It's So Serious

Andrew Sullivan has stopped blogging so that he and his two able assistants can fully absorb the unhinged work of fiction (and fact) that is Going Rogue. Here's his context:

When dealing with a delusional fantasist like Sarah Palin, it takes time to absorb and make sense of the various competing narratives that she tells about her life. There are so many fabrications and delusions in the book, mixed in with facts, that just making sense of it - and comparing it with objective reality as we know it, and the subjective reality she has previously provided - is a bewildering task. She is a deeply disturbed person which makes this work of fiction and fact all the more challenging to read. And the fact that she is now the leader of the Republican party and a potential presidential candidate, makes this process of deconstruction an important civil responsibility. We take this seriously as we always have. We want to be fair to her, and to her family, and to the innocent people she has brought into the spotlight. And we are not reporters. We are merely analysts trying to make sense of evidence already in the public domain, evidence that points in all sorts of directions, only one of which can be true.

I look forward to the cascade of lie debunking that will result. There are those on the left who would like her to disappear. I am one of them. At best, many would like to see the media circus surrounding her -- whether it's the corporate media's sick love affair with this desperately insecure woman, or the progressive blogosphere's inadvertent "viral-ization" of her every word and movement -- end without delay.

However, like it or not, Sarah Palin is a national leader of what is fast becoming the most hateful, fearful, ignorant, obsessively religious, politically nihilistic, anti-freedom, intolerant, petulant bunch of crybabies, unfortunately masquerading as a major political party. There are many people in this group of what I will call the Atavistic Nihilists of Unbridled Sophistry (ANUS for short) who champion her ascendancy into her current celebrity. The ANUS actually believe that Sarah Palin's inability to grasp the complexities of our modern world, combined with her (perceived) ability to multi-task governing and motherhood (remember, she actually quit governing, something the ANUS haven't yet understood as a detriment) qualify her to lead the most powerful country in the world. This makes her very dangerous.

Of course, the intelligent people in the Republican Party -- and there are a few -- know what an idiot she is, but are so desperate for power that they will latch onto her mass appeal, truly put lipstick on a pig, and make up every lie they can to destroy progress in this country. Pandering to the ANUS!

It is for this reason that I look forward to the day when she is exposed and disgraced, causing her to retreat permanently to private citizenhood.