February 03, 2010
— Ace Oh, I try to ignore him. Basically, by never reading him, which takes approximately as much concentrated effort on my part as is needed for me to withstand the potent temptation to staple corn-nuts to my hog.
But then a reader like JoeP. comes along and offers up this piece, and I have to comment.
Did she really just call for Rahm Emanuel to be fired because he allegedly used the term "fucking retarded" to refer to fellow Democrats in a private meeting? Last summer? Did she really?I don't like the term myself. I think it is offensive. I think Rahm Emanuel is offensive. But at least he's real. And he has now apologized. And at least he used the term metaphorically.
Right. And if Dick Cheney used the term "fucking queerbaits" metaphorically, Andrew Sullivan, Professional Homosexual, would similarly take it in unhurried stride.
I use the word "retard" all the time, of course. But I acknowledge it is deeply, deeply impolite and hurtful to those who are mentally challenged and especially the parents of the mentally challenged. It obviously doesn't stop me from using the term; I do agree, as Krikorian said on The Corner, that Emanuel's use of it is "metaphoric" and, while vulgar, not a firing offense.
But Sullivan himself shrieks like little girl who just watched her pony get raped by the road crew for GWAR whenever the most trivial gay putdown is employed; it's all I can take to keep from busting a gut to hear him lecture me on how we should all just blow off painful invective as if it's no big deal.
I'd take his claims more seriously if he didn't claim everyone who ever said "that's gay" was a "seething homophobe," or whatever his mix-and-match Adjective-Noun combination putdown of the day might be.
Palin, in contrast, called her own campaign prop "her retarded baby" in private, according to an eye-witness account from the father of her own grandson who lived in her house for months and knew her intimately.
That's a very roundabout way of saying "professional mediawhore and gay softcore-porn icon Levi Johnson."
"I was just in shock the first time I heard it," Levi Johnston told CBS.
Right, the guy who announced he was a "fucking redneck" on his MySpace page was shocked, shocked to hear some crude put-downs.
And by the way, he didn't hear them; he's making this up. But the notion that this self-professed "fucking redneck" (and I presume he means that to mean he's boorish and thuggish, rather than in the sweeter way a gentleman like Jeff Foxworthy uses it) was "in shock" over hearing the dreaded r-word is, well, something that only steroid-demented retard Andrew Sullivan could possibly believe.
But oh -- we are just getting started here, folks.
Unlike Sarah Palin, Johnston has not been caught in multiple indisputable lies. I believe him over her. In fact, in any factual dispute, I believe anyone over her.
That's kind of your problem, you drug-addled fruitcake. ("Fruitcake" used metaphorically -- I don't mean he's literally a Christmas treat or anything. I have just apologized to Liz Cheney, head of the Fruitcake Confectioners of America, and she accepted it, so my usage of the word is blessed by a non-partisan authority.)
While I'm at it, does anyone actually believe that Palin's name for the child of miraculous provenance was found by her deep knowledge of ancient Norse as she claims in her magical-realism novel, "Going Rogue"? I mean, seriously. She knows about as much ancient Norse as she does English grammar.
This is where I have to go the low road yet again and quote, I think, Treacher, who once sniped, "Someone needs to explain to Andrew Sullivan that his favorite beverage is sometimes used to make babies."
I say this knowing it's nasty and hompohobic. But it's true: Andrew Sullivan, who has no true working conception of the idea that sex might sometimes have a procreative intent, once again shows how risibly out-of-touch he is with, well, anything not having to do with P-town or the Pet Shop Boys.
See, Andrew, one doesn't need a deep understanding of Norse mythology to have come across the Norse name "Trig." There are, you see, a huge number of books about baby-names, and huge lists of such things available on the Internet, and, see, while you apparently have never before met a pregnant woman (ick!), I can assure you such women ("breeders," to use terminology that might be familiar to you) are usually very interested indeed in interesting possibilities for naming their baby, and this interest actually increases throughout their nine-month term.
Did my parents know a great deal about the Gaelic origins of my name before they gave it to me? No, but I can tell you as soon as I was old enough to ask my mother could tell me what it was supposed to mean.
Gaelic scholar, she? No. She had a baby-naming book, dude.
This is simply embarrassing. I actually do wish to avoid the worst sorts of stereotypes about gays -- stereotypes as untrue, in the main, as they are mean -- but Andrew Sullivan continues proudly championing them.
He continues to write authoritatively about all aspects of the human reproductive cycle while exhibiting about the same level of working knowledge of the subject as all those space-aliens on Star Trek to whom Kirk constantly had to explain the phenomenon of human romantic love.
At least the space-aliens finally got it after a long and smoldering Kirk-Kiss.
I have no fucking idea what it will take to dislodge the tumor of expert ignorance from Sullivan's pot-pocked brain.
I continue to be baffled at how one of the gayest men on the planet -- ranking like a 7.3 on the Kinsley scale of 6 -- propounds weekly on arcane-only-to-him topics of childbirth, motherhood, and the Mysteries of Forbidden Vagina.
Now, that out of the way, here comes the obligatory insinuations of Trig Trutherism:
It's as credible as the idea that she gave a speech while having contractions, several hours after going into labor, as she claims in her novel. It's as credible as her amazing journey in labor with a special needs child on a plane where the flight attendants, according to the Anchorage Daily News, did not even notice she was pregnant. It's as credible as any number of indisputable self-serving, unbalanced lies that she has told in the public record for years.
Remember, he has been forbidden to state explicitly that Sarah Palin is not Trig's mother, but he sure as shit can hint around about it.
And now we come to the culmination of his Internet Detective stupidity:
The medical term for Down Syndrome is Trisomy-21 or Trisomy-g. It is often shortened in medical slang to Tri-g.
He does not provide a citation for that last claim. The cite he includes -- just to the medical term for Downs Syndrome -- contains no reference at all to "Tri-g." (Search it yourself.)
Despite the fact that Dr. Andrew Sullivan asserts, upon his own great authority, that the Downs Syndrome is "often" shortened to "tri-g" -- often, remember -- a google search fails to come up with a single mention of "Tri-G" on the first fifteen pages. (I gave up after that.) It's all Trig (as in Palin) and trig (as in geometry) and trig (as in some computer thingee).
I do come up rather easily with this baby-name page on the meaning of Trig,M which notes the name was popularized by Governor Palin, but not that it was invented by her.
Oddly enough, the "Tri-G" derivation of the name is nowhere to be found on this page. (Remember -- Downs Syndrome is often shortened to Tri-G.)
You know what they say it is?
That it's fucking Norse. They even mention a couple of somewhat-notable people who sport the name, and do not, as far as I know, have an extra chromosome.
Is it not perfectly possible that the very name given to this poor child, being reared by Bristol, is another form of mockery of his condition, along with the "retarded baby" tag?
No. If she hated the baby that much she could have chosen your preferred option of abortion.
And does the way in which this poor child was hauled around the country on a book tour, being dragged out in front of flash photographs in the middle of the night, barely clothed, suggest someone who actually cares for children with special needs, or rather sees them as a way to keep the spotlight on her?
