You know you normally don’t see something like this among the left. I think Andrew Sullivan had respect for Pat Buchanan by the way he wrote this article.
There is so much I disagree with Pat Buchanan on - from World War II to marriage equality to immigration to my love of a multi-racial and multi-cultural society - that I could write a book in it. But let me say something in his defense: however repellent some of his views, he is intellectually honest. Yes, publicly bigoted, sometimes outrageous, a flame-thrower, a reactionary who flirted at times with what only can be called neo-fascism. But here's another thing he has always been: true to his own ideas and a gifted writer. He truly believes what he says and has read and researched a huge amount and has thought carefully about his extreme out-of-the-mainstream views. He is a serious figure in that respect. Compared with Al Sharpton or Ed Schultz, he is a paragon of intellectual integrity. He is not a propagandist. He is a passionate writer who loves nothing more than a good argument with a worthy opponent - and he has a serious sense of humor to boot. That his ideas are often repelling should precisely be why he should stay on MSNBC and defend his views against the smartest critiques that can be found. We should stop silencing people and keep debating them.
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.
