Posted on 10/25/2006 4:27:15 PM PDT by MikeA
I can hardly believe what I'm hearing in this interview listening to how prickly and thin skinned Sullivan is in this interview with Hugh Hewitt currently on Hewitt's radio program and continuing until 5PM Pacific, 8PM Eastern for any interested in hearing it. He is so aggitated that Hewitt is asking him to account for the things he's written in his own book. The guy is arrogant, priggish, rude, boorish, defensive, paranoid and childish. He refuses to answer most questions instead trying to somehow turn it around on Hewitt to try to make Hewitt look like some sort of depraved Nazi.
Sullivan went so far as to compare himself to Christ and Hewitt to the Pharisees with his "trick questions" and calling Hewitt "pathetic." I've never seen a supposedly adult human being who presents himself as a serious scholar who handled some rigorous questioning of his work in a less mature and gracious manner than Sullivan is doing.
And of course he had to attack Hewitt's listeners as all a bunch of rubes who don't understand that America's government is secular, not Christian (though of course our laws have a Judeo-Christian basis.) I guess he's just another bitter gay man upset that the majority of Americans don't think marriage should be extended to people who want to marry among their own gender and that accounts for at least some of his defensiveness, not to mention a clear lack of confidence in the things he's written.
I guess Sullivan based on his embittered attacks on Republicans during this interview has become one of these condescending Libertarians who thinks they're so ideologically pure and everyone else a hopeless apostate. Now he's accusing Bush of "suspending liberty in this country" because the president, and the law, do not find Habeaus Corpus applies to enemy prisoners of war, much less illegal terrorist combatants. Earlier he accused Bush, and Hewitt, of advocating torture. Pathetic. I guess the "pure" conservative view according to Sullivan is to grant rights to terrorists never before granted POWs in any previous war. Sullivan is in short a fool and an idiot.
Sullivan has one interest now in politics and it has everything to do with sex.
What radio station do you use? Give a link.
The guy is arrogant, priggish, rude, boorish, defensive, paranoid, GAY, and childish.
http://www2.krla870.com/listen/
You can listen here to the feed from L.A. which is where I'm listening to it. It's a must-hear. Sullivan is utterly losing it and has been for 30 minutes straight.
http://www2.krla870.com/listen/
You can listen here to the feed from L.A. which is where I'm listening to it. It's a must-hear. Sullivan is utterly losing it and has been for 30 minutes straight.
Next to Muslims, militant gays have to be the touchiest people on earth. Along with liberals. If there were any militant gay liberal Muslims, the touchiness meter would be pinned in the red 24/7.
I'm sensing a little touch of desperation in the air with some liberals today.
Andrew Sullivan: Just another in-your-face faggie.
Angry that the typical faggie corks off at 432.
I meant to correct 32 to 42. Anyway, who cares?
I meant to correct 32 to 42. Anyway, who cares?
Sooner or later all queers who don't repent and renounce their wicked lifestyle, will become a mouthpiece for the demon of lust that has them enslaved to their fallen flesh.
Hugh Hewitt is a brilliant warrior in the Culture War. I'm glad he's on our side.
Andrew Sullivan lives by -- and will die by -- his, er, uh, "sword".
I turned it off as soon as Sullivan came on. Now that I know Hugh is whipping him, I might catch the podcast.
I read Sullivan regularly for years, even checking his blog several times a day when I could, until about 1.5 to 2 years ago when, IMO, the wheels just came off of the man's proverbial wagon ... OH RIGHT AROUND THE TIME that Bush announced support for the FMA.
Every principled stand Sullivan had taken, it seemed, then went up for sale. He previously had taken a stand on "torture" similar to Charles Krauthammer's (namely, that in rare situations some inhumane treatment of persons known to have vital information that could save lives, may be permissible). But now? Never, ever, no matter what, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of lives might be spared by a belly-slap. Silliness.
