tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post5549380250222889124..comments2024-03-28T19:08:51.458-05:00Comments on driftglass: In Which Andrew Sullivan Joins My Causedriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-22813445465277768482014-03-07T14:45:26.128-06:002014-03-07T14:45:26.128-06:00The reason McCain is on so much is because once yo...The reason McCain is on so much is because once you're in, you stay in. (Of course this applies to conservatives only. Democrats that are forced on the media by their high rank are kicked aside instantly.)<br /><br />McCain found a way to be worshipped by the media in the 2000 primary. That was all it took. He will be permitted to ride that wave until he dies or stops wanting it.<br /><br />There really isn't any deep mystery around power structures and all that here. It's just that the bookings are made by very tiny men with very tiny brains. If you were worshipped by the media at any time (see Gingrich), you keep that spot for life simply because rethinking that spot takes an ounce of thought.steevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12620735494191381865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-27997344651228857392014-03-07T12:08:25.854-06:002014-03-07T12:08:25.854-06:00I, too, wonder how Sen. Walnuts became such a fixt...I, too, wonder how Sen. Walnuts became such a fixture on the talking chucklehead shows. I'm guessing it's a combination of factors: (1) Lazy producers who can't for the life of them think of anyone else to call about some development; (b) Sen. Walnut's craven eagerness to be on the teevee machine, such that he never ever says no; (iii) the lovely familiarity of Sen. Walnuts to the likes of Disco Dave and The Clinton Guy Shocked by Blowjobs - Sen. Walnuts is a known commodity who will show up dependably, and fill time even if it's with patent nonsense.<br /><br />Any one of these three factors is enough for some folks to get invited on the shows; all three in one package makes Sen. Walnuts simply irresistible.gratuitousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20237120915085855122014-03-07T03:58:51.491-06:002014-03-07T03:58:51.491-06:00Like "Anonymous" I am tempted to go OT o...Like "Anonymous" I am tempted to go OT on this post at the outset, and not focus on Sully's hypocrisy and fame as a bold gay "conservative." But I will say that the lead photo is priceless: surely Modo pressing her exposed boob into the chest of a man having no interest in it is a metaphor for how things just aren't as they appear in the ranks of our courtier press. No?<br /><br />Maybe one of the reasons John Effing McCain, a contemptible old fool if ever there was one, is so popular on the Sunday Mouse Circus, is because his utter failure as a politician and policy maker is so well matched by Dancin' Dave's utter failure as a journalist. How did the old "Soviet Man" joke go back in the USSR: "You pretend to pay us and we'll pretend to work?" <br /><br />It's the same here on the Mouse Circus circuit. The appearance of policy-making and informed political commentary is far more important than the reality that it's all bullshit. Only an idiot sees the Mouse Circus as a place where real policy is discussed, in the same way that only an ignoramus would see the Sully-Modo photo as a real couple striking a sexy pose.Redhandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89697004493902628072014-03-06T23:32:59.702-06:002014-03-06T23:32:59.702-06:00@ anon 6:10
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03...@ anon 6:10<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/06/john-mccain-poll_n_4914175.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-25800666504723362782014-03-06T21:49:50.118-06:002014-03-06T21:49:50.118-06:00"Obama is an Ike style conservative in just a..."Obama is an Ike style conservative in just about every meaning. Outside of his failure for the grand bargain, his presidency has been rather good and rather along the lines of what Sullivan and most people (in that circle) wanted"<br /><br />Moron? Yes...<br />Failure for the grand bargain? Failure to enact a chess piece he never intended to enact?<br />God you people hurt my head.<br />Go hang with the Mad Rack and congratulate yourself on defeating something that never existed..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-37648164128379061242014-03-06T19:15:36.312-06:002014-03-06T19:15:36.312-06:00What gets me is all the faux radicals and their sq...<br />What gets me is all the faux radicals and their squealing that the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld hypocrisy about Iraq disqualifies Obama/Kerry from objecting to Russia's movements in the Crimea.<br /><br />Illegal invasions are illegal invasions, right?<br /><br />Horace Boothroyd IIInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32082255934535393402014-03-06T18:48:22.131-06:002014-03-06T18:48:22.131-06:00Sullivan hasn't had a change of heart, he is j...Sullivan hasn't had a change of heart, he is just defending his current hero.<br /><br />Obama is an Ike style conservative in just about every meaning. Outside of his failure for the grand bargain, his presidency has been rather good and rather along the lines of what Sullivan and most people (in that circle) wanted. Even more though, Obama has ushered in a new era of gay rights with the financial backing and political pressure of the 1% and the organizations like the HRC they bankroll... you know people and organizations in Sullivan's circle.<br /><br />Were these characters not personally attacking Sullivan's shining hero on a White Horse, or if Obama was on the same side as them on this issue, Sullivan wouldn't have shit to say.<br /><br />I wouldn't be at all surprised that once tax and entitlement reform happen (if the stupid fucking Republicans would just say yes for love of god) Sullivan declares himself an Obama Democrat. Riding high on how Obama came along and enacted the prudent conservative principles that everyone agreed needed to be done but the Republicans simply lacked the balls to enact for fear of enraging the crazies.<br /><br />You should also note Sullivan also feels free to attack the same people who he stood by now that hey are attacking a pope who is OK with gay people.<br /><br />Make no mistake about it, Sullivan is simply defending his pro gay true conservative leaders... there's nothing there beyond it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-59693444313966632002014-03-06T18:24:43.175-06:002014-03-06T18:24:43.175-06:00....and yes, Andy's hypocrisy apparently knows.......and yes, Andy's hypocrisy apparently knows no bounds. <br />Sorry for ignoring the subject of the actual post.<br /><br />P.S. you are rolling!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-85873050176433362512014-03-06T18:10:54.715-06:002014-03-06T18:10:54.715-06:00I cant recall anything recently that has infuriate...I cant recall anything recently that has infuriated me more, than the having to watch John fucking McCain and Lindsy fucking Graham stomp their feet and attack this President in the midst of an international crisis of this magnitude.<br />Much like the word "liberal", the right has managed to abuse and mangle another word over the last decade to the point that it has lost all meaning. That word is "traitorous".<br />John fucking McCain, calling this President's foreign policy "feckless" and deriding him for having lost this country "respect" on the world stage, and Lindsey fucking Graham, saying that he "rolls his eyes" whenever this President speaks on Putin's abuses should be the description in the dictionary quotes under the word "traitor".<br />I would literally spit on either one of these two men if were ever to meet them.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com