One of the many, many things that bothers me about the Excitable One is his absolute refusal to see anyone but himself acting in good faith. If you disagree with homosexuality, you're not acting out of religious conviction, you're a theocrat bent on stripping gays and lesbians of their civil rights.

I simply cannot read his rants anymore. The man has no political conviction - just vitriol for anyone who isn't exactly just like him on every issue.

Yeah, Don Luskin pointed that out years ago, and I followed up on the point. Sullivan's rhetoric is nonstop ad hominem (yes, okay, mine too) but then, get this, interrupted by pious calls for "civility" in debate.

One or the other, asshole. One or the other.

You called Sullivan an "asshole?" What are you, some kind of bigot sending subliminal messages that gays and lesbians are less deserving of civil rights than you are?!?

Friggin' theocrat.

Andrew Sullivan is the high priest of his own personal Cult of Personality.

At the rate his traffic is dropping off, Andy will be ready for his close-up very soon, Mr. DeMille.

You're right about his accusations of bad faith. Goldstein wrote today about the same trend in feminist bloggers, but Sullivan's as guilty of it as they are.

I think a big reason he blows so hot and cold is because of the attention it gets him. That's not to say his opinions aren't honestly held, but the guy fancies himself as highly infuential -- and there's not much influence to be had in cautious, circumspect criticism. Note that when OJR took a poll of A-list bloggers in 2003 to find out who was the most influential of them all, Sullivan pointed to ... himself. Not an untenable argument, especially at the time, but it does make you wonder how heavily this stuff weighs in his decision to drop bombs about "rogue states" and such.

At the rate his traffic is dropping off

According to Truth Laid Bear, he's getting 72,000+ hits a day, BS. Hewitt, by comparison, only gets 50,000.

One or the other, asshole. One or the other.--Ace

Right you are ,sir, right you are. It is blindingly self-worshipping to engage in the type of arguments Sullivan makes as a matter of course, and then turn around and pat oneself on the back as one pleads that everyone else show some class.

Yet he's a frequent commentator on Chris Matthews show (yah yah, I know no one watches it but..) representing the more conservative viewpoint. Allegedly. I guess according to Chris, Andy is indeed conservative.

I really can't think of one conservative blogger who even links to his postings anymore....at least not any self-respecting ones.

Other than his appearances on a fellow effeminate male's cable program and the occasional talking head stint, he's fast becoming a non-player in the world of serious political commentary.

Personally, I find his nearly constant gay-baiting antics as equally annoying as Jesse Jackson's race-baiting rants.

Just the name of his blog alone, The Daily Dish, was enough to annoy the fuck out of me.

Perhaps Tammy Bruce should've reconsidered naming her blog The Carpetlicker Conservative....Tee Hee!.....Get it?...she's a lesbian and that would be soooooo tongue in cheek! Like oh my gawwwwd!

The Ugly American: Excitable Andy probably should just call it "Felch Blog". That's pretty "tongue in cheek", too.

Sulli sees the world through Sperm-Colored Glasses. IOW, his analysis on every issue is just a bit clouded. When his homosexuality is a major factor in how he thinks about everything from the war to friggin' party invitations, it is no wonder he's so gobsmackingly difficult to put up with these days.

Umm... it's "WHOM they've now left behind."

I quit reading Sullivan's scream-a-palooza after he took such umbrage with "The Passion of the Christ". He couldn't just say he didn't like the film and explain why. No, he had to accuse Mel Gibson of being some closeted sexual sadist. Gibson wasn't allowed to make an uncompromising movie according to his own vision, he was pushing some highbrow snuff film on an unsuspecting America. What a fucking self-righteous douche.

I imposed a Sullivan ban on myself back in January, after he decided to define the gay slang term "santorum" for us. I said "no more" at that point, this man has nothing of value to say.

In March, I did the same thing for O-Dub.

Yeah, I occasionally peek to see what they're writing about, but only to laugh at them. No linkage, no promoting them, no writing angry screeds attacking them. They are too ridiculous, and life is too short. I was getting too worked up over their posts, so I simply said "no more." I don't regret it at all.

Next up, Juan Cole. The guy is just pure negativity, defeatism, and gloom. He's a soul-destroying prick who feels obligated to note every last car bomb, and who cannot acknowledge anything positive that came out of the fall of Saddam. I'm done with him. In my world, he's officially a non-person.

I never was a fan of Sullivans, but you're way too hard on the guy. He's just a poseur who is very good at self promotion. Why anyone ever took this weirdo seriously at any time is beyond me. He is entertaining to some, sort of like a watching a guy eat his own vomit. The only constant with Sullivan is that he will say anything that will get him attention.

I see the ASFOA has been on Gobsmack for a while, now. I would imagine anyone on that constant a level that high must be counting his heartbeats before the big one.

Allah: like Hewitt's on an upward trend?

Andrew is just peeved that not only hasn’t he been invited to a White House dinner, but he hasn’t even been invited to join the Pajama Media.

Seems like Sullivan's mind is so twisted by BDS that he can't think straight about Bush. Which makes me wonder: Was his thinking this bad back when I agreed with him? Objectivity don't come easy.

Ace = Theocon

He probably supports putting fake menstral blood on terrorists, to torture them by making them think they had contact with evil vaginas.

Anyone who supports vaginal contact is a Theocon. You are worse than Hitler.

Ace,
Please recall Mr. Sullivan gets regular depo-testosterone shots(and talks of how,well.manly they make him feel).My point is that the depo shots give a supra-physiologic level immediately post injection followed by a leveling into the normal range of testosterone followed by a sub physiologic level if the initial level was high enough to suppress the gonadotropins.To keep from getting the sub physiologic days one must schedule shots more closely together.(And yes,I'm a MD)
If Mr. Sullivan is getting "too much" testosterone
he has a real reason for being hyper.

I've really been enjoying your site recently, definately real amusing and fun but you spend an inordinate ammount of time posting about excitable Andy. Some of them are amusing (I liked the menstrual post) but a lot of them seem a little repetative(I get it, Andy's a mood fakin' conservative, that's why I stopped reading his site too). Do you at least get a reward named after you on Andy's site?

Props for the lack of homo cracks in this post. I find it almost impossible to make a critisism of Sully without something about riding a baloney poney or packing fudge. Maybe its how he represents so many steriotypes.

There weren't any homo cracks on this thread? Damn! Whose turn was it?!?

(Heh heh. He said "homo cracks")

Ace, I'm glad you've figured out that Sullivan is narcissistic, not solipsistic.