockey mom” who told the nation that her eldest son is headed to Iraq.

“Once she’s brought her children in as selling points, unfortunately the bad comes in with the good,” says Lisa Bloom, a Court TV anchor. “She’s integrating her mom quality as a key part of her résumé. We didn’t do that in the press; she did that.”
CanadianGuy on September 1, 2008 at 11:57 PM

so by that logic since SanFranNan had her grandkids with her at her coronation back in ‘07 they’re fairgame???

Barry ran on the kids as well….careful M$M or your slip’ll show….

sven10077 on September 2, 2008 at 12:03 AM

“Once she’s brought her children in as selling points, unfortunately the bad comes in with the good,” says Lisa Bloom, a Court TV anchor. “She’s integrating her mom quality as a key part of her résumé. We didn’t do that in the press; she did that.”

CanadianGuy on September 1, 2008 at 11:57 PM

Sheer sophistry.

Tennman on September 2, 2008 at 12:21 AM

Might be time to rewatch that TV interview Barry set up for the girls.

Ronnie on September 2, 2008 at 12:24 AM

Good grief. John Edwards was Father of the Year in 2007 and none of these jerks dared run the story of his affair and love child. And they ALL knew about it. Fair game, indeed.

No. Credibility. At. All.

rockmom on September 2, 2008 at 12:27 AM

Ace keeps referring to A.S. as “Mademoiselle Milky Loads Power Glutes”, and I can’t stop laughing about that.

aquaviva on September 2, 2008 at 12:30 AM

Hey, go check out the comments on the article. Lee Stranahan just PWNED Kos. And brought in the John Edwards story for good measure.

Awesome.

rockmom on September 2, 2008 at 12:31 AM

To the Old Media, its no wonder that Andrew Sullivan is looked on as a hard-right activist. After all, he once said something nice about conservatives. To the media, that makes Sullivan a wild-eyed, hard-core, right-winger.

Warner Todd Huston on September 2, 2008 at 12:32 AM

Tinfoil hat time–do you think The Atlantic publisher keeps St. Andi on the payroll just so they can trot him out as a loony rightwinger? He’s been so bizarre for the last year at least that I would have fired him if he wrote for my magazine.

funky chicken on September 2, 2008 at 12:40 AM

Andrew Sullivan “right-leaning”?

come on.. the guy is liberal as you can get.

Chakra Hammer on September 2, 2008 at 12:50 AM

Any resemblance to the Kos theories and the circumstances of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy are strictly coincidental. Among other speculation, Kossacks hypothesized that Bristol was impregnated with Trig as the result of incest.

Andrew Sullivan is merely pitiable.

Terrie on September 2, 2008 at 12:51 AM

I consider her support for a secession move to be a plus. Shows she has sense enough to want to sever ties from the increasingly intrusive, and unconstitutional, federal government. Personally I’d love to split the country into a Red half and a Blue half. Then the Libtards are free to self-destruct without inflicting damage on the rest of us.

DerKrieger on September 2, 2008 at 1:00 AM

Andrew Sullivan “right-leaning”?

Well, it all depends on which side of the bathroom stall the hole is drilled in.

Jim Treacher on September 2, 2008 at 1:12 AM

Howard Kurtz? Has he MET reality?

If he’s still got the same haircut he had the last time I saw him, I would say Kurtz’s reality resides firmly in the 1970s.

jaleach on September 2, 2008 at 1:23 AM

In less than 48 hours, the allegations by a Kos diarist known as ArcXIX ricocheted into the mainstream media,

Yeah, just ricocheted, like a bullet, no human intervention or decisions made about the story, just a big piece of paper was thrown against a wall or other object and it just SURISINGLY ended up in the MSM.

Yes, that’s the ticket.

The MSM is full of disgusting people, this guy is one of them.

benrand on September 2, 2008 at 5:06 AM

During the CBS TANG memo debacle, they tried to discredit the thorough debunking because it came from a right-wing source. Four years later a left-wing source serves up a big pile of horsecrap, and the media cleans their plates, asks for seconds, and burps out an “Oh well.”

Jim Treacher on September 2, 2008 at 5:53 AM

“I feel a little weird about the questions being asked,” he says. “But I also feel a little weird about saying, ‘Shut up, people.’ It takes a lot for me to step in and squash what’s on Daily Kos.”

This is just too funny coming from a guy who had ZERO issue with squashing Hillary supporters once he decided Obama was “The One”.

There’s never been a single word spoken questioning Obama’s qualifications, but suddenly children are fair game?

darury on September 2, 2008 at 6:03 AM

Andrew Sullivan is a one-issue guy.

Conservatism? He likes the bits that tell us that other people’s private lives are nobody else’s business. President Bush supports a constitutional amendment to protect marriage? Upon mature reflection, a few days later, Andrew withdraws his support for the U.S. adventure in Iraq. Governor Palin has gay friends? He’s inclined to like her. She agrees with Bush on the constitutional amendment? Andrew goes after her with the same abandon as the dailykos diarist who shows the picture that appears to support his argument, but not the caption that contradicts it.

Southpaw on September 2, 2008 at 6:34 AM

Not a word for years about Chelsea, they rush to her defense.

But three days and something just happens to “ricochet” into the MSM destroying a 17 year old teenager.

You have GOT to be freakin kidding me. These people are disgusting.

benrand on September 2, 2008 at 7:13 AM

The Detroit Free Press pushing Trutherism

Nah, they’ll rather use an image of Bristol with Trig, who MIGHT REALLY BE HER SON, rather than an image of Sarah Palin.

Makes more sense to use it, go after that angle, destroy the girl so that Barry may live.

This is so nasty.

benrand on September 2, 2008 at 7:16 AM

But blogger Andrew Sullivan, a right-leaning former New Republic editor who supports Barack Obama, pushed the story about the baby, who was born with Down syndrome. Citing unresolved questions and the campaign’s refusal to release the medical records involved, he writes: “The circumstantial evidence for weirdness around this pregnancy is so great that legitimate questions arise – questions anyone with common sense would ask. . . . After all, this baby was a centerpiece of the public case for Palin made by the Republicans.”

Andrew Sullivan of all people is opining on “the circumstantial evidence for weirdness”? Ha!

Buy Danish on September 2, 2008 at 7:36 AM

After all, this baby was a centerpiece of the public case for Palin made by the Republicans.

Yeah, sure right…

benrand on September 2, 2008 at 7:46 AM

I remember reading a book about ‘monkey wrenching’ a few years ago. Before the internet, if you wanted to spread these kinds of lies, all you needed was a letterhead, a ‘press release’ and a fax machine.

These days, though, it seems less about stupidity and more about ideology.

Asher on September 2, 2008 at 9:21 AM

Anyone who thinks Andrew Sullivan is “right-leaning” is confused: they are looking at a mirror-image…not the actual Sullivan.

landlines on September 2, 2008 at 11:06 AM


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