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The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan caught wind of one of my posts today and, without delay, honored me as a Hewitt Award nominee on his blog, The Daily Dish.

Honestly, I did now weigh in on the controversy about Andrew Sullivan and Anti-Semitism, I do not believe that the guy is a Jew-hater, I believe that he is either suffering from Dementia or he is just plain stupid. How else could he get so many facts wrong. Last month it was the City if Hebron. When Israel put the Cave of the Patriarch on the Heritage Site list, Sullivan objected because of the horrible 1994 incident where one lone demented Israeli went to the Cave and began shooting, killing 29 Arab worshipers. He called a massacre (and it was)....

Andrew Sullivan used to be an interesting commentator. Long ago, he looked at both sides of the issues and provided intelligent insights. Now he's a one-trick pony: a gay liberal masquerading as a conservative. Mainly, he's obsessed with torture, a topic about which he has become the Liza Minelli of the internet (see Forbidden Broadway for the reference). Today alone, he has four posts dealing with torture either in whole or in passing. To read more, click here.

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Is Andrew Sullivan an anti-Semite or just a famous clueless? Posted by SHMUEL ROSNER Is star-blogger, Israel-basher, Andrew Sullivan an anti-Semite?Leon Wieseltier says yes, in this long and very controversial TNR piece. I think the most interesting thing here is Wieseltier's definition of anti-Semitism as it relates to Sullivan's writings. Here I will post two paragraphs that do not come one right after the other in the original article:Consider some squibs that Sullivan recently posted on his blog. "Most American Jews, of course, retain a respect for learning, compassion for the other, and support for minorities (Jews, for example, are...

A reader writes: I was born, raised, and educated in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, an exemplary Whitopia. I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh, watching Fox News and had a "Proud Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" bumper sticker on my debate tub. I was lucky though. I did well enough in school to be eligible to attend one of those evil elite East Cost universities on scholarship. I defended Bush, idiotically, all the way until my senior year, when I studied abroad in both China and England. I was forced, over and over, by classmates and those I met...

Andrew Sullivan, the journalist and blogger, who flirted for many years with conservatism and the Republican party, has become the most reliable chronicler of the hyperbolic comings and goings of Sarah Palin. Sullivan is one of the few journalists who, almost from the beginning, has taken Palin seriously and kept up a warning drumbeat about a political phenomenon that has already turned her into the leader of the American opposition party. His minute-by-minute catalogue of Palin’s $100,000 speech the other day to the Tea Party conventioneers—of whom, Sullivan rightly points out, she is the de facto head—is a horrifying and...

Andrew Sullivan hits new low in attacking Palin By: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer 02/03/10 2:18 PM EST At what point does Andrew Sullivan's derangement over Sarah Palin and his bizarre conspiracy theories about how her son was really birthed by her daughter become an issue for an otherwise respectable publication such as The Atlantic? If his employers don't take action over this blog post of his, then we're totally through the looking glass: The medical term for Down Syndrome is Trisomy-21 or Trisomy-g. It is often shortened in medical slang to Tri-g. Is it not perfectly possible that the...

Break out the hankies! Andrew Sullivan has gone into deep melodrama mode over at The Atlantic and is now mourning the "looming landslide for Brown." For the gloomy Sullivan tomorrow could signal not only the loss of an election but also the loss of health care and, ultimately, the loss of socialist America itself. Enjoy the act from the Sullivan Theater as Andrew presents his version of The End: Democrats can stop hoping at this point. I can see no alternative scenario but a huge - staggeringly huge - victory for the FNC/RNC machine tomorrow. They crafted a strategy of...

Democrats can stop hoping at this point. I can see no alternative scenario but a huge - staggeringly huge - victory for the FNC/RNC machine tomorrow. They crafted a strategy of total oppositionism to anything Obama proposed a year ago. Remember they gave him zero votes on even the stimulus in his first weeks. They saw health insurance reform as Obama's Waterloo, and, thanks in part to the dithering Democrats, they beat him on that hill. They have successfully channeled all the rage at the massive debt and recession the president inherited on Obama after just one year. If they...

