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September 04, 2008

Barracuda Bite: Mass Cancellations of Subscriptions to Obama Celebrity Magazine Us Weekly
— Ace

Sarah Palin: Chickens

Us Magazine: Roost

Jann Wenner, a no-talent ass-clown best known for running bong ads in a magazine featuring interviews with barely coherent sub-morons finds his second-rate People magazine (think on that) in even more trouble.

Im hearing its 5,000, maybe more, says one well-placed source in the industry. Another source claimed that as many as 10,000 readers have already cancelled their subscriptions. A spokesperson for Wenner Media, which publishes Us, says it is completely false that we are losing 10,000 subscribers. As for the 5,000 estimate, the spokesperson only said that is false, too, but wouldnt comment further.

The magazine was mailed out Monday, and will not be received by many until Friday or Saturday. So many of these cancellations come from those who haven't even received the magazines yet. They know what the story is.

When Us went to print Monday night, it looked like the ticket was falling apart," says one magazine editor. They went to print thinking Palin was dead in the water, and their mistake was thinking everyone who reads Us is a Democrat, when theyre not. Readers are loyal, but the base of a political party is more loyal. They dont need to read the magazine when theres so much press around it to know to be upset.
Upset might be an understatement: One Us advertiser has admitted that theyve received calls from angry former subscribers threatening to boycott their products. (Us publisher) Jann Wenner supports Obama, Wenner media decided to follow the buzz around Palin before her speech, and now subscribers feel like a vote has been cast on their behalf," says another magazine editor. Its going to be tough to bounce back from this one. Especially if the advertisers get involved. If they get nervous, that can hurt all of us.

Awww, that sucks.

Gee, I guess now we know why Us Magazine sent out its nitwit writer to go out there and claim she was voting for McCain, huh? And that the article must therefore not be the product of bias, because, of course, a staff writer has full freedom to write whatever cover story she likes irrespective of the editor's and pubisher's demands.

Damage control.

"Hey, I'm one of you, really. I'm a big fan of Palin's, that's why I smeared her!"

KTHNXBAI.

Note they trotted her out to make this claim just hours before news of the mass cancellations hit.

Thanks to Rob.

By the way, my girlfriend -- and I don't know why I always hide this stuff; I just don't think it's appropriate, but it gets cumbersome to keep saying "this other person I was talking with" -- anyway, my girlfriend picked up the issue.

After two pages of ads, you know what it features?

A two-page spread on how chic (their word) Michelle Obama is. Lots off glamor shots of her with her daughters and husband -- See! Look! Here's a solid marriage, as opposed to that dysfunctional white-trash train-wreck on the cover!

GF: "Gee, what are they trying to tell me here?"

Some sample text for your enjoyment. Quotes are quoted in the magazine, coming from designers and fashionistas, but of course reflect the editorial opinion of Jann Wenner.

Michelle's Campaign Style
Mrs. Obama kept it simple and chic...
"Her style can best be described as timeless"...
"Mrs. Obama possesses a natural and unpretentious sophistication...."
Michelle has "the grace and beauty of a dancer..."

Yes, and the forehead ridges of a Klingon bat'leth warrior.

And, of course, Governor Palin takes a bad picture once in a blue moon. Us Weekly just happened to find one to slap on its cover making her look a bit like a vampiric Barbra Streisand. And now that the left is absolutely terrified of her, what a shock, every other picture of her is a bad one.

Jann Wenner should stick to what he knows, and just keep paying college students to claim that Bjork's new album is "Five Stars -- Brilliant" even though no one believes them or cares, actually, either way.

That, or he should pursue his true area of expertise and begin publishing Bisexual Douchebag Star-Fucker Quarterly.

Obama's Fingerprints Are All Over It: The publisher? Huge Obama supporter. The executive that sent out "helpful" emails that this wonderful article might "guide" us through the Palin news? A former Clinton White House operative. His Florida chairman and MoveOn.org, which of course endorsed him, are furiously emailing libelous claims insinuating that Palin is a Nazi sympathizer.

And yet Obama says he doesn't want any of this sort of attack on Palin's family, and that he practices a new, better politics generally.

So how come the Idiot Messiah's cultists don't listen?

If Obama presumes to lead a nation, shouldn't he be able to lead his most loyal followers first and foremost?

BTW, the Idiot Messiah has thusfar refused to release his college transcripts to the public. I guess I'm supposed to assume his grades were so scary-high I'd be threatened by his incandescent brilliance.

No sale, dummy. And it's astonishing that after the Daily Kos Media has made college grades and SAT scores such an important matter in presidential politics in recent years, they don't even bother to ask the Idiot Messiah for his.

Power Glutes: Defending his viciously insane Trig Trutherism:

Because Palin is a total unknown and because her past is so colorful, to say the least, and because there are only two months before the election, the media has jumped all over it. That's our job. They have compressed in five or six days what was raised about Obama over twelve months. Of course it seems tougher right now. But I don't believe it is. If Obama's family were as colorful as Palin's, you can bet the press would have been all over it.

Um, what's "colorful, to say the least" about her life?

Do you consider heterosexual procreative sex that exotic? Are you that provinicial?

The "colorful" aspect of her life, I imagine, is the pregnancy she faked while her daughter carried her grandson Trig to term, and then took that baby on as her own.

That's what this brain-deteriorated X-dosing freak is referring to. As previous emails indicated, he still believed in the viability of this grotesque baby-swapping conspiracy as of yesterday.

And this steroid-addled lunatic fancies himself an expert on what constitutes a "colorful" life.

And the once-respectable Atlantic magazine keeps this gibbering left-wing Bircher on the payroll because, um, I have no idea. I guess because like many they've bought into Andrew Sullivan not for his talent (rather modest) but for his exotic self-invented identity of "Gay Catholic Conservative Contrarian."

Well, he's not Cathoic anymore, by his own proclamation, he's not conservative, despite his increasingly laughable (and increasingly insulting) claims to the contrary, and he's hardly contrarian, given that half of his writings are standard-issue liberal pap of the sort one could find at DKos or other hyperpartisan leftist sites (indeed, that's where he finds this pap in the first place) and the other half consists of conspiracy theories of such exquisitely baroque derangement that even Hermann Goering's cheeks would blush in embarrassment.

Contrarian? Or simply crank?

And, of course, he finds even those bizarre fantasias on left-wing websites, too. He's not even an imaginative self-starter of a conspiracy loon.

Oh, and increasingly, he's given to expressing that sort of casually thoughtless form of plummy anti-Semitism that only educated Britons still seem to believe is charming.

So what's left?

He's gay.

And that's it. Anything else I'm missing?

Frankly, if you want a gay hyperpartisan reflexive brain-dead liberal with dubious skills and declining psychological stability, why not just cut out the middleman and hire one of the anonymous diarists on Daily Kos to do write for the Atlantic?

Why pay Andrew Sullivan a salary when a finder's fee would suffice?

And why not pay a good, solid American to provide this sort of deranged gutter-running for you? Based on what I can see, there are tens of thousands of writers of Sullivan's dubious quality and limited appeal, born and bred right here in the USA (alas).

"Colorful:" I just remembered why that word was sticking in my head.

It's because it's the word Sullivan used to wink-wink call Fred Thompson a queer (yet another salacious, unsourced rumor he found on far-left web-site's comments sections and immediately trotted out, without the most basic attempts at fact-checking or comment-seeking in The Atlantic magazine).

Remember?

Outside the extremist, activist base, regular GOP voters turn out to be relatively tolerant when it comes to sexual minorities and private sex lives. Theyre not well represented by their party leaders, as far as policy is concerned. This is good news for Fred Thompson. The man has had a colorful and wide-ranging sex life, as Im sure we will soon find out.

