Posted on 09/01/2008 5:13:20 PM PDT by bahblahbah
Andrew Sullivan, May 31, 2001:
I think a fair assessment of these tactics would be blackmail and intimidation. I ignored them as I have learned to ignore most such threats over the years. To answer them is to give legitimacy to the very premises of their argument: that the most intensely personal details of someones private life can and should be used for political purposes. The truth is: no-ones legal, consensual, adult private life should be plundered and exposed for political purposes.
I ignored the requests for comment because there was nothing to comment on. . . . I was asked to confirm a story presented anonymously, the only salient details of which I believed to be untrue. Why should I answer?
The controversy, of course, was his posting of personal ads seeking risky, unprotected gay sex despite a public position against such sex.
Andrew Sullivan, September 1, 2008:
Why not kill this rumor with Palins medical records? A 43 year old womans pregnancy with a Downs Syndrome child would have been intensely monitored, and the records must be a mile long. Just release them, ok? If necessary in a closed room for reporters, just as with McCain. And we can all breathe a sigh of relief and move on.
Privacy for me, but not for thee.
Andy might be some trouble over the malice used in attacking this family. I tell you who I would really be worried is ArcXIX. I think this was the person that started this slime. I don’t think it would take a John Edwards to get a jury to see the malice in this users libel.
Sucks to be him or her.
Yes, he has a fixation on the NR crew kind of like a rabid dog having a spell, doesn’t he? They do largely seem to have figured out not to bait him or even respond to him any more.
The red mist descended when he realized that society was putting its foot down on the gay marriage issue: he’s been unable to concentrate on anything else for some time.
Did this ArcXIX creature even do a mea culpa? I know, stupid question.
It actually reminds me of some *I stress SOME not all or most* libertarians and paleocons who used to be opposed to certain policies of Republicans and now seem to have cast their lot in with the Olbermanns and Raimondos of the world, even as they cast aspersions on former ‘allies’ or sometime co-ideologues.
I read him daily following 9/11, and he was blockbuster. I think the gay marriage issue drove him crazy.
Andrew is a militant in-your-face flaming faggie.
So who cares what he thinks?
What’s he going to do, hit you in the face with his manbag and then kick you in the shins?
No they did not. They can’t even take it down because so many other blogs have copied it and put it up.
No! His rat-dog might get whiplash if he whopped you with his bag! (I have a whole riff on rat-dogs in purses, way, way back on my blog.)
Is he HIV+? I made a crack about weird viruses causing frontal lobe damage, but if he is positive, he may truly have frontal lobe issues. Lack of inhibition and poor judgment would be hallmarks. Sort of like having a viral lobotomy.
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