Wow, I hadn’t heard that Andrew Sullivan got busted for possession of pot. Charges were dropped, questionably, according to the judge involved. It seems the DA insisted the charges be dropped.
Oh, I could go on a rant here, tick off the usual complaints. Here they are in handy list form:
1. It’s amazing the kind of protection you can buy if you switch sides.
2. Briefly consider (then dismiss) “other team” joke relating to 1.
3. Make point about the media feeding frenzy if, say, George Will had been busted for pot.
4. Get distracted at mental image of Will, stoned out of his mind, giggling mindlessly at Harold & Kumar, Chee-toh stains on his bow tie.
5. Get so distracted by 4. that planned rant gets dropped in favor of handy list.
My mental image of Will includes him getting all flustered and demanding of everyone around him, “But what does “pulchritude” mean? What does it mean?”
UPDATE: A retired “felony weight” pot distributor is ready to throw the book at Andrew. “Anybody stupid enough to get busted for dope is a danger to himself and others and should be locked up for the good of society. Dude, if you can’t outsmart a narc . . .”
Dude, indeed.
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1. McGehee:“Have you ever just looked at your metacarpal structure? I mean really looked at it?”
Sep 11, 2009 - 9:06 am 2. Gamblor:“Check out these socks. Who knew how close – yet how far – navy blue is to black. Blows your mind, I tell you.”
Sep 11, 2009 - 9:12 am 3. Eric J:“I never realized just how boring baseball is.”
Sep 11, 2009 - 9:36 am 4. pgg:Pot?
So what? It’s not like he was popping caffeine pills or anything…
Sep 11, 2009 - 10:01 am 5. Blaine:pulchritude -> beauteousness
Sep 11, 2009 - 10:20 am 6. rbjr:Getting stoned on pot might do George Will some good.
Bow ties? Wow, it’s both a bow and a tie!
Sep 11, 2009 - 10:29 am 7. Gekkobear:Personally the part that makes me wonder is:
At the hearing, Collings observed that Sullivan would still have to state on his application that he had been charged with a crime, and he asked both the prosecutor and Sullivan’s attorney, Robert Delahunt Jr. (cousin of U. S. Rep. William D. Delahunt), for more information about why paying the $125 would have “any additional adverse effect.”
In my opinion the only reason to drop the fine is to encourage and enable Sullivan to lie on his Government Immigration paperwork; and the US Attorney’s office is deliberately helping Sullivan to lie to another Government office; my removing the easily found evidence showing that he will be lying.
I didn’t realize this was what the US Attorney’s office did; but I guess the Orwellian naming conventions still apply… how do I contact them to have them assist me as accessories to a crime I’m planning; since that seems to be their job now.
Surely I wouldn’t have to be a liberal for this to apply; that would be discriminatory… is there a list of crimes that they will help citizens (and non-citizens apparently) commit? Anything they won’t do?
Sep 11, 2009 - 11:19 am 8. rbj:Gekkobear, just go to your nearest ACORN office and they’ll help you set up a whore house, you just need to bring the underage girls.
All at taxpayer dollars!
Sep 11, 2009 - 12:15 pm 9. Federal Law is for little people: not Andrew Sullivan « DaTechguy’s Blog:[...] I beat the Other McCain to it but Vodka pundit and Dan Riehl beat us [...]
Sep 11, 2009 - 12:26 pm 10. WJ:“Make point about the media feeding frenzy if, say, George Will had been busted for pot.”
Please do not compare George Will to Andrew Sullivan. It’s not even close.
Sep 11, 2009 - 12:29 pm 11. On Andrew’s Pot Woes « POWIP:[...] Andrew as I do, though, I felt it important to go back to the date of the bust and find out what he’d said, since over the summer [...]
Sep 11, 2009 - 12:45 pm 12. Instapundit » Blog Archive » HMM: Judge angered by special treatment for Andrew Sullivan. “Political commentator, author and wr…:[...] HMM: Judge angered by special treatment for Andrew Sullivan. “Political commentator, author and writer for The Atlantic magazine Andrew M. Sullivan won’t have to face charges stemming from a recent pot bust at the Cape Cod National Seashore — but a federal judge isn’t happy about it.” Interesting who Sullivan’s attorney was. I don’t think anyone should be punished for possessing a bit of pot, but this does sound like there was special treatment. Related thoughts from Jacob Sullum and from Dan Riehl, who notes that at least it wasn’t hard stuff, like No-Doz. Plus, from Stephen Green, “Make point about the media feeding frenzy if, say, George Will had been busted for pot.”… [...]
