Andrew Sullivan Goes Over the Line in a Delusional Blog Post
In today’s Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan has posted a blog post that is so delusional and so over the line that it goes far beyond anything he has yet written in the many tirades he has posted against Israel. In the course of the post, he argues the following:
First, “a Third World War based on religion” is most likely “inevitable.” The cause of that war will most likely not be the mullahs and theocrats of Iran, which might indeed be the case if its leaders succeed in obtaining nuclear weapons, but rather the Jewish state of Israel!
Second, he actually says — putting himself in the shadow of dozens of notorious anti-Semites from Father Coughlin to Gerald L.K.Smith in the 1930s, to Pat Buchanan and his supporters in present day America — that the media in the United States is controlled by Jewish interests, and hence is friendly to Israel. He writes that the Israeli government can rally “its media outlets (like Fox, and the Washington Post),” as well as “a key part of the Democratic fundraising machinery to side entirely with Israel against the US president.” I bet you did not realize that Fox, the Washington Post, and the Democratic National Committee were all controlled by Israel and its lobby!
Third, and most serious of all, he concludes his article with the truly bizarre charge that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (who, he earlier writes, is beholden to his “neo-fascist base”) is “in league with Romney, Santorum and Gingrich,[and] will make his move to get rid of Obama soon. [my emphasis] And he will be more lethal to this president than any of his domestic foes.”
Let us parse that paragraph for a brief moment. He does not write they will try to get Obama removed from office by a presidential campaign, in which the citizenry might heed their call and elect one of them our president if successful, but that they will try to “get rid of” him in a “lethal” way. Is this just bad writing, or is Sullivan suggesting in some underhanded manner that Netanyahu and his controlled Republican candidates are trying somehow to assassinate or shoot him?
His article is filled with other major gaffes. He takes a news analysis in the New York Times and accuses it of minimizing “the potentially catastrophic global consequences of an Israeli-initiated war against another Muslim nation.” The story is just one person’s analysis, not an official document.
On my first comment for a Ron Radosh post (which didn’t get past moderation) I wrote that blogging can make people crazy. That post was also about Andrew Sullivan. My point wasn’t that Ron Radosh is crazy, but that blogging about crazy is contagious.
The easy thing to do is to just walk on by. You don’t argue with crazy- it simply makes you look unhinged as well. I don’t mean mental illness, BTW, but views that are simply so far out in left field that they aren’t worth talking about.
The time wasted on Andrew Sullivan can never be regained. The internet is full of crazy and it cannot be reasoned with, only ignored.
A weak attempt at “concern” trolling. The fact of the matter is that Ron is not “arguing” with Sullivan, he’s 1) criticizing what Sullivan wrote, 2) the bias motivating what Sullivan wrote and 3) asking what it would take for a Lefty media boss like Tina Brown to demonstrate some sense of decency and responsibility by disciplining Sullivan for making such outrageous and incendiary statements.
My only concern is not to have to read about Andrew Sullivan anymore. He wastes everyone’s time and he lowers the level of discussion for everyone. Like Glenn Reynolds said this morning, “Dog Bites Man.” Nothing to see here.
As to trying to get Tina Brown to reign him in, do you think she reads PJM? Did the Atlantic care when he was going on about Trig Palin? No, they welcomed the traffic. They don’t care what we think, so why waste the time encouraging posts like this? The only troll here is Andrew Sullivan. Clearly he’s immune from normal blog pressure and has been for years. Stop feeding him.
Anti Semitic bigotry must be forcefully condemned. Ignoring it and hoping it goes away just makes the anti semitic bigots think they can get away with their bigotry with impunity. The real turning point will be when most Jews in this country finally get sick enough of leftist dem anti semitism that they start voting, and sending their donations, to repubs in large numbers. If it even starts to happen, the dems will panic enough to finally put a stop to this kind of bigotry, but right now they have no reason to, since there is little consequence for it among their voters and donors.
By the way, Sullivan may be immune to conservative blog pressure, but if he starts getting hit from fellow dems he will think again. But as I said, the only way that will happen is if major Jewish dem donors and voters demand that prominent dems condemn Sullivan, or they direct their donations/votes elsewhere.
the only way that will happen is if major Jewish dem donors and voters demand that prominent dems condemn Sullivan, or they direct their donations/votes elsewhere.
and that will only come about if Ron Radosh and others shove Sullivan’s behaviour in their faces for them not to ignore who they are going to bed with.
