I guess Andrew Sullivan got jealous over another blog’s alarming and sudden descent into paranoid insanity and decided to step up his game:
This is only the second time in its nearly ten-year history that the Dish has gone silent. The reason now is the same as the reason then. When dealing with a delusional fantasist like Sarah Palin, it takes time to absorb and make sense of the various competing narratives that she tells about her life. There are so many fabrications and delusions in the book, mixed in with facts, that just making sense of it – and comparing it with objective reality as we know it, and the subjective reality she has previously provided – is a bewildering task. She is a deeply disturbed person which makes this work of fiction and fact all the more challenging to read. And the fact that she is now the leader of the Republican party and a potential presidential candidate, makes this process of deconstruction an important civil responsibility. We take this seriously as we always have. We want to be fair to her, and to her family, and to the innocent people she has brought into the spotlight. And we are not reporters. We are merely analysts trying to make sense of evidence already in the public domain, evidence that points in all sorts of directions, only one of which can be true.
Since the Dish has tried to be rigorous and careful in analyzing Palin’s unhinged grip on reality from the very beginning – specifically her fantastic story of her fifth pregnancy – we feel it’s vital that we grapple with this new data as fairly and as rigorously as possible. That takes time to get right. And it is so complicated we simply cannot focus on anything else.
Wow. Just, wow. At this point, I sincerly wonder about Sullivan’s mental health. I also wonder why The Atlantic continues to enable this kind of public self destruction. (Well, no I don’t. The site traffic must be great.)
I do not know what it is about Sarah Palin that infuriates statists on both the left and the right, but it is hilarious, and I hope she continues, even if she doesn’t run for higher office. If you can judge a person by observing their enemies, and I have never been led astray by that metric, then Sarah Palin is doing it right.
Turk Turon | 19-Nov-09 at 8:06 am | Permalink
Yeah, the best thing about Sarah Palin is how she just lights the usual suspects up ON FIRE! They go absolutely wild with hatred. The Associated Press is said to have put eleven staffers to work fact-checking Palin’s 400-page book. They found six instances of error/falsehood/lies. Pretty good for the average politician’s ghost-written bio.
You’re right, she is known by the enemies she keeps.
Caleb | 19-Nov-09 at 8:10 am | Permalink
and for the record: I’d still hit it.
pdb | 19-Nov-09 at 8:52 am | Permalink
and for the record: I’d still hit it.
Get in line, junior.
Ernunnos | 19-Nov-09 at 9:17 am | Permalink
I was listening to NPR the other day and heard a story about the detrimental effects of AIDS drugs. They’ll keep you alive, but they’re discovering that it basically ages you a lot faster. Actually, they’re not even sure if it’s a drug side effect or just a consequence of long term HIV infection. Either way, you go senile. I think Andrew is a prime example.
Canthros | 19-Nov-09 at 10:32 am | Permalink
I think I’m most bemused by the insistance that “we want to be fair to her” laid next to the repeated assertions that Palin is crazy. The dissonance is inaudible only by virtue of being expressed through the written word.
gator | 19-Nov-09 at 11:12 am | Permalink
She has the knack of driving those on the Left completely batshit crazy. I wish she’d step it up a bit. It IS funny.
Rick C | 19-Nov-09 at 11:13 am | Permalink
Wasn’t it obvious long before Sarah Palin became a nationally-known name that Andrew Sullivan had gone completely around the bend? Every time someone’s mentioned him in the last 3 years or so, I’ve thought “people still read him?”
It’s a pity that Charles Johnson’s gone insane, too.
phlegmfatale | 19-Nov-09 at 11:40 pm | Permalink
I confess I feel a little giddy by how venomously some folk hate Sarah Palin, and these same folk are often adulatory of one hideously unfit CIC.
Just pop some popcorn and enjoy the show.
Tam | 20-Nov-09 at 9:03 am | Permalink
I like saying her name in front of hippies just to watch them sputter.
Tennessee Budd | 20-Nov-09 at 1:49 pm | Permalink
Yeah, Tam, it is a hoot. I’m hardly ever in a position to talk to them (at my place, I mostly talk to the cats & the goats), but when I do, I like to compare & contrast her “lack of experience” with Obumble’s genuine lack of any accomplishment. They go incandescent.
DirtCrashr | 02-Dec-09 at 1:19 pm | Permalink
It’s a reflex they have, say her name and their eyes pop-out and their hair stands up on fire.