Andrew earns a Moore Award nomination

by digby

I’m afraid I’m going to have to bestow an Andrew Sullivan Moore Award nomination — named for Michael Moore and given out for “divisive, bitter and intemperate left-wing rhetoric” — on … Andrew Sullivan:

Mann and Ornstein are correct. Large sections of the American right are now close to insane as well as depraved. And there is no Buckley to rein them in. Just countless Jonah Goldbergs seeking to cash in.

He’s right of course. But then so were many of the allegedly “divisive, bitter and intemperate” left wingers whom he nominated for his award because they basically said the same thing. Now a lot of people are waking up to the fact that the right wing has gone seriously off the rails and it’s no longer considered “divisive” to point it out. Unfortunately, those who saw it early will not be rewarded for their perspicacity. It just doesn’t work that way.

But good for Sullivan anyway. It may be considered intemperate, divisive and bitter, but somebody’s got to tell it like it is.