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?

[Steve_Seattle]

Ok, Andrew, so when the Muslims in Europe come after you, don’t expect us to let you in. Fair enough?

[ShasheMac]

“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.”

Coincidentally, ratings for the final episode were at an all-time high, claiming a whopping seventeen viewers.

[LegendHasIt]

Andy doesn’t have much faith in 0bama’s plan then;.... 0bama intends for the US to be a third world nation disrupted by internecine tribal warfare by 2015.5

[elcid1970]

Who cares what that faggie thinks?

[Bigg Red]

Well, wait, there was something good to come out of this:

On the final episode of the syndicated Chris Matthews Show....

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So, this is Spittle Boy’s last show? Good! But what cabinet position is he going to?

[garjog]

But, won’t the Sharia law folks who take over kill guys like Sullivan?

Yes. So he won’t be so lucky then.

[vette6387]

With any kind of luck, the world will be rid of Andrew Sullivan before that happens.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Let me know when and where, I’d like to partake in that!
This freak is one of the lowest of the low.

[Trod Upon]

I think he’s going to spot Reggie every third weekend.

[bgill]

We’re fast falling from anything but being the butt of jokes.

[Sivad]

True Eisenhower warned of the military - industrial complex.
But that is not the same as tolerating the US as a second
rate power. As much as anyone of his time Ike knew the
perils of an unprepared America. To say Sullivan is an idiot
is almost a compliment.

[lentulusgracchus]

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

Yeah. The Chinese are probably already referring to Vancouver, B.C., as "Forward Operating Base Vancouver". They also are running the Panama Canal -- anybody notice that?

[lentulusgracchus]

Loathing of one’s country appears to be endemic among western ‘intellectuals’.

One has to be, in order to be "cool".

[lentulusgracchus]

Who cares what that faggie thinks?

Which one?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Why isn’t Andrew Sullivan living in apartheid Cuba?

[Ann Archy]

First time Andrew didn't talk about GAYNESS....how REFRESHING!!

Chrissy Matthews FINAL show on Sunday.....HOW REFRESHING!!

And NO, we are no longer a great country because we are no longer a GOOD country......55 MILLION DEAD BABIES and GAY MARRIAGE....HOW DISGUSTING!!

[JudgemAll]

THese people deal more in castration of their oponent than they deal in pandering for votes. It is a party of the castrates and castrating.

[Rummyfan]

GAY.

He's not just GAY, he's a flaming fa**ot!

[cynwoody]

So. Anthrew Thullivan agrees with Barack Obama's agenda? This is news?

[pepsionice]

Only to point this out....but the founding fathers didn’t have any desire for the US to be a super-power. It was to be a land unto itself. This concept of super-power....is something created in the 1950s and is something of a dream.