Krauthammer: Sully in a Nutshell

Charles Krauthammer kicks Andrew Sullivan up one side of the street and down the other. Sully whined about Krauthammer's "latest" column because in Sully's fevered mind, Krauthammer failed to mention his gas tax scheme because he is "more invested in obstructing and thereby neutering Obama and the Democrats than in solving any actual problems in front of us."

In other words, Sully accused Krauthammer of the type of partisan hit-jobs he's used to writing (and reading over at DKos, I'm sure). For Sully, Krauthammer's omission was all about Obama.

Krauthammer politely explains to Sullivan that he should just fuck off:

If you click on the column of mine that he cites, which he calls my "latest" and which betrays my anti-Obama fanaticism, you will find that it begins with the following headline:

Carbon Chastity
The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, May 30, 2008

Note the date: May 30, 2008. A year and a half ago. At the time, George Bush was president. Barack Obama hadn’t even won the Democratic nomination, let alone become president of the United States. The column has absolutely nothing to do with Barack Obama.

Sullivan's entire ad hominem conclusion -- that my views are animated by nothing but the basest, most corrupt partisan motives -- turned out to be a complete invention based on his inability to read dates.

It gets better.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 11:42 AM

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