Asshat Quote of the Day

After Iraq, it seems to me important not to jump to any conclusions. - Andrew Sullivan

And there are still hundreds of thousands of dead human beings resulting from the war on Iraq, the monumental harm he contributed by "jumping to conclusions" the first time around. You'd like to think that being that wrong would preclude one from ever offering an opinion again (and getting paid for it).. but Sullivan has no conscious.

It's hard to imagine any bigger douche bag than Andrew Sullivan. He recognizes what happened in Iraq, only in so far as his responsibility for it.. from a moral point of view. In that sense, he keeps trying to deflect by sort of pretending like he understands his role in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings, while at the same time pretending as if it had nothing to do with him.

If Sullivan had the slightest shred of human decency, he'd quit his writing and punditry career and just go work at a Home Depot and stare at the hot guys shopping for home improvement materials all day.

Sullivan won't do that. His career, or rather the money and notoriety that comes with it, are far more important to Sullivan than owning up to not only advocating for the killing in Iraq, but also the heaping of scorn and ridicule on those that were absolutely right about the whole thing in the first place.

It's quite difficult for me to pick a bigger piece of shit in the punditry world than Sullivan. There are lots of war mongers out there that were wrong at the time. Thing is, they haven't paid so much lip service to their own mea culpas as Sullivan has.. in order to protect their income, and try and convey the appearance of actual contrition. Sullivan has none, because to him and the rest of the war mongers, war is just an intellectual game. It never affects them in any meaningful way.. because they are too cowardly to ever pick up a gun.

Sullivan is one of the worst human beings on the planet..

/update

Just saw a link to an Ezra Klein bit on Sully... that perfectly sums up what I've been saying about Sullivan's douche-baggy "center" that he worships.. because it's in his financial interest to be in that spot, regardless of anything else.. even the lives of real people.

Sullivan hangs his hat on a reputation for honesty that comes because he constantly shifts his opinions as each, one after the other, is proven flagrantly incorrect, and the mainstream moves to reflect that. Then Sullivan spends a lot of time writing about his anguished evolution, and eventually settles in the new center. This was true of Bush, true of Iraq, true of some of the largest issues of our time. It's telling, though, that when wrong opinions serve his career, as happened in the case of No Exit or The Bell Curve, then honesty is subsumed beneath a higher value: "Provocation." Sometimes the truth is dull, or politically marginal. At those times, being honest and being provocative conflict. And we've seen which Sullivan chooses when pressed. It makes him, to be sure, a fun and interesting writer. One I rather like to read. But it doesn't leave him in a position to throw stones at the integrity of others.