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Sarah Palin would not be the prominent leader in the GOP if not for evil like Andrew Sullivan and Couric and others whose anger with Palin has nothing to do with Palin’s record as a leader.

Disgusting. Typical. And playing right into Palin’s hands.

Joco (4cdfb7) — 2/7/2009 @ 12:34 pm

Mr Sullivan’s problem is that he really, really wants to be attracted to Governor Palin, but instead finds himself thinking that Barney Frank is hot stuff, and he just can’t stand it.

I’ll go ahead and denounce myself in advance.

The politically incorrect Dana (556f76) — 2/7/2009 @ 12:37 pm

Sully’s obvious uterine envy is getting ickier by the day.

Dana (137151) — 2/7/2009 @ 12:38 pm

I though his dislike of her came from his jealousy over her being married to such a handsome man…

*shrugs* Whatever the reason, the guy’s obviously completely insane, and needs to be committed for his own safety…

Scott Jacobs (who wants DRJ to come back) (a1c284) — 2/7/2009 @ 12:39 pm

Apparently there’s already a correction there. Any over/under on how long his mea culpa will stay in his mind the next time there’s a chance to slime Sarah?

What I wanna see is Excitable Andy added to this game: he could stick his head out of a dirty puddle, and scream “Trig!” as the 200 points is added.

Side note: I love the Sully headlines here. hahahaha

no one you know (1ebbb1) — 2/7/2009 @ 12:42 pm

When are these egocentric meglomaniacs going to get over Palin and the election? Why can’t these obsessed “Palin-ologists” get over it. Jeezz . . .

john (9b710d) — 2/7/2009 @ 12:44 pm

I love how Sullivan doesn’t even realize that of all the stupid things to be mad at Palin about, he needs to stay the hell away from talking about her kids. He has repeated so many lies about her kids that he should just stay away from that.

I’ve never seen Sullivan note a problem he has with her leadership… even though she’s been in elected office for over a decade. I’m sure he’s said something once or twice that touched on it, but all I ever see from him is talk about her personal life… and it’s always ridiculous. He couldn’t even be bothered to read the whole article about her before calling her a liar… And he can’t apologize for lying about her! The lack of fairness here is staggering. How dare the Atlantic employ this bastard!

I can’t imagine how Sullivan would feel if Palin were to lie about him, over and over again. The lies about Palin are rooted in fear. I don’t like all of Palin’s politics, but she’s withering more pressure and lies than Obama, even today, and she’s handling the pressure 1000X better than that weakling Obama is. In 4 years, after I have no idea how many screwups in the White House, Palin is one of many who are going to look pretty good against Obama. Sullivan is admitting it when he has to blast Palin over something that has nothing to do with policy and isn’t even true to boot.

Joco (4cdfb7) — 2/7/2009 @ 12:46 pm

Andrew has a problem that may be something unrelated to Palin. He has been melting away for years. I wonder if he wears a kotex yet.

Mike K (2cf494) — 2/7/2009 @ 1:22 pm

Biden can watch FDR on television but Palin can’t name her kids after a then little-known cable sports station?

Fritz (442586) — 2/7/2009 @ 1:23 pm

Fritz,

Sullivan is lying about ESPN. It was a major satellite station in 1978… Sarah lived in Alaska, where satellite television is always going to be a big deal, as it was in ’78 when folks had huge dishes.

It’s obvious that a star athlete who wants to be a sports journalist who lives in Alaska would have known about ESPN… Andrew claiming that she wouldn’t is an incredibly stupid lie.

It’s just that his standard for what is fit to print about Palin is ‘does it make her look bad?’ and not ‘is it not incredibly stupid?’ I almost think he is just so self loathing that he enjoys making himself look like a monster and is actually deliberately making easily disproven assertions about her. Or maybe he’s just trying the old lib trick of throwing up thousands of lies and claiming victory when the opposition only has time to painfully explain away hundreds of them.

Sigh… But ESPN wasn’t just a cable sports network… so his final update line was absurd.

Joco (4cdfb7) — 2/7/2009 @ 1:33 pm

Sullivan writes:
Her unstable grip on reality, taken for granted in Alaska, is the reason many of us simply do not believe a word she says unless we have actual evidence for it.

