You really nailed how absurd Sullivan's protests are. It is tough to put it just the right way. Nice!

Thanks. What Sullivan does to Michelle Malkin is much more unfair, though. Instead of criticizing what she says (or allegedly doesn't say), he brings up this "Malkin Award" business whenever some crackpot opens his mouth. Thus, Michelle is criticized not for what she says, but for what other people are saying.

Sigh.

Yes, once again I tried to be nice.

Where is my recognition? I don't blog at all. How can you have more silence than that?

Please.

The "Malkin Award" and its ilk are hilarious.

Lighten up.

Silence is golden. As is this post. :)

I was for the silence before I was against it.

Or was I against the silence before I was for it?

Inspirational! "Sound of Silence" would be a good name for a song.

I think Andrew, like Angelyne, just likes anyone mentioning his name, no matter what the context

Also, there's always the Sully Award for Witless Hyperbole

That was a très cute post. Made me smile. Andrew may have ignored you, but at least you weren't accused of hammering him!

Andrew Sullivan is also starting to oppose the Iraq War. I question whether he is even a conservative at all.

A side note, I found a good article on how to debate anti-Americans who oppose the Iraq War. Techniques on how to win the debate in just 2 sentences.

Maybe you ought to apply to the Feds for a subsidy for not saying anything about it, just like the subsidies they give farmers for not planting crops...

So is this what is meant by a DeLayed reaction?

Really. When criticizing Sullivan, it's generally better to forego the hammer in favor of penetrating the body of his work.

If its any comfort, I've never noticed anything you have ever said, even if you didn't say anything.

As long as we're talking about classical values, have you ever wondered with countries admire American value systems, and which don't? The answer may surprise you.

Why is Sullivan silent about your silence? Shouldn't he be castigated for that?

"A side note, I found a good article on how to debate anti-Americans who oppose the Iraq War. Techniques on how to win the debate in just 2 sentences."

Excellent post Tester! The only way that the conservative viewpoint is to truimph is to seperate the world in two. Those with us vs. those against us! No matter what anyone tells you it's black and white. Right and wrong! There are no shades of grey! There is no nuance! Be a divider, not a uniter!

Francis,

I'd rather be divided from the unhinged left.

Here is a great cartoon about unintelligent leftists who claim to have 'nuance'. Tee hee

Francis,

What you said is the type of thing I would expect from someone who is secretly against America and rooting for the terrorists, yet does not want to get caught.

I bet you think the Iraq War is the worst atrocity ever committed in the history of humankind.

I quit reading Sullivan years ago when it became obvious that President Bush's opposition to gay marriage caused him to do a 180 in his views vis a vis the war on terror

When President Bush came out against gay marriage I noticed immediately that he'd changed suddenly and dramatically.

I read Sullivan everyday before that, but within a few weeks I quit visiting his site altogether. He became shrill, clearly reversed in his views, and a spineless handwringer who saw defeat and disaster at every turn. He became Chicken Little and everything we did was wrong.

The handwringing and second guessing became unbearable and as a result he lost me forever.

And now people I know quote him to me and try to tell me that he's a conservative. Ha!

Sullivan is a joke and no one on the right takes him seriously anymore. We all saw the reversal he made when President Bush came out against gay marriage.

You were silent about Tom Delay? So what? Not only was I silent, I closed my eyes whenever an article about DeLay flickered across my screen. Which got tough when the Yankees game had a rain delay.

Dumb and blind, that was me. And proud.

Sean's right. Sullivan abandoned the war when he realized Bush wasn't fighting for the right of homosexuals to commit sodomy while married to each other. Seems he overlooks the fact our enemies want to, and do, kill homosexuals as a matter of law. Oh well, go figure. I guess its a matter of priorities, eh?

Sean, my thoughts exactly. From regular reader to disgusted over his obvious hypocrisy. I wish everyone would just ignore him. Which, mostly, they do, though the Blogfather's responses are always amusing.

And here I was going to be silent. Who's Tom DeLay?

Not only was I silent, but unlike you I kept quiet about my silence. I didn't broadcast the fact of my silence to the world, demanding recognition for my silence!

Oh wait, I just did ...

Sullivan is always looking for the dog that doesn't bark. So much so, I wonder if he's secretly hetero and gets down to keep the checks rolling in.

Heh.

Maybe I scare Sully, being "strangely silent"?

*grins*

Silence, properly nuanced, is far more effective than tinfoil hats.

Could you please expand on how you were silent first? (I accept that you were silent better.) Are you older then Glenn Reynolds? (That would do it, but I have no idea of your relative ages.)

. . .

Now I'm confused, damn it!

I was born in 1954, and Glenn Reynolds was born in 1960. Which would appear to mean that my silence was first.

Except the more I think about it, the less sense it makes. Which came first; the silence or the noise? I was making noise for six years before Glenn was born. But that means that during the first six years of my life, he was silenter than I was. And he was also silent before I was born. What could be more silent than the failure of existence itself? And who failed to exist first? Just because I was born first, does that mean that I failed to exist first? how are we to pinpoint when the failure of existence first occurs, or fails to occur? Maybe someone with a better grasp of these things can explain.

I hate it when commenters make me think, damn it! I've strained myself! And on a weekend at that!

Criticizing Instapundit is the Sullivan version of sweeps week on the tube.

>I wonder if he's secretly hetero and gets down to keep the checks rolling in.

Coincidentally (or not?), that was Frank J.'s filthy lie about Andrew Sullivan. Complete with photoshopped evidence.

Now, now! This blog does not tolerate attacks on anyone based upon allegations involving sexual preferences . . .