Newsfront: Trig Tease

Andrew Sullivan: Trig Tease

By the time you are reading this, it is possible that blogger Andrew Sullivan will have rent the internet in two, taken down Sarah Palin and heralded the Second Coming. But we’re still waiting….

On November 18 at 11:44 a.m., visitors to Sullivan’s blog the Daily Dish were met with a posting To Our Readers. This letter read, in part:

This is only the second time in its nearly 10-year history that the Dish has gone silent. The reason now is the same as the reason then. When dealing with a delusional fantasist like Sarah Palin, it takes time to absorb and make sense of the various competing narratives that she tells about her life. […]

There is a possibility here of such a huge scandal that we would be crazy not to take our time either to debunk it or move it forward for further examination.We have only one commitment: to get this right. Please bear with us as we do the best we can.

And indeed, silence.

Until, that is, Wednesday evening at 7:36 p.m., when To Our Readers, an Update was posted:

This Dish will resume as normal tomorrow morning. We apologize for the lacuna. And I suppose some will say we've gotten this book and the issues it raises out of perspective.[…]

Anyway, we're done now. And I hope to be up half the night trying to write a post on the great mystery of the stories about Trig, stories that have bedeviled the blogosphere and many others for months.

And so we were up half the night with anticipation. What could it be that Sullivan has discovered, we wondered, until the early morning hours when, with visions of Trig and Sully dancing in our heads, we finally managed to get some sleep.

But today, still nothing. The Dish has indeed resumed. We’ve got ole Sully standbys like Face of the Day and Quote for the Day, but still no scandal. Why must you torture us like this, Andrew?

Image via The Daily Dish

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Purty Real

These interviews with Sarah Palin supporters in Grand Rapids, Michigan are too good to be true. And the interview with “Jackie” is best of all—putting one in mind of the recent Onion classic, “Area Man Passionate Defender of What He Imagines Constitution to Be.”

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Thank You, Science

It’s not often that we have the opportunity to discuss breasts within the realm of political debate, but today’s our day, as a report from the Department of Health and Human Services on mammograms has sparked yet another partisan fight on health care.

We don’t really have a take on the matter—public policy debates like these tend toward statistical analysis and clinical trials—but we didn’t want to let slip our chance to mention breasts. Breasts.

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Love Will Tear Us Apart

It’s impossible to say what we would have bid to watch this potential date happen—perhaps all $30 in our checking account—but alas, it was not to be.

Last night, at the Eighth Annual Benefit for the Elton John Foundation, Courtney Love was very active, putting on the expected Courtney Love show…. She bid $10,000 on a polo lesson with Nacho Figueras and $120,000 on a date with Bill Clinton, tonight's honoree, who was present (and presumably terrified) when Love stood up to make her bid, waving her white napkin around wildly.

Later on, outside on the Cipriani steps, she was balancing yet another cigarette with a piece of cake, disappointed that she lost out on the date with the former president. "On Clinton, I was like, 'That might be fun!' I would never bid if I didn't want to. But after 120 [thousand dollars], it's like, I don't have a plutonium card."

The possibility of these two debauched 1990s icons coming together to discuss grunge, NAFTA and last night’s episode of Friends is almost too much to bear. But thank God there was some consolation prize.

Anyway, [Love] continues: "I had breakfast with [Hillary Clinton] once at the Chateau Marmont in about 2004. We have the same hairdresser. We had a great breakfast—she's great, she gossips. We gossiped and we talked about corporate mergers. She's a lot more fun than you would think."

It truly boggles the mind and leaves us with one, big, unanswered question: Courtney Love uses a hairdresser?

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Minge and Purged

In an effort to get Sarah Palin out of our systems once and for all, we leave you with this gem from The Daily Show in which Jon Stewart explains why he doesn’t like Palin. We promise to avoid mention of her in the future, unless Andrew Sullivan comes up with something really good.

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