September 30, 2008
— Ace

You know, if any of you do subscribe to gay gossip site and antisemitic newsletter and soap-opera fantasia diary The Atlantic, right about now would be a good time to cancel your subscription, and inform them of the reason.
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Posted by: CUS at September 30, 2008 09:02 AM (bbXZq)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2008 09:02 AM (Ds4I5)
Posted by: Sockless Joe at September 30, 2008 09:03 AM (UazZY)
Intimidate the hospital?
Yes, by buzzing the tower!
Or they could rev the engines on their personal watercraft really loudly!
Posted by: kidney at September 30, 2008 09:03 AM (/RDxc)
Posted by: Kensington at September 30, 2008 09:04 AM (kFwRi)
Posted by: EnochF at September 30, 2008 09:05 AM (VXm6y)
Posted by: BrandonInBatonRouge at September 30, 2008 09:06 AM (pntNm)
Posted by: The Female Reproductive System at September 30, 2008 09:06 AM (1WR4H)
<jaw wide open, then remembering this is Sullivan, closing it right up>
Dude, that's fucking deranged. I mean, it's one thing to hear a juicy gossip and get a raging boner over it, and another to make yourself into an ass by following it up, and quite another thing to delude yourself into this incredibly twisted multifaceted crazy Bilderberger conspiracy theory.
Jesus, I'm hoping the Atlantic retires Sully out of mercy. He needs serious help.
Posted by: Vercingetorix at September 30, 2008 09:06 AM (N8eC4)
Posted by: Chopper at September 30, 2008 09:07 AM (o1ZtJ)
Or better, print a list of their advertisers and let slip the army of morons.
Posted by: adamthemad at September 30, 2008 09:07 AM (kIjlp)
Sarah and Todd Palin built a profitable business, worked their asses off in a variety of jobs, invested their money wisely, and have prospered as a consequence!
Clearly they're not qualified to speak to the concerns of the Mythical Average American!
Posted by: DelD at September 30, 2008 09:07 AM (hs9gk)
Alaska, a state with the largest landmass of any state...90% of which is inaccessible by any form of transportation, except....small aircraft.
Gobsmacked, indeed.
Posted by: Chris at September 30, 2008 09:07 AM (SiJV8)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2008 09:08 AM (Ds4I5)
Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at September 30, 2008 09:08 AM (bbXZq)
Posted by: RobG at September 30, 2008 09:08 AM (8Yrry)
Posted by: The Chap in the Deerstalker Cap at September 30, 2008 09:09 AM (j02xJ)
Posted by: Booben at September 30, 2008 09:10 AM (EbsDB)
"Senator Obama's plan to increase the national debt by a trillion and a half dollars is not consistent with his pledge to lower the national debt and return to being 'fiscally responsible' at all".
"Senator Obama has changed his definition of the middle class from (I think he said $44,000) to $66,000, so, needless to say if you make more than $66,000 you cannot expect a tax cut."
That last quote is a bit paraphrased because the guy is talking so fast, but whoever this senator guy is he's ripping Obama up. He's calling Obama out for saying that McCain wouldn't provide tax relief.
Posted by: Aurvant at September 30, 2008 09:11 AM (VvcWe)
Posted by: spongeworthy at September 30, 2008 09:13 AM (a00go)
Posted by: Joe NYC at September 30, 2008 09:13 AM (zZxT6)
Posted by: Dustin Hoffman at September 30, 2008 09:14 AM (g6ffD)
You know, if any of you do subscribe to gay gossip site and antisemitic newsletter and soap-opera fantasia diary The Atlantic, right about now would be a good time to cancel your subscription, and inform them of the reason.
Had a subscription that I let run out in the spring ... informed them of the reason then, and events since then have solidly confirmed I made the right choice.
That magazine has been sliding into the shithole anyway since Michael Kelly died.
Posted by: thirteen28 at September 30, 2008 09:14 AM (s8N54)
FYP
Posted by: CUS at September 30, 2008 09:15 AM (bbXZq)
Posted by: HBob at September 30, 2008 09:15 AM (XFyLb)
Posted by: Slappy White at September 30, 2008 09:17 AM (8el+/)
I assume Sullivan lives in a shack in the worst part of town, right?