Wonkette, which never heard a gay rumor it wouldn't print, immediately translated:

Translated: COUGH COUGH GAY COUGH COUGH FRED THOMPSON IS GAY GAY GAY COUGH COUGH
But thats not all.
Sullivan is not even close to the first person weve heard float this particular rumor, not that that says anything as to its truth.

And, indeed, a quick google search confirmed that lefties were in fact chumming the water with this rumor...

Is Fred Thompson on the Downlow? Posted by Susie in The Regime, Politics As Usual, Theocracy (July 5, 2007 at 8:02 am)
Why are all his ex-girlfriends so eager to come to the defense of his manliness?
Why did James Dobson say he was un-Christian?
Why is Rush Limbaugh complaining about the coverage of Thompson as sex symbol, saying, Theres something wrong here?
Lots and lots of rumors. Ive heard them myself - Ive even talked to someone who has witnessed some interesting behavior. I noticed when the Washington Post recently profiled him, several of the local commenters reacted along the lines of I thought he was gay?

Andrew Sullivan, preposterously, claimed he meant nothing of the sort, and hadn't heard a thing about this gay rumor circulating on left-wing sites (the sort of sites that he reads, and even if he doesn't read them, gets tipped about them), and that he merely meant that he heard Fred Thompson was a good kisser from some Southern woman.

Funny, he hadn't bothered to clarify that while getting hits from Wonkette asserting that his statement was code for "faggot."

It was my theory then, as it is now, that Sullivan lied because he knew his publisher would go ape-shit if he learned his magazine was being turned into a gay-gossip site by Sullivan.

And now? I believe Sullivan has been told to stop floating vicious rumors about Palin by his bosses, and so instead resorts to the wink-wink subterfuges of Page 6 and other gossip columns, employing code whose meaning everyone understands but, crucially, will not convict in a libel case.

I wonder if his publisher is aware of the "colorful" rumors he's still peddling, though.

If Sullivan wants to be the Michael Musto of the internet, he should own that. If he aspires to be the next Perez Hilton (and I'm sure they exchange emails!), then he should live that fantasy.

But this insane bullshit at The Atlantic? Where solid writers are attempting to discuss policy soberly, and yet share a masthead with Sullivan, busily pumping out every gay rumor or, erm, every fake-pregnancy-changeling-baby-fat-suited-governor rumor, that floats into his addled transom?

I would think they'd be a bit upset by the diminishment of their brand.

Which, incidententally, they are. Here's Douthat:

All Class
...

But given his primary-season insistence on his own credentials as a feminist, you'd think that Andrew would confine his attacks on Palin to critiquing her record and mocking her lack of experience, rather than, say, posting emails accusing her of being a bad mother for accepting the nomination, snickering over her children's names, and razzing her as a bimbo and a "trophy candidate."

Another post referred to "colleagues I once respected" peddling unhinged filth about Palin. Gee, I wonder whom he might have had in mind.

I'm calling my shot: He's gone by the end of September.

Posted by: Ace at 09:09 PM | Comments (186)
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1 And I was just about to bring this to your attention too. I have a feeling their subscription cancellations are going to grow.

That was a terrible headline and they should lose a lot.

Posted by: Christoph at September 04, 2008 09:13 PM (hawOV)

2 When Us went to print Monday night, it looked like the ticket was falling apart," says one magazine editor. They went to print thinking Palin was dead in the water, and their mistake was thinking everyone who reads Us is a Democrat, when theyre not. Readers are loyal, but the base of a political party is more loyal. They dont need to read the magazine when theres so much press around it to know to be upset. Political instincts via Kos and TalkLeft.

Posted by: topsecretk9 at September 04, 2008 09:25 PM (9LG5a)

'"What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?

One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.

The other kills her own food.

Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey. She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her followers to jeer at. For half an hour she eviscerated Mr Obama in that hall and did it all without dropping her sweet schoolmarm smile, as if she were handing out chocolates at the end of a history lesson.'

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4677799.ece

Posted by: Rob at September 04, 2008 09:25 PM (8IWMm)

4 Good. Maybe now these ass-kissers will stick to their true talent of sniffing out celebrity crotch shots.

Run along now Us, I think Britney just left for the gas station.

Posted by: ClobberGirl at September 04, 2008 09:28 PM (3t6Iu)

5 I only wish I were a subscriber to Us so that I could cancel it.

Posted by: Kensington at September 04, 2008 09:29 PM (xFNQx)

6 This just isn't the kind of magazine you buy to be counter culture. They were assholes to Sarah Palin, and deserve what they get.

I have no clue who their advertisers are, but I would send a letter about this if I did. I never boycott things I like, but I'd still pretend I was going to.

Posted by: Shill at September 04, 2008 09:29 PM (8jYMc)

7 I'm sick of the lies, Ace. I refuse to believe you have a girlfriend.

Posted by: Jeff B. at September 04, 2008 09:33 PM (BWTSB)

8 "...and the forehead ridges of a Klingon warrior" That's good.

Posted by: mare at September 04, 2008 09:38 PM (xMkst)

9 Honestly, I think Michelle Obama is a beautiful woman. But the way the media is fawning over her brings back bad memories of the gushing about Janet Reno's accessorizing.

For the record, OK! magazine used the same picture of Palin on their cover, but the headlines were far more neutral, AND they offered two covers with this issue: one featuring the Obamas and one featuring Palin. Guess they didn't want to get b*tch-slapped like Us did.

We could always try to freep their poll too...

Posted by: ClobberGirl at September 04, 2008 09:48 PM (3t6Iu)

10 They probably think their readership is young women. Like the denizens/posters on TMZ or Dlisted. Young women HATE HATE HATE Palin (in the main) because of her blue collar husband, her hunting, working with hands, kids, etc. For who she is. Older, married women love her. Guess who reads US Magazine? [Young people surf the net, not buy magazines.] Total Pauline Kael thinking.

Posted by: whiskey at September 04, 2008 09:52 PM (4878o)

11 My theory is that Ace got a girlfriend to get back at AllahPundit for his hotair gig. It's all about blogger jealousy. That's the only explanation that makes sense.

Posted by: sandy burger at September 04, 2008 09:58 PM (eb8zn)

12 I have no clue who their advertisers are, but I would send a letter about this if I did.

We should find out who they are.

Anyone want to take one for the team and buy a copy (or at least freeload by reading it at the news stand)?

Posted by: Dead Career Sketch at September 04, 2008 10:04 PM (5Psnq)

13 One thing. Didn't McCain shine tonight? He was himself.

Posted by: Christoph at September 04, 2008 10:17 PM (hawOV)

Well, that seals it. The signs are just coming together too perfectly, now I'm convinced Palin will be our next VP.

As Nostrodamus so sagely wrote: "And lo, when the die of 20 sides reveals a miracle most unexpected, a girlfriend of Ace, formerly Ace the Quick-Fisted, prodigous right-hander of baby-oil, then it shall be seen lights fantastic and ye shall see the slayer of moose overcome the plugs-of-misfortune. And yea, the Child of Chicago shall weep for he has seen his demise, and his Wrighteous Jeremiad gone unheeded, leaving chickens and roosts alike ignominious. For the world will see a Paladin, strong yet hot....and yet, we will still ask, honestly....Ace has a girlfriend?

Posted by: Lexis-Texas at September 04, 2008 10:18 PM (Vt8uv)

15 Let's call a Whhaaammmmbulance for Wenner Media.

Posted by: Neo at September 04, 2008 10:18 PM (Yozw9)

16 Thanks for not letting up on Sullivan, Ace. This is the kind of guy that ends up in the fetal position quietly murmuring "mommy" when he is challenged on his facts and knows he's been called out on his pretend "journalism". Keep it up. He deserves all the scorn he gets.

Posted by: mare at September 04, 2008 10:20 PM (xMkst)

SARAH-N-DIPITY!!!

