Andrew Sullivan Defends Newsweek Pro-Obama Article: ‘You Won’t Find the Word ‘Dumb’ or ‘Stupid’ Anywhere’ in the Piece
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By now most are familiar with Newsweek’s Andrew Sullivan and his latest cover story entitled “Why are Obama’s critics so dumb?” The feature story enraged conservatives and was the catalyst for Fox News‘ Megyn Kelly’s latest tirade.
Sullivan, a self-proclaimed conservative defended his column on Wednesday night’s ”Anderson Cooper 360º,” asserting the president has governed well and engaging in a feisty exchange with Republican strategist Bay Buchanan.
Sullivan also added that nowhere in the text of the article itself did the word “dumb” appear and that he was not aware of the cover title until Monday morning.
Mediaite adds:
Anderson Cooper opened the interview with the first order of business: whether the inflammatory cover was his idea. “No, I found out Monday morning,” he clarified, adding that “I make a pretty reasonable, I hope, fact-based argument” and that “you won’t find the word ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’ in any of the text of the piece.”
Sullivan then explained his argument– that “from the beginning he was planning on 8 years rather than 4, and that is also due to the scale of what he inherited,” he said of the President. He also found it strange that conservatives saw the President as a “radical lefty.” “If 25 million unemployed or underemployed Americans is part of his master plan, then maybe Rush Limbaugh is right,” Buchanan replied, “maybe he is trying to destroy America.” She added that she would rather believe the President was “completely clueless” than that alternative.
“I haven’t seen anything Obama has done that has made that worse,” Sullivan replied. He believes Obama will likely “win handily.”
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Comments (116)
sixdogman
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 4:46amcan we nominate Newsweek to The Douche-bag Hall of Fame ?
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 5:30amSo we’re STILL blaming bush! Look, I’ve had enough with this obango is a genius and Bush “IS” his problem garbage. He’s had over three years. He has done nothing, not a single good thing, for this country in more than three years.
And a 1%‘er like Sullivan lecturing Americans on why we aren’t smart enough to know obangos plan seems a bit of a paradox, IMHBLO. If he can’t (and he hasn’t) articulate his plan in three years +, then HE’s the idiot. Not Americans.
He’s supposed to be some kind of interplanetary savant, according to his communist supporters. With those kinds of credentials it would seem a small matter to relate his plan in terms even an amoeba could understand.
Report Post »THIS GENERATION
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 5:38amA dumb or stupid person wouldn‘t use the words ’dumb‘ or ’stupid’ when he is the one doing the writing.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 7:49amStupid is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecing a different result.
Newsweek sends me ads wanting to sell me subscriptions at reduced rates. I receive these ads frequently and never reply, yet I get the ads in a couple of weeks – who’s dumb.
OMG
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:04amO, sweet Andy is just another bitter homosexual.
old white guy
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:17amany support for obama is just plain stupid.
Report Post »LookTowardsTheLight
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 8:59amI can tell this dude is a D-Bag just by his picture.
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:11amSullivan, a self-proclaimed conservative
_________________________________
Yeah sure you are. Please.
Report Post »LafayetteAngel
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 1:21pmI will second the nomination.
Report Post »Harry Assenback
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 3:39pmSorry Dude but you glasses don’t make you look smart………look at Racheal Man-Endowed.
Report Post »DoubleThrowDown
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 5:32pmI love how he says you can’t find the word dumb in the article, other than the title on the cover of the mag. And he’s playing the blame someone else card just like the whole article is doing to bush. That is why the only newsweekly article I read is none!
Report Post »KENNEDY85014
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 4:20amnewsweek is a leftist propagandist RAGG and is good to use as toilet paper … Liberalism is a MENTAL DISORDER ~~ Dr. Michael Savage
Report Post »ottis
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 4:09amHe‘s right I’m DUMB, But at least I didn’t vote for OBUMMER!
Nuff Said!
Report Post »OperationNorthwoods
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 4:03amObaaaaaaaaaaaaaama says the sheep.