The consensus opinion is:
Sullivan’s unstable grip on reality, taken for granted in New York, is the reason many of us simply do not believe a word he says unless we have actual evidence for it.

Perfect Sense (0922fa) — 2/7/2009 @ 1:36 pm

Mike K wrote:

Andrew has a problem that may be something unrelated to Palin. He has been melting away for years. I wonder if he wears a kotex yet.

Oh, you are just so denounced! 🙂

The politically correct Dana (556f76) — 2/7/2009 @ 1:50 pm

Here is the best line of his post, in his “correction”:

I should have read the full Esquire excerpt rather than the Courant summary of it.

Nah, Andy, you go right ahead and base your post on a 150-word newsbit rather than having to do the hard work of reading a 750-word article. God knows, your time is much better spent sucking up to Obama and looking for reasons to mindlessly bash Christians.

JVW (bff0a4) — 2/7/2009 @ 1:59 pm

Hey! He said,

“My bad!”

That more than makes up for it, doesn’t it?

proof (776ff5) — 2/7/2009 @ 2:15 pm

Liberal hate for Palin is the flip side of Obama
worship.Liberals either have an obsessive and bigoted hate for people who don’t share their ideology or go to the other extreme and create Messiah’s that they think can deliver them to some
progressive promised land.

Contrast Sullivan’s irrational hate to this sick obsessive love/worship for Mr. 57 states:

Sometimes a President Is Just a President
Judith Warner
February 5,2009
http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/sometimes-a-president-is-just-a-president/?pagemode=print

The other day a friend of mine confided that in the weeks leading up to the election, the Obamas’ apparent joy as a couple had made her just miserable. Their marriage looked so much happier than hers. Their life seemed so perfect. “I was at a place where I was tempted daily to throttle my husband,” she said. “This coincided with Michelle saying the most beautiful things about Barack. Each time I heard her speak about him I got tears in my eyes — because I felt so far away from that kind of bliss in my own life and perhaps even more, because I was so moved by her expressions of devotion to him.

I figured that my friend and I couldn’t possibly be the only ones dreaming, brooding or otherwise obsessing about the Obamas. Were other people, I wondered, being possessed by our new first family?

Another good example of why liberals are worthless in dealing with real world issues and reality.
They are to busy obsessing about their saviors and,according to this NY times article,spending a lot of time in fantasy land with them.

Here’s more great insightful evaluations from the “smart ones”:

Noted imbecile Mark Morford: Obama is a “Lightworker,” an “enlightened being”
posted at 5:28 pm on June 6, 2008 by Allahpundit
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/06/noted-imbecile-mark-morford-obama-is-a-lightworker-an-enlightened-being/

No, it’s not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn’t have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity.

Dismiss it all you like, but I’ve heard from far too many enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people who’ve been intuitively blown away by Obama’s presence – not speeches, not policies, but sheer presence

Here’s where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet

Obama is not merely a mortal,he is a “lightworker”. And this super smart liberal backs up his rhetoric with the support of many ” enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people ” no doubt.

This is not just the ramblings of a few liberal journalist,even publications like “Politico” share
this Messiah like reverence for Mr. 57 states:

The power of Obama’s hand
By: Andie Coller
January 29, 2009 10:26 AM EST

It’s the Obama Touch — the squeeze on the biceps, the pat on the shoulder or the tap on the back that signals the displeasure of the commander in chief. Let others turn on the deep freeze or lose their cool when they’re annoyed. Obama prefers to deal with problems by taking them in hand — literally.

A scribe who personally received a hand-on-shoulder talking-to from the then-senator on the campaign trail says that the message was mixed. He says he knew Obama was irritated but that the Touch felt “confidential” and that he also had the sense that Obama was trying to connect with him.

The contact, he said, “seemed to have a twofold purpose — to express his annoyance and also to convince you that you were wrong.”

So the Messiah does not even have to speak to you
anymore,just his touch is enough to move mountains
in liberal land.

“He is a community organizer like Jesus was,” Sarandon said Tuesday night on the bright blue carpet leading into the Creative Coalition’s 2009 Ball at the Harman Center for the Arts in Chinatown. “And now, we’re a community and he can organize us.

