Comments on: Andrew, please tell us you were joking

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By: piotr

piotr — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:01:00 +0000

Bush is a singularly un-appealing character, who started his presidency quite nicely from wrecking the budget, dismantling what he could from environment protection and saving us from such nightmares like protecting workers against excruciating pain from repetive motion syndrom.

His personal traits are not much better, smirking, hypocritical religiosity and compulsive spewing of falsehood (well, perhaps just calculated spewing). Then the matter of his intelligence that is at best carefully hidden.

From there he advanced to “war of whimsy” (a.k.a. “war of choice”) and gay bashing. Now some people hate Bush. How unhelpful!

Un-what?

By: Andrew McManama

Andrew McManama — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:11:16 +0000

This may be in bad taste, but doesn’t Andrew Sullivan have HIV? I don’t think I’d fuck him…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:44:19 +0000

Bite Me

By: Ann (not Coulter)

Ann (not Coulter) — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:58:01 +0000

Well, that’s a bit small of you, vachon. I understand he’s not actually all that particular about legs.

By: vachon

vachon — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:41:20 +0000

I’ve heard Andrew Sullivan will conflate anything with legs.

By: Lick Bush

Lick Bush — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:16:29 +0000

Thanks for proving my point for me Barb. Bush is hurting America. We hate those who are hurting America. Ergo, we hate Bush. Agrajag for some reason would rather pirouette around his hate. Maybe to make an utterly idiotic point about Andrew Sullivan that doesnt withstand the merest scrutiny.

For the record, I hate Bush, and I’m happy to admit it.

By: Barb

Barb — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:07:28 +0000

The only people we hate are those with the power to hurt us or to hurt what we love. Bush is hurting America.

By: agrajag

agrajag — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:14:54 +0000

So I remove the quotation marks

So you found 104 entries in which atrios says the words “I,” “hate,” and “Bush” somewhere within… what, a week of each other (pretty sure Atrios’ archives are divided by week)? Not what I’d call significant.

I could respond to what shall be termed for the sake of argument the ‘substance’ of your statement, and explain the point which you so strenuously attempt to miss, but frankly until we get the basic operation of the Google search engine hammered out for you we’re just not going to get anywhere.

By: Lick Bush

Lick Bush — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:23:44 +0000

boy agrajag, you got me. So I remove the quotation marks, add your site: qualifier just like your sully example above and I only yield 108 pages. Daily Kos yields only 41 pages of Bush hatred with the quotes intact and an astonishing 1700 with them gone. Burn on me!

beyond trivia: Are you honestly contesting there is some very serious and heartfelt bush-hatred there? Do you yourself NOT hate Bush?? Again, where is the ‘gotcha’ in this post?? I’m mystified.

By: agrajag

agrajag — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:57:51 +0000

Google “I hate Bush” and Atrios — 325 pages worth. “I hate bush” and Kos gets 588 pages. Your point here is completely mysterious.

Oddly enough, google “I hate Bush” and site:atrios.blogspot.com (y’know, to get results from, y’know, Atrios’ actual site), and you get nothing.

Funny, that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:07:49 +0000

Google “I hate Bush” and Atrios — 325 pages worth. “I hate bush” and Kos gets 588 pages.

That’s because kos and atrios have comments sections. Fuck andrew sullavin, seriously.

By: bellatrys

bellatrys — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 05:01:54 +0000

sorry, that’s “several phobias”, I suppose severe goes without saying with phobia.

By: bellatrys

bellatrys — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 05:00:21 +0000

Yeah, it was Ruskin. It all came out when a few years later his wife fell in love with an artist friend of theirs, Millais, and there was a messy annulment. All it says here is that their marriage was never consummated because Ruskin "had severe phobias".

By: Frederick

Frederick — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 04:30:17 +0000

You are thinking of the English art critic John Ruskin.

I dunno, that name doesn’t ring a bell. But from the Internet I gather that supposedly Ruskin did get married and not consummate the marriage for some reason.

Say, you’re not Frederick of Frederick’s of Hollywood, are you?

Sadly, No! (catchy phrase, that)

By: Lick Bush

Lick Bush — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 04:21:47 +0000

Don’t understand. “bush hatred” per sullivan is not necessarily implied by “bush criticism.” Is bush hatred therefore supposed not to exist? Do you not hate bush as surely as you disagree with him?

Google “I hate Bush” and Atrios — 325 pages worth. “I hate bush” and Kos gets 588 pages. Your point here is completely mysterious.

By: spearNmagicHelmet

spearNmagicHelmet — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 03:56:30 +0000

Fuck Andrew Sullivan. Figuratively, that is. He’s a doosh.

By: Andrew McManama

Andrew McManama — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 03:51:50 +0000

why does anyone care what andrew sullivan thinks? he’s such a tosser it’s ridiculous.
he’s obviously confused.
I think people should stop paying attention to him and eventually he’ll disappear.

By: Simbaud

Simbaud — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 03:50:18 +0000

Frederick,

You are thinking of the English art critic John Ruskin.

Say, you’re not Frederick of Frederick’s of Hollywood, are you?

By: Frederick

Frederick — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 03:23:09 +0000

btw, I thought "bush hatred" was the supposed extreme reaction of some famous English poet who was so shocked on his wedding night at the sight of his wife's pubic hair that he never fucked her and ultimately died a virgin. Sorry, I can't remember his name or find it on the Web but it's in "The Book of Lists." Or perhaps the phrase refers to Sully's own reaction under similar circumstances, I dunno.