The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Bristol and the Haters

From her Facebook page: Willow and I shouldn’t have reacted to negative comments about our family. We apologize. On a nicer note, thank you for supporting the great competition in Dancing with the Stars! Thank you supporters who continue to support. The haters are already pulling out all the stops this week to destroy. “May […]

‘By Any Means Necessary’

“Willow Palin is a 16 year old girl who, like all 16 year olds is going to make mistakes and say things she shouldn’t have. . . . Apparently, it’s only a ‘homophobic slur’ when it comes from the daughter of a conservative female leader. Make no mistake; this is all about destroying Sarah Palin […]

Andrew Sullivan: Does the Phrase ‘And the Horse You Rode In On’ Ring a Bell?

“Here’s Robert Stacy McCain rushing to Willow’s defense . . . Maybe I should defer to McCain as an arbiter of homophobia. He’s one of the vilest bigots on the web.” — Andrew Sullivan OK, post-election flame-wars being The New Black, I’m happy at last to have an antagonist who (a) hates all Republicans and […]

‘A Deliberate . . . Systemic Campaign to Kill Obama’s Presidency in Its Crib’

Hey, did anybody else ever notice that Andrew Sullivan has a tendency to engage in hyperbole? What Sully portrays as a malign plot, I think most people call . . . politics. Or in Jennifer Rubin’s elegantly simple formula, “There is no getting around it. The opposition party must oppose.” For an Obamaphile like Sullivan, the explanation […]

Andrew Sullivan Back From Vacation

You may wonder: What topic would Sully blog about Monday, having been off the grid for the past week or so? Guess. C’mon, guess. If you can’t guess, you’ll probably click this link. And feel ashamed of yourself for doing so. Related: Guess who the New York Post considers an authoritative source for an anti-Palin story?

Incentivizing the Anti-Palin Slime

Chris Bodenner at The Atlantic Monthly: The link is to Jesse Griffin of the Immoral Minority blog, who perpetrated the Palin divorce hoax of August 2009, and who was forced to resign as a kindergarten aide at an Anchorage elementary school after his porn-blogging habits were exposed. Griffin, Dennis Zaki, Jeanne Devon — when it […]

Remember All Those Nice Things I Said About Dave Weigel?

Yeah, I’m looking like a total chump, now that he’s guestblogging for Andrew Sullivan. No word on what Weigel will have to add to the usual Sarah Palin obstetric conspiracy theories and Israel-bashing at Sully’s. What next for Weigel? Guest-hosting the Alex Jones show? UPDATE: Note Ace’s reaction, including the not-gonna-link-Sully-no-matter-what standard. Very few sites qualify for […]

What If Glenn Beck Said This?

“I think of Obama’s politics as entirely cultural. It is about creating the new America, epitomized by Barack Obama’s racially mixed radicalism. It is about banishing the Bush-Cheney years by celebrating the man hired to destroy the Constitution. It is about dreaming of a new America — the America transformed by the New Deal, by mass immigration of non-whites, by the civil […]

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