Comments on: Does Andrew Sullivan really deserve your love?

By: Texat

Texat — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:10:16 +0000

Sullivan is a rank opportunist and propagandist, by no means a true journalist, and I’ll bet he’s thrilled to have shills/apologists posting for him here.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:30:22 +0000

There doesn’t seem to be a single complaint about what he’s said or done for the past decade.

Sullivan is an open and willing blogger. He will discuss The Bell Curve and state his case, He openly and often talks about his mistakes.

I don’t agree with everything he says, but he’s a process journalist in the best sense of the term and his readers are better for it.

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:08:14 +0000

I cannot speak to what he wrote 20 years ago (and I agree with your evaluation of it), but he has repented of his Iraq War cheerleeding.

I only started reading him a couple years ago, but he seems to be that rare pundit who can admit he has made an error. He has done so several times since I began reading his site.

By: Howard West

Howard West — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:09:10 +0000

You may be right that there are “many more deserving bloggers who should be rewarded by putting their stuff behind a paywall and getting a ton of subscribers”.

The big question is: “where are they?” Sullivan is at least taking the risk.