"I fear that we have just awakened a sleeping giant" - Admiral Yamimoto, December 7, 1941

"Oh, SHIT!!! " - Mainstream Media, September 4, 2008

Posted by: KBDaBear at September 04, 2008 10:22 PM (miw86)

18 Boy, that Sullivan rage really just rolls out of your keyboard easily, doesn't it?

Posted by: Jeff B. at September 04, 2008 10:29 PM (BWTSB)

19 Ace: Which Japanese megacorporation built your girlfriend, and where can I get one? (Note: I don't go for any of that catgirl stuff.)

Posted by: EnochF at September 04, 2008 10:39 PM (VXm6y)

20 One of the pleasures of writing about sullivan is that I get to do something close to real writing.

I like wrestling with different ways of calling him insane. This time i'm proud of "conspiracy theories so exquisitely baroque in their derangement they'd make Hermann Goerring's cheeks blush."

Yes, it's true. Believe it or not, as slapdashedly first-draft as this blog is, I sometimes actually bother to re-write and polish.

Posted by: ace at September 04, 2008 10:42 PM (1WR4H)

21 About 3 years ago I was at a business meeting in Boston and one of the senior guys there during a lull period in the meeting goes off on a 1 minute rant about Bush and the Republicans in general. Around the table people nodded their heads in agreement and added in their own ephithets. As a closet conservative I kept quiet and statistically there must have been at least one other conservative in the room, but this possibility was just inconceivable to nearly all the people at the meeting. When you swim in an atmosphere of BDS, you can't imagine anything else.

Posted by: Maetenloch at September 04, 2008 10:44 PM (hn7Rm)

So Ace has a girlfriend. I guess that's where his blogging mojo has been the last few months.

And FYI if things don't work out, there is a market for pre-owned RealDolls.

Posted by: Maetenloch at September 04, 2008 10:46 PM (hn7Rm)

23 Ace: Sarah
MSM: Obama

Nice work.

Posted by: someone at September 04, 2008 10:49 PM (2z2WN)

Iowahawk is keeping in touch with average Americans regarding the multitudinous <a href="http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/09/america-speaks.html">scandals</a> threatening to sink Palin's candidacy, McBush, the GOP and conservatism worldwide but most particularly AmeriKKKA!11!!22!!twotwo!!one!!

Posted by: mandible claw at September 04, 2008 10:51 PM (QKrrS)

25 "So Ace has a girlfriend. I guess that's where his blogging mojo has been the last few months.

And FYI if things don't work out, there is a market for pre-owned RealDolls."

When he said "I love you guys", he meant "Your increased hits just financed my latest 'date'"...

Posted by: someone at September 04, 2008 10:51 PM (2z2WN)

26 Risible and laughable mean the same thing.

Posted by: Nobody at September 04, 2008 11:00 PM (xbnkn)

27 "What is best in life?"

"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the power glutes."

Posted by: someone at September 04, 2008 11:01 PM (2z2WN)

sh!t, PIMF or so it appears.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/09/america-speaks.html

Posted by: mandible claw at September 04, 2008 11:02 PM (QKrrS)

29 Dude, Ace linked that twice yesterday.

Posted by: someone at September 04, 2008 11:04 PM (2z2WN)

30 OT:

So John McCain isn't a great speaker, we know that. But please, I ask you, click on this YouTube link to the last part of his speech tonight, and go to 8:45.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utQTG497nN4

Fight with me! Fight with me! Fight for what's right for our country! Fight for the ideals and character of a free people! Fight for our children's future! Fight for justice and opportunity for all!

Stand up to defend our country from its enemies! Stand up for each other; for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America! Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight!

NOTHING is inevitable here. We're Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.

Maybe it's my inner Sullivan, but yeah, I get a bit teary-eyed. That's the core of the man right there. Love him or hate him, that's who he is. Try not to be moved. And the cheers of the crowd actually only make it better.

Posted by: Jeff B. at September 04, 2008 11:07 PM (BWTSB)

31 Of COURSE Ace has a girlfriend.

You guys saw the "walking on sunshine" video, didn't you?

(( Should I be running now? Is that a chainsaw I just heard start? ))

Posted by: Merovign at September 04, 2008 11:10 PM (UXoQt)

My worldview has been shattered. Next thing you know, Allahpundit will have left his apartment by choice instead of necessity. Just kidding- good on you, Ace.

Excellent point about conservative and liberal assumptions though- dead fucking on. I visit blogs because I can't talk politics with anyone I don't know well (we all know what discussing politics with a liberal is like), and thus avoid the subject like the plague, no matter how stupid a statement someone makes.

Of course, liberals are completely comfortable suggesting that Republicans are going to turn the country into a theocracy, shred the Constitution, and declare war for oil anywhere it's been drilled. They just assume (at least in the city) that everyone thinks like them, and anyone who doesn't is damaged in some way.

Suggest that- despite their past predictions- the country hasn't decended into a right wing version of Orwell's 1984, and you get derision, insults, or a blank stare that goes away only after they retreat to find those afflicted with their own brand of insanity.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 04, 2008 11:15 PM (gHv/5)

33 Okay, looking back seven minutes, that was cold, even for a moron.

I think I just felt my very first pang of guilt - another AoS first!

Posted by: Merovign at September 04, 2008 11:17 PM (UXoQt)

34 Yeah, being in NYC I'm on the receiving end of all sorts of anti-conservative shit all the time. Doesn't bug me, though. I'm used to being on the unpopular side. Though most of the time I don't engage in the discussion, I can't keep from smirking as people go off on their little rants.... and I bet they think that means I'm agreeing with them. No, I'm trying not to laugh at you, jackass. As for US, I used to pick it up every time I had a flight. It's definitely an unchallenging read and I love the bad pics of celebs ("they're just like us!"). But I guess I should find a different bit of fluff. Maybe the Atlantic.

Posted by: meep at September 04, 2008 11:17 PM (7uTCa)

35 "Ace has a girlfriend"? Now what is this a code word for? We should have a contest.

Posted by: Blue hen at September 04, 2008 11:20 PM (R2fpr)

Though most of the time I don't engage in the discussion, I can't keep from smirking as people go off on their little rants.... and I bet they think that means I'm agreeing with them. No, I'm trying not to laugh at you, jackass.

Exactafuckingmundo. I do this all the time.

On occasion, I'll do this, let them rant, then lay into them just to fuck with 'em. Not if there's any possibility that doing so might prevent me from getting laid, of course.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 04, 2008 11:26 PM (gHv/5)

37 "But I guess I should find a different bit of fluff. Maybe the Atlantic."

Not until Asshole has been shown the door, meep, please!

And Ace! You have a girlfriend!?!

_{What's it like?}

Posted by: Kensington at September 04, 2008 11:26 PM (xFNQx)

38 I wonder if Mr. Sullivan regrets being "outed" by the gay left as a promiscuous barebacker.

Does he think they were right to expose him?

Is he glad that he was exposed?

That might have something to do with his shift in politics.

Posted by: Daryl Herbert at September 04, 2008 11:27 PM (YvLui)

So, there is a woman out there who actually talks to you? Do you guys, you know... Do it? Sweet. Wait, is your "girlfriend" named Bill Shulz?

"Thanks for not letting up on Sullivan, Ace. This is the kind of guy that ends up in the fetal position quietly murmuring "mommy" when he is challenged..."

-Mare

Mare, I think that's called "Saturday Night" for Power Glutes. Add a ball gag, a bear in chaps and a vibrator the size of large salmon, and you have a good time for Exciteable Andy.

Oh, and if DPUD is here, can he find a pic of Herr Wenner and do a face palm or perhaps one of his penis drawings the Lewis Black loves?

Posted by: PDizzle at September 04, 2008 11:27 PM (btpzp)

40 As for Asshole, here's what frosts me at the moment: his assertion that Obama's life isn't "colorful" enough for the media swarm?

His associations with a domestic terrorist, the Charles Manson-admiring psychopath wife of said terrorist, and convicted Chicagoland racketeers aren't colorful enough?

