“. . . In all the media excitement over {Andrew} Sullivan’s decision to rely on the much-maligned subscription model for his revenues (“bold experiment!“… “A thrill!“… “a flag of hope for every writer!“… “a dramatic stand!“…) no one raised the most obvious question of all: Why would subscribers pay to support one of the most colossal serial-failures in American journalism of the past two decades?”

The Face of New Journalism

If you’re still a Sully fan — even after all the contempt I’ve heaped on the hypocritical barebacker here — then follow the link for the quote and read the entire piece.  It’s a veritable horror show of Sully’s greatest hits.

But hey, he’s Andrew Sullivan, and he’s still an asshole. So what did you expect?

“I’m glad that you’re accepting responsibility. I think ultimately with your leaving that you accept the culpability for the worst tragedy since 9/11. And I really mean that.”

Senator Rand Paul {R — Dumbfuckistan} to Secretary to State Hillary Clinton during hearings on the Benghazi embassy attack.

As Blue Texan over at C & L reminds us and the good senator — Rand seems to have conveniently forgotten the seven attacks on U.S embassies during the presidency of C+ Augustus Bush, the 20 murdered 5 and 6 year old children in Newtown, Connecticut, and the 2,000 people killed during Hurricane Katrina.

But hey, when you’re competing with Jim Inhofe for the title of Stupidest United States Senator in the History of the Republic™ this kind of forgetfulness is to be expected.

. . . to win an election when you can just steal the election?

Obvious anagram Reince Priebus of the RNC has figured out a way for the GOP to rig the Electoral College so that republicans won’t even need to get a majority of votes in future presidential elections in order to win the White House.

“Lance Armstrong’s “confession” has to be the most overhyped story of this decade, which is saying a lot. Aside from the fact that this was a train that you saw coming in slow motion from 50 miles away, the Lance Armstrong who manipulated the world for 15 years with his doping is now scheming to manipulate the world with his apology. The day that Lance Armstrong does something that isn’t all about Lance Armstrong will be the day we know that he actually, truly, is sorry.”

Will Bunch

I never bought into the whole Lance Armstrong as God motif that so many people did. In fact, over the years, the more press he garnered the more repulsive I found him, regardless of his athletic accomplishments..

And when people like Oprah were singing his praises for beating cancer I allowed to cross my mind the truly uncharitable though that, “He probably got cancer from all the drugs he did.”

Anyway, I always figured him for a douchebag — and he is.  And if you need any further proof of his douchebaggery then all you need to know is that he’s announcing to the world what the entire fucking world knew already and he’s doing it in an interview with Oprah — one of the world’s biggest narcissistic assholes.

The Oprah admission is just the precursor to the roll-out for his new tell-all biography.

Count on it.

Here’s Jon Stewart.

“A Texas dad terrified his child’s elementary school when he decided to conduct a “rogue” security drill to see how the school would respond in the event of an emergency, according to the school district.

Ron Miller, 44, entered the office of the Celina Elementary School at 7:50 a.m. on Wednesday, according to police, where he “conducted  his own drill to test the school’s response to an active shooter situation.”

“Although Miller did not display a weapon, the statements and actions of Miller were aggressive and created panic and fear among the school’s staff,” the Celina Police Department said in a news release.”

What do you want to bet this fucking imbecile is surprised he got arrested?  Also, too: is anyone shocked to find out this took place in Texas?

More here.

Horrible senator, horrible person. He won’t be missed.

“The thing about people who never remember, never take responsibility, and never accept accountability is that they can make the exact same arguments that were shown to be deeply misguided only a few years ago – without even a flicker of recognition.”

Andrew Sullivan — 12/20/2012

As Drifty rightly observes:  “For the second time in three days, I am rendered temporarily speechless by the sheer magnitude of yet another professional Conservative public intellectual’s capacity for unfettered narcissism and self-delusion.”

Andrew Sullivan is the perfect example of someone who has been wrong about pretty much every fucking thing he’s opined upon since he hit the national stage.  And yet, he’s never paid a price for his abject wrongness nor has he really ever held himself accountable.

He’s still writing drivel and he’s still on my tee vee machine and he’s still being paid to be a public intellectual.

However, when I say “accountable” what I mean by that is not that he should be forced to give up his sinecure from which he spouts his totally fucked in the head, worthless opinions — Oh no!

I mean he should fucking kill himself via ritual suicide.  Preferably public immolation a la the method employed by Buddhist monks during the Vietnam era.

I’d gladly supply the Jerry can of gasoline.

Sully has flogged a conservatism that has been the root cause of the economic failure of this nation.

He has aided and abetted America’s domestic enemies by unhesitatingly and quite happily signing onto that pile of reeking, fetid dog shit of American politics known as conservatism and that he gladly fluffed until it became obvious even to Sully that the house he had helped to construct was populated by nothing more than a bunch of drooling imbeciles and madmen.

He relentlessly flogged and helped to give cover to a lawless administration intent upon inflicting a war upon a nation that did nothing to harm us. A war that killed hundreds of thousands in Iraq and made literally millions homeless.

All this while saying that anyone here in America {like me} who opposed that war was either a fifth columnist or a traitor.

And yet, after all that, he slithers back onto the pages of The Daily Beast and writes the breathtakingly unselfaware paragraph quoted above.

But what do you expect?

Because he’s Andrew Sullivan.

And he’s still an asshole.