WTF? Where do you get the idea that I admire Sullivan for this? I thought it would be obvious that I hate (despise, loathe, abhor, etc.) his stupid "awards"! I thought that giving him an award for being such a jerk would demonstrate that.
Isn't my post clear on that score? How could you read it as expressing admiration?
I don't think the post is all that great. But, jeeze, it's not bad for this reason!
Is this in fact an esoteric joke at my expense, rather than the overhasty accusation that it appears to be? If so, predictably enough I don't get it.
Just a joke. To say, in effect, "Ted's right; look how easy and how stupid it is to take quotes out of context and use them against someone."
But since you didn't get it, we'll have to institute the Ted H. awards...
Well I guess it's inevitable that I should win any award named after me (isn't that how it usually works?), so I really can't complain.
The problem, though, was your quotation. You needed a quote from my post that could all by itself support the accusation. How about this: "Andrew Sullivan... reveal[s] deep truths about... The Left..... [Y]ay[!]."
I thought dropping "egregious overuse" from between "award for" and "out of context quotes" was misleading enough. I promise to do better.
Ted H hypocrisy award:
"...I admire Sullivan..."
"...I hate... him ... for being such a jerk."
Which is it? I, for one, am sick of the constant waffling that seems endemic in the fever swamps of action theory. Do they think that this contradictory carping from the sidelines will garner support? Who would you rather have replacing Calvin Normore as Western APA representative? An decisive, resolute political pundit, or some metro elite action-theorist who keeps flip-flopping on the issues?
I think Ted H's razor shaved Normore's beard, baa.
I just looked at the post linked by trackback to this post. Its author thinks we're all Sullivan admirers. So Ogged's post and all the above comments have now been quoted/linked out of context for a nefarious attributional purpose. Quite fitting.
That is great, isn't it? Elsewhere in blogdom, I'm being cited as someone who thinks we shouldn't speak out against torture. Tomorrow, maybe I'll be for child molestation.