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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Andrew Sullivan is the pot calling the kettle black
Greg Tinti has the details of an interview Andrew Sullivan did with PBS on the political impact of blogs.
One question was: “How difficult is it to be a passionate, prolific blogger and be non-partisan at the same time?” Sullivan a non-partsan blogger? Yeah, and I’m Hillary Clinton. Anyway, here was his amusing answer (emphasis added):
Very difficult, it would appear. My biggest disappointment with the blogosphere – which had and has the potential to be a forum for real independent thought – is how so much traffic goes to purely partisan sites and partisan propaganda. I’ve been blogging since 2000. I backed Bush in 2000 and Kerry in 2004. I wonder how many other bloggers actually switched parties in four years. Not many, alas.
Anyone with a really interesting take can be discovered quickly and become an elite blogger overnight. Look at Michelle Malkin. Constant hysteria helps as well, of course. Alas.
As Tinti notes with examples, Andrew Sullivan making assertions about anyone else’s supposed “hysteria” is like the pot calling the kettle black.
It’s a real shame what’s happened to Andrew Sullivan over the last couple of years. He’s anything but non-partisan, and anyone who disagrees with him on gay marriage issues is a bible-thumping “Christianist” (a term not meant to be remotely flattering), and anyone who disagrees with him on any other issues is simply an administration shill. Andrew was one of my inspirations for blogging. I read his blog before I started my own. Had it on my blogroll for about a year after I started blogging. But after he made his switch from a fair minded writer to a bitter, hysterial critic of the Bush admnistration, he lost a lot of the respect he had from me and if the reaction to him in certain other quarters of the blogosphere is any indication, I’m not the only one. Not that it would matter to him, of course. I mean, who am I? But the fact remains that Sullivan isn’t the blogger he used to be and sadly I don’t think he’ll ever return back to those days when he was well-respected on both the left and right side of the blogosphere.
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Our hostess wrote:
It would be interesting to know how many sites from the “other side” people blogroll. My site blogrolls Oliver Willis, The Liberal Avenger and Appletree from the Dark Side.
I used to read him also. Now he is irrelevant to the point of not having enough facts but plenty of hysteria.
Dana,
It’s perfectly fine to put people on the other side on the blogroll probably but my guess is that after enough vitriol or unfounded opinions or sheer nuttiness that it comes to a point of – why would you want to perpetuate falsehoods?
Opinions that differ are fine. But opinions that differ based on facts that aren’t true are not… in my humble opinion.
As a gay conservative, I read Andrew’s blog for years (and made several contributions).
Andrew was a fresh voice with an interesting take on a lot of issues. I enjoyed his thoughts even when I didn’t agree.
But I can’t bear to look at his blog anymore.
I’ve got a lot of issues with Bush and the GOP but he borders on hysterical. I don’t think he can make a post anymore without including the word “waterboarding”.
I guess his idea of an interrogation involves some hot cocoa and plush toys. (Think about the Monty Python “Spanish Inquisition” skit.)
Hopefully, one of these days, he will snap out of it. I miss the old Andrew.
I got torture for them to sue…make the terrorists listen to kevin federline aka kfed. kfed…sounds like a dog food name.
I find myself in the same boat, re Andrew. Used to read him at least every day. But now he has to always have the last word, and it seems impossible for him to admit to any sort of bias – though, as I recall, he used to speak/write often enough of the bias of msm. He’s become totally focused on torture – sort of the all-torture all-the-time blog. I’ve lost a lot of respect for him, but the sad thing is, I don’t think he respects anyone other than himself enough anymore to really even care.