It says she's a working mother.
Again, Andrew Sullivan demonstrates his extreme ignorance about all things reproductive. It utterly fails to crack his Blue Event Horizon of Stupid that mothers must care for young children at all hours a day. Especially if they're breastfeeding, which I am guessing Governor Palin is.
This doesn't even occur to him.
What does Dr. Andrew Sullivan, noted child psychologist recently called "just like Dr. Benjamin Spock, except fat and with a beard and rawmuscleglutes," think mothers do with their 2-year-old children when they need to venture out of the home? Drop them off at Kinko's? Stick them into hypersleep capsules a la Alien?
What? What happens to this kid when Palin is working, in Sullivan's mind? Does he imagine the kid has a hibernate switch like his computer?
C'mon, Levi. Write that book. Expose this fraud.
Doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "Help us Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're our only hope," does it?
Pinning his hopes on a pin-up.
How pathetic.
Sullvan? Seriously, you need to stop opining on a topic you obviously are laughably ignorant of and stick to your strengths.
Whatever those might eventually turn out to be.
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Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at February 03, 2010 11:33 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: looking closely at February 03, 2010 11:33 AM (6Q9g2)
Not by doctors.
Not by patients.
Not by geneticists.
Not by anyone.
Posted by: looking closely at February 03, 2010 11:35 AM (6Q9g2)
Yeah. I'll need photographic evidence of this. For accuracy purposes only. Of course.
Posted by: lorien1973 at February 03, 2010 11:36 AM (IhQuA)
So if I call Andrea Sullivan a FAGGOT, at least I'm real???
Posted by: gus at February 03, 2010 11:36 AM (Vqruj)
Posted by: sifty at February 03, 2010 11:37 AM (PXR0g)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at February 03, 2010 11:38 AM (IVQSY)
Posted by: gus at February 03, 2010 11:38 AM (Vqruj)
Posted by: Jane D'oh! at February 03, 2010 11:39 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Amaryllis at February 03, 2010 11:39 AM (JhlFi)
Main Entry: Down syndrome
Variant(s): or Down's syndrome
Function: noun
: a congenital condition characterized by moderate to severe mental retardation, slanting eyes, a broad short skull, broad hands with short fingers, and by trisomy of the human chromosome numbered 21 -- called also trisomy 21
Down /dan/ , John Langdon Haydon (1828-1896), British physician. Down published in 1866 a treatise on the degeneration of race as a result of marriages of consanguinity. He classified individuals exhibiting mental retardation according to the supposed physiognomic features of various races including the American Indian, Caucasian, Ethiopian, and Mongolian. Although his classification is invalid, one kind of moderate to severe mental retardation was known until recently as mongolism and is now called Down syndrome or Down's syndrome.
If "Tri-G" was often used as the shorthand for this condition, one would think it would have merited notice by this source.
Posted by: Slublog at February 03, 2010 11:40 AM (qjKko)
Posted by: sifty at February 03, 2010 11:40 AM (PXR0g)
Posted by: WTFCI at February 03, 2010 11:40 AM (+zo63)
Posted by: GuyfromNH at February 03, 2010 11:41 AM (GWXuo)
Posted by: El Atlantico at February 03, 2010 11:41 AM (fx8sm)
Posted by: Kathleen McKinley aka Rightwingsparkle at February 03, 2010 11:41 AM (8CCp3)
At least the space-aliens finally got it after a long and smoldering Kirk-Kiss.
I have no fucking idea what it will take to dislodge the tumor of expert ignorance from Sullivan's pot-pocked brain.
-Ace
A long and smoldering Kirk-Kiss.
Posted by: Z Ryan at February 03, 2010 11:41 AM (cMo6P)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 03, 2010 11:42 AM (PcRSS)
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 03, 2010 11:43 AM (IIHY9)
The only thing you read is Hot Air, who reads the NYT, so you don't have to.
Hi, ergie! Shouldn't you be the streamlining the multi-vendor telecom environment by managing the entire telecom infrastructure or something?
Posted by: Tumescent Republican at February 03, 2010 11:43 AM (m4Ulb)
Posted by: Daily Dish Underbloggers at February 03, 2010 11:43 AM (Q1lie)
The only thing you read is Hot Air, who reads the NYT, so you don't have to.
Ok, that was pretty funny, you have to admit.
Posted by: Dang Straights at February 03, 2010 11:43 AM (fx8sm)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at February 03, 2010 11:44 AM (DIYmd)
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Posted by: Slublog at February 03, 2010 11:44 AM (qjKko)
It is found in Andy's use of the word "often". So long as Andy and one or two others bandy it about, he can claim to be correct as it will then be part of medical slang (albeit by a non-medical source).
Posted by: pigilito at February 03, 2010 11:45 AM (Ylg4M)
Posted by: Mippilis at February 03, 2010 11:45 AM (VWhPF)
Sodom & Gomorrah meets Inside the Beltway...
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at February 03, 2010 11:45 AM (JrRME)
Posted by: Tumescent Republican at February 03, 2010 11:46 AM (m4Ulb)
I don't confess this very often, but I have family that knows Sarah Palin quite well. And one thing I am absolutely certain of is that the term "retarded baby" would not come out of her mouth. If douchebag Johnston ever heard this phrase fall from her lips the only situation that I could think it would be true is if she was referring to some horrible slur that someone had made about the baby.
On the other hand, I'm fairly certain that Andrew Sullivan's parents on more than one occasion referred to their progeny as a retarded poufter.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 03, 2010 11:46 AM (RZ8pf)
Did a quick Lexis search, nothing there about 'Tri-G' but a real estate developer. But then, we all knew he was making it up anyway.
Posted by: Dang Straights at February 03, 2010 11:46 AM (fx8sm)
It was as shitty and lame as everything erg writes.
I wonder if he's bundled himself off to France to avail himself of their super-awesome health care yet.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 03, 2010 11:46 AM (RwPdb)
Posted by: Logician at February 03, 2010 11:47 AM (bN5ZU)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 11:47 AM (KcNBo)
Posted by: TheRedDianthus at February 03, 2010 11:47 AM (ErOeR)
Here's another explanation.
Sullivan pulled the term "Tri-G" out of his ass.
Undoubtedly not the first time for that.
Posted by: looking closely at February 03, 2010 11:47 AM (PwGfd)
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Posted by: BumperStickerist at February 03, 2010 11:48 AM (ruzrP)
Posted by: Unclefacts, Proprietor International House of Bacons at February 03, 2010 11:48 AM (erIg9)
Posted by: sull-i-van at February 03, 2010 11:49 AM (5I0Yr)
I bet someone demands Palin prove this isn't where she got the name.
Sullivan knows what he's doing.
This is the kind of sick lie that the democrats always need. They know Palin's moral loving human decision is part of her strength against the Sullivan Democrats, so they try to lie to turn that against her. They want Trig to be a liability so, so, so badly.
