If The Head Injury Was Severe Enough, Would I End Up Blogging For The Atlantic?

Given what we're getting out of Andrew Sullivan these days, it appears the answer is "Yes":

Now look: there are softball interviews; and then there are interviews like this. It cannot be described as journalism in any fashion. Even as propaganda, which is its point, it doesn't work - because it's far too cloying and supportive of Cheney to be convincing to anyone outside the true-believers. When it comes to Cheney, one of the most incompetent vice-presidents in the country's history, with a record of two grotesquely botched wars, war crimes and a crippling debt, Chris Wallace sounds like a teenage girl interviewing the Jonas Brothers. 

That's Andrew's response to Chris Wallace's interview with Dick Cheney that aired today.

Here's fearless Andrew Sullivan when it comes to torture and Barack Obama:

One political party in this country is now explicitly pro-torture, and wants to restore a torture regime if it regains power. Decent conservatives for the most part simply looked the other way. Unless these cultural forces in defense of violence and torture are defeated - not appeased or excused, but defeated - America will never return the way it once was. Electing a new president was the start and not the end of this. He is flawed, as every president is, but in my view, the scale of the mess he inherited demands some slack. Any new criminal investigation which scapegoats those at the bottom while protecting the guilty men and women who made it happen is a travesty of justice. If it is the end and not the beginning of accountability, it will be worse than nothing.

But Andrew, that's precisely what Eric Holder has given us - a travesty of justice - and Barack Obama still can't run away from it fast enough. None of that matters in Andrew's world, Obama deserves slack because, well, he just does... Everybody else caves, only Andrew Sullivan and Barack Obama walk tall.

It's enough to gag a maggot.

Given Andrew Sullivan's inability to hold Barack Obama accountable for anything - be it the pathetic Holder torture investigation, indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition, Don't Ask Don't Tell, gay marriage or Gitmo - who is he to accuse anyone of rolling over?

Andrew Sullivan loves to portray himself as some sort of fearless champion, but the truth is he's just another big-talkin' pussy. He wants us to believe that it's everybody else who doesn't have the balls to stand up for truth and justice. Well, that's bullshit. Pure unadulterated bullshit.

He's the sort of badass who'd walk into a bar and very carefully make sure he picked a fight with the smallest guy in the place.

Update: Just how lame is Andrew Sullivan? This lame. He can't even be bothered to read the Washington Post article he's trying to trash... He's relying on commenters at Ann Althouse's site to do the reading for him. Makes you wonder just how much time he's put into reading the Inspector General's report, doesn't it?

Comments

[Rollory]

Andrew Sullivan is very easy to explain. He's a homo and he's in love with Obama and behaves the way a woman in love does. Look at him in that context and every single thing he writes makes perfect sense.

[Palooza]

So your position is if the law appears to have been broke, the AG should do... nothing? I think you should move to the Soviet Union. In America the AG takes an oath to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law. You are saying that even when the former Administration's own legal rules have been violated not even an investigation is warranted? You are better suited for a communist country, or perhaps a third world dictatorship. It is difficult to imagine something less patriotic. Why do you hate this country?

[badanov]

Telling an accountant he belongs in a communist country: them is fightin' words.

Don't let him get away with that, Dennis.

Sometime ago I stopped being amazed that leftists like palooza believes that Bush sat through eight years without an attorney general and that only Barak and his Obamettes have the qualifications necessary to prosecute crimes as they see them, not as the law defines.

Dunno how you deal with folks like palooza, Dennis? Do you bill them to death or do you launch into an explanation of the latest tax code?

[Jim Ryan]

I think the surge of rage these people feel when complaining about Bush and Cheney releases a flood of endorphins. They keep doing it over, and over, and over again. Bystanders smile politely and awkwardly wondering what the hell. Can't a person like this have the decency to do it in the bathroom with the door closed? I guess he can do it anywhere in the house as long as he makes sure his wife is out first.

Oh, and shorter Palooza: "I didn't understand the post but everyone listen to me rave about torture!!!"

[Dennis the Peasant]

Palooza-

You overlook the more obvious position: If the issue is prosecuting for what are, in effect, war crimes, it is all or nothing. Invoking the constitution as you are, you miss the essential point: If Holder was really serious about upholding the law, he won't be pledging to keep the investigation so narrow as to preclude any investigation of those who bear the ultimate responsibility for what transpired.

Either the Bush Administration illegally authorized torture, or it legally authorized harsh interrogation techniques. There is no middle ground. As such, any investigation that stops short of investigating right up to George W. Bush isn't an investigation at all.

As usual, the Obama Administration is attempting to have it both ways. I am calling them on it. You can't have it both ways. There is no such thing as felony torture and misdemeanor torture. It is either torture or it isn't.

[Mona]

I completely agree with Dennis's post at 4:46. If Holder doesn't investigate everyone, high and low, who violated the laws against torture, he makes a mockery of the Rule of Law. Just as the Bush/Cheney Admin did.

[Mike C.]

" I think you should move to the Soviet Union. "

Um, have we been in a comma for a while ? Ya might want to check Wiki or something to see what's happened recently, as in there is no USSR anymore.

But what the hey - keep focusing on trivialities while the current administration directs the federal government to extra-constitutionaly take over huge chunks of the US economy.

[Uncle Fester]

So, Palooza, what do you know about American history? Specifically, the history of the American Civil War (or the War Of The Northern Aggression for my Southern brethren)?

It's not the first time FedGov has done things like this...

[Mona]

Hmmmm. I'm no Sullivan fan, but Chris Wallace was tossing softball questions.

[JeffS]

...Cheney, one of the most incompetent vice-presidents in the country's history...

Say, anyone hear from Joe Biden lately? I hear comedians are running out of material.

[Jane2 McMahon]

What Mona said re the investigation's scope.

[Kastanj]

Democrats in charge - government is an evil amoeba of death.
Republicans in charge - the government is not scary at all. In fact, it is our most beloved echelon against the forces of bad and scary.

The American right is completely nihilistic. You've killed Oakeshott, Hobbes and Churchill many times over.