No, Moira, you’re wrong. You cannot allow genuine racist libels to go unanswered. Yes, it is unhinged to believe that the Jooos control the media and are likely to destroy the world. But leaving the assertion unanswered allows such hatefulness to become an unspoken premise that people just kind of accept.
I’m sorry, Moira. My reply is to John Lynch’s comment, not yours.
…give Sullivan attention anymore — except when Ron raises the sullied subject.
They tell me there’s such a thing as AIDS-dementia complex. I believe it.
AIDS-related or not, Sullivan is certifiable now.
Was he not already certifiable when, years ago, he was ranting that Palin’s baby wasn’t really her baby?
Yes. Andrew Sullivan is in the Ezra Pound territory of being a functional enough mentally ill person, given to paranoia. Not being a doctor, much less a psychiatrist, and not having examined him, I can’t make a determination as to whether he’s actually mentally ill nor the reason (AIDS or otherwise.) But clearly he’s not thinking correctly. Which is fine in itself. You’re mentally ill, have paranoid thoughts, ok, I don’t blame you any more than I blame a paralyzed person for not walking.
But why is someone continuing to publish him? Those who are hoping to make a dollar off of his paranoid writings, and thinking them worthy of being part of public discourse need to be shunned.
Anti-semitism is truly on the rise in America! From the Paulbots to the president. I believe it arises with socialism. Socialism grows from envy, and demonizes the “rich”! Historically, National Socialists in Germany,demonized rich Jews. They are the 1% today, that Obama is demonizing. It is no small thing that Obama was comfortable with Jerimiah Wright’s anti-semetic preaching. His disregard for Israel ,betrays his true attitude towards Jews. What is mind boggling to me , is how the the majority of Jews never see it coming. Jews still support Obama ,blindly so, as he gets less and less secretive about his intentions. This ,just a short 70 years since the holocaust.
I am Jewish and would vote for Zeeba the syphilitic camel over 0bama (equally competent and much less dangerous). Most Orthodox Jews have crossed the aisle to the GOP in recent years (some but not all over 0bama), and traditional ones feel less and less at home in the Deemocratic [sic] Party.
Sadly, the Deemocrat vote procurers have done an excellent job of keeping other Jews on the plantation by scaring them with various bogeymen, although this act is starting to wear thin. My guess is that many will stay home rather than vote for BHOzo a second time.
As for Jewish-born members of the New Class, like their Gentile counterparts they tend to vote their class interests, which are with the Deemocrats and 0bama.
Staying home IS voting for obama.
Er, no. Sullivan is an idiot, but clearly here the “lethality” implies is that Netanyahu will somehow destroy Obama politically by using his “control” of the US media to smear him in a way that would be lethal to his reelection chances.
So, no Mossad-killed-Kennedy like conspiracy theory. Just standard-issue the-Jews-control-the-world (or, in its modern guise, “the zionists control the USA”) antisemitism.
P.S.
As an Israeli, speaking to you Americans reading this: If we 7,000,000 control you 300,000,000, WHERE IS MY PIECE OF THE ACTION??? I should be controlling about 40 nubile American servants by this time, if my math is correct, and what do I get? NADA!
Somebody in Israel is holding on to his stash of enslaved Americans, and it really annoys me.
Ha ha! Well done, delightfully funny!
Thank you- you’re right.
Just standard fare in echoing ‘the Narrative’ for the election-
Repeat early, repeat often-
Jewish oppressors, right-wing militias, they just can’t control their racist tendencies, can they?
Run Run before the Jews unleash their Klan zombies!
I don’t think the entire US population would meet your constraints, so the count would, I expect, be lower than simple division would suggest.
Here’s one! Here’s one!
Where’s my free flight to Israel? (But I get to keep dual citizenship so I can return once this bozo is out of office – and I get to help vote him out too!)
Well, this is embarrassing.
I’m actually ASSIGNED to you, and I’ve had your morning coffee prepared for a while now, but this whole “Atlantic Ocean” thing is messing everything up. Fifteen feet out, it keeps getting seawater sloshed into it.
