Breaking news: Sully is still an idiot
The Poor Man tells Andrew Sullivan where to stuff it:
But this is madness. Sullivan and his like can?t admit that a liberal (or anyone outside their ideological circle) is right without first driving in the shiv, making sure that his agreement does not come without a pound of flesh. It is not worth giving Sullivan?s ?brave? denounciations of torture any particular credibility, because the price is giving the same credibility to his absurd attacks on Amnesty – on an organization with, unlike Sully a decades-long record of serious concern for human rights, and no tendency to call people traitors for disagreeing with the President. It is not worth applauding Sully?s willingness to tolerate (even encourage!) certain forms of dissent if the other half of the deal is letting him marginalize 100,000+ people whose principled stand makes him look foolish. It?s not worth it, and it?s a guaranteed thing, because without any credibility of his own, he?s got nothing left. Don?t lend him yours.