Andrew Sullivan: ‘With Any Luck’ America Won’t Be a Superpower in 20 Years

NewsBusters.org. ^ | July 21, 2013 | Noel Sheppard

[Kaslin]

Talk about your America-hating media members.

On the final episode of the syndicated Chris Matthews Show Sunday, Andrew Sullivan actually said that - to laughter from many in the studio - “with any luck,” America won’t be a superpower in 20 years (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Andrew Sullivan: ‘With Any Luck’ America Won’t Be a Superpower in 20 Years

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Andrew, are we going to be - being we Americans, you included - are we going to be the great, are we still going to use that word superpower? I don't even like it very much. The lone superpower. Are we going to be that 20 years from now?

ANDREW SULLIVAN: With any luck we won't be.

Those not watching the video are advised that for his final show, Matthews had on seventeen of his regular guests, many of which were shown laughing when Sullivan said this.

Tells you a lot about what so-called liberal media members think of their own nation, doesn't it?

SULLIVAN: We will understand what the founders understood. When you leave America and you go back and you look at it from like over here, and you see this giant continent with two vast oceans in between it, and it feels it's paranoid and terrified of the rest of the world, and wants to have this enormous military industrial complex to control it, you just scratch your head after a while and realize that Eisenhower was on to something. So was Washington, so was Jefferson. I think the transition to a post-imperial America is coming. I think it’s overdue and I welcome it.

I bet he and many in the studio do.

Says a lot about the state of journalism today, doesn't it?

[fieldmarshaldj]

This pervert can’t think past the next penis penetrating his pink posterior.

[RoosterRedux]

Well, there is no doubt that the queers among us (God bless 'em) will not be among our heroes.

They are the weakest link

May God bless them for their great taste in interior decoration...and their wonderful appreciation of art.

But when it comes to defending our borders and our freedoms...go away you little butt boys and let the real men save our freedom...

Let us real men die a dignified death.

If the future is yours...then may God bless you.

But let the rest of us die a dignified death and be done with you

[Paleo Conservative]

With any luck, Andrew Sullivan will succumb from AIDS within 20 years. He’s a long time HIV carrier.

[Berosus]

Somebody tell me this isn’t a hoax. The “final” Chris Matthews show? I thought by liberal definition, any program on PMSNBC was too big to fail. The show has been on the air for a decade and a half, and though its ratings were always in the tank, liberals acted like it was another Sixty Minutes. No wonder John Hawkins of RightWingnews.com thought that Prissy Chrissy had incriminating photos of his boss in a Tijuana brothel, and used them to keep from getting canceled.

[freebilly]

With any luck you’ll be speaking Chinese and bowing to your new masters if America fails to maintain her place in the world.

We won't be reading no cursive....

[NonValueAdded]

Well, it is the isolationist’s dream

[NonValueAdded]

what? He doesn’t want us to be a superpower but was OK with going into Iraq and using nukes. This guy is all over the place.

If his point is that we should cease being the world's policeman yet be strong enough to take on all comers, there is a certain logic in that. The trouble is Fortress America was a mid 20th century construct and there is also a certain logic in forward defense.

[dfwgator]

Just look at the “benefits” us being a Superpower have reaped in the Middle East....one Islamic regime after another.

[Senator_Blutarski]

Andrew is looking forward to life in the gulag. He will be very popular there.

[warchild9]

The “patriots” are befuddled by televised sports.

Thinking people are repelled by Andrew Sullivan.

The country falls, either way.

[ConservativeStatement]

What a queer thing to say.

[isthisnickcool]

Andrew Sullivan - Refers to a medical condition where a section of the wall of the rectum prolapses (falls down) from the normal anatomical position....

[Norm Lenhart]

Nope. There’s a brick wall to his right still standing. Give him a min or two to remedy that. Then his work will be done.

[TChad]

I remember when Andrew Sullivan was one of the most eloquent spokesmen for the invasion of Iraq.

Something happened to him. There are plenty of jokes on FR about Sullivan's AIDS affecting his brain, but maybe they aren't just jokes. The link below goes to the Neurological Complications of AIDS Fact Sheet from the National Institutes of Health:

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/aids/detail_aids.htm

Here's a sample:

The virus does not appear to directly invade nerve cells but it jeopardizes their health and function. The resulting inflammation may damage the brain and spinal cord and cause symptoms such as confusion and forgetfulness, behavioral changes, headaches, progressive weakness, and loss of sensation in the arms and legs. Cognitive motor impairment or damage to the peripheral nerves is also common. Research has shown that the HIV infection can significantly alter the size of certain brain structures involved in learning and information processing.

Other nervous system complications that occur as a result of the disease or the drugs used to treat it include pain, seizures, shingles, spinal cord problems, lack of coordination, difficult or painful swallowing, anxiety disorder, depression, fever, vision loss, gait disorders, destruction of brain tissue, and coma. These symptoms may be mild in the early stages of AIDS but can become progressively severe.

In the United States, neurological complications are seen in more than 50 percent of adults with AIDS. Nervous system complications in children may include developmental delays, loss of previously achieved milestones, brain lesions, nerve pain, smaller than normal skull size, slow growth, eye problems, and recurring bacterial infections.

[Vigilanteman]

Well, Andrew, don’t forget to call the U.S. Marines to rescue you when your new Islamofacists friends decide that, as a gay person, you need to dance the Tyburn Jig.

[Kaslin]

homo, fruit

[HiTech RedNeck]

What did poor innocent LSD ever do to deserve the comparison? On LSD you knew it was a trip. These people think it’s reality.

[onedoug]

And you will have been killed in a stadium.

Really stuck on stupid.

[KC_Lion]

Don't forget the New Rule Regarding Andrew Sullivan.

We post a Sarah pic to up his PDS blood pressure.

[MarkL]

Andrew Sullivan: ‘With Any Luck’ America Won’t Be a Superpower in 20 Years

And we'll be under sharia rule, and homosexuals will be stoned to death...

This is really what you want Andrew?

Mark