That's not colorful enough?

Fuck you, Andrew.

Posted by: Kensington at September 04, 2008 11:29 PM (xFNQx)

41 risible and laughable mean the same thing?

So they do. Thanks, nobody.

That's one of those words I learned only through context. I took it to mean "insulting." As in "insultingly stupid or dishonest."

Damn. I thought there was a good word for that, and now I don't know one, except for "insulting."

I need a word that means what i used to think "risible" meant.

Posted by: ace at September 04, 2008 11:39 PM (1WR4H)

42 Don't feel bad, I thought it meant something different too. I thought it meant more along the lines of contemptible.

And good job on Excitable Andi. He really has sunk to the lowest of the low. I'd call him a "sucker of cock", except that's just what he files under "Hobbies" on his resume.

Qwinn

Posted by: Qwinn at September 04, 2008 11:47 PM (3FVXC)

Contrarian? Or simply crank?

Last night I was trying to find the right description of what's become of Andrew. I don't think he's clinically insane - it's not like he's hallucinating or out of touch with reality. And he doesn't seem to have diminished reasoning since the quality of his writings and vocabulary seem about the same as they were several years ago.

But clearly something is wrong with him - he's become an obsessive, somewhat paranoid crank who can still write well and has an accumulated reservoir of credibility. In the last few years he seems completely ruled by his immediate emotions and then he uses his intellect and writing skills to try and justify what his heart and impulses have already driven him to.

I actually doubt that it's something medical. Rather I suspect that Andrew has always been a deeply conflicted gay man who's had a driving need to be accepted and along with a huge streak of narcissism. So he tried to fit himself into roles that didn't quite fit, and went to extremes to make up for this. But his narcisssism is such that he can't ever admit being wrong, so it has to be that the world has rotated on its axis around him.

Posted by: Maetenloch at September 04, 2008 11:47 PM (hn7Rm)

Because Palin is a total unknown and because her past is so colorful, to say the least, and because there are only two months before the election, the media has jumped all over it. That's our job. They have compressed in five or six days what was raised about Obama over twelve months. Of course it seems tougher right now. But I don't believe it is. If Obama's family were as colorful as Palin's, you can bet the press would have been all over it.

Sullivan is to the media because he writes shit on the Internet what I am to Evel Knievel because I ride a Harley.

And Palin's past is "colorful" compared to Obama's?!?!? Attending a Muslim school in Indonesia, chumming with Marxists, terrorists, racist black radicals and mob-connected Syrians is less "colorful" than a former PTA hockey mom who was the mayor of a small town and later a Governor of Alaska?!?!?!?!?

Wait- I get it. Being gay is normal in Sullivan's world. Being a breeder isn't. What he's trying to say is that Obama and his entire family is gay, and thus less colorful. Thanks for the scoop, Andy- I hadn't considered that Obama was an AIDS infested fag until now, but now I know! Well, unless he proves otherwise. That is the standard, after all.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 04, 2008 11:48 PM (gHv/5)

45 Thank you, Ace, for burning the midnight oil to keep us morons informed and entertained. It makes 12-hr night shifts go by faster.

Posted by: marcus at September 04, 2008 11:50 PM (/NgrF)

46 Posted by: Maetenloch at September 05, 2008 04:47 AM (hn7Rm)

Exactly! Or, to boil it down more precisely: he's a cocksucking asshole with increasing tendencies toward evil.

Posted by: Kensington at September 04, 2008 11:58 PM (xFNQx)

But clearly something is wrong with him...

He's a conspiracy theory prone moonbat. No different than the retarded 15 year olds that post on DU or Kos, except with a better writing ability.

There's nothing remarkable about him aside from the fact that he does this for a living instead of from his Mom's basement between studying for finals and bong hits.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 05, 2008 12:05 AM (gHv/5)

48 Not to distract from Ace's gf or anything, but to go back to the magazine thing for a moment:

It seems we've had it confirmed that Jann Wenner is not just a literal cocksucker.

Posted by: Yasha at September 05, 2008 12:15 AM (jd/kP)

49 "Obama was an AIDS infested fag"

Its significant the Obama campaign hasn't denied this, Hollowpoint. Maybe they can't deny it. Maybe their lack of denial is proof that its true.

Posted by: fredras at September 05, 2008 12:21 AM (1OMSg)

"Obama was an AIDS infested fag"

Its significant the Obama campaign hasn't denied this, Hollowpoint. Maybe they can't deny it. Maybe their lack of denial is proof that its true.

I'm not saying he is, I'm just asking questions. He's had a colorful past, and could easily disprove the allegation. He could easily disprove these allegations in the media.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 05, 2008 12:25 AM (gHv/5)

51 Oh- and OT. Rosario Dawson was at the RNC. For those of you fortunate enough not to have watched "Alexander", she has epic tits. Google it.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 05, 2008 12:31 AM (gHv/5)

52 I need a word that means what i used to think "risible" meant.

Derisive?

Posted by: JB at September 05, 2008 12:35 AM (qxc7J)

53 Anyone have info on the Jann Wenner advertisers? I'm anxious to send off a few letters. Let them know my money isn't going companies that help finance trashy liberal propaganda.

Posted by: TBDave at September 05, 2008 12:40 AM (gi5J/)

54 I've seen these questions before, Hollowpoint. They are pretty much all over the internet. And sometimes on the intartubes. Well, questions have answers, that's true isn't it? So which is it? Is the answer yes or is it no? Again, logically, the lack of denial is certainly definitive proof if not actual evidence the anwer must be yes.

Yes, He CAN!

!!!1!.!!11!!.11.!!!!1

...

Posted by: fredras at September 05, 2008 12:55 AM (1OMSg)

55 Got the criticism when I woke up this morning. I guess I'll retire from the field. My thing is music not politics. I'm having more fun at radio than trying to do work here. And yes, it was hijacking your site, I guess. I'm new to the sophisticated Internet, and stepped out of bounds. I owe you an apology. Please accept it. Have a good election cycle, fellahs. And Ace, thanks for the no thanks. I think you are a moron too by the way. But that's your business, not mine. Tim

Posted by: timbacker at September 05, 2008 01:07 AM (4gKQm)

56 Oh, and I do seriously suggest that you guys Wise Guys check out: A PIANO by Tori Amos WISH YOU WERE HERE by Pink Floyd any of this decade's work by Sir Paul McCartney. That is, if you want the great mass of counter-culture mainstream to consider voting Republican in 2008. OODA.

Posted by: timbacker at September 05, 2008 01:46 AM (4gKQm)

57 Dude, what drugs are you on?

Posted by: someone at September 05, 2008 01:49 AM (2z2WN)

58 The drug of self-importance. I hear addiction rates in the radio industry are through the roof.

Posted by: JB at September 05, 2008 01:55 AM (qxc7J)

Define "girlfriend"....

Posted by: Jess at September 05, 2008 02:07 AM (uscMz)

Simplest explanation for why Obama's supporters don't listen when he tells them not to viciously attack Palin's family.

O!: Let me be as clear as possible. I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits.

Daily Kos: Listen Obama, it's Obama right? Listen Obama, I've been doing this for a long time. I've been doing this since you were a "community organizer". I think I know a little bit about politics by now. Why don't you go to a photoshoot. The adults are talking.

O!: This shouldn't be part of our politics.

Kos: Are you still here? Don't you know that I was once in an add with Ned Lamont?! I've been doing this since 2002. Now go vote "Present" while I mock-up this picture of Bristol Palin into a screen shot of "Eyes Wide Shut".

Posted by: Enrak at September 05, 2008 02:08 AM (T/wzr)

61 In a letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal the other day, someone said, "Under 45 years old, enjoys hunting and the out doors, a govenor of a large state less than two years, lots of children, a major enemy of political corruption, a fairly unknown Republican. Sarah Palin? No, Teddy Roosevelt."

