Sully doesn’t stop, he just keeps on digging

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  September 4th at 09:55 PM  | 

I wrote about Andrew Sullivan’s descent into madness here. But Sullivan shows no signs of stopping even as his colleagues at The Atlantic recoil in horror. In fact, he keeps digging a deeper hole, now claiming that what happened to John Edwards was a different issue entirely because he wasn’t running for president any more, but Sullivan’s own baseless and profoundly insulting attacks on Sarah | Read More »

Andrew Sullivan’s Descent into Madness

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  September 4th at 03:44 PM  | 

Yesterday Moe and I with his colleagues in respected corners of the news media who had disparaged Sarah Palin, relying on the rantings from the foulest corners of the blogosphere as the basis for their articles. Douthat’s disappointment – along with that of his colleagues McArdle and Goldberg – turned slowly into outrage over the course of the day, as it became clear that much | Read More »

As an enormous fan of The Atlantic, I must admit

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  September 2nd at 04:05 PM  | 

Conn Carroll’s criticism of their coverage of the Palin story rings absolutely true to me. I realize that The Atlantic is caught between the historical old media position it once occupied and the new, unrestrained cacophony of the online media world, but you’d certainly hope some degree of responsibility would carry over. Sadly, once you decide to hire someone like Matthew Yglesias (what’s that, he | Read More »