The suggestion that talking about Sarah Palin is not important, sent HBO Real Time guest panelist Andrew Sullivan, a media veteran who now writes the “The Daily Dish” blog for The Atlantic, into an angry rant about Palin (reflecting PDS: Palin Derangement Syndrome) that was so much of an over-reaction, though it earned loud applause from the audience, that host Bill Maher, who agreed with Sullivan's perspective, called it a “shit fit” as he tried to calm him down and finally had to mimic an ape as he held up his fists by his head and yelled “grrrrrr!” to silence Sullivan.
Leading into Sullivan on the Friday night show, left-wing journalist Naomi Klein called Palin “Bush in drag” and “when you add the hunting you got Cheney,” prompting musician William Adams, who goes by “will.i.am,” to complain: “You know what scares me about Palin, is that we're talking about Palin and we're not talking about how to get out of the hole.” That set off Sullivan, the British born and raised frequent contributor to Time magazine and the New York Times, his voice getting louder and his hands gesticulating more as he proceeded:
We have to talk about Palin. Bill, let me just say, I don't want to go this far in talking about her. She is a farce. This nomination, the nomination of this person to be potentially President of the United States next January – that's the possibility, technically speaking she could be President next January – is a joke. It is absurd! It is something that should be dismissed out of hand as the most irresponsible act any candidate has ever made, ever!
Sullivan was undeterred: “It was not a shit fit. This is an outrage, an outrage! And after three weeks, no press conference. What is this, Putin's Russia?” Maher tried again: “I know, we're all upset about it.” Sullivan, in full rage: “We need to be more upset. We need to be much more upset!” Maher, mimicking an ape: “Grrrrrr!”That finally silenced Sullivan and Maher moved on to how while other groups have returned to the pre-conventions split, white women are still going for McCain-Palin by a wide margin.
Sullivan fancies himself a conservative and a couple of years ago authored the book, 'The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right,' in which he “makes an impassioned call to rescue conservatism from the corruption of the Republican far right.”
The Atlantic's bio for Sullivan which lists his many news media positions over the years.
Audio: MP3 clip which matches video above (1:00, 360 Kb)
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center



















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That guy is a total idiot,
September 20, 2008 - 15:13 ET by jkwtradingThat guy is a total idiot, why is he upset, he's not even American?
go Sarah drive em crazy..
Yeah, cause the media's been
September 20, 2008 - 15:15 ET by zfYeah, cause the media's been real soft on Palin. This is Putin's Russia!
They should let Andrew Sullivan out only on Thursdays.
September 20, 2008 - 15:19 ET by ThalpyThey should let Andrew Sullivan out only on Thursdays. Does he have these snits often?
Don't blame Andy
September 20, 2008 - 15:26 ET by RackieYou see boys and girls, inbreeding is a really, really bad idea.
Liber-idiots
September 20, 2008 - 15:28 ET by TheAssessorLiberals think that if they threaten, complain, and swear loud enough we'll all topple like bowling pins. Of course that would require balls. Maybe Sara could lend them hers.
Obama Diagnosis: Political Sociopath
Yep! Liberals
September 20, 2008 - 15:37 ET by Clear thinkerYep!
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awwww poor baby
September 20, 2008 - 15:38 ET by JnobleAndrew,are you gonna cry and then fall on the studio floor kicking and screaming like a little kid in Toys R Us who's mom won't buy him the toy he wants? Grow up.
Poor Andrew, he has joined
September 20, 2008 - 15:45 ET by bigtimerPoor Andrew, he has joined in with the crowd of hysterical, desperate, bobble-heads...right along with the hate-filled screeching feminazis and their filthy diatribes...he fits perfectly.
Snug as a bug in a rug.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
"S**t Fit" Doesn't Really Capture It
September 20, 2008 - 15:51 ET by BeresfordMore of a Hissy Fit, I'd say.
Andrew is probably upset that so many Americans think Sarah Palin is a better man than....well, than people like Andrew Sullivan.
for Biden's press conference
September 20, 2008 - 15:53 ET by Gary HallI don't know - has Biden had a "press conference" in the last three weeks, as Sullivan is demanding for Palin?
Well, just in case he has one, we could suggest a few questions for the MSM to ask of him. (And if he did have one, it's a safe bet they didn't ask any real quesitons).
We need to be more upset. We need to be much more upset!” “Grrrrrr!”
Don't sulk Sully ... who ever you are?
September 20, 2008 - 16:52 ET by CrashThe reason they're so fit to be shat is because they're stuck with one do nothing senator and one career plagiarist in chief.
Palin brought them down with ONE speech.
They are afraid
September 20, 2008 - 17:57 ET by Tom PaineHas anyone ever before seen this level of hysteria over a candidate who is presumably so "unqualified"? If Sarah Palin is really so deficient, then I should think that would be clearly revealed in the Vice Presidential debates. Why are they so rabid to have a press conference?
