Andrew Sullivan’s “Need” to Demonize Republicans:
Lest his Newfound Admirers Question his Left-Wing Credentials
While Andrew Sullivan has earned praise for covering the Iranian uprising, that easily excitable blogger just can’t seem to resist getting in his digs at his favorite bête noires, the sinister Karl Rove and the dishonest Sarah Palin. After all, he doesn’t want to risk losing his newly acquired liberal bona fides.
On Sunday, blogger R.S.McCain (via Glenn) pointed out that Sullivan compared the Iranian President to those two Republicans:
Really, Sully? I mean, really? WTF goes through someone’s mind when they dream up an idiotic comparison between (a) Karl Rove, a Republican political strategist, and (b) Mahmoud Ahmadinejed, a Jew-hating genocidal maniac?
You might as well compare Rove to Charles Manson or Pol Pot. Please note that Sullivan’s comparison involves no hypotheticals. It does not appear to be any sort of parodic humor, except unintentionally. He evidently means to suggest in all seriousness that Ahmadinejad and Rove are similar in some meaningful way.
Even as Sullivan was criticizing an enemy of America, of freedom, a man who harbors a particular animus against gay people, he had to get in a few hits on two of his favorite punching bags, two people who, despite their flaws, have never led regimes which execute gay people or who have even advocated our elimination. The worst they did was to argue against state recognition of same-sex marriage.
Perhaps, Andrew “needed” to make those digs. As he was joining conservative (& libertarian) bloggers in covering the rallies in Iran, he needed to reassure his new (well, not so new any more) left-wing audience that he hadn’t returned to his “roots” on the right. Just because he’s agreeing with conservatives on this one, he’s telling us with his potshots at Palin and Rove, that he has hasn’t (re)joined the neo-con cabal.
It’s too bad Sullivan can’t denounce an anti-American regime without also badmouthing American conservatives. And he still styles himself a conservative. Pathetic.
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Does anyone still read him?
Is he still pushing his crack-head conspiracy theories about the true parentage of Palin’s baby?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 16, 2009 @ 7:50 pm - June 16, 2009
(Does anyone still read him – I mean, other than bloggers who feel some need to cover him)
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — June 16, 2009 @ 7:52 pm - June 16, 2009
ARRRRGH! Conservative roots? That man has never been a conservative. Ever. Not by any meaningful definition of the word. Even when he claimed to be one, elitist snob was closer to the truth. He is and has always been a one trick pony…. It’s like his being Catholic – he rejects the teaching and authority of the Church but claim membership – it’s a useful lie.
Comment by Kevin — June 16, 2009 @ 8:21 pm - June 16, 2009
Right, right. Rove, Palin, Bush, Cheney etc. are Neo-Kulaks in need of liquidation.
We get it. What else is new?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 16, 2009 @ 8:24 pm - June 16, 2009
I believe he gets kicked out of the US this November? Please!
Comment by American Elephant — June 17, 2009 @ 2:37 am - June 17, 2009
Sorry to go off-topic, but check out the damning video evidence the prosecution is expected to introduce in former Democratic Rep. William Jefferson’s corruption trial now that they’ve picked a jury:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgQY32q9Zzk&feature=channel_page
Comment by Sean A — June 17, 2009 @ 3:51 am - June 17, 2009
lol. funny, Sean.
Comment by American Elephant — June 17, 2009 @ 7:09 am - June 17, 2009
Um, Sully did not compare Ahmadinejed to Rove
He compared their “bag of tricks” – focusing on the use for fear tactics to gain support.
Perhaps you all should read the actual source before you begin your hatin’ and a condemnin’
Comment by gillie — June 17, 2009 @ 8:27 am - June 17, 2009
Oh, so he compared I’m-a-dinner-jacket to the New Black Panthers gillie. Got it.
Comment by The Livewire — June 17, 2009 @ 9:49 am - June 17, 2009