And that brings up the delicate subject of your dry-cleaning…
Sullivan’s dumb comment about gains in the last three years shows his grip on reality or history to be demarcated by the inauguration of President Obama as if it was the year zero in Iraq and Afghanistan.
By Sullivan’s logic we should never have retaliated for Pearl Harbor or 9/11 because Japanese and terrorists would get angry and might terrorize us. Sullivan seems to have scant regard for the idea of not letting the loose cannons called fundamentalist Muslim terrorists extort us by threats of violence in order to protect parts of the Middle East who threaten larger institutionalized violence. Measuring our response or subverting our own values because of how angry or threatening an opposition might get is sheer cowardice since it is well known by any idiot that appeasement simply encourages bullying and a sharp sock on the nose discourages it. Given our President’s apology to the lunatics who reacted to Koran’s being accidentally burned it is to be assumed Obama will lay right down in the face of Iran.
In the case of Iran it is not a military base at risk but the possible civilian target of a nuclear attack and the stakes are very high. However I think Sullivan was being sarcastic about his Israeli news outlets remark and there is a certain amount of accuracy within that sarcasm – that just doesn’t rise to anti-Semitism for me. Pointing that out where it ain’t and making the bar so low trivializes and confuses the issue.
For years, I was surprised at how much the two sides of left and right seemed to sound exactly alike in accusation. Even the detail.
Then I realized how this mirror effect occurs: Just Flip It!
The Left takes any statement made by conservatives- (even the ‘far-out’ speculation, such as assassination, cafe bombs, treason, collusion, false promises, coverups, racism, vote fraud, accusation, or simply lying)-
-when the Right justifiably asks, “Will they do it again?”
The left takes any fact or statement and Just Flips It!
Just repeat it as if it were one of their ideas, or a justifiable fear that another ‘right-wing’ agent might do ‘what everybody knows they’ve done before’.
It seems to boil down to a simple strategy, throughout history:
Blame the other guy for the bad you do;
Steal the credit for the good he does.
Since they hide their own history, it will be forgotten.
Those who follow will never know they are hearing a false version of the tale.
People only fight for the good- thus, they will strive to keep ‘those villains’ (the innocent!) from doing it again!
Is there a term for this?
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On a bit of a side note, I’ve noted that gays, anywhere, even without language, seem to have a secret signalling system. I am blind to it, but they recognise each other.
Is it possible that the left-wing mindset operates in the same way?
That they respond to comepletely different signals- and wonder why everyone else is so blind to what is blazingly obvious to them?
Is it a secret cluster of like minds?
Truly marching to the sound of a different drummer?
Okay, let’s test your thesis: name one political construct such as a law or group formally organized around the concept of race and with the participation of the gov’t or other mainstream entities such as celebrities and advertising that is supported by the Right. Answer, there is not one. Do the same for race culture websites: again, it will be none versus many.
Now let me name just a few of those entities supported by the Left and broadly mind you: affirmative action, the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, the Association of Black Journalists and also one for Asian journalists, the National Association for Black Law enforcement, the National Council for La Raza: get the picture? This latter list is nearly inexhaustible.
Now, look at American movies from 1930-55, just about the height of du jure Jim Crow and name me films that show an overarching interest in the formal notion of white supremacy or black inadequacy and then name 5 villains from the thousands of films of that era who are villains cuz they are black. Now look at the last 20 years of black-made films and observe the stark difference.
It is not true there are always 2 sides to a story and I could go down the Left’s stupidity right down the line and let simple facts speak for themselves. It is the presence of those facts which is the reason the Left is one big excuse factory to explain them away. In short, there are no words like “stupid,” “failure” or “dishonest” when it comes to their own; the Right can sit on facts and smile, the Left must practice eternal damage control to explain away everything from the Third World, to illegal immigrants to sad people without IDs to a ever lengthening list of failed cities and programs and on and on.