I can't believe I haven't figured this out yet. The closeness of the race in Massachusetts is not just a function of the dreadful Martha Coakley and right-wing hostility to health insurance reform. It's also about the Kennedys. This Senate seat was held warm for Ted decades ago, when he was parachuted in and stayed there for ever. Part of the revolt is based on the fact that Coakley seems to be the ultimate Kennedy clan crony, and was also plopped in by a tiny number of primary voters, and seems to imbue the arrogance of the Democratic party elite....

Andrew Sullivan's unrequited love for Bambi Obama is so cute, don't you think? I know I do: The Republican party right now is largely bonkers. The Democratic party is a lily-livered hackfest of mediocrity. I remain of the view that Obama is the best thing going for this country.

For all his faults, and he certainly had many of them, Bill Clinton understood people. His politics were dirty, but they were a common sort of dirt. For all his egotism, venality and corruption; Bill Clinton understood what Obama does not, that power comes from the people. It was this more than anything else that gave him his teflon coating, that let him dodge scandal after scandal. The media was mostly on his side, but unlike Obama, Clinton knew better than to rely on them too much. The media might help shape his image, but in the end it was...

It's a bit hard to believe, but that's what a Public Policy Polling survey suggests: that only half of Americans would rather have President Obama in the White House than his predecessor, while 44 percent would prefer George W. Bush to still be president. Here's PPP's Tom Jensen: "Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama's declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush, with 44% saying they'd rather have his predecessor. Given the horrendous approval ratings Bush showed during his final term that's somewhat of a surprise and an...

Palin Derangement Syndrome was on full display Monday evening when HLN's Joy Behar invited the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan on to trash the former Governor of Alaska. At issue fully fifteen months after Sarah Palin was thrust into the limelight as John McCain's running mate was whether or not Trig is actually her son. Behar began the segment: "Sarah Palin may have been coy on the Oprah Show about a possible White House run in 2012. But new poll numbers show she`s a contender. Oy." This evoked laughter from crew members on the set. Behar then introduced her guest, and after...

Eric over at Classical Values had a great response to my recent discussion about Birtherism and it’s crackpot leftist cousin Trig Birtherism (the belief that Sarah Palin’s son Trig is actually her grandson instead of her son.) He also had an important discovery: In fact, I’m going to scoop Andrew on something. It may shock readers to know this, but Trig Palin was born in Kenya! No, seriously. The only known, true, government-certified copy of his Kenyan Birth Certificate has come into my possession. And here it is, for the first time on the Internet! See this amazing revelation for...

(snip) Please, governor Palin, let's put this behind us. Only you can. I pledge to post any and all material you can provide debunking these stories soon as I receive any. I'd like this line of inquiry to end as soon as possible - for the sake of all of us, but especially the innocent child caught up in something he doesn't deserve.

The fact that Andrew Sullivan would publicly admit that in Charles Johnson he has found a kindred spirit probably tells you all you need to know about Andrew Sullivan. And like the middle-aged loser he's embraced, middle-aged loser Andrew can't let the opportunity to whore for hits pass him by: Now he's got to do his version of Why I Parted Ways With The Right. Here's Sullivan's "Look at me! Look at me! I have a manifesto, too!" manifesto...

Yglesias opines: "I know some liberals who are excited about the prospect of a joke candidate like Sarah Palin or Dick Cheney getting the GOP nomination in 2012. Not me. The basic fact of the matter is that power tends to alternate between the two political parties. Ultimately, the nation’s interests require both parties to nominate the best people possible. So I hope the Republicans find someone who’s very smart and compelling and does an excellent job of identifying and explaining the flaws in Barack Obama’s approach. Cheney couldn’t possibly win a presidential election...unless somehow he could, in which case...

Fudgie the Clown's short break to sell books to suckers turned out to be that, just a short break. Now he's back doing what he does best... Getting all bats**t crazy about Sarah Palin: Well, as promised the Dish is back to normal. I'm not. "Going Rogue" is such a postmodern book that treating it as some kind of factual narrative to check (as I began to), or comparing its version of events with her previous versions of the same events (as I have), and comparing all those versions with what we know is empirical reality (so many lies, so...