September 1st, 2008
Re-posted 8/31/2008, 11:30 p.m.
Original post: 8/29/2008, 1:29 p.m.: I don’t mean to harp, but it took him only moments to make fun of Sarah Palin’s kids’ names.
What’s the over-under on how long it takes him to use her Down’s baby against her? Perhaps something along the lines of, What kind of family values lead a new mother to abandon her disabled baby in order to pursue her political future?
Maybe three weeks? Maybe less?
Updated from the comments: Whoever had 8 hours as the over wins.
Time for the next bet: How long until Sullivan suggests that Palin only had her Down’s baby for political advantage? I’ll give 3 weeks again. Seems like a sucker’s line, though.
Second Update: Well, we have another winner! Sullivan passes on a rumor that Palin didn’t actually even have the baby. And that the baby is fair game because, “This baby was a centerpiece of the public case for Palin made by the Republicans. They made it an issue – and therefore it is legitimate to ask questions about it.”
At what point does David Bradley have a responsibility to protect his other writers and editors from association with Sullivan? If I were Jeff Goldberg or Ross Douthat or Jim Fallows or Mark Bowden–or any of the other very serious, very smart people at that great magazine–I’d be awfully uncomfortable having Sullivan as a colleague.
Sullivan is undermining the magazine’s entire intellectual enterprise and laying waste to a brand that took a century to build. I hope someone over there is paying attention.
Third Update: Sullivan now says that there’s a photo that “looks like it confirms” Palin’s pregnancy. But of course, that’s not enough either. He now demands “Just a simple confirmation from the doctor who was present at the birth.”
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