Sep 11, 2009 - 12:48 pm 13. Ben:What do we know about Andrew Sullivan’s family? He must have parents or siblings or uncles. Do any of them have anything in their past that they wouldn’t like to be made public?
Or how about his associates’ families?
Sep 11, 2009 - 1:16 pm 14. secret:There was an obstruction of justice here.
Last time I checked, obstruction of justice is a felony.
Sep 11, 2009 - 1:20 pm 15. Andrew Sullivan and the Rule of Law:[...] Stephen Green is just generally amused. [...]
Sep 11, 2009 - 1:27 pm 16. Donna V.:I try to imagine a stoned George Will. I just can’t. I can’t even imagine a mildly tipsy George Will.
Sullivan is a different story. Judging from his blog content, I’d say he’s high 95% of the time.
Sep 11, 2009 - 1:27 pm 17. KZ:This would never happen to George Will.
George only tokes up at home in his basement will all the doors locked.
Sep 11, 2009 - 1:53 pm 18. kevino:RE: “Dude, if you can’t outsmart a narc . . .”
Sullivan failed to outsmart a park ranger. LOL. Andrew Sullivan: not as smart as Yogi Bear.
Sep 11, 2009 - 2:01 pm 19. Bob Hawkins:I just had a gobsmacking thought.
How do we know that George Will isn’t stoned all the time already?
Sep 11, 2009 - 3:00 pm 20. Doug:It is interesting to finally see the some of the fruits from the money Sullivan raised with his Fund Drives.
I don’t want to know what he bought with the rest of it. EVER.
Sep 11, 2009 - 4:34 pm 21. Amos:It’s irrelevant to Progressives if Andrew got busted and got out of it. If George Will got busted, Progressives would ONLY care about George Will. Not because of the usual, “ha! your team got an out!” but because George Will, if you asked him, would probably tell you that pot was a bad thing.
Because Will has the temerity to espouse a moral position other than 1) Abortion is Awesome, 2) Republicans = Nazis of Hitlerism, he MUST be attacked however possible.
To Sullivan, it makes not one bit of difference if he’s a crook and a fraud who abused the power and connections of the press. If a member of the Palin family – daring to espouse moral positions outside of 1 and 2 above got busted for something (like, oh, say, having a child outside of wedlock), that would be worthy of the most serious condemnation, ugliest attacks and ridicule.
Sep 11, 2009 - 4:40 pm 22. Dred Scott:Andrew’s glass house has been shattered.
Sep 11, 2009 - 6:49 pm 23. jon:As a reader of his blog, I’m not at all surprised that he tokes up. Anyone who is surprised by this was probably gobsmacked when Elton John outed himself as a bisexual back in the 70s. And felt even more shocked when they found out he was lying.
Sep 11, 2009 - 8:23 pm 24. A Blogger’s Bust Makes The News « Around The Sphere:[...] Vodka Pundit: Wow, I hadn’t heard that Andrew Sullivan got busted for possession of pot. Charges were dropped, questionably, according to the judge involved. It seems the DA insisted the charges be dropped. [...]
Sep 12, 2009 - 7:22 am 25. Mikee:William F Buckley got on his boat and went outside the US territorial limit (a mere 3 miles way back when, IIRC) and lit up a joint to experience the sensation so popular with the young folk. I can’t even remember what he wrote about his reaction to it.
We don’t need no stinkin’ George Will tokin’ ganga, when we already got Billy Buckley!
Sep 12, 2009 - 12:50 pm 26. Kevin P.:If Sarah Palin or any of her family members had been busted for a marijuana charge, we know how Andrew Sullivan would have reacted. And if the charge had been dismissed with this kind of justification? The heavens would have been rent with his outrage.
I am a naturalized citizen who went through the long and painful immigration process. From what I have read, Andrew Sullivan has a green card already, which means that the only meaningful “unspecified immigration benefit” that he is seeking is likely naturalization – his admission into US citizenship.
I wonder if he will truthfully answer question 10. D. 16. on the N-400 form, which asks:
Have you ever been arrested, cited, or detained by any law enforcement officer … for any reason?
Considering the amount of slander and lies that Andrew has leveled at his political opponents and even neutral persons, I somehow doubt it. The title of part D. is Good Moral Character. How many people think that Andrew Sullivan has Good Moral Character?
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