Posted by: Unhillary at September 05, 2008 02:08 AM (jgcGm)

62 side note , yawn weiner and pals also control rock and roll hall of shame
bands not in the hall: t. rex, deep purple, kiss, todd rundgren, rush, genesis, yes,
guess who, cheap trick, three dog night, grand funk, def leppard, monkees
etc etc. but any bands with connections to labels affiliated with asshats and pals
slide right in. eat shit and die u.s, rolling stone etc ok that felt good

Posted by: gdhof at September 05, 2008 02:18 AM (hBAQy)

63 I sometimes actually bother to re-write and polish.

Not so sure about the re-writing, but there has been a lot of polishing going on.

Posted by: Andy at September 05, 2008 02:20 AM (iIvIk)

64 Love the photo of Andi and his bride. They look like they were made of each other.

Posted by: Erwin Hussein O'Barry at September 05, 2008 02:50 AM (eepJm)

Ace,

You do know Jann Wenner is a fag?

It is rumored he has AIDS.

Posted by: kempermanx at September 05, 2008 02:50 AM (2+9Yx)

mad props for finally getting some tang, Ace, you deserve it.

And Sullivan? I used to think your diatribes on him were over the top, but i liked them for the scary momentum of bile, like watching an out of control train of id careening down the track. I guess that's because I had some of that reservoir of goodwill that Maetenloch refers to above.

Arianna Huffington was interesting for about 15 minutes before settling on leftie shrill as her avatar. Sullivan was compelling and seemed serious for a good long time, he seemed like a principled oddball trying to be heard in a world where he didn't fit in. Now there's no cover, he hasn't been a conservative for years and he's stopped being interesting. I can't speculate if it's medical or not, but it's sad to see someone who once was a talent become a spittle-drooling tool of the unthinking left.

Maybe it's marriage. That ruins a lot of good men.

Posted by: Prufrock at September 05, 2008 03:02 AM (vISQb)

67 HA! If true, this would be great news. It must come as a shock to them that not all their readers are Obamessiah worshippers. One of my college roommates was a faithful reader of US Weekly - and a fan of Fox News and the O'Reilly Factor. I imagine she's cancelled her subscription by now.

And yeah, I saw the OK! alternate covers thing last night on a beer run to the grocery store. The saccharine-sweetness of "Life with my Girls" made me gag. These jackoffs could not be more biased if they tried.

Posted by: Tina at September 05, 2008 03:13 AM (lFbsc)

68 Sullivan shares one trait with his crush, Obama: both are unserious men who are convinced themselves that they are very serious men. Obama's politics are gauzy, naive, and doctrinaire lefty; he doesn't think in specifics and he overestimates his charm. Sullivan's writing is histrionic, emotive, and melodramatic; he's a hormonal girl with a thesaurus. Yet he's convinced himself he's this brave voice in the wilderness. In reality, both are epic douches.

Posted by: UGAdawg at September 05, 2008 03:21 AM (vfDNl)

69 20 One of the pleasures of writing about sullivan is that I get to do something close to real writing.

I like wrestling with different ways of calling him insane. This time i'm proud of "conspiracy theories so exquisitely baroque in their derangement they'd make Hermann Goerring's cheeks blush."

Yes, it's true. Believe it or not, as slapdashedly first-draft as this blog is, I sometimes actually bother to re-write and polish.

Posted by: ace at September 05, 2008 03:42 AM (1WR4H)

That line is good, but it should refer to Josef Goebbels,not Goerring. Goebbels was the propaganda minister; Goerring ran the Luftwaffe.

Posted by: Sean at September 05, 2008 03:26 AM (3LifV)

70 ``I need a word that means what i used to think "risible" meant.''

Derisory. It actually means ``ridiculous'' too, but has a little more sting it its tail.

Posted by: Annalucia at September 05, 2008 03:28 AM (OMiLl)

71 So I don't have to stain my fingers looking at this shit rag, can someone tell me who the advertisers are so I can let them know what I think of this cocksuckers magazine.

Posted by: Hedgehog at September 05, 2008 03:31 AM (aDOKh)

72 Hitler was a community organizer. Jesus is a Governor of the Kingdom.

Posted by: Astrobackatcha at September 05, 2008 03:57 AM (AQj/2)

73 He'll be back to doing amature gay porn by the end of this month, and writing scripts part-time for Japanese bukkake flicks.

Posted by: Barack Obama at September 05, 2008 03:59 AM (JzXIP)

74 Who ever thought a nice Christian girl would end up beating the snot out of the Messiah?

Posted by: dailybayonet at September 05, 2008 04:04 AM (IyupJ)

75 Big surprise, the tubbies from Heart have issued a cease and desist to the Republican Party on the use of "Barracuda". Washed up snatch bags.

Posted by: MAJHAM at September 05, 2008 04:06 AM (NMK3S)

76 Sarah, Sarah, Sarah!

I have a "colorful" life too, US magazine.

Cover it. Please.

Posted by: Little Known Jan Palin at September 05, 2008 04:09 AM (XilWY)

77 Once again we say to musicians and their hangers on. STFD STFU and Sing

Posted by: jimmytheleg at September 05, 2008 04:13 AM (E3xLn)

78 New test for girlfriends: Can she kill her own food?

Posted by: texette at September 05, 2008 04:17 AM (WP4Fu)

79

I want Obama's transcripts. Really. Why aren't people demanding it? Is it because he's an affirmative action entry?

Posted by: IreneFingIrene at September 05, 2008 04:20 AM (MFQJZ)

80

" Is it because he's an affirmative action entry? "

Of course it is.

But the Clinton Adm. never released Bubba's records, so why in the hell does anybody expect that Barry's transcripts will be released.

We're dealing with the new era in identity politics of the New Left and the New Left Media.

It seems that before, the Left was a bit honest, and if someone was a total fraud, he would be exposed, right or left.

Today, the New Left will instead will create a story to dissuade understanding of the results of their social experiments.

It is absolutely bizarre and what I expect Lysenkoism looked like the USSR.

Total bullshit.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at September 05, 2008 04:30 AM (sf4Oe)

81 Michelle has "the grace and beauty of a dancer..."

In profile her body is shaped like a bowling pin. They try to photograph her straight on from the front as much as possible.

Sarah really doesn't have a bad side.

*meeeowww*

Posted by: lauraw at September 05, 2008 04:33 AM (0fRvL)

82 Ace, a picture of Jenifer Aniston in a bikini and a flashlight tube filled with Vaseline do not a girlfriend make.

Posted by: DelD at September 05, 2008 04:38 AM (9ukGv)

I really think Andi and his pals are going crazy now because they have woken to the realization that their insane Hillary-hate has led them off the cliff behind and empty suit. They are getting more and more desperate to deflect attention from their Messiah's lack of accomplishment and the complete coverup of his entire adult life before 2004.

We really need to organize ourselves a little better and start demanding that if they want to get the speculum out on Sarah Palin, they had better start giving us:

Barack Obama's college transcripts and admission papers

Barack Obama's Illinois State Bar application

Barack Obama's "civil rights lawyer" clients and fees

Barack Obama's records and decisions as chairman of the Anneberg Challenge

Barack Obama's state Senate records

Posted by: rockmom at September 05, 2008 04:38 AM (iZqUY)

Obama become the Messiah after 2 years of relentless effort on the part of Dems and MSM.

Sarah achieved the same star status in one week, while facing a hostile media.

If I were Obama, I would go back to Cummunity Organizing.

I wonder what would have happened if Republicans were to field a black lesbian muslim woman who is an ultraconservative, pro-life, gun-toting, tax-cutting butt-kicker. Lib brains would explode so severely, they won't be able to sit down till the wound heals.

Posted by: Tushar at September 05, 2008 04:48 AM (ZqHH5)

OT: the first co-blogger who wakes out of his or her stupor today should check the morontips in-box. there's an embed link to the full length vid of Sarah doing assault weapon training in Kuwait.