It took me awhile, but eventually I realized that Sullivan has left the planet Relevance.
Do not go to his blogsite, even via others' links; you only give him ad revenue when you do. Turn your back.
It's worth a listen to see a guy who I know considers himself such an elite intellectual and above all us Christian simpletons to froth at the mouth and whine like a little bitch.
Sounds like he got some talking points from Rosie O'Donnel and Tim Robbins (Rosie said the same thing yesterday on The View -- according to an article posted on FR)...
so Mr. H- is needling another lefty -- when will they learn?
Andrew is saying queers=blacks/women/minority. Which is foolish because all blacks are black, all women are women but not all men are queers.
Sullivan is and always has been a leftist pretending to be a conservative.
"We'll be back to more sophistry....but certainly not conservative sophistry!"
Ha! But the fact that we're having to discuss this is pathetic.
He's just another one-issue blogger with an agenda.
You nailed it. Talk about having one's panties in a wad. From the get go AS has been defensive and prickish. BTW, on Monday Hugh has a 3 hr. interview with ABC's Political Director Mark Halperin. Should be good. Hugh does great interviews--more like a cross-examination. He and Medved are the best on this front, IMHO...
Love it! However, I have heard Hugh better at times.
ping for later
Well, he could go home to Britain, couldn't he?
Is he running around in circles screaming Auntie M, Auntie M?
PMS
"The guy is arrogant, priggish, rude, boorish, defensive, paranoid and childish."
an excellent definition of a liberal.
Now the self-righteous gay man is claiming we're unChristian for believing rigorous interrogations of terrorists is justified and is not "torture." So homosexuality which is specifically condemned in the Bible is okay, but the strong interrogation techniques that don't result in bodily injury is somehow against the Bible and "torture?"
And the idiot is saying habeaus corpus has been permanently suspended. LOL, so all of us who could be potentially arrested for crimes not related to terrorism or national security no longer have habeaus corpus protections?? This guy is a hysterical little queen. What a true fool.
Sullivan needs to go back to the UK. He's getting his butt kicked by Hugh Hewitt. Which is something Sullivan does not have done to his rear often apparently. he usually reserves it for something else.
Sorry, I have no repsect for homos. It is a character defect of the highest order.
I have heard Hugh on the radio a few times. He is very good at making people defend and justify exactly what they wrote.
I miss his columns, at one time he seemed rather brilliant and objective. But that was a while back. How ill is he, maybe that is part of his bitterness?
I listened until Andy got all upset when Hugh asked him if he was a Christian.
Saint Andy sounds like he is suffering from a case of gay PMS.
Great post, pogo101. I actually used to be somewhat of a Sullivan fan. I also read his blog semi-regularly. I would stop what I was doing and listen if he appeared on a pundit show, ie, Chris Matthews, etc. You're right, though, as soon as Bush announced his support for the FMA and all the "gay marriage stuff" hit the television airwaves, Sullivan's views about everything seem to have changed drastically. He has gone really off the deep end. I no longer pay any attention to him nor read his blog...
I guess Sullivan based on his embittered attacks on Republicans during this interview has become one of these condescending Libertarians who thinks they're so ideologically pure and everyone else a hopeless apostate.
Once again, Mike... you've nailed it!
I have my issues with Hewitt but he is, hands-down, the best. interviewer. EVER.
Whadd'ya expect from somebody whose hard wiring is fubar in the first place?
You can also use Itunes to download podcasts from townhall.com. Just register at townhall.com and select the broadcasts you want podcast. I run a paper route in the early am, and I listen to Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager and Michael Medved (in that order). Best of all, NO COMMERCIALS! Just the time they are live. Each hour is about 35 minutes.
...sounds like someone plucked his last rectal nerve...
"...grant rights to terrorists never before granted POWs in any previous war..."
I always thought that if you were not wearing a uniform you were a spy and could be executed as one.
Not all homos are flaming leftists.
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