• February 15, 2012

This is the Atlantic Monthly's most-viewed photograph of the decade.SECRETS OF THE LITERARY MAGAZINES: “All in all, you get a glimpse of what succeeds online: masturbating priests, Matt Stone’s potty mouth, Sarah Palin’s gargantuan lies, taking a moment to make sense of Sarah Palin’s gargantuan lies, Chris Wallace’s fellatial non-journalism, shit-faced Brits, and stoned parents.” [Andrew Sullivan's Atlantic Monthly]

{ 20 comments }

norbizness December 30, 2009 at 2:52 pm

What also succeeds is a commentless blog run by a disingenuous, tedious farmer of other people’s insights who inexplicably gets linked to by everybody.

FlownOver December 30, 2009 at 2:53 pm

Linkie not workie.

memzilla December 30, 2009 at 2:54 pm

Also, The Daily Show’s Best Sarah Palin Moments of 2009:
http://www.indecisionforever.com/2009/11/16/the-daily-shows-best-sarah-palin-moments-of-2009

Posted with hope for some clicky-link reimbursement from viacom to teh wonket, of course…

memzilla December 30, 2009 at 2:55 pm
snideinplainsight December 30, 2009 at 2:58 pm

Leave twits alone!!!

JMP December 30, 2009 at 2:59 pm

What does not succeed online: blank pages.

From that quote, Sullivan is wrong, because no one can make sense of Sarah Palin’s lies.

SayItWithWookies December 30, 2009 at 3:00 pm

The priest should really have a crack pipe in his mouth too.

Mahousu December 30, 2009 at 3:02 pm

The link was a Christmas link; i.e., no l. Here’s the new, post-Christmas reality.

jetjaguar December 30, 2009 at 3:05 pm

Well, how else are they going to make purity bricks?

proudgrampa December 30, 2009 at 3:08 pm

“fellatial non-journalism”

Wow. He do have a way with da words.

JMP December 30, 2009 at 3:12 pm

After seeing the actual post, Andrew, there’s a major error in your summary; as you yourself noted in the original post you linked to, the problem with the priest in that image is not that he’s masturbating but much worse.

FlownOver December 30, 2009 at 3:17 pm

[re=486930]memzilla[/re]: Much gratitude. May the New Orbit bring you kilos of artificially-induced euphoria.

Hunger Tallest Palin December 30, 2009 at 3:25 pm

Whoever came up with that graphic needs to be smacked. Or kissed. I can’t decide.

Hunger Tallest Palin December 30, 2009 at 3:34 pm

And no one tell Andrew that 90% of that traffic is due to John Cole linking to him and saying (essentially): Can you believe this guy? WTF is wrong with him?

Neilist December 30, 2009 at 4:25 pm

[re=486956]Hunger Tallest Palin[/re]: That graphic reminds me of a Defense Pistol Target.

I mean, if you were going to “aim for the center of mass” with me, you’d be right on target.

Or maybe if you were shooting to disable a Nigerian Crotch Bomber.

Whatever.

Lascauxcaveman December 30, 2009 at 4:48 pm

I think he says that priest-getting-a-BJ-from-a-boy logo was from 1974, which was a terrific time to be Catholic kid, as I was.

No, wait wait wait … that really came out wrong.

I was talking about the whole love-thy-neighbor, Jesus-talkin’ ecumenism of Vatican II, the Saturnight folk masses singing songs by the Byrds and other filthy hippies, mainstream white Catholic families adopting orphans from Ethiopia or the inner city, Operation Rice Bowl in full swing, and long-haired priests who played guitar and didn’t get the underage BJ’s.

Those guys came later, in my parish. They always had teh square, uptight demeanor and crew cuts and you tell something was off about them from the get-go.

Snarkalicious December 30, 2009 at 5:14 pm

Andrew Sullivan blowing a 12 ft tall priest would draw HUGE traffic.

the problem child December 30, 2009 at 5:17 pm

[re=487037]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Don’t forget the swingin’ weekends! http://www.wwmecanada.org/meicon.jpg

RobPetrified December 31, 2009 at 1:09 am

The best explaination of how real life works since forty two.

Ducksworthy December 31, 2009 at 1:58 pm

Fox News is fellatial journalism, Thank you Andrew Sullivan

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