Mad props await the one who posts it and the fury of hell will be visited on anyone who passes on it.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Prufrock at September 05, 2008 04:49 AM (vISQb)

86

When you are a community organizer, do you get a W2 or something, how does a community organizer file a tax return?

I know that this is an extremely racist question, almost constitutes a lynching, so I feel nervous about asking it.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at September 05, 2008 04:50 AM (sf4Oe)

87 Obama's wondering what to do with Palin.

Obama's responses and lack of responses ALL exemplify his lack of ability, not merely lack of experience, to PROPERLY respond to a threat.

What we see is Obama's DIPLOMACY OR LACK THEREOF!

This Obamatization of an opponent is NOT what will defy an international terrorist attack, or international aggression from Russia, or bombarding business piracy from China, or any difficulty facing America. What Obama had proven is that he will drag America down into the sewer, absolutely demolishing our credibility abroad. Obama is unable to produce his own accomplishment.

EVERYONE HATES the loser who attempts to be king of the hill by assassinating all opposition rather than win an election on merit.

Finally, that Obama ravages women and children proves him the rabid dog.

Nada Obama, Sayonara!

Posted by: maverick muse at September 05, 2008 04:54 AM (F1b/5)

88

Obama is a frickin Communist, why would anyone expect him to act in a different manner than any other Communist.

I never thought I would see the day when Communism was brought to our shores in such a grandiose manner.

Historic times.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at September 05, 2008 05:01 AM (sf4Oe)

When you are a community organizer, do you get a W2 or something, how does a community organizer file a tax return?

In Tony Soprano's case the W-2 came from the local waste management firm.

No analogies intended.

No, really.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year here) at September 05, 2008 05:01 AM (B+qrE)

Most women's magazines are slanted left. You never hear them celebrating Republican womens' achievements, only Democrats'. I remember seeing lots of "Madeleine Albright, wow she's awesome" stuff ten years ago, but I've never seen a single piece on Condolleeza Rice.

Now Drudge has a front page story about Oprah refusing to have Palin on the show.

Posted by: Average Jen at September 05, 2008 05:07 AM (OINAg)

91 You'd think the members of Heart would appreciate the attention; when's the last time somebody at the fat farm knew who they were? Boomers age so pathetically...

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 05, 2008 05:08 AM (EbR5o)

92 I can't wait for the season premiere of South Park. Trey and Matt are always timely in an election year (remember Douche vs. Turd, or the Florida takeoff in '00) and especially harsh of bullies like Diddy and Rosie O'Irrelevant. Think they'll find a funnier topic than the assault on a four-month-old Down's infant?

Posted by: johanna lapp at September 05, 2008 05:08 AM (E9Jrr)

93 <i>By the way, my girlfriend -- and I don't know why I always hide this stuff; I just don't think it's appropriate, but it gets cumbersome to keep saying "this other person I was talking with" -- anyway, my girlfriend picked up the issue.</i>

Ace, we've spoken about this before. It's okay to paint a face on a volleyball and name it "Gertrude"; it's even okay to talk to the volleyball and pretend it answers back to you. But it gets a little awkward when you carry the ball around with you everywhere you go and introduce it as your "girlfriend". People begin to question your judgement. People begin to wonder if maybe they shouldn't...intervene...in some way.

Oh, and tell Gertie I said hello.

Posted by: Monty at September 05, 2008 05:09 AM (4Pleu)

94 I think I have changed my mind on Sullivan posts. I had been supportive of anything exposing this F****** Douche as the complete tool he is, but now every time I read even his name I feel the need for a shower.

My water bills are getting out of whack here. Not to mention the small problem of Sullivan induced nausea that is preventing me from eating breakfast today.

Maybe you could still post on this SOC but only on specific days so that all the horror could be pushed into just one time frame.

Thanks in advance for your consideration.

Posted by: dougf at September 05, 2008 05:11 AM (16GPT)

95 My dream: seeing Wenner and Pinch sharing a cardboard box under some bridge.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at September 05, 2008 05:15 AM (6L459)

My suspicions appear to be correct. Oprah is refusing to host Sarah Palin. She's undoubtedly afraid of her charm, charisma, debating skills, intelligence, wit, etc.

The liberal media tried oafishly to crush her with lies and poorly researched bullshit and all they did was make her stronger. Now they are freaked out and will try to black her out.

I'm still betting The View does the same and blacklists her.

P.S. Congrats Ace on snagging a honey. Can she dress a hobo carcass? Because that would make her a "10".

Posted by: Dogstar at September 05, 2008 05:18 AM (6AcsH)

97

" My dream: seeing Wenner and Pinch sharing a cardboard box under some bridge."

Sounds better when it's a nightmare and both of those douchebags are rolling Andi Sullivan and sodomizing him over and over and beating him on the head with a 2x4.

LOL, that's horrible! AOOOGAH!

You would think out American Professional Media would be all over Barry's tax returns, wondering just what a community organizer does.

But it surely doesn't seem to be the case.

Wonder why.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at September 05, 2008 05:21 AM (sf4Oe)

98 I would think they'd be a bit upset by the diminishment of their brand. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Sullivan is the only thing that keeps me from subscribing to the Atlantic. I subscribe to (and read) a lot of magazines with a similar bent (Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, etc.) and would love to add the Atlantic to my reading list. But, until they ditch the craziness that is Sullivan, I won't send them a dime.

Posted by: Guy in Utah at September 05, 2008 05:24 AM (V3WTz)

99 Looks like US has shot itself in the foot too bad couldnt happen to a nastier mag

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 05, 2008 05:25 AM (aPDCd)

100 If you're actually interested in reading a real gay, catholic conservative - and an interesting, thoughtful one at that - then John Heard is who you want.
http://johnheard.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight at September 05, 2008 05:31 AM (gIga4)

101

"The liberal media tried oafishly to crush her with lies and poorly researched bullshit and all they did was make her stronger. "

Oh, but it's the blogs that did it, the blogs, not the wonderful, marvelous Journalists in the Professional Media, they did nothing so sordid as to try to destroy a 17 year old girl, they don't operate that way, at all.

The blogs did it.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at September 05, 2008 05:32 AM (sf4Oe)

102

Girlfriend?

I don't think the chick on the other end of that 900 number call-back actually counts as a girlfriend.

Well... maybe in blogger world but no where else.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at September 05, 2008 05:36 AM (6BgmB)

103 More of Comrade Obama:

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=305420655186700

Posted by: RiteWingFascist at September 05, 2008 05:37 AM (1hSHv)

104 Along with BHO's transcripts etc I would like to see his W-2s from his days in the State Senate. I see their total income from those times but not the sources.

The IL state Senate only meets from January-May. In 2008 they held 43 regular sessions and 8 perfunctory sessions. What the hell did BHO do the other 7 months of the year?
A state senator here in MD moonlights as an Anesthesiologist in the 8 months that the assembly is not in session.

Posted by: Hedgehog at September 05, 2008 05:41 AM (aDOKh)

105

Andrew Sullivan performing Pap-smears, Ace?

I'm shocked.

Posted by: andycanuck at September 05, 2008 05:44 AM (qKkaY)

106 Im going to post a quote from the article i posted above just to raise ONE of your eyebrows:

One of those -isms is "heterosexism," which a Public Allies training seminar in Chicago describes as a negative byproduct of "capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and male-dominated privilege."

Posted by: RiteWingFascist at September 05, 2008 05:44 AM (1hSHv)

107

We had a big fat liberal at the bar last weekend. He was arguing with someone whose politics were not nearly so on-the-sleeve; the sort of guy who'd be comfortable trolling against any side.

