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Andrew Sullivan: U.S. stopped being a free country under Bush
Andrew Sullivan of The Dish claimed Monday night the United States stopped being a free country under the Bush administration, citing the alleged military detention and torture of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla. During a CNN panel discussion on the terrorist attack, Sullivan criticized what he saw as an overreaction to…
Maher: Republicans are ‘vaginaphobes,’ should probably ‘shut up’ about rape
Bill Maher started off Real Time on Nov. 9 by conducting a quick recap of the elections, noting that there will now be six openly gay men in Congress, a bisexual woman and an openly gay female senator, while pot was legalized in two states. “We’re becoming more like Canada,…
Andrew Sullivan tells Stephen Colbert: Karl Rove’s ‘head just exploded’
During a live interview immediately following Tuesday night’s election results, Newsweek contributor Andrew Sullivan told Comedy Central’s faux conservative pundit Stephen Colbert that Republican strategist Karl Rove’s head actually “exploded” live on Fox News when the election was called for President Barack Obama. “Karl Rove is demanding a raincheck,” Sullivan…
Andrew Sullivan: Romney ‘like an alien that ripped off his mask’ at debate
GOP strategist Nicole Wallace on Sunday said that it was not a problem that Republican nominee Mitt Romney was “like an alien that ripped off his mask” when he seemed to change positions during the presidential debates because “we liked him better.” During an ABC News panel on Sunday, The…
Anderson Cooper comes out (and says he was never actually in)
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, whose sexual orientation has long been the subject of tabloid gossip and an open secret in media circles, penned an e-mail to Andrew Sullivan (published today) that finally acknowledged not only his orientation but the reasons he refused to address it. In it, he acknowledges that…
Andrew Sullivan: Politicization of Christianity fuels atheism in U.S.
Columnist and author Andrew Sullivan said Sunday that atheism was growing in the United States because more and more people saw Christianity as an organization intent on gaining political power. “I think our ability to be reasonable in politics and faithful in religion, and to keep those two things separate,…
Measuring skulls
Andrew Sullivan is back at it again, kindly reminding us that despite his support of Obama, who he really is never lurks far from the surface. Yep, he's defending The Bell Curve again, relying on the same tricks—mainly leaning on the assumption that the audience doesn't have time to do…
Religious claims don’t belong on news shows
I was mildly surprised to see some people react negatively to my post yesterday making fun of Chris Matthews and company for "debating" the existence of hell on what was supposed to be a news show. To my mind, it was just clearly just a joking post that was aimed…
What atheists hear when people “debate” theology
I love Nicole's take on how ridiculous it was that Chris Matthews had a round table to debate "what if there was no hell?*": "This is why we can't have nice things." Debating whether or not there is a hell on national television is one of those things that makes…
The populist right isn’t really any dumber than the intellectual right
Andrew Sullivan is (rightly) up in arms about Rush Limbaugh posting this racist image on his website, and issuing a racist dogwhistle rant to go along with it on his show. Digby points out that this is hardly that shocking for Limbaugh; he usually tops this kind of racism on…
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