Check this bit of Theater of the Absurd self-dramatics...
Is Andrew Sullivan batshit crazy, or what? He's been like this all fucking week! I mean, what the fuck is this about? Does he think the Mayan end o' the world thingy revolves around Sarah winning the presidency in 2012? Well, that's a question Ol' Dennis couldn't leave alone. I've been calling up my sources both in Washington and Anchorage and posing the same question to all:
Just what has crawled up Andrew Sullivan's can?
Now, the answer can be revealed. Andrew Sullivan's obsession with Sarah Palin stems from the single greatest humiliation ever visited upon Andrew Sullivan (other than just being Andrew Sullivan, that is). According to my sources, last September Sarah Palin secretly challenged Andrew Sullivan to a test of manhood; more specifically, she challenged him to field-dress a moose. It was a challenge Andrew fearlessly accepted... Let's face it, Andrew's as manly as they come!
Unfortunately, he showed up with a rather dated chintz floral print outfit and a curling iron and was laughed out of Alaska.
The poor bastard hasn't been the same since.
Note: Nothing like have a British-born, Ivy League-educated, pot smoking fudgepacker of an atheist telling ya who the real Americans are, eh?
He's always been crazier than a shithouse rat. How do you tell when it's excessive?
Posted by: Maxx | November 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Let's not inflict Andrew Sullivan on atheists, shall we?
Posted by: ema | November 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Who is Andrew Sullivan?
Posted by: Robbie | November 18, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Who is Andrew Sullivan?
Apparently, Sarah Palin's wannabe Ob/Gyn.
Posted by: ema | November 18, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Chintz? Everyone who's ANYone knows that when you field dress a moose, you dress it in sensible, rugged twill.
Posted by: richard mcenroe | November 18, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Sullivan refers to Palin as the 'leader' of the Republicans.
LOL. Riiiiiiight. He wishes.
Posted by: Guesst | November 18, 2009 at 11:43 PM
A well-deserved one-off.
"Nothing like have a British-born, Ivy League-educated, pot smoking fudgepacker of an atheist telling ya who the real Americans are, eh?"
The most operative term is "British-born." Can anyone name me a public British thinker that actually gets the US? I mean actually GETS us?
Hitchens? Nope. Even when sober, which isn't often.
Derbyshire? No. A prig to boot.
Tina Brown? Bwahahaha. Killed the New Yorker for fun back in the day, runs a shitty HuffPo wannabe now. Singularly clueless.
Who am I missing?
Posted by: David | November 18, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Ha ha! He's different from most of us in every way so he doesn't count!
Posted by: MM | November 19, 2009 at 01:29 AM
Poor Andrew has had a hard on for Palin since she broke into the national scene being the vp candidate. Sullivan has been quite delusional for some time now. And to top it off he may as well be screaming into a toilet since one out of about ten thousand people MAY know just who the fuck Sullivan is.
Posted by: Dan from Madison | November 19, 2009 at 07:01 AM
ema-
Sullivan often mentions his own spirituality... when he thinks it will make him look good. But, as with all things Andrew, he's just hedging his bets. Read him enough and you'll see that he absolutely loathes Christianity and the Catholic Church.
He's a believer only when he thinks there is something in it for him.
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | November 19, 2009 at 07:08 AM
Dan-
I get the sense that at least part of this has nothing to do with Palin and everything to do with his ego. He's doing his version of the Charles Johnson "Look at Me! Look at Me!" routine.
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | November 19, 2009 at 07:10 AM
It's not often you get to see someone chase their obsession deeper and deeper into the fever swamp.
Posted by: Allen | November 19, 2009 at 02:07 PM
I have said it once, I will say it again: you ignore Caribou Barbie at your own peril. Living on the right coast I am inundated with snarling Bobo's who are certain that Sister Sarah is just so un-cool because she didn't attend Brynn Mawr.
Well the frozen governor didn't get to the top of the glacier baking moose and mash potato.
Those of us who remember the 70's also remember how the MSM portrayed Reagan as a moron. Guess who had the last laugh?
Posted by: DocSavage | November 20, 2009 at 12:49 PM