And of course super smart liberals from hollywood where Obama gets his Foreign Policy advice know him to be the second coming of Jesus.

This un-realistic hatred of President Bush and Sara Palin by the narcissistic,emotionally un-stable liberals that profess to be so intelligent and the only people with the ability of save the world,is the flip side of their obsessive worship of Obama and everything he says or does.Even if it is the same things that Bush did (NSA wiretapping,rendition,keeping troops in Iraq based on conditions on the ground,lobbyist etc….etc…etc…)

Baxter Greene (8035ae) — 2/7/2009 @ 2:27 pm

All he does is reveal the journalistic thoroughness of someone who thinks that Wikipedia is research.

Here’s a terrifying thought: most journalists don’t even bother with that much research! If they did, Greg Packer wouldn’t be quoted so often.

Rob Crawford (b5d1c2) — 2/7/2009 @ 2:44 pm

Baxter, I’m going to scan those stories only ’cause they’re here. I avoided clicking elsewhere because… I just couldn’t.

Vermont Neighbor (ab0837) — 2/7/2009 @ 2:47 pm

And how many lobbyists now following his ‘big’ promise?

Progressives, at what point does he owe you character, truth and executive skills ? Never?

Vermont Neighbor (ab0837) — 2/7/2009 @ 2:51 pm

Pity the fool.

Old Coot (who also wants DRJ back) (529757) — 2/7/2009 @ 2:53 pm

Noted imbecile Mark Morford: Obama is a “Lightworker,” an “enlightened being” –

It reads like a parody from the Onion.

Vermont Neighbor (ab0837) — 2/7/2009 @ 2:59 pm

Sarah needs to share her Midol with Andrew. Sharing is nice.

Huey (24ac56) — 2/7/2009 @ 3:02 pm

I like how Morford said “this is where it gets gooey”, as though it was not apparent that he had been bathing in Baracky love juice up to that point in the article.

JD (fb1fc9) — 2/7/2009 @ 3:02 pm

Nah..it’s way too simple…It’s gotten to the point where this dude is to the blogosphere as to what Doctor Smith was to “Lost In Space”…
And I guess Palin is his monster(s).
Tragic and funny at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbxKSxAz2QQ&feature=related

Andrew (8a94e5) — 2/7/2009 @ 3:29 pm

Too awesome. Check the update on AS’s site. He’s back to intimating that Palin a liar, because he wasn’t watching Australian Rules Football like some of us.

It’s really weird.

–JRM

JRM (355c21) — 2/7/2009 @ 3:35 pm

Homophobes! I denounce you all!

Emperor7 (0c8c2c) — 2/7/2009 @ 3:53 pm

I like how Morford said “this is where it gets gooey”, as though it was not apparent that he had been bathing in Baracky love juice up to that point in the article.
Comment by JD — 2/7/2009 @ 3:02 pm

LOL

no one you know (1ebbb1) — 2/7/2009 @ 4:07 pm

Hello, noyk. Long time … Hope all is well.

JD (fb1fc9) — 2/7/2009 @ 4:10 pm

Hello JD. It is, thanks…am playing hooky from some schoolwork at the moment. Hope all is well w/ you too. That Morford article is the pinnacle – or should I say nadir – of Obamadulation thus far, methinks.

no one you know (1ebbb1) — 2/7/2009 @ 4:18 pm

By the time we learned how to screen for HIV all the innocent victims of blood transfusions had died and the only one who had it were people who had engaged in irresponsible sex and intravenous drug users. We should have quarantined all of them and let it burn itself out. It would have prevented Andrew Sullivan. One way or another.

nk (a12124) — 2/7/2009 @ 4:22 pm

From his bio:

Sullivan tested positive for HIV in 1993, and remains in good health.

oh, really?

Stretch (019b2e) — 2/7/2009 @ 4:58 pm

From his bio:

Sullivan tested positive for HIV in 1993, and remains in good health.

Bio doesn’t say anything about his mental health does it? Ol Power Glutes is three different kinds of a fruitcake in the mental department.

Mike Myers (674050) — 2/7/2009 @ 7:59 pm

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Baxter, I’m going to scan those stories only ’cause they’re here. I avoided clicking elsewhere because… I just couldn’t.

