I noted a few weeks ago that Andrew Sullivan seemed to have gone off the deep end when it comes to Sarah Palin.
Well, now he’s just being plain wacky about her:
She said the following:
I’m looking forward to meeting [Biden] too. I’ve never met him before. But I’ve been hearing about his Senate speeches since I was in, like, second grade.”
Two things: when Palin was in Second Grade, Biden hadn’t been elected to the Senate. And when she was in third grade, do you really believe she was hearing about speeches by Joe Biden? Who in the national press corps at the time were hearing about Biden’s speeches in 1972?
She just lies. She can’t help herself. She has a serious psychological problem: making stuff up, imagining things happened when they didn’t,
Umm, Andrew, you do understand it was a joke, don’t you ?
I’m no fan of Sarah Palin’s, I think she was a bad choice for Vice-President, and I certainly wouldn’t have confidence in her ability to be President should John McCain die in office, but I really don’t understand what bee has gotten under Sullivan’s bonnet.
Update: Sullivan now apparently admits that he over-reacted:
After many emails, I think most readers are right that my putting Palin’s silly comment about listening to Biden’s speeches in second grade is a loose bit of hyperbole, not a lie as I have defined it in the series of Palin lies I’ve compiled so far. So I fixed the post. My criterion for a lie is something she knows is untrue, and can be shown objectively to be untrue by the public record.
And what’s your criterion for deciding when you’ve totally gone over the edge, Andrew ?
H/T: James Joyner
