Today on the Dish, Andrew assessed the post-Iowa GOP freakout (hint: there's a meep, meep involved), defended Paul's against TNC's Farrakhan comparison, praised the candidate's moral imagination, noted Santorum's "neoconservatism on steroids," mocked the GOP's Iran paranoia, and kept the heat on Glenn Reynolds for being a shameless propagandist. We corralled a big Iowa reax, a reader brilliantly diagnosed the implications of the results for the party, Bachmann called it quits, Paul wasn't done and may actually get the most delegates, Jay Rosen blasted the whole affair, and readers dinged our coverage for overusing the Santorum puns (though Dan Savage won Iowa).
Santorum's day in the sun got extra scrutiny – we looked at his odious views on Palestine, documented his craziness and argued it made him unelectable, demanded proof that his gay supporters existed, and found an awkward choice of mascot. Newt said something stupid (it is a day ending in Y), but also intriguingly geared up to help Santorum bash Romney. Writers guessed at Romney's strategy for the general, debated Paul's effect on belief in non-interventionism, wondered if Pawlenty should have stayed in, and found Huntsman generally deaf to tone.
The Syrian opposition may have called for intervention, readers discussed airport security, and the military thought about technology that could Eternal Sunshine you, and Charles Taylor posed a challenge for liberal democracy. Bloggers had the Sullivan look, Netflix tried to do everything, and horror blurred the reality/fiction line. Buffet psychology made some of us eat more, America was fat, and eating snot was a real thing.
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– Z.B.
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