Flakes in January
Trig Truther and gay narcissist Andrew Sullivan has the cover of Newsweek this week in which he describes Obama’s critics as “dumb.” Newsweek, for those of you unfamiliar with this cat-whisker thin magazine (to quote The Five’s Greg Gutfeld) was sold for a $1 in 2010, and was once was one of the top magazines Americans subscribed to, filled with well written articles and photographs found nowhere else. However it never managed to coexist with online news, and lost tons of money. After being sold it lost all semblance of balance in reporting and took to becoming yet another liberal magazine – a Mother Jones without the well-thought articles but with lots of pretty pictures for illiterate liberals.
Those who have followed news on the Internet and the development of the blogosphere since 9-11 are familiar with Sullivan. Sullivan started on the Left then moved hard-right soon after America was attacked. During the build up to the Iraq War, Sullivan was a hawk although his writings were often interspersed with personal drama. He often complained bitterly about finances and successfully raised money on the web in one of the first online fund raising drives. He also was prone to taking vacations from writing, disappearing for weeks on end only to reappear again after something appeared in the news that interested him. After then President Bush supported bans on gay marriage, Sullivan flipped positions. Instead of his support of the GWOT and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sullivan returned to his leftist pacifism and turned on those of us continuing our support of the war on terror, calling us chicken hawks and other sundry names. Thankfully I never gave the man a dime and long ago consigned him to the mental bin inhabited by the likes of Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, and Chris Matthews. The air is full of flakes, and he’s just one of many.
UPDATE: Here is Nile Gardener’s response to Sully’s piece:
In his Newsweek piece Sullivan points to the elimination of Osama bin Laden as evidence of Obama’s decisive leadership. The president certainly deserves credit for ordering a risky and successful operation, but so does the Bush administration for launching the global war on terror that ultimately led to bin Laden’s downfall.As for the rest of Obama’s foreign policy however, it has largely been a disaster. The Obama administration’s strategy of engagement with Iran has only bought valuable time for Tehran to develop its nuclear weapons programme, and the Islamist regime is now close to possessing a nuclear bomb. In addition, Obama’s decision to withdraw US forces from Iraq has led to a wave of terrorist attacks there, and paves the way for Iranian domination of the south. Hillary Clinton’s “reset” with Russia has been another failure, with Moscow increasingly emboldened in the face of Washington’s weakness.
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