This is not the first suggestion of recent date from the left that obithegreatIwon would be a target of “violence”. I would posit it is carefully constructed to cause panic in leftist/especially-black circles. There has been much apathy from the leftists towards their do-nothing messiah – gotta get back that lovin’ feeling somehow. since it the feasability of enthusiastic support for his accomplishments isn’t there, it will be for fear of a lynching – which the race baiters use constantly to stir up emotion to keep their subjects willingly on the plantation.
their emotions will then be stirred up so they will overlook the fact he *is* a corruptocract from chicago and (they are worse off than they were four years ago), at the very least, deserves to go the way of jimmah. (whom he’s already replaced as ‘worst president ever’.)
Was Pegler an anti-Semite? I know he was a nut, but his wife was from a Jewish family and he wrote The Jewish Children about the tragic fate of Jewish children in Nazi Germany. Given Sullivan’s interest in Sarah Palin’s womb and this anti-Semitic nonsense, I think Sullivan is at least a notch below Pegler.
Does anybody really listen to what Andrew Sullivan says? Aside from a few far-right people and gays, does he really matter? I don’t see a lot of people standing around the water cooler in Ohio saying, “Hey, did you see that latest article by Andrew Sullivan?” Not a chance. Our problem is with the mainstream media and network news. Slay that dragon and you’ve won a major battle. Make George Stephanopoulos look bad and you’ve achieved a huge victory. But as Hyman Roth said in the Godfather, Part II, about someone like Andrew Sullivan, he is “Small Potatoes.”
Exactly. Sullivan was never more than a minor voice who became unhinged back around 2003 or so. Dispite his occasional comments about being a Christian he has openly lived his life as a bitter, reprobate sinner, often bragging about his depravity. Now he possesses a diseased body and deranged mind. Pity him? – yes. Listen to him? – no.
Andrew Sullivan represents the majority of the Democratic party, academia, and nomenklatura. Sullivan does no more than speak plainly the worldview of the 1960s generation, confident it will triumph after Obama’s America-tranforming victory. There is no going back.
I can only conclude after reading his “article” that he has either a. had a mental breakdown or b. really believes what he wrote.
A and B are not mutually exclusive.
What I don’t quite understand is that if, as Thomas (why can’t the USA be more like the People’s Republic of China?) Friedman says, Bibi already controls Congress (having bought it lock, stock and barrel), and if the Zionists already control the (oh-so-obviously Israel-friendly) media, then why would Bibi have to go and off the President?
Now I realize that Bibi isn’t exactly a bright light, but this doesn’t seem especially sensible (or subtle, or even cunning) to me.
Maybe Andrew Sullivan can address this conundrum and then enlighten us all in a future (bizarro) post?
File under: With bated breath.
Barry,
You have hit upon the illogic of these kinds of charges and why these conspiratorial myths never go away. The superstitious, conspiratorial mind does not arrive at its opinions from what is provable or logical, so it is impervious to logic or facts that might disprove it. There is no rational discussion with people like Sullivan and the people who share his hatred. But they have to be exposed and opposed just the same, because if you ignore them, some will interpret that as admitting they have a valid point.
Sullivan and Walt and Mearsheimer’s newly branded conspiratorial anti-semitism is a symptom of a cultural malady, the retreat from scientific thinking that requires evidence and logic, and its replacement with superstition.
It appears that years of drinking the Kool Aid and smoking hopium has finally destroyed Andrew’s critical reasoning and left him a “useful idiot” incapable of independent thought and as such a slave to others.
every cockroach is skittering out of the woodwork. some of them, like the despicable andrew sullivan we’ve already heard from ad nauseum.
you know, however, how quickly roaches multiply. there will be an even more hideous torrent of anti-semitism, unmitigated of course by the obama administration and the creepy hillary, the ny times, as well as others who will join the bandwagon.
israel, with the heartfelt support of world jewry will do whatever it must do. it will offend a great many people who, if they could, would resurrect the third reich or create a virtual fourth.
jewish civilization is almost 6,000 years old. andrew sullivan, notwithstanding, israel will prevail. for those who don’t like it. frankly, my dears, we don’t give a sh*t.
Sullivan’s Atlantic colleagues James Fallows and Robert Wright have been trotting out the Israel bogeyman quite frequently of late, also.
Quote: “Is this just bad writing, or is Sullivan suggesting in some underhanded manner that Netanyahu and his controlled Republican candidates are trying somehow to assassinate or shoot him?”
