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March 22, 2007
Andrew Sullivan vs. Andrew SullivanJust delightful. First, John Edwards is a hero for ending his presidential campaign to tend to his wife: Edwards Suspends Campaign I enjoy the unnecessary dig at Coulter, too. Like Coulter's offense was mocking a Democratic candidate, rather than using the word "faggot." But whatever. One track mind for Andy. Just twenty two minutes later, Edwards announces he won't be suspending his campaign to tend to his wife. Sullivan's take? He's a hero for that, too! Edwards Forges On Incidentally, I had similar thoughts through the news process -- Edwards is a nice guy for dropping out of the race, then Edwards is selfish, then finally "Who the hell am I to have any opinion whatsoever on how a family deals with cancer?" -- but I didn't blog them. I run a slapdash blog that's often much too stream of consciousness and first (poorly considered) draft for its own good. But honestly, no one can compare with Sullivan on this score. He's got a screechy, shrill, 100% absolute opinion on everything, but this opinion often reverses itself completely in the course of a day or two. But 22 minutes for such a shift? That's a new record, even for Sullivan. He defends this habit by claiming he's just trying to give an "honest" account of his thinking as the day goes on. Well, for one thing, it may be "honest" to constantly offer up one's stream-of-consciousness barely-even-given-a-first-thought-let-alone-a-second, but who wants to read that? For another thing, it's simply not honest. True, people have kneejerk opinions that may reverse themselves over a period of time. But the dishonesty comes from Sullivan's strident, absolutist, fulsomely emotional attachment to each and every of his micropunditries, e'er accusing those who disagree of bad faith and bad motives, despite the fact that Sullivan himself frequently disagrees 100% with Sullivan. Sure, people change their minds. But do normal, non-psychotic people change their minds with such passionate devotion to all of their conflicting opinions? Is Sullivan honestly psychotic in that manner? Or his his hyperemotional, archjudgmental rhetorical style simply fundamentally dishonest, the tactic of a sloppy-thinking hack trying to buttress his shabby analytical skills with constant namecalling, venom, and appeals to emotion? I can go either way on that one; I'm of two minds on that question.* To be honest with you. Thanks to Kevin. * Actually, I'm not. I think it's the latter. I was never as impressed with Sullivan's heartfelt, soaring, childishly naive rhetoric in favor of the war as other war-supporters seemed to be. It always seemed to me all emotion. No crunch of fact or analysis. Just glib idealism, sometimes embarrassing hero worship for Bush which I myself found distasteful, and nasty, venomous attacks on anyone who disagreed with him. It was in the last capacity Sullivan was at his best. Everything sounds better in a British accent as they say, and it was nice to see some elevated namecalling with words we don't hear often enough like "vile." But namecalling is still just namecalling. Calling someone "vile" sounds nicer than calling them a "fucking asshole" -- and like your teachers told you, there always is a nonprofane manner of making a point that's better than simpler resort to profanity -- but at the end of the day calling someone "vile" isn't really any different than calling them a "fucking asshole." It's more rhetorically effective to call them vile, but that's just rhetoric. Better rhetoric, yes, but still just empty rhetoric. Again, no crunch.
Cornflakes are the best breakfast cereal Can Andrew Sullivan ever just say "I guess I just don't know" or "I'm not sure what my opinion is" ever? I know he offers such statements retroactively to square his wildly contradictory previous stances (and then, of course, pats himself on the back for practicing the "politics of doubt"). But he rarely offers such sentiments in the actual moment, or caveats an opinion with doubt as he's writing it. Sure, when you call upon him later, he'll talk about the exquisite torment of living with doubt, and how that makes him better than you, etc. But as he's churning out his half-baked opinions, he doesn't seem very doubtful at all. When he's actually hacking this crap out, he's supremely confident that he is right and that you are a fucking asshole if you disagree with him. Or, rather, you're "vile" to do so.
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