Very interesting interview with Andrew Sullivan courtesy of Harvard Magazine.

No holds barred interview which, while revealing all of the positive aspects of Sullivan's reporting, does not attempt to whitewash any of his numerous missteps.

My favorite part (Of course):

ANDREW SULLIVAN DID NOT SUPPORT John McCain in 2008. The torture flip-flop would have been enough of a reason. Then McCain added Sarah Palin to the ticket. The combination of her scant government experience and “raw political talent” terrified Sullivan—and with only two months between her nomination and the election, he started hammering.

“I was told: ‘Don’t touch this, it will hurt your reputation,’” he says. During a campaign when most pundits were, at worst, quizzical about Palin, Sullivan filled his blog with questions she was never going to answer. Did he pay a price? “I have become more of an outlaw in this town because I couldn’t hide my amazement from my peers—I’ve definitely become more alienated from mainstream media.”

Since the election, Sullivan has continued to press for clarification about a rumor the mainstream media won’t touch: that Trig is not Palin’s son. Sullivan hasn’t flung any accusations at Palin; he’s just pounded her ever-changing stories about Trig’s birth, and her unwillingness to provide a birth certificate for him. In the heated conversation that surrounds all things Palin, nuance has been lost—and Sullivan has been cast as a crank who takes pleasure in badgering a woman who may have no political future. His response: “Early on, I figured out that anything I write about her can only help her, but I don’t care about that. The job of a journalist is to find the truth.”

"The job of a journalist is to find the truth." You know if there is one thing that television talking heads, newspaper and magazine reporters, authors, and even bloggers should all be able to agree on, it is that.

And some of us do.

BTW I was really pleased to read that Sullivan has a "blog cave" just like the one I am currently sitting in while writing this post. Of course I call mine "The Liberal Lair of Loquaciousness."

You can almost hear Sarah Palin reading that and going "Oh please, you arrogant son-of-a-bitch!" Right before she goes off to look up loquaciousness.