Andrew SULLIVAN semi-retires from blogging, sparking hilarious snark from Gawker readers

[UTUSN]

Yeah, I've never cared for his seeing the light on Shrub or whatever after the fact. How come we knew in real time?!1


Art by Jim Cooke
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[font size=5]Andrew Sullivan Semi-Retires from Blogging[/font]
J.K. Trotter

In an endearingly longwinded post addressed to his readers, professional blogger Andrew Sullivan announced that he has “decided to stop blogging in the near future” because he is “saturated in digital life” and wants “to write long essays that can answer more deeply and subtly the many questions that the Dish years have presented to me.” He also wants “stay healthy” and spend more time with his family.

To mark his semi-retirement, Sullivan is suspending The Dish’s paywall and terminating existing subscriptions. The fate of the blog’s full-time staff—which includes three head editors and a managing editor—remains unclear. (We’ve reached out to Sullivan and will update if we hear back.)

The latest and likely final incarnation of Sullivan’s daily blog will be remembered, in any case, for its protagonist’s brief, melodramatic sojourn to the uncivilized borderlands of New York City, where Sullivan experienced the indignity of having the wrong couch delivered to his Chelsea apartment before he gave up and returned to Washington, D.C.

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I hope he doesn't take this too personally, but I really don't give a shit and can't think of anyone else who would either. Occasionally I'll see something of his and think about it briefly, but the world of people who really rely on him for insight... is very, very small.

I wonder what kind of blow to his ego it would be if he didn't write a farewell post and no one noticed he'd stopped?

I imagine he's incapable of processing the question. You realize he may well read this and be goaded into saying something long and boring, accidentally triggering a relapse?

On behalf of liberal fifth columnists everywhere (including those who were in boot camp as he wrote his infamous column calling leftists in his adopted country traitors), let's all Kickstarter a retirement gift for him. I suggest a gold-plated set of phrenology calipers, in honor of his undaunted pursuit of the truths of genetic differences in IQ.

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[m-lekktor]

1. LOL i love that photo!!

I am so not a fan.

[brooklynite]

2. ...but Elizabeth Warren seeing the light on Reagan's economic policies is a-ok?

[UTUSN]

3. Fine by me!1 Thanks for asking!1 n/t

[JHB]

4. Warren actually does things, not just vacuously burble like Sullivan

[PoliticAverse]

5. Hey it's not like she campaigned for Barry Goldwater... n/t

[closeupready]

6. Yep, sure is.

[Pisces]

7. Andrew Sullivan has contributed quite a bit from 2006 to present. I for one will miss his daily

blogging. Don't get all of the hate. He made mistakes, admitted them and went on to contribute moving pieces and blog
history with the Green movement in Iran. He never let up on Sarah Palin from the start. He is an Obama cheerleader to some
on this board and he is all over the torture issue. He is more liberal than 50% on this board. However he came to terms with
coming out is his journey and not ours to judge. He was for gay marriage before gay marriage was even a platform in the
gay community. Any who are happy to see him go, have only surface information on him and sound like Fox News regurgitating old and inaccurate data. I have read his blog since 2006 and I think I now more than those who have skimmed and trolled negative articles about him.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. It was his aggressive and uncalled for mischaracterizations of those who opposed the Iraq War

that left me without any respect for him. Stuff like this. Few have lived who have been both so certain and so wrong:
"By far the most depressing aspect of the debate over war to disarm Saddam has been how it has swiftly adopted the contours of the culture war. There is a solid and passionate base among many blue-staters that opposes this war at least in part because they oppose George W. Bush. At some point in the last few months, in fact, being anti-war clearly became a defining cultural moniker for an entire sub-population. Almost the whole academic class, the media elites, the college-educated urbanites, the entertainment industry and so on are now reflexively anti-war. Worse in fact: there is very little argument or debate going on in these sub-populations, simply an assumption that war against Saddam is wrong, and that all right-thinking people agree about this. Obviously, the polls suggest that this sub-population is not a majority, but they are a powerful and increasingly angry minority. If the war hits snags, they will redouble their efforts to humiliate the president. I don't think their anger will be abated if the war goes well either. They will merely find a new reason to hate Bush. But I do think that an opportunity exists for Bush to neutralize and even co-opt some of these people by his conduct in the post-war settlement. He must commit real resources, real troops, real money to reconstructing Iraq and to building the beginnings of democracy there. No friendly new dictator; no cut-and-run; no change of the subject. He has to show the essentially progressive nature of the war against Islamist terror and its state sponsors - not just for the security of the West but for the future of the Arab world."
http://sullivanarchives.theatlantic.com/index.php.dish_inc-archives.2003_02_01_dish_archive.html#90376378

[BayouBengal07]

9. He wrote an e-book about his treatment of the war:

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[Pisces]

12. I have no idea what more he could have done. Haters want to hate.

[UTUSN]

15. The backward "R" is all so frivolous. n/t

[Pisces]

11. Yes, he posted this and his since recanted his position and calls for prosecution of torturers. He

has stated over and over again how wrong he was. I guess people always have to be right on this board. He can't do more
than admit he was wrong, apologize and support people who are against war like he has with Obama.

What about all of the stuff he has written since???

[JaneyVee]

10. he believes the racist bell curve

[Pisces]

13. He believes in discussing the theory of the racist bell curve. There is a difference in

conversation and debate vs. this is my stance. He has argued that we should explore all theories and not be afraid
of the implications or the politically correct mob. I don't agree with this theory, but I am a liberal and do believe in free speech and open discussion.

[melman]

17. He's a hack

He has always been a hack.

[Cali_Democrat]

14. Gawker readers are the funniest on the web

Deadpsin comments are great too...

[UTUSN]

16. Uh, and we here are chicken liver?!1 O.K., thanks!1 n/t