Sunday, August 31
Blog bites: Sullivan nails the Palin choice: 'Heckuva job, Sarah'
Andrew Sullivan on McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate:
This was about marketing not governing; hiring for appearance not competence. And they did it -- without apparent irony -- on the anniversary of Katrina as another hurricane threatens. From from being a reversal of the Bush administration's worst instincts, McCain seems intent on recreating it -- as farce. Heckuva Job, Sarah.
Sullivan was initially misled by a Wikipedia article and posted that her reluctant veto of an anti-gay bill was a sign of possible gay-friendliness. It wasn't. But since that initial post, he's done a great job of finding the posts that show what a bad choice this un-vetted first "presidential decision" was.
It turns out the the Wikipedia article he quoted, in his initial post, had been scrubbed just before her appointment was announced, although the section Sullivan quoted doesn't seem to be one of the sections edited by someone with a username that includes "Trig" -- the name of Palin's reputed youngest son. The edits included one on Thursday -- the day before the announcement was made -- that called her the veep nominee.
Source: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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For the life of me I have never understood the popularity of journalist Andrew Sullivan, the mainstream media's token conservative gay. Same for Seattle's Dan Savage on the left.
There are plenty of GLBT people out there, quite a number in fact, who work in the mainstream press with better insight than these two. I met plenty of them when I was the Seattle Chapter President of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
Does the Peter Principle come into play here (people rise to there own level of incompetency...)because Sullivan and Savage each have media outlets and a platform? I think the GLBT community is much more diverse, fascinating, and insightful than what is offered today in the press.