Andrew Sullivan Launches Pay Website

"Trig truther" quits Daily Beast

Contrarian journalist Andrew Sullivan is leaving The Daily Beast to launch an independent site supported by financial contributions from readers. Sullivan's new site will be hosted at an ad-free www.andrewsullivan.com, with a proposed contribution of $19.99 a year, or $1.67 a month.

Sullivan and two staff members "felt more and more that getting readers to pay a small amount for content was the only truly solid future for online journalism," he wrote. "And since the Dish has, from its beginnings, attempted to pioneer exactly such a solid future for web journalism, we also felt we almost had a duty to try and see if we could help break some new ground."

Sullivan was once a rising star as a conservative pundit, serving as New Republic editor and making frequent media appearances. But in the late 1990s he became increasingly critical of religious conservatives who make up a core base of the Republican coalition, dismissing them as "Christianists".

Then in 2008 Sullivan really went outside the mainstream as "Trig truther" - repeatedly questioning the maternity of Sarah Palin's youngest child.

Via The Daily Beast.

Would you pay for content written by Andrew Sullivan

[Sharpshooter]

Why are we promoting this scumbag for free?

If you could get on his site for vomit...I wouldn't even belch.

[rkinsawjoe]

Good luck to him on that! Hey, let's deport him if he tries to "shape" public opinion. we can send him and Pierce Morgan floating off on the same raft together.

[DARSB]

Sully has had his moments of journalistic coups, but those days are fewer now for him. I stopped reading him when the Trig Truther nonsense developed.

On the other hand, Glenn Beck seems to be doing OK with his little home-away-from-Fox - maybe Sully can make a living at it, too.

[Thunderchicken]

Yawn

[PNWest]

Double Yawn

[martydotcom]

line him up along side of Druge Joining you in a big Yawn

[Bobolinsky]

I haven't seen anything lately from Joe McGinnis. Maybe he could get a job there.

[Dan_Tien]

If he says anything worth reading it will be copied and pasted to multiple places on the web almost immediately where one could read it for free.

[jessejaymes]

I'm launching my own pay website. You can pay 19.99 a year to post your own nude pics. About the same value as a political pundit's opinion. Including yours and mine.

[ConserveUSA]

There you go!!!! LOLLOLOLOLOL

[Realthinker]

Yawn is correct. I don't pay for access to any any website.

[RobertJHarsh]

I have no problem paying for a content site, if I like the content. I do not support Sullivan's views to the point where I would pay to read them.

[FernTrejo]

FYI - access to Andrew's website will still be free as will a lot of the content, you will only pay if you want to read the deeper content regularly.- "You'll have a limited number of free read-ons a month, before we hit you up for $19.99. Everything else on the Dish will remain free."

[Neo_NtheMatrix]

Are they holding hands in that picture?

[PoliticalSpice]

Yea, just two tepublican boys, dressed up, on a date.

[ConserveUSA]

They look like fun boys Neo.

[PoliticalSpice]

A had been who never was, who cares?

[jessejaymes]

Would you like to join my web site? For 19.99 a year you can post nude pics of bodybuilders and claim they are of yourself and get lots of hotties sending you their underwear. What a deal. Probably should take out 8 or 10 subscriptions.

[PoliticalSpice]

@jessejaymes You, of all people, promoting gay porn? I think interacting with Neo has pushed you over the ledge...

[jessejaymes]

@PoliticalSpice there is nothing "gay" about my website. You simply post the photo of someone who looks good to women and claim it is yourself. I of course will run a disclaimer stating that all photos are possibly Photoshopped and buyer beware and I put it in 1 point font and voila. So should I put you down for 8 or 30 subscriptions

[PoliticalSpice]

@jessejaymes I won't pay for that, I'm already on okcupid, I have a girlfriend, and for reasons I've never understood I always get women too good looking for me. They say I make em laugh. Go figger...

[jessejaymes]

@PoliticalSpice You're just not getting into the spirit of this thing. I am going to donate all profit to the League of Justice Superhero fund for three legged dogs and broken fang vampires. I don't see how you can be so cold and callous. My cause is a better one than Andrew Sullivan's.

[Bullitt]

How many people comment here? 20?

[Romney_Rube]

Who would pay for a hostage site? I've never heard of this nobody.

[ConserveUSA]

Heck NAW, just hand me the "LMAO" :) if you want to waste your money.

[Speedieg]

It seems Andrew Sullivan will have the last laugh he already has subscribers to the 350k level and that's just since the start of the year.