I think it's because they know what we know; Sarah Palin will mop the floor with Joe "Plugs" Biden in the debate. Furthermore, she is more likeable and relates better to people. They also have to be afraid that Plugs will come off as arrogant and/or condescending and/or sexist as he struggles to show us he is the smartest guy in the room. (...stand up, Chuck) The libs' only hope is to attempt to seriously wound her prior to the debate, which they hope the Obama handmaidens in the media will be able to accomplish.
The more they go into these psychopathic rants, the more people they are driving over to McCain/Palin. There is still a long way to go but I've been feeling better about it.
Must...suppress...tingle. Must...suppress...tingle...
Nobama '08
Keep the change
SMELL THE FEAR
September 20, 2008 - 18:13 ET by Free StinkerI think I know why they are afraid.
According to Dick Morris, the electoral college map looks something like this.
Governor Palin - She is the Real Deal !
Looks like Dick has got
September 20, 2008 - 18:22 ET by bigtimerLooks like Dick has got something about right for a change according to the polls I looked at earlier this week.
I don't care what kind of polls the msm pulls up in between, this time of year during a major election is when I only read them weekly on RCP...and take it from there.
We all know Barry is shaking in his boots...along with the msm.
They can put on their fake faces and demeanor all they want..I'm having a blast most of the time.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Free & BT
September 20, 2008 - 18:30 ET by MrShyFirst off, that is indeed a very lovely graphic of the US of A. I think I could just stare at that all night and feel nice and warm.
Speaking of polls, which have slipped a bit the last week back in O-Force's direction, how much are they to be trusted? I get the feeling, most of them don't evenly get a cross section of people from every state, so I wonder how reliable they are or if they target more Demo states and/or ones with lower delegate counts. I mean, aren't most of them sponsored/taken by MSM-affiliated organizations anyway?
Just curious about polls vs. a real delegate/state overview of things...
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These polls are just a tool
September 20, 2008 - 18:34 ET by Free StinkerThese polls are just a tool for gauging where thing probably stand. It seems like it is something of a mix between science and magic.
In the end, the only poll that truly matters is the countrywide one on November 4, so we had all better get out and vote for Palin !
Governor Palin - She is the Real Deal !
MrS... One thing I have
September 20, 2008 - 18:52 ET by bigtimerMrS...
One thing I have learned from experience, with the msm they always make sure and keep their polls as close as possible to help aide the dems naturally, but of course their ratings...ect.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
bigtimer
September 20, 2008 - 19:23 ET by MrShyYou got that right.
I mean, what else explains the history of Dems being waaaay ahead in polls, only to lose in November. Wasn't that the case in '00 and '04? Didn't both Gore and Kerry hold steady with double-digit poll leads all summer and even into the fall?
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Palin is the only NON Senator in the Candidate list - Immunity
September 20, 2008 - 18:27 ET by JayTeePalin had nothing to do with the Economic Woes of the FHA FNME Problems . . . They can't attack her on the Economy.
Besides, there is enough DC guilt to go around from Dems and Republicans, Americans will Not PICK just one......unless BHO's Jim Johnson Association comes out at the Front of the List of Guilty CEO's.
The Republican Revolution will not be Televised
Free... I smell the fear,
September 20, 2008 - 18:48 ET by Clear thinkerFree...
I smell the fear, and I catch a wiff everytime I read something from a Democrat. Personally, I think part of the fear being shown towards Palin is simple jealousy. Think about it, what political Democrat woman can stack up to Gov. Palin?
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The smell of
September 20, 2008 - 18:59 ET by MrShyfear is like the wonderful smell of a cup of piping-hot coffee.
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It's a huge vat of Fear Soup. Drink up Demoncrats !
September 20, 2008 - 19:13 ET by Free StinkerAnd for those of you who are fans of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson...
Can you smell what Sara-cuda is cooking?
Governor Palin - She is the Real Deal !
double...
September 20, 2008 - 18:59 ET by MrShypost... sorry :)
Andrew Sullivan is Howard
September 20, 2008 - 17:51 ET by TEAndrew Sullivan is Howard Kurtz's favorite "conservative" (i.e., non-conservative). In Kurtz's online column, he routinely quotes the latest boilerplate leftist hysteria from the fundamentalist homosexualist Sullivan and dutifully and comically labels Sullivan a "conservative". I wouldn't be surprised if Kurtz has orgasmically quoted the so-called "conservative" Sullivan (according to Kurtz) hundreds of times. Kurtz calls that "balance" for all of the other leftists that he quotes.
Sullivan should be aware
September 20, 2008 - 18:56 ET by Richard RomanoSullivan should be aware that we're onto his sleazy online cruisings and other non-too-elevated rantings -- Palin bothers him because she stands in complete opposition to everything he stands for, an over-the-top leftist mindset that he tries to masquerade as "conservatism"
If he espouses true conservatism, then Tony Soprano espouses true justice.
Sullivan's meltdown
September 20, 2008 - 19:15 ET by MexNobamaI don't understand how liberals such as Sullivan can make such statements about Palin's record while the most ill prepared Presidential candidate in the history of the United States looms on our horizon, unless of course (and I believe this to be true with all my heart) people such as Sullivan want to see the United States ruined by said president.