Nah, he’s just channeling that idiot from the Atlanta Jewish Times: http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/atlanta-jewish-times-publisher-1310523.html.
@ Barry Meislin 10, perfect observation.
Andrew Sullivan, like the guy from Littlegreenfootballs, went crazy a few years back and I just never read him anymore.
I guess crazy in itself isn’t bad. The real crime is Sullivan (like LGF)got boring and predictable.
Jews have survived worse than Andrew Sullivan for thousands of years. Israel will still be here when he is gone and forgotten.
The American people have a deep affinity for Israel and Congress will continue to support that. Antisemites will always be around and you can find them crawling under all sides of the rug.
Passivity is not the answer. These people need to be exposed and confronted.
Netanyahu will be here next week. I am looking forward to what he has to say. Israel faces its worst secuity crisis in decades. For some reason I am increasingly optimistic that all will be OK.
Sullivan’s delirium encompass the classics of antisemitism slurs : 1) JUdaism as a THE SOURCE OF THE 3RD WORLD WAR.
2) JUDAISM THROUGH THE ISRAEL STATE CONTROLS THE CONGRESS 3) Judaism thanks to Israel state has a criminal plan to kill the US PRESIDENT.
those slurs are really sufficient to file a complaint for antisemitism defamation.
CAN YOU SUGGEST TO ALAN DERSHOWITZ TO STEP IN ?
1. He didn’t say a third world war based on religion was inevitable. He said Israel’s bellicosity would make its own isolation, the destruction of the international coalition against Iran, or a third world war based on religion, inevitable.
2. He didn’t say that Israel controls the US media. He said that Israel’s irresponsible actions would rally the GOP and “its media outlets (like Fox News and WaPo.” He wasn’t saying Israel controls Fox and WaPo, he was saying Republicans do, which he is clearly correct about.
…I could go on and on, but given that the readership of this site is accusing Sullivan of antisemitism and AIDS-related dementia, and the author of this site apparently lacks reading comprehension skills, it’s obviously not worth my time.
Good grief, when did Republicans take over the Washington Post??? And when will they begin to influence the Post’s leftist leanings? (Or is it the Republicans like Olympia Snowe and Richard Lugar, who are happy, happy, happy to reach across the aisle to the Dems and who “just want to get along,” who are running the place?)
There was a time when distinguished columnists would not be allowed to produce such drivel and have it published
“We Jews are weak and powerless, and if you don’t agree, we’ll destroy you!”
It’s 2012. Isn’t it time Jews put on their big boy pants and learned to deal with criticism like adults instead of demanding that those who say things they don’t like be censored?
Speaking of which, lets see how long this comment remains on PJM …
Suprise, your little bit of anti-Semiticism is still here for all to see. That’s the beauty of relatively unmoderated replies, you’re exposed for what you are.
I hope it stays, so that everyone will know that commenter SteveM is an anti-semite who is ignorant about history.
I don’t see him as an anti-Semite but as someone who has a different opinion which you bewilderingly bear out for him.
I don’t know what’s crazier: the idea of a Jewish left-right cabal that controls the GOP, or the notion of Obama’s “foreign policy advantage”.
This is not a defense of Andrew Sullivan. If someone argues that a country rallies their friends in the media that statement is certainly contentious but it is not an equivalent of saying the interests control the media. Second, it is probably true that Netanyahu, Romney, Gingrich and Santorum want to make sure Obama isn’t elected again. Sullivan is stupid to complain about it and Radosh is foolish to deny it. They do want Obama out. So do I. And for that matter so does Radosh.
I’m surprised he didn’t try to blame Sarah Palin, along with the Jews.
All joking aside. . .
Louis Farakhan was recently burbling about the Joooooos trying to assassinate Obama, too. Is this the Left’s latest agitprop campaign? “Da Jooooooos are going to try and kill Teh One! Watch out for da Jooooooooooos!” (Never mind all those Moslems who want to kill us. And are new, harsh security measures going to be enforced now, to protect teh One against all those evil Jooooos? I’m sure Janet Napolitano would be happy to enforce them.)
