Legal Commentary

Palin's kids are NOT named after TV witches (sheesh)

By Beldar

If there were any shred of doubt left as to whether Andrew Sullivan is a ridiculous tool ? and guest poster Alex my friend Patterico at Patterico's Pontifications has cataloged several other examples ? it's erased by his uncritical, enthusiastic republication of a reader email asserting that Sarah Palin's daughters Willow and Piper are named after TV witches in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. Sullivan describes his reader as "plumbing the weirdness," presumably of Gov. Palin, and includes this quote: "The governor obviously has a penchant for television shows of paranormal female empowerment."

Stuart Buck and Jonah Goldberg both link and reprint this nonsense, although Stuart was properly skeptical (noting that the birth and TV series dates don't work out), and Jonah suggested that Sullivan just go ahead and become a dKos diarist when he (Jonah) followed up with a reader email linking this People Magazine interview Q&A:

Full post as published by BeldarBlog on August 30, 2008 (boomark / email).