Report Post »glennisright.com
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 2:21amDoes he really expect people to buy this? The word “dumb” is in the title….not having the word “dumb”in the body is irrelevant. This guy is a joke, and a failure as an objective journalist.
Report Post »FrankWhite
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:57amNo, the word dumb is in the headline. The author of a magazine article doesn’t get to choose what the headline or tag line will say, i believe that is the job of the copy editor.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 10:08amHey, it really was a good article – - – that is if you are a Communistically oriented lackey writing about the most radical and Comministically oriented president this country has ever had.
The only DUMB one was the author!!!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 1:36amSullivan… maybe a Conservative Socialist… alike a Pole-right Nazi… but he is not an American Conservative, which leans to the Pole-libertarian!
NewpresidentforUSA
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 1:18amWow why does this sick freak even have a platform to be heard? Another reason I am glad I don’t read Newsweek anymore.
Report Post »phil1765
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 1:40amIs anyone else sick of being called stupid because we don’t agree with Obama? Who in God’s name annointed the libs\socialist\marxist\communists the foremost intelligent people in the world? What I find really amusing is when you are in a political arguement with a liberal, and they begin to lose said arguement they either begin to talk over you or they just start spouting George Bush propaganda. What about the morons record can they actually point to and say was a brilliant piece of legislation put forth by the prez? I know it can’t be that abortion of a healthcare bill they sort of passed, cause nobody even knows what is and isn’t included in it.
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:45amSullivan, who used to consider himself a conservative, chose his homosexual activism over principles. Nothing else be said about the man. It’s all about character! A very BAD one!
Report Post »patteel
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:32amI guess this guy from the UK could be considered “conservative” in a few countries in the EU, but I doubt it. Here he is just another superlib gay guy.
Report Post »brassia1
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 1:26amI doubt this homosexual so-called journalist even knows the term conservative….
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:27am‘You Won’t Find the Word ‘Dumb’ or ‘Stupid’ Anywhere’ in the Piece
When stupid is the foundation of an article, there is no reason to mention it in the article.
Report Post »It’s a forgone conclusion!
pamela kay
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:33amRATIONALMAN, You are right. The damage is done since it is on the cover of the magazine. Most people won’t buy it but they more than likely will see it on display and read the cover.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:05amI would like to decide for myself. I would like to start out with obama’s college transcripts, and papers that he has written. I also have some questions about the Annenberg Foundation in Chicago that I would like answered.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:57amVTXPHANTOM, Good luck on that. It will never be available. Not to change the subject but I was told today that on FOX today there was a report about a meeting at the whitehouse with Police concerning homeland security.One of the things on the list of people to be watched was , people who use the interbet to communicate with other people who have the same interests. Uhmmm, like us? Have any of you heard about this and what else was on this “LIST” ? My friend was worried that I might be detained by Homeland security because I am on this site and many other conservative sites. Just curious if anyone knows more on this suject. Is this true or was my frieend just trying to scare me in case BIG BROTHER is watching. I don’t know,whats your opinion?
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 1:37am@pamela kay
Not to incite paranoia, but are we on the red list, the blue list, or the yellow list. lol
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 7:59amPamelaK, I don’t know if it is true, but it certainly sounds like something Obama and other liberals would love. They are all for freedom of speech as long as you agree with them. If you don’t agree with them, the opinions you express are dangerous, stupid, subversive, terroristic, vitriolic, ………
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:04amNewsweak,
Report Post »There I’ve said all I have to say.
Lord_Frostwind
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:14amWell, we needed someone to replace weekly world news for our weekly feedlots worth of manure. Though I still miss the batboy stories…
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 1:04amFATTER LAYS. . Somehow I doubt that.
Report Post »Batjak456
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:46pmHA!
“I haven’t seen anything Obama has done that has made that worse,” [Andrew] Sullivan replied.
How ’bout THIS one…?
“Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured…
but NOT everyone must prove they are a citizen.”
Death by a thousand cuts.