Posted by: Dirk at September 30, 2008 09:17 AM (tzruW)
I don't hear Andi whining about the price of BHO's residence or Biden's place.
Posted by: Penfold at September 30, 2008 09:17 AM (lF2Kk)
Posted by: Slappy White at September 30, 2008 09:21 AM (8el+/)
I almost want to subscribe briefly, just to have the pleasure of cancelling the subscription.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2008 09:21 AM (Ds4I5)
Posted by: Booben at September 30, 2008 09:21 AM (EbsDB)
Posted by: Booben at September 30, 2008 09:24 AM (EbsDB)
Just asking questions mind you.
Posted by: DrewM. at September 30, 2008 09:24 AM (hlYel)
Booben, you make a great circumstantial case. I think Andrew should release his medical records so that we can learn whether he's ever seen a psychiatrist.
Once that's settled, and it should be very easy for Andrew to release his records, we can move on.
It's a legitimate issue. Truly, if you were Sarah Palin, and you knew that Andrew was going to attend a campaign event, wouldn't you want to have extra security?
Posted by: Kensington at September 30, 2008 09:27 AM (kFwRi)
Posted by: tcbevo at September 30, 2008 09:28 AM (inTsh)
If I were ever presented the opportunity I'd like, to paraphrase the immortal Eazy E on this, reach back like a pimp and smack Andrew like a ho', but it would be too much an insult.
An insult to all those prostitutes out there who have even been bitch slapped.
Andrew isn't worthy of even that much 'respect.'
To call Andy a bitch is to insult any woman ever called a bitch. Even the ones who actually are bitches.
Posted by: Lee at September 30, 2008 09:30 AM (TxTIh)
Posted by: SarahW at September 30, 2008 09:31 AM (7sl9X)
Posted by: Wineball2000 at September 30, 2008 09:35 AM (EVx81)
There's not a hospital in the US that could be "intimidated" by that amount of cash. That particular hospital made $32 million last year. Andi's mental function (and relevance) continue to shrink beyond the microscopic level.
Posted by: DenverGregg at September 30, 2008 09:35 AM (5tPx9)
Posted by: toby928 at September 30, 2008 09:35 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: Booben at September 30, 2008 09:37 AM (EbsDB)
Has this ever been explained?
Posted by: cadetwithchips2 at September 30, 2008 09:38 AM (PoUlE)
Posted by: Edgar Andrew Poe at September 30, 2008 09:40 AM (VKn7o)
Posted by: GarandFan at September 30, 2008 09:42 AM (eJ32B)
Posted by: Richard Romano at September 30, 2008 09:42 AM (kycO9)
Any bets on who the real bread winner in the family is? Something tells me Todd makes more then Sarah. Between endorsement deals for his numerous snowmobile championships and his pay for working the oil fields and a fishing business it wouldn't surprise me at all to see that he makes more then her.
And Sullivan is just obssesed on this baby thing. He needs some professional help.
Posted by: Just A Grunt at September 30, 2008 09:43 AM (lKGt0)
"They couldn't intimidate a local hospital, could they?"
No, Andrew Sullivan, OBGYN/CPA. That requires Kennedyesque levels of money.
Besides, if you take away from the $250k the political salary (~$100k?) you get a respectable number for a working family - but a lower class number for places like, say, P-town.
Posted by: thirtypundit at September 30, 2008 09:44 AM (RekTL)
LOL.. good lord.
You want to see how much some of the houses are worth in Alaska.... here take a gander!
http://www.alaskarealestate.com/
Posted by: upinak at September 30, 2008 09:44 AM (w4p/n)
Sullivan has the hots for Palin (Todd, that is) and he's pissed because Sarah doesn't share.
Can you imagine being a "man" and not be able to appreciate the beauty of Sarah Palin. No wonder Sullivan hates her so.
Posted by: bc3b at September 30, 2008 09:46 AM (xEh+o)
Andrew, seriously, get a physical.
The insanity caused by late-stage syphilis was once one of the more common forms of dementia; this was known as the general paresis of the insane. One suspected example is the insanity of noted composer Robert Schumann, although the precise cause of his death is still disputed by scholars.