Doesn't matter that it takes 9.5 months to make a baby and this proved Palin is Trig's mom. Doesn't matter that the kind of cover up it would require to fake a pregnancy is just stupid and insane. It's a line that they can bring up at little cost to themselves and slightly tarnish Palin. Pure ugliness doesn't hurt the ugly.
Some people will believe there is some vague notion that Sarah Palin doesn't love Trig. that there were serious allegations about her saying he's a retard and naming him for Down's Syndrome. That's so ridiculous and horrible and cruel, but some people will totally buy it.
That's what Sullivan is after now. That's why he contributed to the world.
Like the 'teabagger' slur, some will start repeating this slur. It's going to get people mad and be a great troll. Pathetic, and that's part of what this world is about now.
Posted by: Mr Hat at February 03, 2010 11:49 AM (dUOK+)
Somehow, I get the impression that he's really secretly attracted to Governor Palin and uses this vitriol to cover up his shame.
Posted by: soulpile at February 03, 2010 11:49 AM (afWhQ)
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 03, 2010 11:49 AM (IIHY9)
Since you mentioned the PSB, may I point you to a little song of theirs from 1990. The title fits Sully perfectly.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VDObIIRSYI">How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?</a>
Posted by: newton at February 03, 2010 11:50 AM (q5ZJk)
Why? 1. Rand is not the whack job his father is. 2. Who are you to decide what she deserves?
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at February 03, 2010 11:50 AM (DIYmd)
If Paris Paramus is around. I checked, Chuckie is up for re election and so is Kristin for a special election to fill out the rest of ol hill's term. So that means that NYer's will be choosing both of their senate seats. This is unusual to say the least. But that explains why chuckie suddenly is not around much and jumped on the "no trial in NY band wagon".
Posted by: curious at February 03, 2010 11:50 AM (p302b)
Posted by: Andrew F*ckface at February 03, 2010 11:51 AM (5I0Yr)
Sullivan's site is kind of fun to read, especially when he's weeping about healthcare.
On every other topic, every opinion he has on every topic relates to whether or not it makes his dick hard. He had like 20 posts on masturbation last week.
I think he wanked himself all the way through the SOTU speech. Seriously.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 03, 2010 11:52 AM (T1boi)
Did my parents know a great deal about the Gaelic origins of my name before they gave it to me?
Brian?....Glen?......
Mulva?
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2010 11:53 AM (7DB+a)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 11:53 AM (KcNBo)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 11:54 AM (KcNBo)
Ace -
GWAR would Rape the Pony themselves.
But thanks for the reference to the Greatest Band Evah!!!!!
A+ work, there buddy..and stay away from Sulli - You don't want Legionnairs' Disease!
-G
Posted by: garrett at February 03, 2010 11:54 AM (nhPFT)
Posted by: Techie at February 03, 2010 11:54 AM (wVPwI)
Posted by: SarahW at February 03, 2010 11:55 AM (CSrvi)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 11:56 AM (KcNBo)
Posted by: Speller at February 03, 2010 11:56 AM (o0R2E)
Erg, why aren't you sucking on a shotgun yet? "Your America" is being torn down before your very eyes, and your Trotskyite Messiah will be lucky to make it to exile in some Communist shithole before his reign of reckless incompetent terror is finally over.
Geez, dude, suicide is really the only noble option you have left. Man up, pussy.
Posted by: VJay at February 03, 2010 11:57 AM (gQ+XA)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at February 03, 2010 11:57 AM (5I0Yr)
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 03, 2010 11:57 AM (IIHY9)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 11:58 AM (KcNBo)
Posted by: dorkafork at February 03, 2010 11:58 AM (o8YQi)
I don't confess this very often, but I have family that knows Sarah Palin quite well. And one thing I am absolutely certain of is that the term "retarded baby" would not come out of her mouth. If douchebag Johnston ever heard this phrase fall from her lips the only situation that I could think it would be true is if she was referring to some horrible slur that someone had made about the baby.
It's patently false. She would never say something like that.
If she was that coarse I'm sure she would have had some pretty choice words for that scrunt Letterman a while back.
And anyway -- you just know she wouldn't. It's clearly not in her nature.
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2010 11:58 AM (7DB+a)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 03, 2010 11:58 AM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 03, 2010 11:58 AM (RwPdb)
Posted by: Topsecretk9 at February 03, 2010 11:59 AM (MbyMv)
My son has Down's Syndrome. The thing that boils my blood worse than anything else this jerk says? He keeps referring to Sarah Palin's baby as a "poor child."
To say he has no idea is a monumental understatement. My son is not a "poor child," and I doubt Trig Palin is either. My son is a wonderful human being, most people who have contact with him are better off for it. I wonder if anyone on this Earth would say the same about Sullivan.
Posted by: Burt TC at February 03, 2010 12:00 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at February 03, 2010 12:00 PM (5I0Yr)
It's as credible as the idea that she gave a speech while having contractions, several hours after going into labor, as she claims in her novel.
When I went into labor with my first child, I was at the hospital within half an hour.
But when I went into labor with my third child, I baked a birthday cake, let it cool, then hand-decorated it for my daughter in a very complex Barbie pattern before heading off to the hospital--because I knew otherwise my daughter wasn't going to get that Barbie cake she really wanted. For a woman like Sarah Palin, giving a speech would be mere child's play.
But anyway that's all beside the point because Sulli doesn't even have his facts straight. What she claimed in her book was that her amniotic fluid was leaking, and she gave the speech anyway. Leaking amniotic fluid is not the same thing as having contractions or being in labor. Her labor started when they induced her at the hospital. It can happen weeks before labor begins. Mine leaked with my second pregnancy; the doctor did an ultrasound and sent me home. No big deal.
Posted by: Average Jen at February 03, 2010 12:00 PM (fRnux)
On teh TV pregnant women having contractions are grabbing rails, wailing, gnashing teeth, threatening to kill their impregnator, et cetera.
My recollection from my wife's pregnancies is that the contractions can start a loooong time before birth and be more an inconvenience than a full bull-goose "Lucy and Desi in the Maternity Ward" scenario.
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Posted by: BumperStickerist at February 03, 2010 12:00 PM (ruzrP)
Posted by: Amused Observer at February 03, 2010 12:00 PM (EioPx)
Posted by: Tumescent Republican at February 03, 2010 12:01 PM (m4Ulb)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 03, 2010 12:01 PM (zgZzy)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at February 03, 2010 12:01 PM (5I0Yr)
Posted by: Luca Brasi at February 03, 2010 12:02 PM (YmPwQ)
1. Rand is not the whack job his father is.
Except for the wackiness about the CIA, Rand Paul shares numerous of his father's paranoid beliefs about the US government, and supports the closing of GITMO, bashed the Iraq war, banning enhanced interrogation of terrorists, and is as big an Israel-basher as his father.
2. Who are you to decide what she deserves?
Nice non-sequiter, but I think she's demonstrating that she's going to be a divisive voice come 2012, not a promoter of the party. Just like Steele gets ripped for all of his gaffes, Palin deserves some blame for jumping in on the TX governor race way too early and for endorsing Paul over a sure-win candidate like Grayson.
