Good post. That must have taken a while to compile.

Brilliant, Ace. Use "Sweet Loads" Sullivan's own words against him. When are these idiots going to learn that you can't get away with this kind of crap anymore? I appreciate your doing the research so the rest of us don't have to.

Great post man. It's like "one stop shopping" for mood swings.

I think I'm going to start calling Sully "Bipolar Bear."

Cheers,
Dave
Arlington, Virginia

Very good post.

When I read Sullivan these days I wonder whether he's always been this much of a jackass, and we just never noticed it because we agreed with him before; or whether the gay marriage thing has finally driven him completely barking mad.

Either way, the guy has got to realize that Kerry wants to appease aren't exactly gay marriage supporters.

That's what I get for typing too fast. The last sentence should read:

Either way, the guy has got to realize that Kerry won't fight this war and the people he wants to appease aren't exactly gay marriage supporters.

Holy crap that post was blistering. I have no doubt it took quite awhile to compile, but then again it's not really that hard to find posts from Sullivan that are shrill. Even gobsmackingly shrill.

Ace,

I read Andrew's blog yesterday afternoon.

After having done so I realized that his reporting on the SwiftVets, the DixieCrats, etc. seemed, well, nuts. Not a shill. Not a hack. Just plain nuts.

Go figure.

And no, I won't go back to read his blog again.

Really.

And I won't make anymore comments about him here or anywhere else.

"there are times when I prefer the animous"- For some reason I found this hilarious.

Excellent.

And from Instapundit:

I suspect the style was a bit offputting to some people who aren't familiar with (old-fashioned) southern politics, since you normally only see someone speak that way in the movies if he's an Elmer Gantry style bad guy. In fact, it's not that way: Many of the old-line Democratic heroes in Tennessee (none of whom were "dixiecrats") spoke that way. I'm too young to have seem anything but the tail end of that generation of politician: people like Ned Ray McWherter, Doug Henry, and John Jay Hooker. But they -- especially John Jay -- could give that kind of a stem-winder too, and it's only bigotry or ignorance that associates that sort of speaking style with racism and nothing else.

Glenn's talking to you, Andy.

My mind and my heart are reeling at these revelations.

Quote:
Steady as a rock. A hysterically shrieking rock with a nervous disorder in the grips of a meth-fueled halluciation that its eyes are being devoured by "sinister lobsters."

Positively gob-smacking, and not at all vile, due to its self-evidence.

Glenn's talking to you, Andy

I love it when Reynolds ever-so-lightly chides a fellow blogger. Considering how ridiculously polite he is, it says something that he's willing to go after Sullivan like that.

I'm willing to bet there are a few gushy quotes about Zell Miller buried somewhere in Sullivan's archives, too. "Principled opposition on the left," a "Scoop Jackson Democrats, etc. I'll go dig them up if and when it becomes necessary.

I took Andy off my daily rotation a long time ago. Now he's completely off the list of favorite sites.

Thanks, all. It did take a long time. Sullivan has no search function.

I guess knowledge of Zell Miller's Dixiecrat-ism is seared - seared! - into Andrew's memory.

Good work, Ace. I still read Sullivan, but now it is to laugh at his meltdown. How can he top his recent posts? Tune in for another episode of Daily Dish. Andrew will sear and sautee Bush -- but will he eat it?

Has the man gone insane or is he now on Soros' payroll?

Andrew Sullivan takes the "im" out of animus

/got nothin'

Not the fisking of Sully's nigh-libelous assault on Zell I was hoping for ... but something even better. Thank you, Ace, for both your wit and your perseverance.

BTW, loved Bipolar Bear's comment on Cheney's speeech.

"Real war-leaders explain defeats and set-backs, they recognize the current situation, they grapple with reality."

I'd sure love to know who Sully thinks qualifies as a "real" war leader, and why. I'd also love to know how he came to that conclusion, given his in-depth understanding of the intricacies of warfare.

Cheers,
Dave
Arlington, Virginia

A thoroughly good post concerning the thin-skinned and hysterical Sullivan.

Did you use google to search for key words or did you actually scan through weeks and weeks of archives? I hope the former.

Sullivan's vaunted research skills, honed at The New York Times, are displayed again.

From Congressional Quarterly's Profile of Miller:
"Miller says he is used to alienating his fellow Democrats. As a state senator in the 1960s, he broke with many in his party when he supported keeping the University of Georgia open during integration."

Yeah, a real hard-core Dixiecrat there.

Jeez, Ace. I feel bad for you, having to comb through his archives of hysterical shriekings to come up with that. [shudder]

Yeah, I had to go through them. I'm sure there's a lot better than what I found, but at some point you realize you've read enough about P-Town and his high-school performance of Hamlet.

When you're offended by STEEL TARRIFFS, for gods sake, you might be the MOST easily offended person on the planet.

I echo many of the feelings expressed here about Andrew Sullivan. He has really gone off the deep end lately smearing Zell Miller, smearing swift boat vets and actually admiring women. What the heck is going on?

In the past, he has been one of the best, most articulate and staunchest supporters of freedom and liberty. I still respect him based on those tremendous contributions. But there is definitely some turmoil over there. There was a rumor that he was getting out of blogging after the election but he has denied it.

Andrew is a smart guy. He knew G.W. Bush would never support gay marriage. I doubt this is the source of his bitterness. I don't support gay marriage but, if there were anybody who could sway that belief, it would be Andrew.

Something else is going on. Has his site been hijacked? Is he being blackmailed? Is he dying? While I felt anger at first, that has passed and I'm now feeling very concerned about Andrew. Something is not right and I'm in no mood to debate his latest contentions. I want to help him.

Can Ann Coulter? Phooey. I'd much rather sack her, myself.

- Dave