tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post1763108057772533098..comments2024-03-28T16:26:28.642-05:00Comments on driftglass: Hilariously Clueless Shit Andrew Sullivan Says, Ctd.driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-86557560469541542062012-11-29T20:49:35.988-06:002012-11-29T20:49:35.988-06:00Can I make a nomination for this category? I see t...Can I make a nomination for this category? I see that Sullivan has given Jon Huntsman a "quote of the day" plaudit for his quote suggesting, among other things, that Dick Nixon deserves credit for ending the Vietnam War. (You don't need to print this comment; I just wanted to offer a nomination)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-33214257405089217832012-11-27T07:02:22.507-06:002012-11-27T07:02:22.507-06:00Bartlett and Sullivan still want to publish whinin...Bartlett and Sullivan still want to publish whining screeds in conservative rags because acceptance by liberals (ie, the powerless) doesn't matter, in their eyes. They want approval from the Wall St trader, a smile from a lobbyist, a gentle question from a deferential WSJ reporter. They want to brush skin with A Great Man (doesn't matter which one, really).<br /><br />They are such creatures of a Village they cannot comprehend their solipsism, cannot acknowledge their intellectual forerunners, and treat the few wisps of sanity in their heads as archangels bearing golden tablets of Ancient Knowledge That Were Hitherto Unknown By Mortals.<br /><br />Fox News is an arm of the Republican Party?<br /><br />The Republican Party is a coalition of feral Stone Age barbarians who haven't discovered fire yet and Galtian Overlords who are stingy enough to make Uncle Scrooge blush in shame?<br /><br />That Republicans have not the slightest interest in governing, and are more interested in Power, and What Can Be Done With It (namely, torture, killing, and enriching themselves)?<br /><br />Some people were always saying this.<br /><br />Some people were against the Iraq War.<br /><br />Some people called out Bush before he was even elected the first time.<br /><br />Some people called out Fox News in 1997.<br /><br />Some people called out Reagan in 1980. <br /><br />And so, in the timeless dance, after they've fucked up so badly that they're desperate enough to try anything, the conservative reaches out to the liberal to save him from himself. There won't be a reward, a thank you, or even simple acknowledgement. Instead we are treated to pouty consternation that The Liberals Were Right, as if that were akin to making a non-aggression pact with Satan. There are whiny bleats that "only liberals and moderates listen to me these days" as if Bartlett was reduced to playing a wooden recorder in a Times Square Subway. The truth is anathema to them, inimical to their profession. They utter it only with distaste, after all other options are exhausted.<br /><br />But you know they would much rather be in the Fox News Green Room, rubbing elbows with the soulless ideological vampires with whom they are most comfortable. They would much rather be with people with power, people who understand, people who know that to be Conservative...<br /><br />You have to be in on the Con,<br /><br />And you have to be willing to Serve. Lit3Boltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-9860532690332929072012-11-27T05:25:06.862-06:002012-11-27T05:25:06.862-06:00Good morning, Mr. Glass.
I read the entire Bartle...Good morning, Mr. Glass.<br /><br />I read the entire Bartlett piece first, since one of my Facebook friends linked it to her page. Planned to email it to you and Ms. Gal before I got to your site and saw that this would be unnecessary. This was the comment I was going to attach to the hyperlink:<br /><br />If people are going to channel the spirit of Driftglass, they could at least have the decency to wait until he's dead first.Kevin Holsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568539831959033188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-69773830898946046662012-11-26T19:20:05.366-06:002012-11-26T19:20:05.366-06:00No stripes on these guys (Sullivan,Brooks,Will,etc...No stripes on these guys (Sullivan,Brooks,Will,etc. It's all just yellow as any propagandist could ever be. Rrgards, GaryAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15051237656122347998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-17972776658760539642012-11-26T18:47:20.466-06:002012-11-26T18:47:20.466-06:00Huh. I had wondered where Bruce Bartlett had gone...Huh. I <i>had</i> wondered where Bruce Bartlett had gone.<br /><br />D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01347115855111060618noreply@blogger.com