“Weirdo”

This morning, guest contributor Frank wrote a post about Andrew Sullivan.

I just got this from Frank:

You guys may be interested in this. I e-mail a link of the article to Sullivan with a note that he should read it and reflect. He e-mailed back 20 minute later with a one word response: weirdo
Made me laugh.

Hmmm….

Is that the first time Andy has resorted to flattery?


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    Frank

    Eric, considering the source, I didn’t know if it might be flattery. I used an alternate e-mail in sending it, but same isp address.

    The last e-mail from him was a defense of his stand against torture. Here are those, received from Andrew first, and sent form me second:

    May 9, 2011

    frank
    my opposition to torture is deep and immovable. my outrage is that
    cheney authorized an entire official and illegal program designed to
    use it. he did that for the first time in history. it’s a war crime.
    andrew

    On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Frank wrote:
    > Do you believe, seriously, that agencies like the CIA and prior to it, the OSS, didn’t practice torture? If you read the novels of Donald Hamilton, who had inside information about clandestine activities within these agencies, you must believe it happened, if “unofficially” and off the books.
    >
    > Or are you, as I suspect, simply outraged that Cheney was open about it?
    >
    > Whatever the reason, the moralizing from you and others, comes across as political opportunism. As much as I oppose the policies of Obama, I must give him credit for not making this an issue.
    >
    > Also, it’s not lost on anyone the delight you must take in lecturing the bigots in the Republican Party about morality. So, as much as you profess the high ground, it’s really personal, isn’t it?
    >
    > Frank

    And then we get the sermon after that.