The Russian author Leo Tolstoy suffered from syphilis during his youth, which was treated using arsenic treatment.
A recent article in the European Journal of Neurology (June 2004) hypothesized that the founder of communism in Russia, Vladimir IIyich Lenin, died of neurosyphilis.
Karen Blixen, the author of Out of Africa, contracted syphilis from her husband while living in Africa. He had contracted the disease from an African woman with whom he had been unfaithful. After having undergone treatment in Denmark, she returned to Africa. Blixen was unable to have children.
Posted by: tcbevo at September 30, 2008 09:46 AM (inTsh)
That "Raven" parody was genius.
Posted by: bbudd at September 30, 2008 09:49 AM (P6vVJ)
I used to live in Alaska and private airplanes are almost as commonplace there as SUVs in suburbia in the Lower 48. It seems like every other Alaskan has a private pilot's license and either owns or rents a private plane. You can barely get around the state without one. They aren't a plaything of the wealthy. Hell, I had a private pilot's license myself and flew a lot when I lived there.
And a half million dollar house isn't a mansion either. North Slope workers don't make peanuts so Todd Sullivan probably does pretty well himself. The Palin's are a two income family that has done pretty well. So what? I really think Sullivan is mentally ill.
Posted by: Randy R at September 30, 2008 09:50 AM (A9g/U)
Booben: I swear to God, I'm not being facetious either.
Does anyone know what Andrew's middle name is? We should probably start including it so that non-crazy Andrew Sullivans don't get tainted by the reference.
Posted by: Kensington at September 30, 2008 09:50 AM (kFwRi)
Shee-it, E.A.P., that was nice.
Posted by: spongeworthy at September 30, 2008 09:51 AM (a00go)
Posted by: Booben at September 30, 2008 09:51 AM (EbsDB)
Posted by: Booben at September 30, 2008 09:54 AM (EbsDB)
I know a guy like that who is buggy about chem trails and black helicopters. Mostly I try to avoid him.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at September 30, 2008 09:54 AM (Xl9pj)
Posted by: Edgar Andrew Poe at September 30, 2008 02:40 PM (VKn7o)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
"I am still at a loss as to why it is so damned important to him to prove that Trig is Bristol's baby. If, IF true, so what? Has this ever been explained?"
I think Sullivan's inane justification is that, if it's true, the Sarah is a liar.
Posted by: Kensington at September 30, 2008 09:55 AM (kFwRi)
Posted by: Sen. Rev. Dr. E Buzz at September 30, 2008 09:57 AM (sf4Oe)
Posted by: The Pancake at September 30, 2008 09:59 AM (nug4S)
$500,000 for a house? That's not nearly as impressive as a $1.6million one (particularly when its fair market value is $2.6million, once the neighboring lot is abandoned back to the original tract).
Just how many hospitals in the US are intimidated? But why bother, when $1million seems to work nicely (signs indicate that the hospital will be so grateful that if one's wife works there, she is likely to get a 180% pay raise).
Posted by: Arbalest at September 30, 2008 10:00 AM (1j+ex)
Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at September 30, 2008 10:00 AM (4ZOxD)
How does he square this with his "bad mom" complaints that her water broke in Texas and she spent allllllll that time on a plane to get back to Alaska (and her husband and family) ? Did Bristol give her mom a bottle of.... ya know. Screw it, I'm not even gonna go there.
Posted by: JB at September 30, 2008 10:02 AM (JC9Hy)
Posted by: Booben at September 30, 2008 10:03 AM (EbsDB)
I believe the Palins really are covering up the truth about Trig's birth.
The truth is the Palins found Trig in a small rocketship that crashed near their home.
Posted by: Aaron at September 30, 2008 10:06 AM (NMlyI)
Posted by: comatus at September 30, 2008 10:07 AM (5Hr4r)
Posted by: Swegin at September 30, 2008 10:11 AM (q0Z3p)
Posted by: Godzilla at September 30, 2008 10:14 AM (q3vJN)
It's worth a try, isn't it?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 30, 2008 10:15 AM (0+Ggj)
Hey, wait a minute, how can anyone with that many kids earn so much. It's against the law or god's will, or something.
