The Daily Dish turns ten today, and important people from all corners of the Internet are “toasting or roasting” Andrew Sullivan and his ancient web log. Here is a “toast” from gay humorist Dan Savage. Anyway, hooray!
Thank you to constant Wonkette tipster “Luke” for reminding us about this exciting Internet Anniversary.
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It's 101110 day! Hooray. 46 FTW!
He survived by playing Gloria Gaynor records over and over.
Kind of a dick? He's a huge dick, a self-aggrandizing asshole, he helped kill healthcare reform under Clinton, he's dishonest, self-serving, and in love with himself. And those are his best traits.
I despise him, and can't for the life of me understand how all those people are "toasting" him. I want him to go back to England and haunt them instead of us.
That dickish, self-aggrandizing attitude is exactly what I hate about Dan Savage too. The difference is Savage is funny enough that I can usually ignore those flaws. The best Andy's got is "View from Your Window" which isn't nearly as funny since Will Ferrell left.
Really? I haven't read that much of Savage's stuff, but I've liked what I've seen of him. He started the "It Gets Better" campaign, I thought, which I really like. I don't mind self-aggrandizing so much if there's something to aggrandize.
The It Gets Better campaign is very sweet; I was especially touched by Tim Gunn's submission where he admitted to attempting suicide at 17. Very powerful.
But Savage in generally can be very condescending and sanctimonious with anyone he disagrees with. He's generally right, but the man is such a dick about it he sometimes makes it difficult to support him. It's worse when he's wrong, and everyone tells him he's wrong, but he refuses to admit he's wrong, and the thing just turns into a giant mess.
Stick to your third hand experience of him, dear.
Well, after reading his toast to Sullivan, I'll admit I'm a little wary.
Oh God, I thought I was the only one who thought Dan Savage was kind of a prick! Everyone else seems to love him.
He's OK. It's just that anyone so proud to be a homo gets kind of annoying after awhile. OK buddy, you're queer, we get it.
It's sort of like being stuck in the cubicle next to a big Dallas Cowboys fan who won't STFU, or a fanatic golfer who won't STFU, or a…
Well I was trying to be a little polite; but yes he's really a giant dick, and he looks like one too; especially in his NY Times caricature: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/10/22/book...
Savage can be rudely blunt, especially to some who write to Savage Love, but I find that kind of refreshingly honest and don't think he's a dick.
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punishmentcelebration, I say Wonkette should repost Andy's orgasm blog. Nothing quite like imagining great grumbly marijuana bear feeling tinglies all through his toesies to make this a Columbus Day to rememberin therapy!I still have nightmares…
Anyone who has a beagle can't be all bad….
But didn't you hear? One of his dogs isn't actually a beagle! They had one of those genetic tests done it's really nothing more than a common mutt that through some quirk of genetics looks like a beagle. You could feel the shame coming off the post where he revealed that.
Hitler owned a beagle.
Further proof that taking yourself way to seriously pays off in the blog-o-sphere.
He's spending all day posting other people's stories about himself. Kinda says it all.
And that differs from any other day's output from Sully how?
Andrew Sullivan is to be commended on his accomplishment — it's not easy to publicly stroke one's own ego, beard, and dick all at the same time for ten years straight.
Really, there are so many totally despicable, hate mongering fuckwits in American politics today that I get burned out from hating them all.
I will throw a party if Glenn Beck is diagnosed with a painful, terminal disease and break out the champagne and balloons when either Dick Cheney or Rupert Murdoch kicks the bucket, and there are another 15 or 20 in that category.
So, I have no more desire to bitch about Andrew Sullivan's little 10th anniversary moment than I do to slap the drink out of Peggy Noonan's hand.
We must prioritize.
And we can prioritize in Stereo.
And we can prioritize (((((( In Stereo ))))))
You have to admit Sully kind of invented the mixture of political commentary with obsessive self-presentation which is blogging in the form we now think of as "normal." How he lives with all those personae in his head (Limey in US, Catholic foe of official child-abuse, self-hating Palin fag-hag, right-winger, gay bear) is a mystery to me.
As well as using the Internet as a medium once you get your ass kicked out of respectable journalism.
The Daily Dish is readable only insofar as most of the content is actually from other people. He just block quotes like crazy and calls it a post. He's such a smarmy git.
So is it "toast" or "roast" for Sully rocking the baja in the pic above?
Soon after swimming ashore from a ship filled with GI war brides (aboard which he had worked as a perm-setter and eyeliner-stocking-seam-drawer), Andrew Sullivan began the forerunner of today's blog, a hand-stencilled newsheet called "The Provincetown Prattle, Political Edition". Sullivan stood out from other organs of the period by refusing to print letters to the editor and by publishing a handy late evening supplemental index of articles you didn't read earlier. And the rest, as they say, is history.
The Dish does have some good links on the side, even one to your/our Wonkette. Huh? Huh? However, the "Daily Read" links include InstaPecker which cancels out any slack he gets for our/your Wonkette link way at the bottom. How could anyone read Insta everyday? Or Malkin? What the motherfuck does anyone need to know from those two? Ever?
I also hate his Sunday-there-really-is-a-God-really-really-really posts. And his Reaganomics orthodoxy. The two are probably related.
A.S.- I cheered for the invasion of Iraq the way teenage girls (or me) cheers for the Jonas brothers.
…but then I realized that admitting I was wrong was stupid and doubled down on the war on terror and got e-served in a cyber salon by Greenwald over Bam's executive authority to go Dirty Harry on Al-Awlaki.
I love authority and powerful men that kill thousands without compunction or regret.
My church tells me that I can never be one with my God because of who I am and who I love.
I am super-smart and full of more shit than Chris Hitchens.
Happy birthday to me.
I tried to join that nefarious "fifth column" that Sullivan railed against after 9/11, but no one knew what I was talking about.
Let's not forget the swooning over racist science! He LURRRRVED The Bell Curve. Lurrrved it more than he hated the Clintons, and that's a lot of hate!
And he's convinced he's single-handedly saved journalism, and thus The World. His late-term conversion to Not Republicanism only came about when he had the shocking revelation that the GOP's platform hated Him, in particular. Never mind all the other stuff; it was only when it affected him personally that he thought WAIT A SECOND…
Useless tool.
Yeah, that should be a big tip-off right there: if a guy stands up for a sanctimonious douchebag, and actually praises him for his sanctimonious douchebaggery, then it's not a leap of logic to assume his own sanctimonious douchebaggitude is pretty high up there too.
Sanctimonious, also.
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