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Pretzel Logic

November 27, 2009 - 9:31 pm - by Ed Driscoll

As Donald Rumsfeld once famously said, there are known-knowns and known-unknowns, and then there’s Andrew Sullivan twisting himself into knots over his Burberry-clad bête noire:

The lies of Sarah Palin are different from any other politicians’. They are different because they assert things that are demonstrably, empirically untrue; and they are different because once they have been demonstrated to the entire world that they are untrue, Palin keeps repeating them as if they still were true or refuses to acknowledge that she was wrong.

As opposed to lies from politicians that assert things that are demonstrably, empirically true?

Filed under: Muggeridge's Law, Oh, That Liberal Media!, The Return of the Primitive

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6 Comments, 6 Threads

  1. 1. K

    What is this strange hold Andrew Sullivan has over the right blogosphere? He’s a prat. A literate prat, but a prat just the same. Why keep quoting him? Is it some sort of reciprocity? He’s obsessed with Palin, thereby giving her mounds of coverage but only while the right blogs do the same for him?

    November 27, 2009 - 10:05 pm   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. David Thomson

    “What is this strange hold Andrew Sullivan has over the right blogosphere?”

    Andrew Sullivan should be normally ignored simply because he rarely has any anything intelligent to say. The guy is something of a jerk. But this wasn’t always true. Roughly six years ago Sullivan was one of our most insightful bloggers. He is living off his past reputation.

    November 28, 2009 - 1:24 am   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. tehag

    And to think The Atlantic was once respectable. Everyone associated with them is tarnished.

    November 28, 2009 - 3:24 am   Link to this Comment
  4. 4. syn

    For a devout Catholic, why is Andrew Sullivan performing bizarre Crucifixion-like fervor against the Madonna and Child.

    Perhaps the Pope might try having a Catholic conversation with devout Catholic Andrew Sullivan before Sully completely turns the Catholic Church and the Pope into useless joke.

    What is the taste when sharing the communal body of Christ with those Catholics obsessed with crucifying
    Mother and Child?

    It must be a nasty flavor.

    November 28, 2009 - 3:46 am   Link to this Comment
  5. 5. smitty

    Maybe Dr. Helen should opine.

    November 28, 2009 - 7:19 am   Link to this Comment
  6. 6. Rick Caird

    When the lovely and talented Andrew says: “They are different because they assert things that are demonstrably, empirically untrue”, does that not really apply to Andrew and his whole derangement syndrome?

    Rick

    November 28, 2009 - 12:41 pm   Link to this Comment