NRO Piece on Andrew Sullivan

Responding to the below entry on Sullivan's blogeroo about writer David Brooks:

[Brooks] writes a column - a sadly misguided view of what's wrong with conservatism - that he could have written at any time in the last ten years. Why can he not tell us what he thinks of Palin? A wonderful writer he sure is.A profile in courage he isn't.

This is a stupid and malicious charge....

The charge is malicious because David is the opposite of what Sullivan says. Brooks is an intellectually honest writer, constantly holding up his views and assumptions to scrutiny and unfolding evidence, and in search of the truth of things. There is deep integrity to David's work. Beyond that, Brooks is one of Washington's most decent and civil individuals. Unfortunately, none of these things can be said of Andrew Sullivan these days. Even Sullivan's colleagues at The Atlantic would, I think it's fair to say, agree with that assessment. He has become an embarrassment to them, and to the magazine with which he is associated.

Sullivan responds thus:

I am being called "crazy" again. But no one at the Corner has the intellectual honesty to discuss the lies that the McCain camp has been putting out: specifically the lie that Obama funded sex education for kindergartners, the lie that Sarah Palin initially opposed the Bridge To Nowhere, the lie that she never requested earmarks for Alaska as governor, the lie that Palin visited the battlefield in Iraq, the lie that she didn't use her public office to persecute a former relative, and on and on. You will read nothing about these glaring lies in the public record at National Review. But you will learn that I am insane.

What does that tell you?

That people scratching below the surface are surprised that Andrew has taken this tack?

For instance:

The former relative, married four times, is a cop found guilty of drinking and driving while on duty in a cruiser, tased his stepson and who also agrees that McCain choosing Palin as a running mate is a marvelous decision.

Obama did push sex ed in kindergarten - looney "age appropriate" rape stories, naming body parts and explaining the mechanics of sexuality in the context that their family cannot be trusted as they are lurking boogeymen after their genitalia - with the caveat that parents have an opt out when reality is we don't.

Here is the transcript right out of Obama's own mouth.

RUSH: Oh, this has got 'em fit to be tied. How dare they say this about Obama? Well, let's go back in 2007, on November 20th, Obama spoke at a Planned Parenthood event, and he said this about Alan Keyes, who was his opponent in the Senate race in 2004.

OBAMA: I remember him, uh, using this in his campaign against me, saying, "Barack Obama supports teaching sex education to kindergarteners." (laughter) And, you know, which -- I didn't know what to tell him. But it's the right thing to do.