I don't begrudge her, but ever since she put out the book it's been all about Sarah.
Posted by: Mippilis at February 03, 2010 12:02 PM (VWhPF)
Posted by: mrkwong at February 03, 2010 12:02 PM (G8Eo0)
Posted by: real joe at February 03, 2010 12:03 PM (IAOAn)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 12:03 PM (KcNBo)
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 03, 2010 12:03 PM (IIHY9)
Gaelic? Interesting.
I'd have sworn "Ace" was short for Acacio (from the Greek, meaning "of the thorny tree").
Posted by: FireHorse at February 03, 2010 12:03 PM (cQyWA)
Posted by: taylork at February 03, 2010 12:03 PM (4jZ56)
Please tell me Crazy Andy isn't just quoting shit he read on Wikipedia.
Posted by: WTFCI at February 03, 2010 12:04 PM (+zo63)
Posted by: km at February 03, 2010 12:04 PM (3Dt+U)
This is where I have to go the low road yet again and quote, I think, Treacher, who once sniped, "Someone needs to explain to Andrew Sullivan that his favorite beverage is sometimes used to make babies."
I love Jim Treacher. In a completely non-homophobic, non-homophilic way.
Posted by: FUBAR at February 03, 2010 12:04 PM (1fanL)
They are quite wrong.
He is suffering from HATE dementia. His hate has addled his brain.
Posted by: Thea at February 03, 2010 12:04 PM (/3dGX)
Posted by: FreakyBoy at February 03, 2010 12:04 PM (Q41Zh)
We are insulted.
The pony wanted it, and the little girl, well, she was actually 42.
Posted by: GWAR Roadies at February 03, 2010 12:04 PM (OKZrE)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at February 03, 2010 12:04 PM (5I0Yr)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 12:05 PM (KcNBo)
Well done! I stumbled upon that post of his myself and it pissed me off. The man is truly disturbed, obsessed, and consumed with hate. I'm glad you slapped him around over it. It's unbelievable that people take that blogger seriously when he quite obviously is mentally ill.
And, yeah, I can't find any evidence that Tri-G is "often" used in the manner Sullivan claims, either. If he just made that up, that needs to be exposed.
Posted by: franticflintstone at February 03, 2010 12:05 PM (VGbp5)
Actually, "trisomy g" is referenced on Wikipedia for Down Syndrome.
Yeah, it is NOW, the dickbag probably added the entry himself.
Posted by: Dang Straights at February 03, 2010 12:06 PM (fx8sm)
Posted by: huerfano at February 03, 2010 12:06 PM (sf1Eo)
fyi The Chicken can't even sit on a barstool thanks to you cruel bastards.
Posted by: fozzy at February 03, 2010 12:06 PM (ccEuN)
Sullivan is an unhappy bitch, because he's gay. Because he knows he willfully behaves in an immoral fashion and enjoys it, and because many many Americans do not approve of Sullivans choices. Most of us have seen his type many many times. From my experience with homosexuals, rarely have a seen a gay person that is happy or well adjusted. Sarah Palin is someone who should be admired universally for the choices she has made and the upright morality she displays. Her little boy is as valuable to God as Sullivan is.
Trig does not have a choice, he was born with Down Syndrome. Sullivan does have a choice. He CHOOSES to be GAY and unhappy.
Posted by: gus at February 03, 2010 12:06 PM (Vqruj)
He probably wrote the entry.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 03, 2010 12:06 PM (RwPdb)
I use the word "retard" all the time, of course. But I acknowledge it is deeply, deeply impolite and hurtful to those who are mentally challenged and especially the parents of the mentally challenged.
That's right Ace. I am deeply offended, and I want you fired!
Posted by: Little Andy Sullivan's Dad at February 03, 2010 12:06 PM (OlN4e)
Did my parents know a great deal about the Gaelic origins of my name before they gave it to me?
"Ace" is Gaelic? Who knew? I'm pretty sure Andy Sullivan knows more Gay-Lick than you or your mother breeder.
Posted by: FUBAR at February 03, 2010 12:06 PM (1fanL)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 12:07 PM (KcNBo)
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 03, 2010 12:07 PM (RwPdb)
Well, hate to help Andy, but it's on Merck's web site.
But honestly who gives a fuck anyway? What's his stupid point?
Posted by: libbyt at February 03, 2010 12:07 PM (5I0Yr)
Posted by: changer1701 at February 03, 2010 12:09 PM (xktXL)
What an idiot hypocrite.
Oh. You knuckleheads aren't finished crying, crying knucklehead tears.
Posted by: Tumescent Republican at February 03, 2010 04:01 PM (m4Ulb)
if you were even remotely capable of posting in some sort of manner that made sense, I'd read what you had to say before I told you that you were an asshole. But, since you don't/can't, I'll just skip it, and get right to the "you are an asshole" part.
Now, fuck off and go get your shinebox, you no account little bitch.
Posted by: Unclefacts, Proprietor International House of Bacons at February 03, 2010 12:09 PM (erIg9)
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 03, 2010 12:09 PM (IIHY9)
So he starts by talking about someone talking about Rahm Emanuel, and then goes off on the meaning behind the name Trig.
That's quite a tangent.
(Sorry.) (No I'm not.)
Posted by: FireHorse at February 03, 2010 12:09 PM (cQyWA)
Posted by: Mrs. Compton at February 03, 2010 12:10 PM (NaJ/S)
Posted by: Peaches at February 03, 2010 12:10 PM (9Wv2j)
I totally confess to using the R-word in the past to describe Democrats and other cretins, which really is not fair to people like Trig who tend to be sweet and loving and who, just by not being Dem operatives, contribute about 100x as much to the betterment of humanity than wastes-of-space like former ballet dancer and Sarah Lawrence College Graduate Rahm Emanuel (just sayin'). The release of the movie "Tropic Thunder", with its popularization of the diagnostic term "full retard" just made the situation worse.
All that said, as a new father, and one who had a "Downs scare" (leading to an amnio and an all-clear) along the way, I now try very hard not to use that term when there are so many others that will do.
Posted by: Holdfast at February 03, 2010 12:10 PM (Gzb30)
You're a terrific dad.
But when I went into labor with my third child, I baked a birthday cake, let it cool, then hand-decorated it for my daughter in a very complex Barbie pattern before heading off to the hospital--because I knew otherwise my daughter wasn't going to get that Barbie cake she really wanted.
And you're a terrific mommy.
Posted by: Filly at February 03, 2010 12:10 PM (FDfio)
Kaitian:
He'll torpedo all kinds of Republican initiatives if it contains any expansion of powers that he sees as improper; he's the type that would sacrifice a tax cut if it meant that the same bill continued funding for covert CIA programs.
He'd hold the Senate GOPers hostage by withholding his vote for pet issues; a senate version of his father: petulant and uncompromising. Those are nice for the House, but they're destructive when you're trying to garner between 50 and 60 senate votes.
