tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post6181731797271855545..comments2024-03-28T21:32:41.763-05:00Comments on driftglass: Stupid Shit Andrew Sullivan Says, Ctd.driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-84206067500305471302013-02-15T18:10:17.667-06:002013-02-15T18:10:17.667-06:00Not to mention that ``lefty'' Kornacki is ...Not to mention that ``lefty'' Kornacki is just a nice, intelligent, sweet, run-of-the-mill garden-variety Constitution-admiring liberal who has encyclopedic recall of political minutiae -- which just makes him someone who pays more the fuck attention to facts than Andrew Sullivan.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-55351001938459964022013-02-15T09:02:41.701-06:002013-02-15T09:02:41.701-06:00I don't loathe Sully as much as you do - but t...I don't loathe Sully as much as you do - but then I am a Brit who lives just down the road from the Sussex town he grew up in, has a not entirely dissimilar working class Irish Catholic background and like him went through my own delayed adolescent Tory Boy stage (but in my case I did grow up).<br /><br />And this is the key to his problem - even after half a lifetime in the States he still sees conservatism through blue-tinted English Tory spectacles and indeed Tories have (barring a dubious proto-fascist phase during the last great Irish Home Rule crisis just before WW1) been willing to act as a loyal parliamentary opposition.<br /><br />And even now when they are gleefully engaged in destroying the welfare state our Tories still avoid the know nothing idiocies of US Republicans (although this is at least partly because if there are any UK votes in Guns, Gays and Jesus they are probably liberal ones) and the decimated and despoiled welfare state that will be left when they are kicked out of office will still be more progressive than any American liberal can dream of. <br /><br />So almost everything he writes about US Republicans has an underlying whine of 'why can't they be like my old friends David Cameron and Boris Johnson' (although had they noticed him at all when they were all at Oxford together they doubtless mocked him behind his back as a pansy state school oik) as well as snobbery of the sort that only upwardly mobile members of the English middle class still excel at.<br /><br />This is particularly evident with his obsessive virtual vendetta against Sarah Palin - who represents not an ideological enemy (after all they actually agree on rather a lot politically) but just the wrong class of person altogether.<br /><br />After all he pulled himself up from his rural (well by British standards) and lower class roots, went to a top university, worked a real apprenticeship in what was a real profession (of sorts), assiduously liked the asses of every one who could advance his career, crossed the Atlantic to the land where ones class background is not supposed to matter - and was still never quite admitted to the inner circles of power around whose edges he had been circling ever since that first day at Oxford.<br /><br />And then along come this Alaskan Troglodytess with a joke degree in Sports Journalism from somewhere he didn't even think they had colleges and is straight away catapulted to the heights of fame and fortune - while poor Andrew Sullivan who loves America so much it hurts was not even sure for year after year whether his Green Card will get renewed or whether he'll be be unceremoniously deported back to England as a failure. <br /><br />So he's a much more complex and in his weird little way a tragic figure than a David Brooks as he is doomed by his peculiar position to remain a perpetual outsider. <br /><br />If like Hitchens he had mixed with the Trots and Labourites at Oxford rather than the Tories he could have effortlessly inserted himself into the liberal media elite of NYC and Washington. <br /><br />But because he was a conservative that route was closed to him (especially after his misdeeds at The New Republic) - and because he was a snobbish, socially liberal and gay British conservative there was no place for him at the National Review and what was to become the Fox propaganda machine - and so appropriately enough for Catholic he must remain forever circling around in a virtual Limbo never admitted to either Left or Right. <br /> <br />Rogernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-22328278630256076852013-02-14T23:39:15.954-06:002013-02-14T23:39:15.954-06:00Answer:
Everything.
Nothing.
Bravo, Dg!
SAnswer:<br /><br />Everything.<br /><br />Nothing.<br /><br />Bravo, Dg!<br /><br />SCirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-63701290359556814132013-02-14T23:03:04.331-06:002013-02-14T23:03:04.331-06:00So Sully is still at it. I think he does understan...So Sully is still at it. I think he does understand, but like Upton Sinclair said about being paid to not understand. That kind of understanding that comes with starting a new media enterprise, and knowing you will continue to make moneykcBill13https://www.blogger.com/profile/11688945801982359707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-77616271638137226752013-02-14T23:02:49.955-06:002013-02-14T23:02:49.955-06:00So Sully is still at it. I think he does understan...So Sully is still at it. I think he does understand, but like Upton Sinclair said about being paid to not understand. That kind of understanding that comes with starting a new media enterprise, and knowing you will continue to make moneykcBill13https://www.blogger.com/profile/11688945801982359707noreply@blogger.com