Posted by: Worried dude at September 30, 2008 10:16 AM (qSkZs)
Posted by: Socky at September 30, 2008 10:20 AM (PLvLS)
Um...Even if Sarah had given birth to a changling baby, the Palins wouldn't have to intimidate a hospital to keep their personal health information private. HIPAA garantees such privacy and punishes staff and organizations who break that caveat with serious fines. I believe it's $50k per each violation.
Posted by: shank at September 30, 2008 10:24 AM (+H1yK)
Posted by: Gridlock at September 30, 2008 10:28 AM (NPzE8)
I think he's assuming the doctor or hospital will acknowledge that Trig is Sarah Palin's kid, so he can just cry SEE?! THEIR WEALTH AND POWER INTIMIDATED THEM!11!1
They won't. Privacy laws and stuff. Unless the Palin's ok it. Which I hope they won't. Sullivan is running headlong toward the edge of the abyss, I'd hate to see him apply the brakes now.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at September 30, 2008 10:28 AM (eiOZw)
Depending on which side of the political aisle you're on, that financial descripition can have you intimdate million dollar corporations (Palin's) or let you qualify for SCHIP ( Frost's*).
* This is the family used in the dems SCHIP commercial found to own a house worth around 300,000 and also owned commercial real estate and owned his own business.
Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2008 10:28 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: Randy R at September 30, 2008 10:30 AM (A9g/U)
Posted by: headhunt23 at September 30, 2008 10:32 AM (OMCBg)
I am still at a loss as to why it is so damned important to him to prove that Trig is Bristol's baby. If, IF true, so what?
Has this ever been explained?
Yeah, I don't get it either. It's not like it would really damage Palin if it turned out to be true. I suspect that Andrew got called onto the carpet because of this and now he's obsessed with vindicating himself. I have an image of him in his ptown apartment stroking his beagles with one hand and rolling ball bearings in the other.
Posted by: Maetenloch at September 30, 2008 10:36 AM (hn7Rm)
You know, if any of you do subscribe to gay gossip site and antisemitic newsletter and soap-opera fantasia diary The Atlantic, right about now would be a good time to cancel your subscription, and inform them of the reason. interrogate your own mother as to why she didn't abort something as fucking pathetic as what you've turned out to be.
Posted by: pendejo grande at September 30, 2008 10:39 AM (L47wF)
Posted by: Steve L. at September 30, 2008 10:40 AM (o0YD+)
Posted by: pendejo grande at September 30, 2008 10:43 AM (L47wF)
Now his weird BDSM fascination with "torture" has morphed into some even weirder pedophile thing. Why does the Atlantic put up with this stuff?
The Poe thing was brilliant, BTW.
Posted by: Steve_NO at September 30, 2008 10:44 AM (JNdfj)
That's about the best I can come up with, too.
Though I could do without such imagery. O! the connotations!
<shudder>
Posted by: cadetwithchips2 at September 30, 2008 10:47 AM (PoUlE)
Posted by: notropis at September 30, 2008 10:48 AM (cP1DU)
Posted by: Bob Hawkins at September 30, 2008 10:49 AM (eZ0vq)
Why doesn't everyone pressure Drudge to drop this sick psycho's link off his front page?
I don't know to pressure Drudge, although I'd vote for Ace refering to Drudge as the Grand Promoter of the gay gossip site and antisemitic newsletter and soap-opera fantasia diary.
Posted by: MamaAJ at September 30, 2008 10:49 AM (X6Zdh)
Posted by: A3k at September 30, 2008 10:56 AM (kMeej)
Posted by: Thea at September 30, 2008 10:57 AM (N0hv7)
Wikipedia gives the median income in Chicago as $38,600.
Posted by: Farmer Joe at September 30, 2008 11:04 AM (5DAwf)
Posted by: mare at September 30, 2008 11:09 AM (9Di1u)
FTFY
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2008 11:11 AM (Ds4I5)
Does anyone know what Andrew's middle name is?
It's Probably Steve. So his initials are probably "A.S.S."