Fatso worked himself into a fine lather about how awful Bush was, and about Iraq, and about dead soldiers. Eventually he'd convinced himself that Trollboy had insulted the veterans (which he hadn't done btw), and thereby insulted Fatso's late father (who had been a veteran). Then Fatso lunged and the bar staff had to toss him out of the bar.

I'm guessing that of those Gore 2000 voters who doubled down and went Kerry 2004, they've been living with Bush hatred for a long, long time...

Posted by: David Ross at September 05, 2008 05:45 AM (GwV+j)

108

dougf: "Not to mention the small problem of Sullivan induced nausea that is preventing me from eating breakfast today. "

Why, something blocking your colon?

Posted by: David Ross at September 05, 2008 05:53 AM (GwV+j)

109

CJ 10:29 AM, *applause*

(excuse the triple post, this thread has so much win that I couldn't dip my balls in it just twice.)

Posted by: David Ross at September 05, 2008 05:55 AM (GwV+j)

110 This is absolute tripe. I haven't seen one post here that is based on fact. But now the AoS Republicans are having a field day with smear-campaigns of their own. Your new readers are being dissed. That's your choice. But if you want to lose non-Republican voters who are now interested in voting Republican, and whose votes are weighted exactly the same as yours, go ahead. If this is your best, then I'm going to trump your best and still be myself, a bipartisan Republican. I've never been anything but myself. And I detest Obama, by the way, and want to see him defeated. Deal with it and grow up. At least MSM knows how to peel an onion.

Posted by: Music at September 05, 2008 05:58 AM (4gKQm)

111 At least MSM knows how to peel an onion.

Only as long as its a republican onion though.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at September 05, 2008 06:03 AM (6L459)

112 I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Sullivan is the only thing that keeps me from subscribing to the Atlantic.

He's not the only thing; there's also the fact that magazines will pile up for months before I get to them. But coincidentally I just got an e-mail from them a week or two ago saying that they wanted me back, and that if I reactivated my subscription they'd give me a year free. Yesterday I forwarded that e-mail to their "feedback" e-mail address and said that I couldn't in good conscience subscribe, even for free, to a magazine that published that vile deranged dishonest partisan shill, but if they got rid of Sully maybe I'd think about it.

I'm sure it won't make a bit of difference, but at least they'll know.

Posted by: Alex at September 05, 2008 06:06 AM (Ge/PC)

113 It's becoming a shame to slam Andi on her derangement. The poor thing is stumbling around it's apartment calling his beagle "Aaron" and trying to put a leash on his partner. It's sad, really.

What's truly grotesque is the way The Atlantic is using the poor, deteriorating man for their own profit. It's almost like a news channel using Joseph Merrick as an anchor.

Posted by: Quilly Mammoth at September 05, 2008 06:09 AM (ZyMrv)

114

By the way, my girlfriend

Ace, we get enough blatant dishonesty from our MSM, we don't need you trying to lie to us too!

Posted by: Entropy at September 05, 2008 06:10 AM (m6c4H)

115 Good God! Bjork is still making "music"?

Posted by: KevinQC at September 05, 2008 06:21 AM (5rolt)

116

Music, the term "bipartisan Republican" contradicts itself and reveals you as an idiot.

For other trolls: your claims that AoSHQ indulges in "smear" would work a lot better if you detailed which "smears" this site has printed. And I emphasise, this site. You are not allowed to cite the "closet-Muslim" emails or Corsi, or anything else found on other sites.

Posted by: David Ross at September 05, 2008 06:22 AM (GwV+j)

117 You are confusing Richard the Third's lines with Shakespeare's dramatic art. There's the Play and there are the characters. If you can't follow that, it's no wonder you are lost in the fog. Some of us know what we're doing with our lives as artworks . I'm flattered that I get to be the target of vitriol from my own side. It's acknowledge of a sort for my efforts to change the political debate. Now can we get on with the assimilation process?

Posted by: Music at September 05, 2008 06:22 AM (4gKQm)

118 I've never been anything but myself.

Hey, I like that for a title of my next memoir.

Posted by: Barack Obama at September 05, 2008 06:25 AM (EbR5o)

119

Some of us know what we're doing with our lives as artworks

Come on, admit it. When you were a child, you enjoyed hiding things in your ass.

Posted by: Dogstar at September 05, 2008 06:27 AM (6AcsH)

120 Ace needs to get married so he can get back to that haven't-been-laid-in-over-a-year snarkiness.

Posted by: Reiver at September 05, 2008 06:29 AM (Yi1Sk)

121 By the way, my girlfriend -- and I don't know why I always hide this stuff . . .

You're probably concerned that some jerk will start pressing for intrusive personal information, like whether she gives head.

Well?

Posted by: Michael at September 05, 2008 06:40 AM (l7H1O)

122 Grasping at straws. I think the attempt to bury me under the name of a totally loathsome person is smearing (although nouns have been proven to exist). But then again you think Shakespeare's day job was writing plays divorced from court politics. And Beethoven's day job was simply being a composer. And you don't have a clue what a composition is in the real world. As Burger King says, repeatedly (and it works to attract voters and customers alike): Have it your way.

Posted by: Music at September 05, 2008 06:41 AM (4gKQm)

123

"This is absolute tripe. I haven't seen one post here that is based on fact. But now the AoS Republicans are having a field day with smear-campaigns of their own. Your new readers are being dissed. That's your choice."

LOL
Like people asking about what a Community Organizer does and not having that question answered aby ANYBODY in the media?

Is that a lie, or is it true that we now exactly what the hell he was doing as a wonderful, marvelous Community Organizer...

Crawl back in your hole.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at September 05, 2008 06:42 AM (sf4Oe)

124

"Frankly, if you want a gay hyperpartisan reflexive brain-dead liberal with dubious skills and declining psychological stability, why not just cut out the middleman and hire one of the anonymous diarists on Daily Kos to do write for the Atlantic?"

Or David Brock.

Posted by: Brock Obama at September 05, 2008 06:43 AM (kXvvu)

125

But then again you think Shakespeare's day job was writing plays divorced from court politics

Actually, we think you're a dumbfuck.

Posted by: Dogstar at September 05, 2008 06:43 AM (6AcsH)

126

timbacker, Music, whatever...

You are nuts.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at September 05, 2008 06:43 AM (sf4Oe)

127 Someone's way ahead of ya guys. Here's a list of Us Weekly's advertisers and their phone numbers. Give 'em a call and pretend that you'll never buy Crest again until theu bitchslap the magazine. http://www.boycottusweekly.com/advertisers.html

Posted by: Sean at September 05, 2008 06:54 AM (fhuRM)

128

Sullivan has been a walking, talking example of the dual life hypocrisy he loves to deride all his professional life. He's so friggin dishonest that it is only a matter of time before he explodes into a pool of diseased bile.

Sullivan was always an "outed" gay. He was famous for being gay, a "conservative" and most importanly, a gay who endlessly preached about the destructive nature of the far left gay lifestyle. The real outing came when he was exposed as rawpowerglutes, cruising gay websites for anonymous hookups by night while excoritating that lifestyle by day. In a move that defines Sullivan's hypocrisy, he wrote a lengthy rebuttal to his outing which he titles Sexual McCarthyism, An Article No One Should Have To Write where he argued, unbelievably enough, for the right to sexual privacy.

Ever since that episode, he seems to have had an epiphany and new direction. He became the Gay Crusader, dedicated to embracing all aspects of the gay lifestyle and exposing the "hypocrisy" of Christianists and right wingers. He whined like a little girl when he was shown to be the worst sort of hypocrite by having his sexual life exposed and seems to want revenge on everyone, particularly his former Christian, conservative allies.

He's a toilet bug, but I am loving watching him fall from someone people took seriously into a left wing gossip queen.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2008 06:58 AM (VBon8)

129 Rosario Dawson was at the RNC. For those of you fortunate enough not to have watched "Alexander", she has epic tits.

Liked her better in Sin City. No boobies, but fishnet stockings, ropes, handcuffs and an Uzi more than makes up for it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 05, 2008 07:06 AM (Ds4I5)

130

But then again you think Shakespeare's day job was writing plays divorced from court politics. And Beethoven's day job was simply being a composer.

