Yesterday I posted a TPM Reader email that has stuck with me, almost as much as any other email I’ve gotten in the six-plus years I’ve been writing TPM. The email starts by excerpting and then pillorying a quote from Andrew Sullivan’s blog.
This was all from four years ago — July 2003. Sullivan’s position on the war at the time was vastly different. In this case, he was supporting the so-called ‘flypaper’ theory of the Iraq war. But I didn’t publish the letter to revisit an embarrassing quote. I did so only for the purpose of reprinting the email in its entirety — because the email itself is sort of a touchstone for me.
For what it’s worth, Sullivan’s is one of a small handful — perhaps a sub-handful — of blogs I read every day. Not that I agree with every opinion or observation — though we’re certainly much more in sync than we were a few years ago — just that I keep coming back. Make of it what you will. I think it makes me a fan.
