I’m not a regular of Sullivan’s but I almost barfed reading his letter to Bush.

Bell Curve? Bell Curve. Be-ll Cur …vre? Bell Curve! B’ll Kurv?

…and fellow blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates will sit with Andrew to pose the queries.

Pose the queries?

Heap the queries is the correct form

So, Sully, do you still think it was a good idea to turn the New Republic into a launching pad for Betsy McCaughey’s bullshit?

Speaking of TNR, how long do you think it’ll be before they’re being kept afloat by grants from the Heritage Foundation?

Tell us more about how Bush’s many, many failures are justified by his general desire to kill brown people, Sullivan.

And even your toughest critics concede that, eventually, you adjusted tactics and strategy. You took your time…

Yep, time enough for 4000 Americans to die.

Oh, I should add that the above is from Sully’s letter to Bush. Thanks for the link, Lesley.

My first submission:

How’s being president of the “Bell Curve” Fan Club working out for you?

Also, are you proud that you’ve infiltrated this country & managed to bring two of its once better magazines to their knees?

Do these people think their readers are so dense that they listen faster than they read? Is this a good use of time, whoever the interviewee is? Even a 24/7 layabout like me can’t be arsed to watch/listen to bloggingheads, for example.

Other suggested questions: “How stupid does one have to be to be arrested for bowling at the National Sea Shore by RANGER FUCKING SMITH?”

Mr. Pez & I are very smart fellers, w/ clever names. And modest.

“How stupid does one have to be to be arrested for bowling at the National Sea Shore by RANGER FUCKING SMITH?”
Not as smart as the average bear.

Mr. Sullivan, how could you fail to suggest the most obvious expression that Bush’s contrition (hahahahahaha) for being the Torturer should take? Bush should volunteer to undergo all the tortures you described in your letter, except of course the torturers should be Iraqis or Afghans, preferably not too bright and with a penchant for taking pictures. That adjustment would help provide the proper emotional context. But it would be OK to have some American-on-American torture during Bush’s exploration of Jose Padilla’s experience. Of course Mr. Bush should be aware that he just might be “lost” in some undocumented Egyptian prison rather than being returned to Texas to resume his “normal” life. Or he might die if the waterboarders don’t get it just right,

I think DVDs documenting Bush’s voluntarily accepted penance would go a long way toward mending fences.

Mr. Sullivan, I’ve heard you describe yourself as a “power bottom.” Does this mean fucking you carries a risk of electrical shock, or merely that your pants slide smoothly down to your ankles with the flip of a switch?

Mr Sullivan, what is your current definition of the word ‘traitor’? Does it still apply to people who show their disrespect for the US citizenship that is so far denied to you, by their failure to be fooled by transparent lies and nationalistic jingoism?

Trying again (FYWP):
Mr Sullivan, what is your current definition of the word ‘traitor’? Does it still apply to people who show their disrespect for the US citizenship that is denied to you, by their failure to be fooled by transparent lies and nationalistic jingoism?

Evidently some of my words were triggers for WP.

not v cool

There’s so much in that letter to hate. Starting with Sullivan’s dramatic narcissism (an affliction many conservatives seem to have). Isn’t he special writing an open love/almost hate letter to the ex-President; one he prefaces with a carefully selected photo suggesting a dignity and strength Bush never had. It’s the delusional fantasy of Straight and log cabin Republicans: Bush as the Marlborough man.

Why that fucking photo and not the one where Bush’s eyes are crossed, or he’s walking into a door or he’s high on liquor again? Or the one where he’s fingering the camera looking terrifyingly like Ted Bundy’s twin brother? Or the one where he’s playing guitar while people are drowning in New Orleans? So many photos to choose from and Sullivan picks the one that turned him on before Bush disappointed him.

The whole first page is about Sullivan and his delusional respect for a man who has never in his entire life been anything but a scumbag. Maybe Sullivan needs to write an open letter to himself.

The rest is just a copy and paste of what others have researched and written for years. What’s different about Sullivan is he’s not writing about Bush, he’s writing to him, letting him know a) he’s still got faith in him and b) he’d really like to put that poster back up above his headboard but can’t until Bush denounces some of the awful decisions he made.

Mr. President, what I am asking is that you exhibit the same candor, reflection, and honor as one of your own service members, a man still serving his country in a uniform he is still proud of, but a uniform that bears a stain of dishonor that only you can remove.

Mr. President, remove that stain, for your own sake as well as ours. You have one last charge to keep.

Some stains don’t come out. Blood is a real bitch like that.

and why is he addressing him as “Mr. President”? Are all presidents past presidents forever in America?

Mr. Pez & I are very smart fellers, w/ clever names. And modest.

Sully? Is that you, Sully?

So many photos to choose from and Sullivan picks the one that turned him on before Bush disappointed him.

Lesley, I love you. There, I’ve said it.

Oh yeah, and how do you respond to critics who say that it’s not really blogging if readers can’t post comments?

Shorter Sully:

Dear Missah Preznit, please show a level of honor that decency that you’ve spent your entire life proving that you don’t posses so that I can pretend that I wasn’t just a deluded servile shitbag who spent years rhetorically washing your bloodstained feet with my beard.

This may answer your questions.

Andrew’s Twitter “bio”: To See What is in Front of One’s Nose Needs a Constant Struggle

He’s Mr. Magoo.

(thx nom de plume 🙂

Irving Kristol’s dead.

Dead, dead, dead.

Are all presidents past presidents forever in America?

Pretty much. Also Govs. & Sens. I’m sure Gingrich gets a “Mr. Speaker” now & then.

Can’t remember if Nixon ever was addressed that way after he quit, but I’ll bet he was.

