{"id":3255,"date":"2008-09-07T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2008-09-07T11:52:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T16:52:30","slug":"divorcing-my-blogfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3255","title":{"rendered":"Divorcing My Blogfather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan &#8211; back when the MSM considered him one of the &#8220;new generation of conservative intellectuals&#8221; &#8211; was the blog that got me started as a blogger, back in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>His current obsession seems to be tittering about the sex lives of the Palin family (and of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/09\/the-softer-side.html\">his endless sexist, classist, classless jabbering<\/a>)<em> &#8211; after having tried to declare his own off limits in the name of basic human decency.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em>Patterico:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gee, I dunno.  If Obama\u2019s had written about the scourge of homosexual promiscuity, as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2001-06-19\/news\/the-real-andrew-sullivan-scandal\/\">Sullivan has<\/a>, and then had advertised himself for promiscuous homosexual sex, as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010606105110\/milkyloads.tripod.com\/bareback\/index.html\">Sullivan did<\/a> (link is not work-safe), advertising for \u201cOne-on-One\u2019s, 3-Ways, Groups\/Parties\/Orgies, and Gang Bangs\u201d \u2014 do you really think the press would not have written about it?<\/p>\n<p>At least Sullivan\u2019s story has a hypocrisy angle among the lurid details, the pictures of his naked buttocks on the Internet, and the description of his \u201cpower glutes.\u201d Talking about the sex life of Sarah Palin\u2019s sister or daughter has no legitimate purpose at all.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Truly reprehensible.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, blog-dad.  I&#8217;m not taking care of you in your old age anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan &#8211; back when the MSM considered him one of the &#8220;new generation of conservative intellectuals&#8221; &#8211; was the blog that got me started as a blogger, back in 2002. His current obsession seems to be tittering about the sex lives of the Palin family (and of course, his endless sexist, classist, classless jabbering) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}