Comment by Vermont Neighbor — 2/7/2009 @ 2:47 pm

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Noted imbecile Mark Morford: Obama is a “Lightworker,” an “enlightened being” –

It reads like a parody from the Onion.

Comment by Vermont Neighbor — 2/7/2009 @ 2:59 pm
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This is not a test of the National Broadcast Network.

These people are real and believe every word of what they write.

And there are many more “smart ones” out there that believe this and more.

It is scary stupid.

BARACK OBAMA
‘I’ve officially been saved, and soon, whether they like it or not, the rest of the country will be too.’

Obama had beat out squeaky clean southern boy John Edwards and former first lady and next in the line of political succession Hillary Clinton. I was in shock. And then I came to Jesus/Obama.

I’ve officially been saved, and soon, whether they like it or not, the rest of the country will be too. I will follow him, all the way to the White House, and I’ll be standing there in our nation’s capital in January 2009, when Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States of America. In the name of Obama, Amen.

“This man is Jesus”: Kenyans expecting food, jobs, schools from Obama

“This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address.

“Now he is president we will get food and jobs,” said Ben Ochieng, as he danced to the traditional music that replaced the planned show…

Ahhh yes,and every true Messiah needs a shrine to have his sheep worship him as he leads them to the promised land:

Obama Shrine
[Mark Steyn]
A reader took this picture today at a street fair at Hayes and Octavia in San Francisco, of all places:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTQzNWU3YjliYzQwNDQwYjE1Y2U0MzA5NjU1MTYyZWY=

And of course along with the LA times putting Obama reaching out into the heavens wrapped around every paper,CNN makes sure we know that with just an outreach of this failed community organizer,all will be well:

“Some of the Most Historic Shirts Money Can Buy”

Now CNN.com is getting in the Inauguration memorabilia game, with an entire section of CNN.com headline t-shirts about the event.

This CNN T-shirt states:

“OBAMA RAISES HIS HAND,
LIFTS A NATION”

AHH…right…What media bias.

Chris Matthews getting tingles up his legs after hearing just a few words from his savior and mentor.

Mr. objective news journalist knows his mission is clear:

Matthews: My Job Is To Make Obama Presidency a Success

CHRIS MATTHEWS:

Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that —

JOE SCARBOROUGH:

Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist!

MATTHEWS:

Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country.

Matthews wasn’t done with his odd new job description . . . An incredulous Scarborough kept pressing, astonished at such a complete 180 from Matthews’s repeated insistence during the Bush presidency that he had to hold the government accountable.

SCARBOROUGH:

Your job is the make this presidency work?

MATTHEWS:

To make this work successfully. This country needs a successful presidency.

And of course,Chrissy here has plenty of help in his quest to make sure Obama is successful:

Stephanopoulos Cried On Inauguration Day

Ali Wentworth (wife of ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos) on “Oprah”:
We watched everything and George was still doing all the anchoring for ABC and as soon Beyonce said “At Last…” George called me at home and he went, “Honey?” and I said “I know!” and we both started crying.

But just helping their Messiah is not enough,we have to “be” one with him:

Larry King on Barack Obama: “Black is in…my eight-year-old son wishes he was black.”

Interviewing a visibly uncomfortable Bob Woodward on his eponymous CNN show last night, Larry, 75, gushed: “My younger son Cannon, he is eight. And he now says that he would like to be black. I’m not kidding. He said there’s a lot of advantages. Black is in. Is this a turning of the tide?”

Ahhh yes,our investigative and independent objective media at it’s best.

Brian Williams: Obama First Non ‘Choice of Evils’ in ‘Generations’

Marveling on Monday’s Late Show about how people were lining up during the inauguration “to buy merchandise with any depiction” of President Barack Obama, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams expressed his pleasure at seeing so many people “that excited about our new chief executive after a line of what the ordinary voter would maybe describe as bad choices or choices of evils, for years, generations.”

GGGGreat. So all the Presidents preceding Obama have merely been “bad choices dating back years,no…no…no…GENERATIONS!!!!

This psychosis that is liberalism is beyond parody.

They exist in some fantasy world where if their ideology is pushed forward,the whole world will be
peaceful and free with everybody running around eating rainbows and pooting butterflies.