Dear Mr. Sullivan: Why are you such an assclown?

Topics is theft, but:

May Porsche and/or The Atlantic contact you in the future?

Sullivan’s posted email responses to his love letter.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/dear-president-bush-1.html

“Pose the queries?”

I think it was just a typo. With Andy there, it’s “pose the queeries.”

or maybe “Queer: The Poser.” Not that there’s nothing wrong with that…

Are all presidents past presidents forever in America?

All past presidents are southern colonels forever in America.

The biggest scandal ever in the history of everything about the biggest criminal organization in the history of life in the universe was helped along by one of society’s most important advocates for justice in the history of baryonic matter, Andrew Breibart on the videos of ACORN members talking to some weird white kid playing a pimp:

“When I saw these videos, I couldn’t help thinking, this is the Abu Ghraib of the Great Society,” said Breitbart, who put the videos on BigGovernment.com. “Everybody that is a conservative news junkie thinks that ACORN is the most important institution for us to uncover to the American public.”

The “Abu Ghraib of the Great Society” — they never hated the Abu Ghraib scandal, even the ass pyramids, but they detested the Great Society, just like they hated the New Deal’s Public Works jobs programs before it, and so on and so forth.

they never hated the Abu Ghraib scandal, even the ass pyramids

The ass pyramids are one of the seven wonders of the world, along with the ass sphinx and PENIS pharos.

It was left to the power of the pen and the pixel to render judgment — which you did, brilliantly.

If ever there was a sadly, no!

Q. for sully: Mr. Sullivan, are you contractually obligated to link to Ms. McArdle?

The ass pyramids are one of the seven wonders of the world, along with the ass sphinx and PENIS pharos.

They didn’t call it the Colossus of Rhodes for nothin’.

Lesley, thanks for the link to the crush note letter. It’s early, I really don’t have much food in me but I think I barfed a little coffee into my mouth.

Andrew Sullivan is as bad as the worst of the Wingnut power worshipers, he just weaves a more elaborate fabric of words from which to make his kneeling blanket.

For Sullivan? Smut’s got me covered.

“Everybody that is a conservative news junkie thinks that ACORN is the most important institution for us to uncover to the American public.”

“And that is why people think we’re fucking idiots who should just start taking our goddamn medications already before we hurt someone.”

Re: Sullivan’s widdle love letter to George The Second: What a grovelling toady. “Power bottom?” Yep. If there is power around, he is a willing and enthusiastic bottom.

“Of course, like most advocates of the Iraq War, I grew dismayed at what I saw as the mistakes that followed: the failure to capture Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora;”

That was a failure of the Afghan War, Andy. The entire Iraq war was a misdirected failure.

I dropped the “traitor” question in the mail slot. We’ll see. Maybe if there are enough of them they will address this. But then again…

Sully confuses the Iraq War with the “GWOT” and somehow forgets that Afghan thing. re: Looch.

long with the ass sphinx and PENIS pharos.
If this is leading up to a joke about “Riddle of the Sphincter”, then let us consider it made, and move quietly on.

Breitbart is the Abu Ghraib of correlations.

I guess I should start by saying I supported your presidential campaign in 2000, as I did your father’s in 1988, and lauded your first efforts to wage war against jihadist terrorism in the wake of 9/11.
In other words, I should be walloped with a sock filled with chicken manure every morning when I awake, instead of being regularly published in Atlantic Monthly.

Lesley said,

September 19, 2009 at 9:18

Sullivan’s posted email responses to his love letter.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/dear-president-bush-1.html

You and I both know he wrote that second one himself.

then let us consider it made, and move quietly on.

It never crossed my mind, but thanks. I’ll have to save that for future use.

I should be walloped with a sock filled with chicken manure every morning when I awake, instead of being regularly published in Atlantic Monthly.

I’m thinking the bowling ball-filled cement mixer ride. A long ride.

Do these people think their readers are so dense that they listen faster than they read?

Hahahaha! Yes. And they may be right.

And damn you, Smut, I was just about to make a Sphinxter joke when I scrolled down and saw your post.

“If today you were to come face to face with one of the million-plus Iraqi refugees who’ve had to flee their own country to avoid ethnic cleansing – or one of the relatives of the many Iraqi children killed by ‘The Coalition Of The Willing’ since 2003 – knowing full well (as you surely must by now) that your fork-tongued apologia for the Bush-Cheney junta’s sociopathic approach to foreign-policy was a vital component of the malevolent fraud that made their misery happen, would you feel so much as a tiny twinge of conscience – or have you now descended into a state of complete dehumanization ?”

Of course, I mean that in a nice way.

I asked if he could estimate the amount of money corporations will spend to defeat single payer and the public option. And how much of he he’ll earn personally.

Lesley said,
Sullivan’s posted email responses to his love letter.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/dear-president-bush-1.html

Oh ugh. That is just dizguzting. I can’t believe people do that shit right in full view – for chrissake keep your fappitry in your own house & quit sticking it under our noses.

my question:

how the HELL did you snag that hhooottt boyfriend? the money?

My question:

Will you please blow me?

Thank you.

“Does the constant diet of Scotch, curry and nicotine make Christopher Hitchens’ effluence taste like battery acid?”

“Mr. Sullivan, are you contractually obligated to link to Ms. McArdle?”

a) he more or less admitted he did the same for Yglesias;
b) he clearly doesn’t read her articles before linking to them (must leave it to his interns to provide the rare block quotes); and
c) any analysis is Instapundit-esque at best.

So…yes, I’d imagine.

Oh yeah,

d) don’t recall many links during her Jane Galt/his pre-Atlantic days.