Comments on: I Offer No Apologies or Regrets for Persistence (If You’re Squeamish, You Pretty Much Don’t Want to Click on Any Link in This Post)

By: Jonathan Limebrook

Jonathan Limebrook — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:34:25 +0000

I didn’t know until I visited here that Sullivan is “poz”. I have been wondering if he was actally going insane. The blogosphere is full of references to his past glories followed by distress at his current paranoid ramblings. In that light the following makes a great deal of sense:

“CONCLUSIONS: One of the first symptoms of AIDS is dementia…”

This is from a paper published by the U.S. National Institutes of health here;

http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102194570.html

I actually feel kinda sorry for him now.

By: JD

JD — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:52:07 +0000

Sarah Palin’s kids are a subject wothy of comment given the “moral” poses taken by the Fundie right she represents.

Complete and utter hooey, David.

Shamblinghorror – I will do my best to correct my deficiency.

By: Attila Girl

Attila Girl — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:35:06 +0000

How do we know for certain that this ad is, indeed, Sullivan’s?

Didn’t he just get married?

By: tomw

tomw — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:02:55 +0000

That we have this ‘discussion’ is appalling. That people stoop to such vile pettiness is disgusting.

I have not read a word from Sullivan in 4-5 years. I don’t see why anyone pays attention to Her Majesty any more, after all, she has gone ’round the bend.

A former astute and interesting author / writer has changed, and not for the better.

tom

By: Another Drew

Another Drew — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:41:04 +0000

“…Guild of Undead Males…”

Interesting accronym…G.U.M.

IIRC, that was the store in Moscow that sold goods only available for purchase by Hard Currencies…
no Rubles allowed.

By: Icy Truth

Icy Truth — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:08:09 +0000

Agreed! They have people saying that she’s “not a real woman” now, because to their narrow-minded mentality a liberated/feminist woman HAS to be liberal in her politics. For all their concern her name might as well be Phyllis Schlafly or Anita Bryant. I think the attention by Dem/Obama supporters is due to a combination of factors, chief of which is their resentment that Obama couldn’t suck it up and pick Hillary; luckily for Obama, they are able to transfer their hurt feelings onto Palin because she is no moderate. They’re also scared because of the positive reaction she’s received in spite of all the looming “controversies”; many of them feel, and rightly so, that McCain won the election the day he announced her as his running mate — so they’re venting, casting aspersions against the person who beat them. They also feel that she is much more vulnerable to attack than McCain; that’s why Barack won’t shut up about her in public, even though behind the scenes the Dems who know better are telling him to stop pointing the negative spotlight away from the top of the ticket.

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:27:36 +0000

Sarah Palin’s kids are a subject wothy of comment given the “moral” poses taken by the Fundie right she represents. But they’re of little consequence compared to her actual record as mayor and governor. She has a lot to answer for there of genuine concern to the people of this country.

And by the people of this country I’m talking about more than White Heterosexul Republican Protestants.

By: Shamblinghorror

Shamblinghorror — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:23:22 +0000

RE #89:
First off. Ha! A little ooky, but Ha! nonetheless. I don’t want to know either.

I guess I understand the whole idea of grabbing the attention but the whole thing just…urrgh. If they have an issue with her “Right Wing Christian Conservative views”, then they should raise those instead of blathering on about children. I suppose you’re right about them just trying to fight this war and not caring who they hurt but it strikes me as a very irresponsible way to engage in politics. It ain’t new, but it’s not any less irresponsible.

By: Icy Truth

Icy Truth — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:10:43 +0000

I’m not sure where he gets off doing something like that. -- I'm not sure anyone wants to know where, when, or how Sullivan gets off. Question: Why exactly are these people focus on Sarah Palin’s kids? Is it just that they lack anything of real substance and are desperate for cr*p to throw that they’ll throw anything? Or are they just focusing on trivialities because it somehow amuses them? -- They focus on the kids because that grabs the attention of the general public and the tabloid press, and focuses it on the negative spin/spew issuing from the Dems. In their minds they do have real substance in the form of her "right-wing Christisan Conservative views;" but like I said, making it personal actually makes your average voter sit up and pay attention. They aren't playing this for amusement purposes; it's more like: win at all costs and whoever gets hurt in the process is a casualty of war . . . although the libs, of course, are too wishy-washy to own up to something like that, which is why one of the first things they did was to blame Palin herself for what they (the libs) were going to do to her family in the public arena.

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:07:03 +0000

This is An Oldie But a Baddie. It’s the ad that inpsired attacks on Sully by Mike Signorile and me a number of years back. Surprised it can still be found cause I was under the impression that he had taken it down some time ago — he being a married gay man and all.