Obama meets with liberal columnists – PLUS: Andrew Sullivan hypocrisy watch update

Well, it was to be expected, seeing as to the dinner he had last night with select conservative columnists, and his near-obsession with trying to please everyone – which I fear will get the US of A hurt in the long term.

It was virtually a who’s who of liberal loyalists:

[...] the Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, CNN’s Roland Martin, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, the Washington Post’s Gene Robinson, the Boston Globe’s Derrick Z. Jackson, the one and only Maureen Dowd, the New York Times’s Frank Rich, the Wall Street Journal’s Jerry Seib, Atlantic political director Ron Brownstein, USA Today’s DeWayne Wickham and columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.

The Times’s Paul Krugman was invited, but did not attend.

Of the invitation for Andrew Sullivan to attend, Michael Calderone writes:

It’s interesting that Sullivan — author of “The Conservative Soul” — was invited along with the more liberal wing of the chattering class. Perhaps his Palin-bashing during the campaign wouldn’t have gone over well with the righties.

With all due respect to Calderone, where’s he been the last several years? As soon as Bush announced support for a federal amendment to define marriage as one man and one woman, Andrew Sullivan turned on conservatives faster than you can say “opportunist” (which is essentially how Patterico described AS here in a November 2008 post. He was and is right on.). Sullivan’s spent the last year or so shilling for Barack Obama, and the last six months of that obsessing over whether or not Trig Palin is really Bristol Palin’s son. So no, it’s not “interesting” he’s considered a liberal columnist. It’s a fact.

Now, Andrew’s made it clear that he’s not the type to kiss and tell, but we can just imagine the type of conversation he had this morning with PEBO:

PEBO: Heckuva job, Sully.
AS: Anything for you, King Ob- I mean, Mr. President-elect.

Really, is there anything else that would need to be said between the two?

Now, I remember back in late 2006 when certain (real) conservative talk show hosts met with President Bush for a little one on one policy talk time. Here’s how Andrew Sullivan described the meeting:

Who are these people called in to meet the president for a pep talk? Here are the toadies awaiting instructions and talking points: Mike Gallagher, Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Michael Medved. It forces one to ask the question: what is the difference between journalists fawning on a president, taking spin directly from him, cozying up to him – and paid propagandists whose job it is to advance the interests of those who already wield power? Some of these “journalists” have been critical of Bush policies. Which is why they have been summoned. You want the party line? You now know who to listen to.

Well, Andrew has recently been critical of Obama. Which is probably why he was summoned. You want the party line? You now know who to listen to.

How’s that Hypocrisy Cocktail taste, Andrew?