--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 24, 2007, at 10:48 AM, curtisdeltablues wrote: > > > Those were great quotes! Anti-intellectual in bias, but funny as > > shit. The funny thing is that although I appreciate Sam's thinking, I > > find him completely humorless. He would look like a stone in a debate > > with this guy. > > > I found parts of _Letter to a Christian Nation_ hilarious. In fact as > I read it out loud to my wife, she would break out laughing every now > and then. If you watch the lecture I posted a link to, the humor > comes out a couple of times and the audience laughs along. > > Sullivan OTOH I found almost unlistenable and humourless; he would > often get caught up in emotional tirades or tizzies (I assume we're > talking about the same guy with HIV who's appeared several times on > Bill Maher). I do like some of what he says. I suspect the only > reason he's so popular is because he causes a similar reaction in > others as well. I get the same 'nails on a chalk board feeling' > listening to Bill O'Reilly or his (very different) ilk.
Sullivan actually has a wonderful dry sense of humor and of the absurd. It comes out more in his blog than his public appearances, though. He's a complex and very intriguing guy, eminently likable at times and at others distinctly not. He was one of the first prominent conservative supporters of the Iraq War and Bush to come out against the war and its perpetrators and to admit he'd made a mistake in supporting them. This was well before the country turned against the war, so it took considerable courage for him to do so. He was attacked ferociously for it by his fellow conservatives.