Folks, this stuff usually begins with the crazies, then rises upwards. I’ll bet you anything that, in a few days, a more respectable talking Leftwing head will say something like, “Well, yes, poor Andrew is crazy, and anti-semetism is deplorable, and, yet, can you really trust those Zionists? What about teh Okupashion, and our noble Palestinian comrades? Maybe it is teh Joooooooos!” Some “moderate” Republicans will voice “concerns”, The Paulbots will chime in, and. . . we know the drill.
In which case, Sullivan might not be crazy—he might simply be obediently parroting the latest Leftwing meme.
(On the other hand, maybe he is just crazy; no reason he can’t be nuts, and Leftist at the same time; in fact, it helps!)
Just as an example—we’ve already got Steve M. chiming in with his, “It’s all da Joooooooos!” comment! (No, Steve, da Jooooooos didn’t steal your comment; your tinfoil hat blocked out their evil matzoh-mind rays.)
Maybe Farakhan and Sullivan are trying to marshal the Steves of this world into fighting da Joooooos. (Never mind all those Moslems who are making war against us.)
Not to worry—Ron Paul will save us! /Sarc.
(We must all learn to live under stricter government authority, because it’s necessary to protest Teh One from da Joooooos! If you don’t like it, you must be a Joooooo too! Meet your new Commandant, Herr Steve M.)
Better save a screen grab of that article Ron.
An old joke about a new Russian immigrant to Israel goes like this:
-why you continue to read Pravda?
-because when I read Israeli newspapers, I learn about corruption, deficit, the sure total annihilation of Israel in a very short time etc. And when I read Pravda, I learn that Israel is a superpower that conquered half of the world, and will soon conquer another half.
Freud would say that Sullivan interego wants strong all-powerful Israel, so he tries to convince at least himself that this is the case. Unfortunately, the reality is different.
I predict that small green ET ruling the world will be his next great discovery.
Ked5, ummm-hmmmmmmmmm. . .
Now that Sullivan and Farakhan have fired the opening shots, so to speak, more “sensible” pundits will start speaking up.
Something like this:
“While, of course, we deplore anti-semetism, isn’t it true that the Zionists do have too much influence on our government? And, of course, Zionists are backed by those crazy, red-necked Christian types, who are all Tea Partiers, and think the end of the world is coming. (Cue in laugh-track, here.) Therefore, perhaps, it might just be a good idea to be extra vigilant about our historically important president, and step up security for the time being; after all, with the election coming, the Tea Partiers, and religious fanatics will be out in force, and some madman might actually try to harm teh one. . ”
Ron Paul will summon his minions, who will blame Israel, while agitating for more aid to Islamic countries. Anne Coulter, who seems to have undergone a personality change, will point out, humorously and “edgily” of course, that threatening Obama might cost Romney the Republican nomination. HuffPo, and Daily Kos will print more and more inflammatory posts about how Da Joooooos run America and are poisoning the water supply, etc, etc., etc., and the Arab world would LOVE us, if they’d just go away. If anyone calls them on this, they will bat their eyes, simper and titter something about how they really can’t control what goes on their blog, now can they?
Movies and T.V. will step in too, providing us with more Jewish villains, named”Christo”, or “Jesus” or “Bob.”
We know the drill.
“All citizens must obey the new security rules set down by Homeland Security, in order to protect the president! You will be searched at bus stops, on trains and be prepared to be be stopped and searched when you are out driving. You must register your religion and political party with the board of Homeland Security. Also, list what books you have read lately, what periodicals yiu subscribe to and the contents of your iPod. Check Box FU if you are: 1. Jewish, or friendly with Jews; 2. Are Catholic or Evangelical; 3. Have ever listened to Rush Limbaugh; 4. Like Country Music. Refusal to check FU will result in a fine. Or worse. What? You don’t like these new rules? You must hate the president! Hey, are you sure you’re not a JOOOOOOO?”
OWS, and the underclass will riot, claiming they are protesting these foreign attacks against the president. They will even start invading the homes of “suspected Israeli agents”, and meeting out “justice” against them, for their alleged plotting against Obama. The Police will be ordered to stand down, in such cases.
We live in interesting times.
Sullivan is the opening salvo of what is coming this election year out of the left. The Republican nominee better get used to it. It is going to get real bad and nasty.
