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November 02, 2004

Excitable Andy Cautions NRO to "Chill"

Maybe this hysterical little ninny ought to stay away from telling others to remain emotionally calm.

I called him a douchebag a year ago, and he just keeps getting worse.

More: He's not just an idiot for telling K-Lo to "chill." Here's the exchange:

K-LO: Do not, again, do not take any exit poll resports too seriously. JUST GET OUT THE VOTE. Exit polls not always reliable, ESPECIALLY early ones. AND, this isn't over until the polls close. So please get to work while there is still time.
DO NOT get depressed. DO NOT get mad. JUST GET OUT THE VOTE.

EXCITABLE ANDY: Chill, Kathryn. The American people are speaking. Even if you might not like what they have to say. At least as far as the early buzz is concerned.

So, K-Lo exhorts people to vote, and Andrew says, "Stop that, let the American people speak."

Apparently Excitable Andy only wants of the people to speak. The others, apparently, should remain at home and not vote.

If for no other reason than this-- VOTE! Vote, little one. Vote like the wind.*

* Where's it from? The "Vote" part of the quote is changed, of course.

posted by Ace at 02:50 PM

Comments

Sullivan cautioning anyone to chill is like Saddam Hussein telling someone to take it easy on torture.

What a condescending jerk.

Posted by: Bill from INDC on November 2, 2004 03:00 PM

You hate gays! YOu fag-hater!!!! this is why bush and the repugs are fascist. i am emailing andrew right now to tell you are a bigot.

Posted by: andyfan on November 2, 2004 03:03 PM

Uh-oh, ace. andyfan is telling on you!

Cordially...

Posted by: Rick on November 2, 2004 03:04 PM

Shit. I know it's entirely selfish, but I'm really hoping Bush wins just to shut this guy the fuck up.

Is that so wrong? Does it always have to be about the war?

Cheers,
Dave

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on November 2, 2004 03:09 PM

the sampling on the midday numbers was 59/41 women to men. you are dealing with a known gender gap of like 9 pts. just fyi.

Posted by: Jennifer on November 2, 2004 03:10 PM

I like your info. Where are you getting it from?

Posted by: Jennifer on November 2, 2004 03:18 PM

Sorry, Jennifer, that was me in the last post. Didn't mean to steal your name. Clearly, I've had too much coffee today.

Posted by: Scout on November 2, 2004 03:19 PM

Ace, don't go all "Andrew" on us. Bush is going to pull this out. Did you not think they were going to throw some crazy stuff at us at the last minute?

We have it under control.

Also, please tell me that andyfan is a republican plant or being sarcastic. That can't actually be someone who supports Andrew Sullivan. andyfan please come clean and tell everyone you are joking. Trolls are amusing most of the time, but not on election day. We have serious business to attend to, like saving the world.

Posted by: BlueDevils on November 2, 2004 03:26 PM

"Sew like the wind, Grandmother!" - Three Amigos

Posted by: RapidTransit on November 2, 2004 03:28 PM

Yeahp. It was to the grandmother? I thought he said it to a child.

Posted by: ace on November 2, 2004 03:30 PM

It's as if Andy is running a contest with himself to see if he can be more irritating, irrational, and transparently petty each day. And he has raised his game once again!

You know how emotional he gets (oh, how you know.) He saw some exit polling that he likes and he's doing a cheering little victory lap.

Posted by: Beatnik Joe on November 2, 2004 03:40 PM

I seem to remember a post over a INDC, wherein Bill confessed his fear of you, saying that he refers to you as "Sir."

I never got it...until now!

(remind self: never piss off Ace)

Posted by: jmflynny on November 2, 2004 03:41 PM

Smelling-salts Sullivan is a douchebag regardless. Look at this, though. Here's the quote from Kathryn eliciting chill:

"Do not, again, do not take any exit poll resports too seriously. JUST GET OUT THE VOTE. Exit polls not always reliable, ESPECIALLY early ones. AND, this isn't over until the polls close. So please get to work while there is still time. DO NOT get depressed. DO NOT get mad. JUST GET OUT THE VOTE."

Check out this quote from Sullivan two flipping hours earlier: "Those numbers I posted, as I wrote at the time, may well not hold up throughout the day. A few look way off to me, as I wrote. But few GOP bigwigs are disputing that the early exit numbers are not encouraging for Bush. Oh, and whomever you're voting for, for Pete's sake, don't be put off by exit polls. As I said earlier, they are not accounting for early voting, and some seem to have a heavy female bias. They are a blur of a blur. So stay tuned. And vote."

Wasn't he saying the same thing?

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos on November 2, 2004 03:42 PM

Isn't Andrew Sullivan telling anyone else to chill like Tim McVeigh appealing for calm?

Posted by: WarrenM on November 2, 2004 03:51 PM

I am hoping for a replay of game 6 of the 1986 World Series, when they had the champagne already in the BoSox locker room. You need 27 outs to win, or should I say 270 votes?!

Posted by: Greg Schreiber on November 2, 2004 03:53 PM

Somebody better send Andy some more K-Y. He'll need it when he goes "bike riding"

Posted by: Iblis on November 2, 2004 04:13 PM

Thats some funny stuff, Iblis!

Posted by: Bugaha on November 2, 2004 05:00 PM

Isn't Sullivan telling people to chill like Mikey Moore telling people to lay off the pork rinds?

Posted by: Joe R. the Unabrewer on November 2, 2004 05:03 PM

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Why does this keep happening to members of the "political organization" (per Tucker Carlson) of Hamas?!?!

Tucker Carlson claims that it's weird that Ted Cruz is interested in the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, because he has "no track record of being interested in Christians," then blows off the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, saying it might or might not be a real concern
Tucker Carlson enjoys using the left-wing tactic of "Tactical Ignorance" to avoid taking positions on topics. Is Hamas really a terrorist organization? Tucker can't say. He hasn't looked into it enough, but "it seems like a political organization to me." Are Muslims slaughtering Christians in Nigeria? Again, Tucker just doesn't know. He hasn't examined the evidence yet. He knows every Palestinian Christian who said he was blocked from visiting holy sites in Bethlehem, but he just hasn't had the time to look into the mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria that has been going on since (checks watch) 2009. He doesn't know, so he can't offer an opinion. Wouldn't be prudent, you know? Don't rush him! He'll sift through the evidence at some point in the future and render an opinion sometime around 2044.
Of course, if you need an opinion on Jewish Perfidy, he has all the facts at his fingertips and can give you a fully informed opinion pronto. Say, have you ever heard of the USS Liberty incident...?
You'd think that the main issue for Tucker Carlson, who pretends to be so deeply concerned about Palestinian Christians being bullied by Jews in Israel (supposedly), would be the massacre of 185,000 Christians in Nigeria itself. But no, his main problem is that Ted Cruz is talking about it, "who has no track record of being interested in Christians at all." And then he just shrugs as to whether this is even a real issue or not.
Whatever we do we must never "divide the right," huh?
Tucker is attacking Ted Cruz for bringing the issue up because he's acting as an apologist for Jihadism, and he can't cleanly admit that Jihadists are killing any Christians, anywhere. There is no daylight between him and CAIR at this point.
One might conclude that Tucker Carlson himself isn't interested in the plight of Christians -- except as they can be used as a cudgel to attack Jews.
Just gonna ask an Interesting Question myself -- why is it that Tucker Carlson's arguments all track with those shit out by Qatarian propaganda agents and the far left? That if Jews crush an ant underfoot it is worldwide news, but when Muslims slaughter Christians it elicits not even a vigorous shrug?

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From the comments:

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Now that's some Merenghian prose.
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