My Email to the Atlantic Monthly

Here is the email I sent to the Atlantic Monthly last week canceling my subscription. Feel free to copy and revise it for your cancellation email. Please be polite or the editors will dismiss you as a nutcase in your pajamas babbling to your beagle. Use the Atlantic Feedback page to send your email.

I have been an Atlantic Monthly subscriber for the last 10 or 12 years. I enjoy the magazine and most of the authors who write for it. However, I can no longer be a party to any organization which supports Andrew Sullivan's blog. Mr. Sullivan's blog is simply intolerable and I refuse to pay for it, even nominally.

In his recent posts Sullivan has revealed himself to be a crude misogynist and a peddler of hateful conspiracy theories. This is not journalism, indeed it barely qualifies as coherent writing, and is unworthy of the Atlantic Monthly. His hateful screeds against Sarah Palin and her family are contemptible. Meanwhile Sullivan's fawning hero-worship of Mr. Obama is not justifiable by any journalistic standards. His continued employment is an embarrassment to the Atlantic Monthly. It's sad, but Andrew Sullivan has devolved into a petty and loathsome annoyance and a joke of a journalist. I cannot support this any longer.

Please cancel my subscription. However, if at some point the Atlantic Monthly and Mr. Sullivan part ways, please feel free to contact me as I will gladly resubscribe.