Kaus v. Sullivan
Have you been following the blog war between Andrew Sullivan and Mickey Kaus over Brokeback Mountain? It all started back when Kaus suggested that he had no desire to see BM, and what of it? Sullivan called him a homophobe, and they were off to the gay races, providing much entertainment for the rest of us.
Today
Mickey fires perhaps his most personal shot yet, concluding with these lines:
Does Andrew really deny these drearily obvious things? Yes, when it temporarily helps his side in a rhetorical skirmish. That's one of the characteristics that made him such a joy to work for!
Ouch! Hitting Sullivan with the you-got-fired-as-editor-of-the-New-Republic-and-you-deserved-it stick, that's rough.
I take no sides in this blog war—well, that's not really true, because after seeing Brokeback Mountain, I'm inclined to think that Andrew is generally right about the importance of the movie—whereas I also kind of agree that Mickey's right and BM is a "left-message" film.
The point is, they both have good points. Meantime, forget the movie. I'm sittting down with some popcorn and enjoying the catfight!
