Andrew Sullivan’s mad collapse continues. Today, he writes:
Here’s a fascinating glimpse into how the rest of the world is reacting to the Sarah Palin selection. It’s from a classic and peerless British weekly radio panel discussion show, called “Any Questions.”
Bea Campbell:
Let’s imagine that governor Palin was indeed a man. He wouldn’t be interesting. He’d be [...]
Where if you support Israel you are called anti-Semitic, where promoting sharia law means you support cultural diversity, where you attack a successful working mother and a pregnant teenage mother and you call yourself a feminist and where you degrade an infant with special needs and are convinced this means you care.
Ghost of a Flea, [...]
“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.”
Notice, though, that the joke relies on the comparison being made between the Democratic Presidential nominee and the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee.
Well, exactly.
Let’s put aside for the moment Sullivan’s recent hurricane of innuendo. Let’s look just at his weirdness today:
[John] Edwards was a national figure …Palin has been several time zones away in the Alaskan wilderness
Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic, A New Paradigm?
Is Andy really trying to insinuate Palin’s unreadiness because of geography? Such an early adopter [...]
As we’re off to Denver shortly for a tour of the … what do you call the area … the Southwestern States? The Mountain States? Well, anyway, we’re probably going to be taking in bits of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.
A couple of years ago two black bears ran right past us [...]
On my first evening in California, I was stopped by a police car - or highway patrol car, or whatever - for shooting a stop sign. But as John Staddon observes in The Atlantic Monthly,
Consider the stop sign. It seems innocuous enough; we do need to stop from time to time. But think about [...]