Baxter Greene (8035ae) — 2/7/2009 @ 8:15 pm

Joco, don’t bother fact-checking the ridiculous “espn wasn’t big then” silly meme that “lots of” people sent to Andrew Sullivan. (since they can’t post comments, we have no idea whether he ever receives anything (don’t think of puns here, just don’t) at all.

I wanted to be a radio broadcast in high school, but was disappointed to learn that they don’t make money. That’s a true statement, even thought I didn’t learn about the money ’til i graduated from college.

carlitos (bb4a62) — 2/7/2009 @ 9:09 pm

Ain’t y’all seen that Morford article before? It was all over the blogs last summer.

Patterico (5b5e8e) — 2/8/2009 @ 1:24 am

I love THE MANY LIES OF SARAH PALIN…I am glad Sullivan is keeping up, a monumental task!

Sarah Palin-Tonya Harding!

DEO (bd5ac5) — 2/8/2009 @ 3:16 am

I love THE MANY LIES OF SARAH PALIN…I am glad Sullivan is keeping up, a monumental task!

Ah, another of the True Believers®! Willing to believe anything, no matter how psychotic the creator of the rumor du jour.

Or how crazy the rumor.

EW1(SG) (e27928) — 2/8/2009 @ 5:28 am

Yes, Patterico, I remember this Morford article. But it serves as a good reminder as to just how deep the media swallowed all of Teh One.

DEO is a drive by mental midget.

JD (1653ac) — 2/8/2009 @ 5:30 am

Ouah esteemed host wrote:

Ain’t y’all seen that Morford article before? It was all over the blogs last summer.

Well, shucks! Ah nevah knowed tha’ ouah host was a true Son o’ the South!

Jus’ y’all ‘member: the South shall rise again!

The Confederate Dana (556f76) — 2/8/2009 @ 5:53 am

The quote from Brian Williams is beyond parody. That was actually despicable. As for the ridiculous exchange between Stephanopoulos and his wife, it’s like watching a Lifetime movie except the writing is worse.

I think when Martin Luther King had a dream it involved equality and dignity. He never would’ve promoted this scheming race hustler — just like he never would’ve backed Blagojevich. Two peas in a pod.

Stephanopoulos Cried On Inauguration Day

Ali Wentworth (wife of ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos) on “Oprah”:
We watched everything and George was still doing all the anchoring for ABC and as soon Beyonce said “At Last…” George called me at home and he went, “Honey?” and I said “I know!” and we both started crying.

Vermont Neighbor (ab0837) — 2/8/2009 @ 7:29 am

No, truly good luck to yáll.

Sarah Palin-Tonya Harding 2012!!!!!
Ciao!

DEO (bd5ac5) — 2/8/2009 @ 9:56 am

DEO has written on Althouse’s blog and here (maybe a few others, who knows?).

Strange how after everyone said Ms. Sullivan went over the line, this DEO person started defending Ms. Sullivan.

I think DEO is Hiltzik by Sullivan. Worth a look.

JSF (9d1bb3) — 2/8/2009 @ 11:21 am

I don’t see any reason for Sullivan to assume that Sarah Palin wouldn’t have heard of ESPN before 1982. ESPN had been covered in Sports Illustrated in 1979, before it even started broadcasting.

Joshua (9ede0e) — 2/8/2009 @ 2:55 pm

Hey, Sarah, WHY DON´T YOU JUST KEEP YOUR KIDS OUT OF IT????????????

lol………

DEO (bd5ac5) — 2/9/2009 @ 6:01 am

Meanwhile, President Ford just bumped his head on Marine One. Smooth.

Vermont Neighbor (ab0837) — 2/9/2009 @ 10:30 am

What about these lies? Oh yeah, maybe they don’t count, she’s just a woman after all.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-twelve-odd.html

Ron (c100ab) — 2/10/2009 @ 3:09 pm

Perhaps Andrew might have asked his American friends (if he has any) who are around his (and Sarah’s and my) age if they had cable or satellite back then and if so, whether they happen to remember ESPN. He might have learned something.

Lazy prat.

Rich Fader (295108) — 2/10/2009 @ 4:41 pm

2/7/2009

Andrew Sullivan CATCHES SARAH PALIN IN A LIE!!!!!!1!!1!!!!!!!

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