BATJAK456
ALL GAVE SOME
Report Post »SOME GAVE ALL
let us prey
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 9:09amYou just can’t make this stuff up.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:46pmAt no time were the words ‘dumb or stupid’ in the text.
Geez, it’s like talking with my 10yr old. (get home from work)
“Do you have homework?”
10yr old…”School is dumb. I hate school.”
aka…Yep, you have homework.
10yr old. “I didn’t say I had homework!”
Report Post »majorsco
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:44pmThis guy would make Rachel Maddow look like a bedrock member of the Republican party. He‘s so far left of left that I don’t think when he’s driving he could make a right turn in his car because it is too strange and would do four left turns to make a right!
Report Post »ambrosia
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:43pmThis guy, Sullivan, looks like a SERIAL creep.
He’s writing for a worthless rag, that nobody in their right mind would read-
let alone, PAY for.
Seriously, what advertisers would even buy space in this rag ?
Isn’t that British Bimbo, Tina Brown the latest editor ?
She’s being paid to polish & shine a smelly turd.
That explains the “Brilliant” cover headlines-
Report Post »the freakin’ National Enquirer has MORE class.
Ta-Ta Newsweek, Ta-Ta Tina !
garbagecanlogic
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:42pmLiar, liar, pants on fire.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
Maxim Crux
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:38pmWho is Andrew Sullivan? He must not be important enough for me to really care what he thinks
Report Post »nighttrainno9
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:28pmGood God, sullivan is a clueless idiot. Does he walk around with
Report Post »his eyes closed, is he deaf&dumb??? obama is a walking-talking
turd. I believe the latter, that he is out to destroy the USA but
maybe he’s just stupid. I can‘t help feeling he’s a puppet on strings being
pulled by people like geo. soros.
BurntHills
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:27pmhe’s an obamaite. pure vile trash.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:26pmQuote: “from the beginning he was planning on 8 years rather than 4, and that is also due to the scale of what he inherited,”
Actually Obama tossing out those “10 year plan promises”. You know, those kind they‘re never held accountable for because they’d be long gone…
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:25pmIs this the same Newsweek that sold for a dollar? Maybe they should change their name to Newsweak?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:54pmA buck .. someone over paid just to print a liberal rag.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:59pmI heard the guy who bought it for a dollar feels cheated, by 99 cents.
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:23pmYup you won’t find DUMB and STUPID in it…because DUMB and STUPID wrote it and because DUMB and STUPID can’t spell his own name!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:35pmStupid is as stupid does…..Forrest Gump.
Stupid says What?…….Wayne and Garth
Read the Cover, Moron……..Darmok
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 1:08pm@DARMONKEY…I read fine…you and Sullivan are the morons!
Report Post »boundforglory
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:22pmI am so sick and tired of people thinking that obama is the greatest thing since sliced bread! obama is on course to destroy this country and our freedoms that our founding fathers fought for and died for. Before its all over, obama will declare martial law and declare himself king. I have thought up two different ways that it could happen. 1. The protesters get so out of control that obama will send in the military to stop it, declare martial law because of it, game over. 2. Jesus returns to take His church from this earth in what we christians call the rapture, (1st Thessalonians 4:16-17), the ensuing chaos would put the world into a tailspin and he would declare martial law from that, game over. Come LORD JESUS!!!
Report Post »1eye2eye
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:49pmI think he will seize power by either 1) An Economic collapse in europe and the U.S. coupled with riots in the streets.He then declares martial law.The collapse could be caused by a conflict with Iran and the resulting spike in oil prices. 2) Economic collapse,natural disaster,war,any shock to the system followed by a close election.Then we have rioters claming election fraud and Obama calls the election results bogus and stays in power.
Report Post »sixdogman
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 4:49amthats when we fight to the death. PATRICK HENRY= give me liberty or give me death
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 11:19pmLean Forward
Moan Loudly
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 12:31amYou remind me of your wife.
Report Post »auntbea
Posted on January 19, 2012 at 6:13amLean forward so you don’t throw up on your shoes.
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