Ethics

Defending Charlie Sheen

By Ed Brayton

Like my Robert O'Brien trophy, Andrew Sullivan gives away a number of awards regularly on his blog. Most of the time, he's right on with his assessments, but I have to disagree with his most recent Moore award given to Charlie Sheen. The Moore award is named after Michael Moore and is given for "divisive, bitter and intemperate left-wing rhetoric" (there is also a Michelle Malkin award for right wing rhetoric of the same kind).

There is, of course, plenty of intemperate left wing rhetoric out there and Michael Moore can often be heard slinging it. But this is the statement that Sully pulls from Sheen to criticize:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).