OH NOES, MY POOR LITTLE REPUBLICAN LIZARDBRAIN HAS BEEN SHATTERED BY YOUR DESTRUCTION OF MY CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED FALSE REALITY.

Seriously though, dude, if you think people here are actually that dumb, you need a reality check.

Also, your constant references to life as a composition/artwork make you sound like a totally aloof douche. The only people I know in real life that talk or write like that are whiney coffeeshop losers who spend all their time writing emo poetry about how everyone else sucks and they "R TEH GREETST!!!!11eleventyone!!!"

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Posted by: David M at September 05, 2008 07:27 AM (gIAM9)

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You're probably concerned that some jerk will start pressing for intrusive personal information, like whether she gives head.

Well?

That is completely scurrilous, scandalous, and way off base. The question is whether she swallows.

Posted by: Prufrock at September 05, 2008 07:28 AM (vISQb)

134 I need a word that means what i used to think "risible" meant.

Disingenuous comes close.

Posted by: ArrMatey at September 05, 2008 07:28 AM (35LYA)

135 Hmmmm............I wonder if Sarah's colorful private life is the color of Hershey's kisses. Or would it be white, like milky loads of love? HARD to tell.

Posted by: CornFedBeauty at September 05, 2008 07:28 AM (8r/RM)

136 Oh, no debating that there is a political class (if you choose to use that word) and a cultural class, and so on-- all of whom have exclusionary entrance requirements. But to believe that those differences amount to a racial matter is borrowing indirectly from Protocols of the Secret Elders of Zion-- a bizarre conception about invisible string-pullers whom Hitler decided were better replaced with Aryan "Jews." It's all pretend, because the string pullers, or superior "race" simply doesn't exist. If you think it does, you are a racist, by definition. Do you think I am a racist or not, morons?

Posted by: Music at September 05, 2008 07:31 AM (4gKQm)

137

Do you think I am a racist or not?

We think you're a raving lunatic without a shred of sanity.

And a total failure as a moby.

Posted by: Dogstar at September 05, 2008 07:35 AM (6AcsH)

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Posted by: CornFedBeauty at September 05, 2008 07:42 AM (Z07/i)

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Re: Andrew Sullivan:

The ghost of Michael Kelly weeps.

Posted by: thirtypundit at September 05, 2008 07:45 AM (jCKHk)

140 I seriously have no idea what that name-changing guy is even complaining about. WTF?

Posted by: someone at September 05, 2008 07:46 AM (2z2WN)

141 do i want to be in league with anyone who subscribed to us magazine anyway?

Posted by: spear at September 05, 2008 07:57 AM (g9mrg)

142 I love the assumption that the ticket was in trouble. Why? Because all your nut case friends told you so? Yeah. I see.

Y'all are taunting me with Rosario Dawson being at the RNC. Taunting. Me. You should not taunt Happy Fun Ball. I also feel it would be remiss to discuss Ms. Dawson's Epicness without photographic proof.

Posted by: alexthechick at September 05, 2008 08:25 AM (SHHaV)

143 Music/timbacker,

We're morons. But you're trying to convince us that you're not. And you're fail is epic.

Oh, and your mother never actually loved you? We know. We just don't care.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at September 05, 2008 08:28 AM (14k+t)

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P&G is a big advertiser at US Weekly. Let's do get them involved. Contact page:

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Posted by: broxie at September 05, 2008 08:40 AM (8Lpfe)

145 Pictures of Rosario Dawson at the RNC convention here.

The black top she's wearing hides the awesomeness.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 05, 2008 09:18 AM (jvG2F)

146 Music, You know, I think you are mistaking this site for www.proteinwisdom.com. Or maybe it is just nishi, slumming. David

Posted by: David at September 05, 2008 09:19 AM (4DqDu)

147

Ace says he has a girlfriend. snort.

nice try, sport. You almost had me believing that. For a minute. Almost had me...

Now pop that bottle of vodka open and get back to work.

Posted by: Humanitarian2112 at September 05, 2008 09:32 AM (qM/ym)

148 They actually have subscriptions to "Us"? I just figured it was an impulse buy in the checkout lane. Having a subscription should be grounds for disqualification at the polls.

Posted by: Bob at September 05, 2008 09:48 AM (qzJsj)

149 Was Rosario Dawson a delegate?

Chances? Impossible, but what the heck. Let's roll, er, motorboat.

Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland at September 05, 2008 09:55 AM (AHrTm)

150 Wenner Media gives away Us Weekly subscriptions to medical and dental offices. They actually pay you to take their magazine.

Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland at September 05, 2008 09:56 AM (AHrTm)

151 OK... I swallowed the bile and bought this issue of Us Weekly.

On pages 4-5 is a full spread titled "Michelle's Campaign Style" with 5 photos of Mrs. Obama keeping it "simple and chic during the week of the DNC" -- photos of her in various outfits with captions like "Michelle rocked", "Michelle glowed", she has "the grace and beauty of a dancer."

Here are all of the advertisers and the page #'s their ads are on:

Inside front cover : Target
2-3 : Fox TV network (Til Death and Do Not Disturb)
7: Biore (facial cleanser, Kao Brands Company)
9: Miller Brewing Co.
10: Verizon Wireless
13: Loreal cosmetics
15: JCPenney
17: Sprint
19: Campbell's Soup (CSC Brands)
20: Nicole Nail Polish (OPI Products Inc.)
21: Standup2cancer.org
22: Nestea
25: Cover Girl cosmetics
31-32: ABC (Desperate Housewives)
35: Trojan condoms
37: Powerade
39: ABC (Dancing With The Stars)
41: ChapStick (Wyeth)
43: Aveeno (Johnson & Johnson)
46-47: TMZ
48-51: NuvaRing (birth control, Schering Corp.)
55: Dove ice cream bars (Mars Inc.)
57: Lifetime channel
92: "Shop-a-thon", products from letscrystalit.com, customizedgirl.com, cellutone.com, photowow.com, deezteez.com, mommyjewelry.com, accessoryrow.com, customizedworld.com, thesillywagon.com
93: Proactiv Solution (Guthy-Renker)
94: Hydroxycut
95: Salon Grafix (hair products, Continental Consumer Products), also a section called "Trendy Tots" with products from 2chix.com, thetrendytadpole.com, heelarious.com, blissliving.com
96-97: NutriSystem
Inside Back Cover: Budweiser
Back Cover: Fage Yogurt

I feel like my IQ dropped about 50 pts just looking through that rag. Blecchh.

Posted by: Gran at September 05, 2008 01:24 PM (mTWN+)

152 By unhappy coincidence, I just opened an e-mail from Amazon offering me a free 12 wk subscription to US Weekly as a bonus for something or other. Pretty desperate for readers already? I opted not to click "Yes, I'll be delighted to read your mindless bullshit". Funny, there was no "No, thanks. I might get a disease just from touching the pages of your rag".

Posted by: pamelamarie at September 05, 2008 01:51 PM (iQ53K)

153 Obviously, Music is having a debate with the voices in his head.

Posted by: Jack Bauer's Evil Brother at September 05, 2008 04:16 PM (5s+f0)

154 >>>That line is good, but it should refer to Josef Goebbels,not Goerring. Goebbels was the propaganda minister; Goerring ran the Luftwaffe.

It was my understanding that Goerring was big into the Aryan Mysticism/Supernatural Hokum type stuff. No?

Posted by: ace at September 05, 2008 11:06 PM (1WR4H)

155 I don't know about the Aryan mysticism stuff, but Goerring's reputations is generally as a non-political military man; Goebbels was the proponent of the "big lie" and the stoker of visceral fears.

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