Andrew Sullivan: Now blog this: the new voices running the election

The Sunday Times ^ | September 12, 2004 | Andrew Sullivan

[MadIvan]

Hmmm.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Not A Snowbird]

a bunch of new, ornery and sometimes reckless upstarts.

They forgot "snarky".

[jwalsh07]

But the ads accusing Kerry of lying about his war medals were financed by a group of Bush-connected operatives in a 527 called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Andrew Sullivan joins John Kerry in the Liars Club.

[Torie]

I sort of understand Sullivan. He's cross conflicted, but takes joy in the free flow of information, and the info power brokers being scrutinized, and held to account, instantly. The public square is indeed healthier as a result. Just let it all hang out. In this information age, the spinners, cover-up artists, and those who stonewall, just create their own personal living hells, and it is grand. The only problem with Sullivan is that how he weights competing considerations is rather selfish and parochial. Maybe he is just a "selfish hedonist." Oh the horror.

[Ann Archy]

Hey, at least he didn't talk about his gayness!

[tet68]

Andrew just doesn't get it.

It's not just the Blog o sphere it's EVERY ONE on the net!

Any way Freerepublic was way ahead of him and still is.

[Torie]

Bush-connected

The above is where Sullivan slipped over the other side of the River Styx. Yep, dissappointing. Sullivan isn't the guy you want to be with in the fox hole, and I mean that irrespective of whether the other guy is homo or hetero, just so I am not misunderstood. :)

[wrathof59]

Matt Drudge got the ball rolling for the "new media" with the blue dress, Lucianna Goldberg was the catalyst.

[terilyn]

"CBS News ran an interview with the former head of that guard, who claimed he had pulled strings to keep Bush out of Vietnam."

Sullivan needs to do his fact checking a little better. Barnes was hardly the former head of that guard.

Considering Sullivan was happy to report the connections from the Swift Boat Veterans to Republicans in Texas, you'd think he might have mentioned that Barnes is a major Kerry fundraiser and working with the campaign.

[Dog]

a bunch of new, ornery and sometimes reckless upstarts.

That's right Andrew....those reckless upstarts nailed Rather in 12 hours.....how long did it take your buddies in the Old Media to even get around to covering the Swift Vets..

[faithincowboys]

"CBS News ran an interview with the former head of that guard, who claimed he had pulled strings to keep Bush out of Vietnam."

Doesn't this mistate who Barnes is?

[Brian Mosely]

But I believe, that as a species, liberals define their reality though misery and suffering. Which is why the Old Media was redesigned to this, the peak of your public influence. I say your influence, because as soon as the New Media started thinking for you, it really became our Media, which is, of course, what this all about....

Evolution, Mr. Rather, evolution..like the dinosaur. Look out that window...you had your time. The future is our world, Mr. Rather, the future...is our time.

[terilyn]

Sure does. I just sent an email to Andrew Sullivan pointing that out.

[faithincowboys]

I really have a major proper with Sullivan's disrespect for the Swiftees. Sullivan's own pet politics have blinded him to the fact that honorable men have spoken truth about a dishonorable man.

Andy really doesn't get it. He also doesn't give enough due to talk radio.

[faithincowboys]

Cool.

[Torie]

Sullivan is spending too much time in Provincetown these days, and just isn't doing his homework. He's lost his edge. He's becoming something akin to a flabby old man.

[Mark]

Andrew just doesn't realize that he is Irrelevant and MSM has no Gravitas-- (Code words for those in Rio Linda).

[ncpatriot]

Good read.