Professional Left Podcast Episode 898: Why Today's Politics Is A Holy War

"One man's cult is another man's religion." -- Annie Parisse

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Is it from "Andrew Sullivan"...

...or "Spy Magazine's Digital Archives from the same year 'Empty Nest' premiered on network teevee"?

Ready?

Go...

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The right is paying a high cost for its unholy marriage to Limbaugh-style rhetoric.
It just hasn't fully realized it yet.

Time's up, and if you guessed "Spy Magazine Archives", sorry, but it is in fact another in a long line

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Mr. Sullivan posts many cool videos and many opinions with which I agree -- with which, in fact, I agreed long, long, looooooooooong before Mr. Sullivan reluctantly abandoned the fiery wreck of his own failed ideology and jumped resentfully onto my bandwagon. But woven deeply into virtually every one of his critiques of the "Christianists" and Palinites whom he feels have polluted His Awesome Movement to the point where he had to leave, you will find a massive dose of exactly the same brand of poison he slams them for pushing: that sweet, fatal narcotic of revisionism and forgetfulness.

of very, very late night catechisms from the darting pen of Mr. Sullivan.

To which one can only add the small but fervent prayer that the temple walls of "Newsweek" and "The Daily Beast" are sturdy enough to contain regular eruptions of this kind of lacerating Liberal criticism from 1988...

...delivered as fresh baked goods from the pie wagon of a Conservative expatriate 23 years later.