Why not Grayson?
Posted by: Mippilis at February 03, 2010 12:11 PM (VWhPF)
Posted by: thegreatsatan at February 03, 2010 12:11 PM (MV5kD)
Well, if Hillary Clinton can be named after an event that happened six years after her birth, Trig can be named after a single unsourced internet posting a year and a half after his birth.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 03, 2010 12:12 PM (mR7mk)
Posted by: Brendan at February 03, 2010 12:12 PM (flvxA)
Palin really pissed those fuckers off with the styrofoam columns bit.
That must have really stung.
And the gall of carrying a Down's baby to term is apparently unforgivable.
Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2010 12:13 PM (7DB+a)
I'm pretty sure the tumor is his brain. Great post, ace. If I'm ever made King for a day my first act will be to deport this waste of oxygen to Yemen.
Posted by: Captain Hate at February 03, 2010 12:13 PM (Sghlv)
What, in the name ov Tyrgve Lie is that nincompoop Sullivan talking about....?
Somehow, SOMEHOW.....Sarah Palin is supposed to be too f...ing stupid to page down to the T's in a baby name book to select that name....
But, as an extra special...."lets make fun of the baby his whole life long" kind of way, she was tenacious enough to page around 45 pages deep into an arcane Google search of "Obscure Slurs That Can Be Fun To Use When Referring To Downs Syndrome Children" to scare up the name Trig...and yet, other than Sullivan's article....that obscure slure that is "often used" is still unfindable through any ordinary web search...
This guy Sullivan must be the Tent Pole of the Atlantic contributors....
Posted by: steve at February 03, 2010 12:13 PM (nd0uY)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at February 03, 2010 03:44 PM (DIYmd)
You mean "semen sucker."
Posted by: FUBAR at February 03, 2010 12:13 PM (1fanL)
Wow. Sully slipped the surly bonds of sanity, and punched delusion in the face with this one
Posted by: eddiebear at February 03, 2010 12:13 PM (wnU1W)
if Hillary Clinton can be named after an event that happened six years after her birth, Trig can be named after a single unsourced internet posting a year and a half after his birth.
OMIGOD, they stole Karl Rove's (that magnificent bastard) time machine!
Posted by: Dang Straights at February 03, 2010 12:14 PM (fx8sm)
Because he doesn't live in Kentucky?
I know residency's not important when kids/spouse want a Senate seat, but it kinda is in the House.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 03, 2010 12:14 PM (mR7mk)
Posted by: Barack Obama at February 03, 2010 12:14 PM (VmtE9)
Well, I just did find a site about medical slang that shows he didn't make it up out of thin air.
This comment section isn't letting me post a link, but you can find it at the first result when you google "trisomy g slang"
It's a site called SlangRN
Posted by: franticflintstone at February 03, 2010 12:15 PM (VGbp5)
As long as we're taking a detour down the low road, may Andrew Sullivan's next weekly HIV test come back positive.
Posted by: Crusty at February 03, 2010 12:15 PM (GvSpB)
But is the supposed "often-used" abbreviation in there?
Posted by: Filly at February 03, 2010 12:15 PM (FDfio)
Posted by: TexBob at February 03, 2010 12:15 PM (2jp4I)
Nice non-sequiter. You said it and you know you were trying to state what someone else deserves. So nice non-sequiter to you too.
she's going to be a divisive voice come 2012, not a promoter of the party. Good, we shouldn't promote the party, but the individuals of the party who have conservative values and ideas.
I don't begrudge her. I bet you do, but I don't want to put out any non-sequiters.
Finally, your link doesn't work.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at February 03, 2010 12:16 PM (DIYmd)
Come up for some air idiots.
No one is denying that Trisomy G isn't a valid term
Andy Butt boy Sullivan is asserting that TRIG is a term that is used commonly to shorten Trisomy G.
TOTAL FICTION. SHOW ME OTHERWISE.
Andrew Sullivan is a lying butt fucking piece of shit. Simple as that.
Why on earth would Sullivan make such an absurd assertion?
Because he is a BUTT FUCKING SHIT who hates Sarah Palin, because Sarah Palin is MORAL.
Posted by: gus at February 03, 2010 12:16 PM (Vqruj)
Posted by: FUBAR at February 03, 2010 12:16 PM (1fanL)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 12:17 PM (KcNBo)
Posted by: maddogg at February 03, 2010 12:17 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Logician at February 03, 2010 12:17 PM (bN5ZU)
Because he doesn't live in Kentucky?
Uhh, the secretary of state of the state of Kentucky doesn't live in Kentucky?
Posted by: Mippilis at February 03, 2010 12:17 PM (VWhPF)
I don't know, but I got a lot of rope over here.
Posted by: WTFCI at February 03, 2010 12:17 PM (+zo63)
Posted by: DefendUSA at February 03, 2010 12:18 PM (N69Wd)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at February 03, 2010 12:18 PM (0FiCa)
Posted by: Paul Zummo at February 03, 2010 12:18 PM (MVcnm)
Posted by: Mippilis at February 03, 2010 12:18 PM (VWhPF)
Posted by: Adjoran at February 03, 2010 12:19 PM (S99wd)
@ 140 Here's my favorite parts of her speech:
"This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting and never use the word "victory," except when he's talking about his own campaign.
But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot...when that happens, what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet?
The answer -- the answer is to make government bigger, and take more of your money, and give you more orders from Washington, and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world.
America needs more energy; our opponent is against producing it. Victory in Iraq is finally in sight, and he wants to forfeit. Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay; he wants to meet them without preconditions.
Al Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America, and he's worried that someone won't read them their rights.
Posted by: TheThinMan at February 03, 2010 12:19 PM (W3XUk)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
It's pronounced 'GAL- ick, not 'GAY-lick'.
( nothing wrong with that, either )
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at February 03, 2010 12:19 PM (JrRME)
Posted by: Peaches at February 03, 2010 12:19 PM (9Wv2j)
If-- IF-- she really did this, why is he just writing about it now? Convenient timing, no? You just know he gloms onto anything and everything anti-Palin, and I find it difficult to believe that he just now discovered this.
Posted by: Filly at February 03, 2010 12:19 PM (FDfio)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Fast forward 150 yrs and The Atlantic is represented by Andrew Sullivan.
Posted by: fozzy at February 03, 2010 12:20 PM (ccEuN)
Just had to really search for that article and this morning it was right there, no problem. You have to know you are looking for it. This is about the third thing I pointed out today that gets buried.
Posted by: curious at February 03, 2010 12:20 PM (p302b)
Posted by: lalecheleague at February 03, 2010 12:20 PM (nGR17)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 12:20 PM (KcNBo)
I did not give Levi Johnston AIDS - he gave it to me, via Andrew Sullivan.
Not that there's anything wrong with that....
Posted by: Charles Johnson at February 03, 2010 12:22 PM (VmtE9)
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 03, 2010 12:22 PM (IIHY9)
Posted by: blooch at February 03, 2010 12:22 PM (QjSgY)
Kaitian: So you know nothing about Kentucky, but you know all about having idiotic senators? Grayson has a far more comfortable lead over Dem opponents, far more name recognition and established record, and isn't prone to succumbing to Paultardism.
