Comments on: Through the Looking Glass With Andrew Sullivan

By: jimmydale

jimmydale — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:19:28 +0000

Great article. I found Mr. Sullivan to be a despicable human being and writer in the early 1990's when he was an editor at the New Republic. I learned that he is more interested in doing damage than fairly reporting on a subject. This awareness was from an up close and personal experience I had with him and his underling writer Hanna Rosin when they were crafting a story about me and an organization I ran. He and Rosin chose to ignore facts, withhold information as balanced information would have stood in the way of the biases conjured from his peanut sized and damaged brain. Best, Jimmydale

By: raymondabruno

raymondabruno — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:02:02 +0000

Andrew Sullivan is a real screwball.
Saw his interview with Joy Behar(?)…where he belittles Sarah Palin. The Man is a fool. For one thing – where he wants to use VETTED….he uses VESTED! For another….it is MARGARET
Thatcher…..not MARTHA;………AAAAHHHH why go on?
He is simply not worth reading…..and isn't anywhere NEAR Sarah Palin's League.

Don't quit your Day-job, Andrew.

By: Palamas

Palamas — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:38:05 +0000

It is cleverly written, but to be character assassination, the subject would have to have some character.

By: HeresJohnny

HeresJohnny — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:02:49 +0000

You're exactly right. It was almost as if someone had flipped a switch. I've never seen anyone make such a rapid and frightening transformation. One day he was normal, the next he was a raving lunatic. Quite sad really.

By: Matthew Stinson

Matthew Stinson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:16:11 +0000

Great piece for the first two-thirds but calling Sully an anti-Semite at the end is over the top and unfair (much like Andrew Sullivan himself).

By: bdomenech

bdomenech — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:02:59 +0000

Here is the secret
I hide behind my glasses
I miss the big show

By: jillelswick

jillelswick — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:40:44 +0000

Cleverly written character assassination.

By: JimTreacher

JimTreacher — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:06:05 +0000

Which definition of “conservative” does he meet?

By: JimTreacher

JimTreacher — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:56:23 +0000

So what you're saying is that you don't know what “takedown” means.

By: JimTreacher

JimTreacher — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:43:17 +0000

I think that particular plummet could be encapsulated in a haiku:

Hello, thesaurus
I'm ridin' you to the top
Of distant second

By: VictorErimita

VictorErimita — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:10:45 +0000

I liked Sullivan back in 2001 or so. I thought he was pretty genuinely conservative, but without the ideological knee jerk. I thought that his writings during that time were often fresh, not ideologically bound and orginal. His wrestling with his personal contradictions between Catholicism and his own homsexuality were poignant and thoughtful. His wrtings on the impending ivasion of Iraq were some of the most thoughtful out there. His thoughts on well-worn topics like gay marriage made me rethink my own notions I even mailed him a check or two.

But then came the fateful day when George W. Bush spoke out about the gay marriage issue being preempted by unelected state judges, and spoke in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act. Relatively tame pronouncements along the lines of the Clintons and The Messiah himself, not the hateful screeds projected upon "conservatives" by the gay lobby. Well, within days, if not hours, Sullivan went utterly berserk. Suddenly, Bush was Satan. Iraq was a war crime, conservatism was misogynistic, and Bizarro Andrew was unleashed on the world. From that day, the intellectual integrity vanished, the originality of thought was replaced by rote recitation of far left paranoism and sober thought was replaced by raw, unhinged emotion. The eloquent description above describes him to a tee. And of course, the more outlandish, hateful, virulent and irresponsible his ravings have become, the more accepted he has been in such formerly esteemed publications a Time, The NYT and The Atlantic, all of course long gone over to the radical, hate-crazed Left.

He's gone, and he ain't comin' back. I gave up on him many years ago.

By: Dirtt

Dirtt — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:31:23 +0000

Wait! My IQ isn't close enough to 200.

So Andrew Sullivan is actually now just a fraud?