Weds. Open Thread
Hey ya’ll – I’m going to be buried under most of the day. Just updated the Hot Headlines with some fresh links. As always, you can find out what the big stories of the day are by visiting Memeorandum.
Dissecting the writings and ideology of Andrew Sullivan
Christopher Badeaux at The New Ledger has a seriously devastating takedown of Andrew Sullivan, the likes I’ve never seen before. He covers Sullivan’s rampant hypocrisy, his various political “awakenings,” talks at length about Sullivan’s obsessions (like Sarah and Trig Palin, for example), and his famed hostility towards the Catholic Church for their stance on gay marriage – and then some.
Either this WH wants to “meddle” or it doesn’t
Via the WaPo today we learn that the WH is trying to take credit for the uprising in Iran:
More on how the 2005 “election” of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was not Bush’s fault
On Saturday, I wrote a post which talked about the myths the left are perpetuating about the 2005 election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Iranian presidency, which are that 1) reform-minded Iranians were “ok” with having Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president as long as he helped protect them from the “warmongering” Bush and 2) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected over Iranian fears of the United States after Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech and other “harsh” rhetoric towards Iran. In essence, Bush has been blamed for Ahmadinejad’s “rise to power,” an assertion that is unsupported by the facts. This post continues where the last one left off.