Sullivan And O’Donnell

Regards Rosie O’Donnell leaving “The View”;

First of all, this is hardly an issue of national import, nor was it unpredictable. So, perhaps the press is making more out of this than is warranted. That said, however, there’s a pattern here worth noting:

Joyner comments, the other day:

Since I’ve watched maybe 15 minutes of the program collectively over the years, and that only through happenstance, it doesn’t matter much to me one way or the other. Still, I’m baffled by O’Donnell’s transformation from a benign comic actress to a rather vile, screeching commentator. A little less of that won’t be a great loss.

Emph is my own, and it’s to make a point.

Think back, and consider the story lines, as they deveoped… between Rosie O’Donnel, and Andrew Sullivan. Each, over the years has developed an increasing incoherency, that has been in each case, most strident in nature, and very disturbing to witness.

I’ve commented on Sullivan developing into a screeching one note Samba in the past. Everything he comments on, even in the most casual of senses, is centered on his homosexuality… and have always considered his race to incoherency to be part of that, and of the logical leaps he’s had to make in his efforts of self-justification.

I have always suspected Sullivan finds the lack of hard and fast logic… and principle, really, amongst the left, far more comfortable than the hard and fast logic to be found elsewhere, since he would need, anywhere BUT the left, to come to grips with just how far off base his personal choices are with reality.   He can sheild himself from such self-judgments only in the fuzzy logic the left normally employs.

The transformation that so baffles James about Rosie O’Donnel, seems to me of the same mold as that which so totally reshaped Sullivan’s politics.  The trends don’t match in each instance…. similies and comparisons never are exact, of course.  But there’s enough of a trend here to logically raise the question if their motivations for the change James notes, are not similar. So close are they, in fact, that to my mind it’s illogical not to at least ask the question.