Joe NYC
Posted by: Joe NYC at September 30, 2008 11:12 AM (zZxT6)
Well, I think in this case, Andi saw the beauty pageant video on youtube and is furious that Sarah has better legs than he does.
Posted by: OregonMuse at September 30, 2008 11:12 AM (FO+YO)
Lucky. Believe me, I'd love to get rid of him.
Posted by: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus at September 30, 2008 11:13 AM (NV3P1)
It making he sooo mad because ape it as he may, alas, his very bestest effort, Sullied and de' other tea dance fairy "bears" just lack that certain verisimilitude.
And recall that for Sullivan, Provincetown in the Summer and urban "gay" neighborhoods are the parameters of the "normal" range.
That would mean pretty much anyone who isn't a freak is by definition here in flyover country, is a freak to AS.
Posted by: sic semper tyrannis at September 30, 2008 11:18 AM (KTlKZ)
Posted by: mrobvious at September 30, 2008 11:25 AM (KMcEY)
Posted by: Booben at September 30, 2008 11:25 AM (EbsDB)
Posted by: Dan Kauffman at September 30, 2008 11:35 AM (BNCg2)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 30, 2008 11:54 AM (0+Ggj)
Posted by: otcconan at September 30, 2008 12:02 PM (wWa9U)
For many years I read Sullivan almost daily. I stopped, without having deliberately decided to do so, about a month ago. The other day I suddenly realized "Hey, I haven't read Sullivan in weeks," as in, hey, what's up with my neighbor's dog?
I doubt I'll ever read him again.
The Sullivan screen shot Ace put up made me laugh. I've never just laughed at a Sullivan post before.
The man needs help.
Sad.
Posted by: Barracudameister at September 30, 2008 12:16 PM (LMgrC)
What a sad, sad world we'll soon be living in when my $500k house (well, actually its $600k, but who is counting?) makes me a rich, greedy, pig? Maybe Barack will help me redistribute my wealth...
Posted by: Geministorm at September 30, 2008 12:20 PM (QUIp+)
Maybe?
There are times when I'm glad that I'm just this side of broke.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 30, 2008 01:08 PM (Ds4I5)
Posted by: Patrick at September 30, 2008 01:20 PM (rXFhV)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 30, 2008 02:06 PM (0+Ggj)
Posted by: Edgar Amdrew Poe at September 30, 2008 04:10 PM (AVl8a)
Posted by: The Male Digestive Tract. at September 30, 2008 05:15 PM (lhDtH)
Posted by: The Male Digestive Tract. at September 30, 2008 05:19 PM (lhDtH)
Posted by: cheshirecat at September 30, 2008 05:19 PM (lhDtH)
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Posted by: cheshirecat at September 30, 2008 05:22 PM (lhDtH)
Posted by: Sam Coleridge's bladder at September 30, 2008 05:34 PM (lhDtH)
I have an image of him in his ptown apartment stroking his beagles with one hand and rolling ball bearings in the other.
Maetenloch - I didn't know Sullivan refered to his balls as beagles.
Posted by: Have Blue at October 01, 2008 08:21 AM (WuPk/)
I love how he calls it a "custom built home" that is "WORTH" more than the average of other stuff in that town. This is, I'm guessing, the house her husband and his buddy built? We're supposed to be upset that a lady's husband freaking built their house! Because it's "custom" built?
Man, I really think he has a mental problem. Also, I love the parsing of words on "personal watercraft" because living in Arkansas I think about all the people I know who might have a boat or two and totally not be rich. You know, babe, people who live out of the cities who are not rich have boats and four wheelers and snow mobiles and whatever else. That stuff is not that expensive, especially if you buy it used. Whatever.
Posted by: Lea at October 01, 2008 03:24 PM (Jnucd)
Posted by: GaryB at November 22, 2008 08:45 AM (iMS43)
Man, I really think he has a mental problem. Also, I love the parsing of words on "personal watercraft" because living in Arkansas I think about all the people I know who might have a boat or two and totally not be rich. You know, babe, people who live out of the cities who are not rich have boats and four wheelers and snow mobiles and whatever else. That stuff is not that expensive, especially if you buy it used. Whatever.
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