Once upon a time Andrew Sullivan was America's most prominent gay Tory Libertarian Catholic Conservative pundit and amateur phrenologist. But that was long ago. A different time. Now, Sullivan is a fading mangenue locked up with his memories of past glories, whose knowledge of what's going on in this big, complex country is limited to on what he can peep from between the curtains of his Washington D.C. condo.
And yet somehow, base on nothing more than his stunted, stilted perspective, Sullivan has invented a whole lot of opinions about what conspiracies we crafty Lefties are secretly hatching up at Liberal Central Command.
Antisemitism in America today is often a subset of anti-whiteness.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) February 1, 2022
There is an exhausted desperation to Sullivan's writing that is more pitiable than it is infuriating. A man who ran out of game and ideas long before he ran out of words to type or bills to pay. No one really listens to or much cares what he thinks about anything, and the only time he floats to the surface of the pundit turd bowl is when he says something offensive enough to break through to social media noise.
This is what it look like when a former enfant terribles age into irrelevance. They become pissy cranks trying to hang onto their sliver of the increasingly slippery and competitive Contrarian Asshole Pundit market.
In this way, Sullivan, along with Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Bill Maher and a handful of others, constitute the pundit equivalent of Sunset Boulevard's "waxworks". Dim figures you may still remember from the olden days, with Bari Weiss brought along as the hack writer who will inject a little sour youthful energy into their musty, bitter sarcophagus.
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Andrew Sullivan, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Bill Maher, et al.
What an accumulation of waning significance...
Gravitating to the right wing money brings out the ALEX Jones and Glenn Beck in them.
They will suck on any word or multiple words in front of anyone for their pleasure.
As long as they are paid well.
You beat me to the punch. I saw his tweet and thought "What a wheezing pitiable hag he must be by now."
Ha! Well stated DG! Sometimes I am baffled by why he still gets on TV and then, I think about it for a second, and I wonder why I'm baffled. He's a gay conservative. He's glib and he writes well. What he says is absolute BS, but that's irrelevant.
Very nice work.
Very nice indeed.
Unlike Sullivan, your stuff gets better as time goes on.
The depressing part is that because they are well-off, live decent lifestyles and have good insurance, they'll be writing this nonsense for another couple of decades at least.
On the other hand, this probably also means you (and Bluegal) will be around to eviscerate them for just as long. Keep at it.
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