I remember defending Andrew on blogs back in the day when he’d become a Happy Warrior for the Right. One blogger in particular had taken to accusing Mr Sullivan of being delusional and that his medications to treat his illness were to blame. I recall the indignation I felt that a person would stoop that low. What a difference 10 years can make! I don’t blame Andrew’s twisted logic on his meds though. He was once a writer whose work I looked forward to reading each week. Then he was struck down with Bush Derangement Syndrome from which he never recovered.
That was me. Andrew went off the rails during Campaign season ’03, ostensibly over the gay marriage issue. At around the same time, however, he wrote an article about the effects on his psyche of the anabolic steroids he was taking for his AIDS-related muscle-wasting. You’ve heard of “roid rage” among athletes?
“Let us parse that paragraph for a brief moment. He does not write they will try to get Obama removed from office by a presidential campaign….”
Of course he does. It’s in the previous paragraph:
“A global war which polarizes America and the world is exactly what Netanyahu wants. And it is exactly what the GOP needs to cut through Obama’s foreign policy advantage in this election.”
Andy has NOW? gone over the line? I think insisting on pictures of Sara Palin’s genitalia was pretty over the line.
Israel is a State that has defended itself againt invasion and attack since it was authorized bt the UN. However, Palestine which never existed and whose people are not accepted anywhere in the Arab world expect to be allowed to attack Israel at will and be supported in their demand for the destruction of Israel by the UN today. The Arab world and their sponsors in Anti-American , anti religious freedom ,anti democracy ,pro jihad radical terrorism seek to destroy the only 21st century State in the regfion.
This idiot goes along with their rhetoric and objectives re the detruction of Israel but we are not to consider those facts as indicative of anti semitism. OKAY—- What shall we call it?
Louis Farrakhan is pissed off royally at Obama for taking out Farrakhan’s good buddy Gaddafi. So like what happened to Malcolm X back in the day, there’s now a lot of baring of teeth among Calypso Louis’ crowd, and murder on their minds all over again. But they figure they can blame Israel, the Mossad, or Netanyahu for it this time.
Andrew Sullivan is a strange character. His persona has changed from the most visible gay “conservative” to a rabidly anti-Semitic, leftist conspiracy theorist who trashes Jews & Israel and protects irrationally Obama.
One has to conclude that he has emotional / mental problems.
Sullivan’s anti-semitism is rooted in his peculiar sexual habits. he fetishizes the genitals of uncircumcised men, and he hates the act of circumcision. Ergo he hates Judaism and Jews.
Great post, I linked it here.
Uncircumcised “genitals” turn Sullivan on?
How does that make him a hater of Judaism and Jews?
Talk about going over the line in a blog post!
Your comment moderator is asleep at the wheel.
Walter Sobchak’s remarks should be deleted.
I have heard that this Sullivan character has AIDS. I have known others AIDS victims who went off the rails and the same, apparently, is happening to him. There really is a condition known as AIDS dementia complex and Sullivan appears to be a victim. Netanyahus assassinating Obama? Sullivan has clearly lost his mind. The fact that Sullivan is an anti-semite is utterly unspectacular since the vast, vast majority of those in the media (including right wing media) are anti-semites, too. They just don’t show it as openly as Sullivan does. Have you heard some of Bill O’Reilly’s pronouncements on Israel and the so-called Jewish lobby over the years? He is not at all friendly to the Jewish state.
I am very impressed with the civility and intelligence that is reflected by the many comments posted here. You people sure have a lot of class.
For a moment I thought I was reading some hate filled leftist site and not PJ media.
I thought that comments here were moderated??
Your point is apt. Sullivan makes people mad, the more so because he used to be such a good writer and now he is totally demented. Its infuriating. But who can we be mad at?
One of these days we will be reading one of those ‘you either loved Andrew Sullivan or you hated him’ obituaries when the disease finishes him off. One supposes that he must know something is wrong but not just what.
Shorter Andrew Sullivan: “How dare those Jews defend themselves! Don’t they know their proper role is to go passively to their deaths, and let us intellectuals write sophisticated, nuanced obituaries?”
42 William: That’s as much civility as Andrew Sullivan deserves.