Mongiardo is the Dem candidate who ran in 2004, and almost beat Bunning, the outgoing Senator. He'll beat Paul, because any Paul is just a Paultard waiting to be discovered.
Posted by: Mippilis at February 03, 2010 12:23 PM (VWhPF)
Posted by: Peaches at February 03, 2010 12:24 PM (9Wv2j)
Again, if you google "trisomy g slang" (these comments don't seem to allow me to post links) the first result is a site called SlangRN.
The entry for "tri 21" says:
Definition: Shorthand for Trisomy 21 or Down Syndrome- a chromosomal disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. Usage: The newborn exhibits tell tale signs of tri-21. Synonyms: trisomy 21, trisomy g, tri-gCreated Dec 10, 2009
Posted by: franticflintstone at February 03, 2010 12:24 PM (VGbp5)
He. Managed. To. Get. More. Insane. I've got to give him that, I didn't think he could. It's spectacular in a terrible way.
God, I feel sorry for his dogs. Seriously, I hope someone is checking to see that they're getting fed and given water and taken for walks.
Posted by: alexthechick at February 03, 2010 12:24 PM (8WZWv)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at February 03, 2010 12:24 PM (0FiCa)
Posted by: Mippilis at February 03, 2010 12:25 PM (VWhPF)
Posted by: runninrebel at February 03, 2010 12:26 PM (i3PJU)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 12:26 PM (KcNBo)
Unless you happen to be his target. Sullivan's not going to be able to sit down for a while . . . whoops!
The only problem with this is that it's still not as nasty as Milky Loads deserves.
And yes, by 2012, it will become commonly accepted knowledge that "tri-g" is of course a common abbreviation for Down's syndrome. Just like it became commonly accepted knowledge that of course the tea partiers gave themselves the name "teabaggers".
Posted by: tsj017 at February 03, 2010 12:26 PM (4YUWF)
Many people use the term Sullivan as a metaphor for men having sex with each other.
Many people.
Posted by: gus at February 03, 2010 12:26 PM (Vqruj)
Posted by: franticflintstone at February 03, 2010 12:27 PM (VGbp5)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at February 03, 2010 12:27 PM (cniXs)
Posted by: tachyonshuggy at February 03, 2010 12:27 PM (yUybe)
Posted by: Peaches at February 03, 2010 12:28 PM (9Wv2j)
make the government bigger, and take more of your money, and give you more orders from Washington, and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world.
America needs more energy; our opponent is against producing it. Victory in Iraq is finally in sight, and he wants to forfeit. Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay; he wants to meet them without preconditions.
Al Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America, and he's worried that someone won't read them their rights.
Posted by: TheThinMan at February 03, 2010 04:19 PM (W3XUk)
Man, every single thing she said in that speech has come to pass. So much for all the idiots who are now saying 'I never would've seen this coming!'
Posted by: Average Jen at February 03, 2010 12:28 PM (fRnux)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at February 03, 2010 04:24 PM (0FiCa)
One is a hole you stick a penis in. The other is a vagina.
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at February 03, 2010 12:28 PM (wgLRl)
Posted by: Peaches
They are pissed that the retarded were compared to Democrats.
Posted by: kansas at February 03, 2010 12:28 PM (mka2b)
Posted by: Techie at February 03, 2010 12:29 PM (wVPwI)
Posted by: Peaches at February 03, 2010 04:28 PM (9Wv2j)
I don't know, but the break from the constant Devil's Advocate-type posts is sort of nice.
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at February 03, 2010 12:29 PM (wgLRl)
I am an anesthetist, and spent 15 years before that as a pediatric nurse, 9/10 of that critical care and cardiac critical care. Down's children tend to have lots of medical difficulties, one of the more common of which is heart defects. So, to say I've had my fair share of patients with Down's syndrome in the past 15 years would be an understatement.
And I have never once, not ever, heard this Tri-G shit that MilkyLoads Sullivan is spewing. He is.. what's that phrase? Full of shit. With one end dented in.
I'd like to slap that bitch so hard the purse falls off his shoulder.
Posted by: baboy at February 03, 2010 12:30 PM (CSNV7)
This guy's location is known, right? He has an address; hell, he's probably in the phone book.
So here's what I suggest: we go visit him. All of us. Everyone in America who admires Sarah Palin. All at once. And shout at him, together.
He will die of fear.
Posted by: Trimegistus at February 03, 2010 12:30 PM (OW3Eh)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 12:31 PM (KcNBo)
Kaitian: I'm saying/have said: a) Rand Paul is driven by self-interest first, which will not be of help to the GOP as a senator, b) he has a marginal lead over prospective opponents, whereas Grayson (R, SecState KY) has a comfortable lead and better name recognition and is equally conservative without the crazy, and c) Paul is not really an (R), and Grayson is the better conservative candidate to represent the party in the Senate.
If Paul is the (R) nominee, the KY senate election will become about how crazy the Pauls are and will drive the election to Mongiardo, or whoever wins the Dem primary.
Palin's endorsement of Paul reflects an inability to assess races with any long-term perspective.
Posted by: Mippilis at February 03, 2010 12:31 PM (VWhPF)
Well, yeah, I'm not complaining. He's gotten very controlling lately. I just find it odd that they roll out half a dozen new front page bloggers and he hasn't posted anything since the weekend.
Posted by: Peaches at February 03, 2010 12:33 PM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: Adlib at February 03, 2010 12:33 PM (k/CNO)
One can dream.
Posted by: the Law at February 03, 2010 12:34 PM (nGR17)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 04:31 PM (KcNBo)
Glad YOU said that. I don't want to have to explain what a "gloryhole" is. 
Posted by: maddogg at February 03, 2010 12:34 PM (OlN4e)
Sarah is just dandy so stop beating her to death, I personally don't give a damn what you think about her, who the fuck are you anyway......nobody!
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 03, 2010 12:35 PM (IIHY9)
There's also something called tri-g website design.
http://www.tri-g-web.com/
They might want to change that name, now that Sullivan has exposed the true meaning of the term.
Posted by: Nice Deb at February 03, 2010 12:36 PM (AP4SG)
Posted by: Joe at February 03, 2010 12:36 PM (P/q7X)
Posted by: dibutler,perpetuallypissed at February 03, 2010 12:37 PM (S3xX1)
Posted by: Jeff at February 03, 2010 12:38 PM (FDdKZ)
Andrew just keeps on making up shit and wrapping himself in it for us all to enjoy on a regular basis. I doubt strongly the man(?) would ever step up to Sarah Palin - face to face - and remain standing long!
His mouth keeps writing checks that his ass can't cash!
