To My Readers: My Part of Evangel Will Go Dark Today

This is the first time in its nearly three-week history that I will be silent on Evangel. I invite my friends here to do the same.

The reason is the same as it always is.

I decided to read Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish.

When dealing with a delusional fantasist like Andrew Sullivan, it takes time to absorb and make sense of the various competing narratives that he tells about his life.

There are so many fabrications and delusions on his blog, mixed in with facts, that just making sense of it – and comparing it with objective reality as we know it, and the subjective reality he has previously provided – is a bewildering task. He is a deeply disturbed person which makes his work of fiction and fact all the more challenging to read.

And the fact that he is now writing for a mainstream publication and is obsessed with destroying a potential presidential candidate, makes this process of deconstruction an important civil responsibility. We take this seriously as we always have. We want to be fair to him, and to his family, and to the innocent people he has brought into the spotlight. And we are not reporters. We are merely analysts trying to make sense of evidence already in the public domain, evidence that points in all sorts of directions, only one of which can be true.

Since my blog writing has tried always to be rigorous and careful in analyzing Sullivan’s unhinged grip on reality from the very beginning – specifically his fantastic story regarding Sarah Palin’s  fifth pregnancy –  we feel it’s vital that we grapple with his new jag as fairly and as rigorously as possible. That takes time to get right. And it is so complicated we simply cannot focus on anything else.

God speed gentle reader, God speed.