Stupid Shit Andrew Sullivan Says

Today, on his NY Magazine non-blog, Mr. Sullivan was paid to produce 1639 words.  For those of you keeping score at home, this is virtually the same number of words The New York Times pays Mr. David Brooks to produce each week.

Here is how Mr. Sullivan met his weekly contractual obligation.

247 words spent on the administration of the "unaccountable, legally immune thug" in the White House.

So far, so good.

And then, with that out of the way, Mr. Sullivan could really lean into the subject that is nearest and dearest to his heart by devoting 662 words to and extended act of Both Siderist pissing and wind-breaking that begins like this:

Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos, for all their provocations and performance art, are not neo-Nazis either. But antifa’s deployment of violence prevented both of them from speaking at Berkeley...

And goes on and on and on like so:

The president, however foul, is not a neo-Nazi, and yet antifa committed violence and vandalism in my hometown, D.C., on Inauguration Day...

And yet it seems as excruciating for many liberals to condemn antifa outright as it was for Trump to unequivocally denounce the neo-Nazis. Indeed, masked thugs were welcomed by the entirely peaceful people in the Boston protest, and mingled freely among them...

Perhaps sensing that his Rambles From The Ivory Tower might have strayed too far into Stupidville even for him, America's Most Famous Gay, Conservative, Catholic. Tory, Quasi-Libertarian Thought Leader, pauses mid-ramble just long enough to drop in this disclaimer -- 

As a physical threat to the lives of Americans, the far right is indeed a bigger worry. I sure don’t want to elide that fact. It has killed several dozen Americans over the last decade, while the far left has killed no one (though one of them did send GOP Congressman Steve Scalise into an ICU a couple of months ago). The president, moreover, has the far-right’s back. In that sense, there is no practical equivalence as a threat. 

-- before expending the remainder of his 662 words on this  topic doing nothing but playing the tuba and the big bass drum in the False Equivalence orchestra:

But moral equivalence? You bet. Considered as a totalitarian ideology...

Mr. Sullivan then pads out the balance of his column -- 739 words -- reposing comfortably in his dorm room, doing monster bong hits and musing on the meaning of the word "hate".

While I’m at it, some thoughts on the word hate. The dictionary defines it as “intense or passionate dislike of someone.”

You would hope that the view from the ippy-tippy top of Mr. Sullivan's Ivory Tower would be commanding enough to see at least some small sliver of the actual country in which he lives and about which he is paid to prattle on endlessly

Sadly, the only thing visible from Mr. Sullivan's window is David Brooks' ass.

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