Posted by: Dell at February 03, 2010 12:39 PM (o0L0L)
Posted by: kansas at February 03, 2010 12:39 PM (mka2b)
No problem!Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 12:40 PM (KcNBo)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 12:41 PM (KcNBo)
Posted by: Dan at February 03, 2010 12:41 PM (KZraB)
Posted by: Gort at February 03, 2010 12:42 PM (Vui52)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at February 03, 2010 12:43 PM (usjNq)
169 It's pronounced 'GAL- ick, not 'GAY-lick'.
I took a couple semesters of Gaeilge(Gaelic). It is "gay lick".
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at February 03, 2010 12:43 PM (cniXs)
FUBAR - what about during Fleet Week ?
Posted by: Holdfast
I stand corrected. All those Alaskans look alike to me.
Where was I. Oh yeah, Track is gonna come down on Andrew Sullivan like the Germans on Pearl Harbor!
Posted by: Crusty at February 03, 2010 12:45 PM (GvSpB)
I've always thought it was amusing the reasons the MSM came up for Sarah to have pictures taken with Trig.
Not hard to understand, since Liberals would never actually be PROUD of a child like him.
We love you Sarah.
Posted by: derek at February 03, 2010 12:46 PM (QvLS6)
Posted by: Kaitian at February 03, 2010 12:46 PM (KcNBo)
Posted by: Birdbath at February 03, 2010 12:46 PM (/DOcw)
Posted by: Taqiyyotomist at February 03, 2010 12:47 PM (ltfED)
Posted by: Elphkun at February 03, 2010 12:48 PM (CwEyW)
169 It's pronounced 'GAL- ick, not 'GAY-lick'.
I took a couple semesters of Gaeilge(Gaelic). It is "gay lick".Not in Ireland
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at February 03, 2010 12:49 PM (JrRME)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at February 03, 2010 12:51 PM (0FiCa)
That would be soooo cool. I can almost see the Corn Nuts bike now.
Posted by: Mikie at February 03, 2010 12:53 PM (3K4hn)
Posted by: jukin at February 03, 2010 12:53 PM (vkkNZ)
I typed in "trisomy-g" "tri-g" to see if anything would come up when the two were put together for a google search and got mostly lefty blogs talking about it, and a few righty ones, too.
There's also something called tri-g website design.
Upthread I already located a medical slang web site that lists "tri-g". The site is called SlangRN, which is a web site about medical slang.
The entry is for "tri 21".
Definition: Shorthand for Trisomy 21 or Down Syndrome- a chromosomal disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. Usage: The newborn exhibits tell tale signs of tri-21. Synonyms: trisomy 21, trisomy g, tri-gThe entry was created in December, 2009. Apparently anyone can post entries to the site. So, it doesn't mean it is a widely-used or a used-at-all slang term in hospitals. But, there ya go.
Posted by: franticflintstone at February 03, 2010 12:54 PM (VGbp5)
Posted by: Shannon at February 03, 2010 12:54 PM (dvy7O)
Damn it! You owe me another keyboard and monitor, Ace! You should show us mortals some consideration and WARN us when you're gonna fire off a large-caliber funny...
Posted by: Steamboat McGoo at February 03, 2010 12:55 PM (/cH23)
Professor Alfred Kinsey quantified a bunch of stuff about sex. Michael Kinsley founded Slate.
--
Your friendly neighborhood nit-picker.
Posted by: Al from NJ at February 03, 2010 12:55 PM (Um+VK)
Posted by: CoolCzech at February 03, 2010 12:59 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: Logician at February 03, 2010 01:00 PM (bN5ZU)
Posted by: franticflintstone at February 03, 2010 01:01 PM (VGbp5)
It's as credible as the idea that she gave a speech while having contractions, several hours after going into labor, as she claims in her novel.
Really? Really?
My wife and I caught dinner and a movie while she was having contractions.
Posted by: Warden at February 03, 2010 01:02 PM (QoR4a)
Plus, it was added just TWO days after someone first made the claim that "TRI-G is indeed medical slang for Down Syndrome" on HuffPo
Good find! Yeah, I don't believe it's a widely-used slang term either.
Posted by: franticflintstone at February 03, 2010 01:03 PM (VGbp5)
Posted by: NukemHill at February 03, 2010 01:03 PM (NgPNd)
Posted by: DaMav at February 03, 2010 01:05 PM (QNU76)
I once saw a protective cup advertised as antifungal. Anti-fun-gal is right. No way she's getting to the jewels when you have that thing on.
Posted by: Michael at February 03, 2010 01:13 PM (FC2+c)
Posted by: curious at February 03, 2010 01:13 PM (p302b)
Posted by: rdbrewer at February 03, 2010 01:16 PM (4Rp5g)
Posted by: Jane D'oh! at February 03, 2010 03:39 PM (UOM4
Or John Edwards.
Posted by: always right at February 03, 2010 01:20 PM (HmCnI)
288 Not in Ireland
Not according to my gaeltacht reared, native speaking professor.It depends on where you is or was in Ireland: which dialect
It's the old 'doil / dawl' debate. It seems the new preferred Anglicized, Trinity College-approved pronunciation is as you say.
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at February 03, 2010 01:21 PM (JrRME)
Posted by: Mystery Meat at February 03, 2010 01:27 PM (9AJat)
Posted by: Logician at February 03, 2010 01:28 PM (bN5ZU)
Posted by: SarahW at February 03, 2010 01:29 PM (CSrvi)
Excellent spout, Ace. From here on out, I'm not going to use the word 'retarded', I'm going to use the word 'Rahm'. I will no longer say, 'that's so gay'. I will now say 'That's so Andy'.
Posted by: anginak at February 03, 2010 01:30 PM (KEF6Y)
Great line!
Posted by: Corona at February 03, 2010 01:31 PM (woZIc)
Posted by: nickless at February 03, 2010 01:35 PM (MMC8r)
Please Do Not Feed the Concern Troll
Posted by: kbdabear at February 03, 2010 01:39 PM (sYxEE)
http://tiny.cc/wpn44 is an attack site.
Posted by: TheBigOldDog at February 03, 2010 01:46 PM (LPaj6)
I sent an email to The Atlantic's Bob Cohn - per the masthead, he's TheAtlantic.com honcho - asking him whether or not it's okay for his bloggers to just make up facts to support their obsessions.
I'm not questioning Andrew's right to post his opinions - I framed it as a "Check with Andrew regarding his claim about "Tri-G" being often used medical slang, if Andrew can support that claim, fine. If not, please have him say as much on your - Bob Cohn's - website.
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It's astromonically unlikely that will do anything. But, hell. it's worth a shot.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at February 03, 2010 01:47 PM (ruzrP)
Posted by: Logician at February 03, 2010 01:48 PM (bN5ZU)
Posted by: franticflintstone at February 03, 2010 05:01 PM (VGbp5)
I will bet you a buck that Andi planted it himself
Posted by: sean at February 03, 2010 01:56 PM (sHxOn)
As the mother of a child with Down syndrome AND the New Parent Packet Coordinator for our local DS group for the past 6 years, I can say with absolute certainty that the term "Tri-G" is not used by either the National DS Society OR the National DS Congress in ANY of their literature to refer to Down syndrome/Trisomy 21.