I have seen Obama live without handlers and I tell you, it's even worse than the sound bites on AM radio suggest.
The "Sullivans" of this election are people who really believe in Obama's divinity.
He is their Golden Calf Candidate, and they are dead serious when they preach their offensive mantra "Jesus Christ was a community organizer" even though the whole lot of them have no love for the real Jesus Christ, and nothing but hatred for his followers.
I have created a counter slogan for their mantra:
Hitler was a community organizer too!
Feel free to spread that one around.
OUTRAGE......... yes an outrage.....
September 20, 2008 - 20:02 ET by connman.......that the Dems would be running a candidate for POTUS with as little experience as Pali...oops Barry Obama!
One little Alaska Gal
September 20, 2008 - 21:15 ET by Lame CherryHow amusing the Sullivan rant is in here he worked so hard as a propagandist shill paid money for a book to smack Americans around of the Reagan Revolution.
Bush 41's patricians tried to tell Conservatives to shut up and go away. These elitists tried so hard to even the ruin of the Bush presidency to move on and cripple every Conservative in Congress like George Allen who would have been the nominee, then got in their McCain socialist so America had Marxist Obama, shill Barr, fringe Baldwin, wavering McKinney and communist Nader for a wonderful comrade utopia...........and here in God's grace comes Sarah Palin.
The nice little Alaska Gal and these twits are terrified all their destruction of the GOP, hijacking it in criminal conspiracy is being unwound.
Gov. Palin is taking huge slices rightfully from American Jewish voters who are seeing themselves under financial and military attack by Obama's people, PUMA voters who are figuring out that this same Marxist Ayers bunch who hates women destroyed Hillary and is after Palin now to forever keep women out of the White House and those blessed Reagan Democrats are showing up in mass for Gov. Palin.
Gee Sarah Palin was only supposed to appeal to those "Bible thumpers and Patriot types" and here she is appealing to wide swaths of Americans.
I sincerely ask black Americans for Obama to review his Tony Rezko slum lord profitting off of blacks in Chicago. To note that Mr. Obama is a black Arab and not a black African. That Mr. Obama's benefactors are all communist Muslims like in Chad slaughtering black people.
The only thing Barack Obama has done for black people is register you as voters, take your votes and then have a Syrian Arab put you into slums impoverishing you further.
Black voters need to join their future which is not out of touch Oprah or slum lord Obama, but of the Bill Cosby correct policy that America needs responsible black males to back black mothers they are fathering children with to guide children to education to build businesses to prosper the black community.
Alaska's Inuit are facing the same problems the black community is as all minorities are. Mrs. Palin is keenly aware of those issues married to her husband who is Inuit.
Black people have given their votes away to Democrats for 70 years now and what has it got you? Welfare, broken families, your men in prison and death.
Obama doesn't know squat from his white middle class background with a mother lusting in jungle fever looking at his black Arab father as some escape in her liberal world.
Enough of you voted for Ronald Reagan when it mattered and he tried to do what he could. Advances have been made and there are key results now, but not enough. If black people will give Gov. Palin a chance, you will as individuals have the opportunity you and all Americans seek.
I ask you to consider how these white leftists are going crazy in Sarah Palin as they know she is about to set everyone free from the bondage of vote selling in minorities so the big shots get the money and you get the welfare.
Why do you think Charlie Rangel is going nuts in calling in a slur Gov. Palin "disabled" just like Obama is going crazy?
They are terrified she is on the cusp of liberating Americans. Look at that awful female comic degrading black men saying if Gov. Palin went to New York she would be raped by blacks.
That is what your liberal party thinks of blacks. This Newsbusters site doesn't think it nor does any Conservative. We ask you to come join the future as a slum lord Obama is what you have had and Sullivan, Maher and comrades want you in your place.
Come be free.
God bless
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September 20, 2008 - 21:30 ET by Cool ArrowI sincerely ask black Americans for Obama to review his Tony Rezko slum
lord profitting off of blacks in Chicago.
There's another thread going about Slavery being enshrined in the US Constitution.
What you've put your finger on is the enshrinement of Slavery in the Democrat Party.
"Us white folk will take care of you" - Barbara Walters
cool <--
September 20, 2008 - 21:33 ET by MrShyYou stole my thunder on the play-on-words of that AP headline/article... I was thinking the same thing!
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Ah the Queen's Queen Andrew Sullivan has an opinion, who cares?
September 20, 2008 - 23:14 ET by CTPoor little Andrew obviously can't handle the estrogen in the room where Sarah Palin passes.
Why? Specifically....
September 20, 2008 - 23:47 ET by Mr. Terry"We have to talk about Palin. Bill, let me just say, I don't want to go
this far in talking about her. She is a farce. This nomination, the
nomination of this person to be potentially President of the United
States next January – that's the possibility, technically speaking she
could be President next January – is a joke. It is absurd! It is
something that should be dismissed out of hand as the most
irresponsible act any candidate has ever made, ever!"
Why? Give me a reason you twit!
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” Abraham Lincoln