Yes, my daughter is mentally retarded - she has an extra chromosome. What's Rahm's excuse (cuz it takes one to know one....)?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at February 03, 2010 02:00 PM (5/bS4)
It's astromonically unlikely that will do anything. But, hell. it's worth a shot.
If any of you happens to be an actual sibscriber, they do seem to take subscriber's complaints seriously.
I used to sibscribe to the magazine, and when Sullivan was first going off the rails with his Trig Trutherism, I called the magazine. They put subscribers right through to someone on the phone. And they seemed to be concerned with my complaint. Now, sure, maybe they were blowing smoke up my ass, but at least the nice woman on the phone seemed to totally agree with me. I gently told her that I like the magazine but don't need to subscribe to it, and that I don't want to give money to a magazine that is attacking someone's baby is such sick fashion. I told them I'd cancel if the bizarre atacks on Palin's cildren continue, because there is no way that can be justified as good journalism.
And, well, they did seem to try and get Sullivan to chill out, but they failed. So, obviously, I had to cancel. Too bad, because it's a pretty good magazine overall.
But, yeah, if you are still a subscriber, they put you right through to someone when you have a complaint.
Posted by: franticflintstone at February 03, 2010 02:04 PM (VGbp5)
Posted by: iolanach at February 03, 2010 02:06 PM (DYSAB)
For what it's worth, I can believe that Sarah Palin once privately referred to Trig as her "retard baby" in that way that most people might occasionally indulge in gallows humor amongst their most intimate acquaintances. I also believe that if this happened, that it was accompanied by the kisses and hugs of a loving mother's most fervent devotions.
Posted by: Kensington at February 03, 2010 02:20 PM (Cdz8I)
How soon before Obama uses this reference in a speech?
Posted by: Meeso Harney at February 03, 2010 02:38 PM (lD4DZ)
251 It depends on where you is or was in Ireland: which dialect
yeah true. donegal vs cork for instance.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at February 03, 2010 02:47 PM (cniXs)
Posted by: dorkafork at February 03, 2010 02:51 PM (o8YQi)
Well then. That settles it. It's just so obvious.
BTW, you can't have AnDrew SullIvan without AIDS. It's science.
Thank heaven that the only thing AnDrew SullIvan will ever birth is mockable imbecility.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 03, 2010 02:53 PM (hF8Tn)
Posted by: West Village Glory Hole at February 03, 2010 03:05 PM (2IsON)
I continue to be baffled at how one of the gayest men on the planet -- ranking like a 7.3 on the Kinsley scale of 6 -- propounds weekly on arcane-only-to-him topics of childbirth, motherhood, and the Mysteries of Forbidden Vagina.
Yeah it was funny watching asshole Andi on the Chris Matthews Show(*) tearing into birthers. It's hilarious listening to him complain about those crazy people who want to see Barack's birth certificate.
* Not Hardball but the one on Sunday which in my area is on NBC right after Meet The Press
Posted by: ADK46er at February 03, 2010 03:21 PM (pRvXg)
Posted by: Drillanwr at February 03, 2010 03:31 PM (1kwr2)
Posted by: 29Victor at February 03, 2010 03:32 PM (HaMuw)
@89 Posted by: Average Jen at February 03, 2010 04:00
I started labor with my third child while my husband and I were partying with friends on the 4th of July. My husband," Let me know when we need to go." Me," Yep."
Ace is right. Sullivan doesn't know the first thing about females or reproduction....., and all of womenkind says" Thank you, God!"
Posted by: Mikki at February 03, 2010 03:41 PM (unFDC)
Posted by: CattusMagnus at February 03, 2010 03:45 PM (1RgQ+)
Posted by: Moe Syzlak at February 03, 2010 04:13 PM (Vc/xe)
Ace: I'm haven't even bothered to read this post beyond the corn-nuts part yet, and I already salute you. Hope the rest lives up the "lede."
Posted by: societyis2blame at February 03, 2010 04:17 PM (rPDD/)
Posted by: PlymouthMom at February 03, 2010 04:21 PM (O/5X6)
Posted by: 5th Level Fighter at February 03, 2010 04:25 PM (SgL5z)
You can't possibly find him more repulsive than I do. Stop enabling him.
Posted by: MarkD at February 03, 2010 05:00 PM (nur8S)
There is no connection between them. Andy may be suffering from ARD and chucky...
Well unfortunately he is suffering from Mad Cow Disease. You see one nice day a few years ago, he was bicycling down a country road and there was this really cute heifer that caught his eye and he caught hers. Well one thing led to another and soon things were consummated so to speak. After all that physical activity from bicycling and stuff, chucky was feeling a might peckish, so he ate the cow.
You morons didn't think you could get MCD from sex did you? No, you have to eat the cow afterward.
Posted by: snookered at February 03, 2010 05:15 PM (7Vg6Y)
Slightly off-topic, but i went to daily dish to look for other inanities. Scroll to "face of the day" , wherein Sullivan credulously posts a picture of a pakistani Sufi smoking a "cannibis cigarette". a casual glance shows the cigarette is filtered.... are pakistanis so health conscious they filter their joints??
On to AFP/Getty , enter sufi in search engine and presto, two Pix with identical captions... 1 with the filter ciggy smoker, another with a handrolled joint ( a third picture shows someone loading a joint).
How stupid is sullivan that he doesn't notice this before posting, and how lazy is AFP/Getty that they conserve captions by putting them under two totally different subjects??
Not sure whether its more a knock on Dr. Sulliavn or the media, but i feel better having vented my spleen.
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These are things I'd really like to know.
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But Sullivan himself shrieks like little girl who just watched her pony get raped by the road crew for GWAR
What...you think Oderus would let the roadies have all the fun?!
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He's stuck with his schtick, and when the income falls below a certain level, he'll be forced to resort to self-parody for hire.
He won't be able to follow the Coop. The Coop has done very well. Same as Shatner.
No, this won't end well for Mr. Sullivan.
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I kinda wish Palin had let this one slide, since being anti-PC is one of the cool things many Republicans have going for them.
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That's why he hates her guts. And every woman with an IQ above room temperature knows it.
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I tried, but, alas, I have trouble with two syllable words.
So instead, I'll give you two one syllable words.
Up yours..
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You morons didn't think you could get MCD from sex did you? No, you have to eat the cow afterward.
Posted by: snookered at February 03, 2010 09:15 PM (7Vg6Y)
OK now you are telling me CJ turned into a female Black Widow (or a praying mantis)?
Posted by: always right at February 04, 2010 06:42 AM (UzjcV)
Just so I've got this straight ...
Sarah Palin is allegedly too dumb to have ever read a random factoid about Norse Mythology...
...But is completely versed in relevent medical terminology to the point of being familiar with coloquialisms...
...and named her own child with malicious intent AND her husband's complicity?
I'd like you too meet some friends of mine from SunnyTown Sanitarium...
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OR Scott Brown, you know, whatever....
Anyways...
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