Is just DBKP, or has anyone else noticed Andrew Sullivan’s X-Files obsession over Sarah Palin’s “pregnancy”?

“So you believe in these kinds of things?”

“Let’s just say I want to believe.”
–Agent Mulder, X-Files

Here’s the “latest” from Sullivan, or Agent “Sully”.

Agent Sully writes that so far he’s “found” only three public photographs of Palin pregnant with Trig. (Gasp!) Only three? So Sully put on his detective hat and double-breasted trench coat with the lavender scarf and matching kerchief, and went to work:

“I begged the McCain campaign by private email and in a private meeting to give me something – anything – to kill the story off. I promised to run any evidence that would blow this out of the water.”

When begging didn’t work, Agent Sully and the Daily Dish lined up “8 of the leading obstetricians in the country”. Of course, none of these “leading OB docs” were named, so we assume they wanted to remain “hush, hush” and “confidential”.

Given the facts that the Daily Dish presented regarding Palin’s pregnancy, Agent Sully wrote that “none would say that this pregnancy could not have happened, and none would comment on a case they hadn’t examined personally”. Even though “none of them would comment” on the Palin case, Agent Sully–strands of X-File music in the background– reported that all the “unnamed” leading OB experts said (commented) that Palin’s pregnancy was “one of the strangest and unlikeliest series of events they had ever heard of”.

In yet another stunning observation, Agent Sully compared Michelle Malkins’ questioning of Obama’s certificate of birth–not the same as a certified birth certificate, but we digress–to Palin’s pregnancy:

“Malkin also equates the story with the Obama birth certificate affair. But we have documentary evidence of the certificate, and Palin has produced no hard evidence at all for her pregnancy.”

One might add, the fairly evident observation that Trig is, in fact, “hard” evidence of Palin’s pregnancy.

But what one truly wonders is why Agent Sully continues to be so flustered over this issue concerning a woman’s pregnancy? For a man who is a self-confessed gay, you’d think he’d be savy to a woman’s right to privacy regarding a pregnancy? The very same woman who, along with John McCain, is no longer running for President?

The certificate of birth issue concerns the man who is now the President-elect. Palin is no longer in the picture. Yet Agent Sully cannot let it go. So we decided to dig a little deeper and find out why Sarah Palin has become an obsession of Andrew (Agent Sully) Sullivan and why he “cannot let it go”.

We went out and talked to ten of the lowest ranked psychiatrists we could find: four were currently serving sentences in correctional facilities for abusing patients, two were finishing up detox stints in rehab centers, three were currently in court fighting to have their license reinstated, and one was a patient at the Institute For the Very Very Nervous.

When we presented our observations concerning Agent Sully’s behavior regarding Sarah Palin and her pregnancy, each doctor stated that they couldn’t comment on a patient who was obviously in the grips of an obsessive-compulsive neurosis, or OCD, that to do so, we would have to come up with some cold hard cash.

So we did further research.

What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

“Like a needle getting stuck on an old record, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) causes the brain to get stuck on a particular thought or urge.”

Think of an old scratchy ‘78 record playing “Sarah Palin pregnancy, Trig, Sarah Palin pregnancy, Trig, Trig, Palin, Palin, pregnancy” endlessly in Agent Sully’s mind.

“For example, you may check the stove twenty times to make sure it’s really turned off, you’ve washed your hands until they’re scrubbed raw, or drive around for hours to make sure that the bump you heard while driving wasn’t a person you ran over.”

Or you endlessly speculate over whether a woman gave birth to a child, not for one second regarding your actions as an invasion of her privacy, or of the child’s privacy, or that it is a tad bit strange and bizarre for a journalist who used to be regarded, at one point in time, as a professional.

Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions

Obsessions are involuntary, seemingly uncontrollable thoughts, images, or impulses that occur over and over in your mind.

Given the pages and pages of speculation and “observations” written by Agent Sully, and his disinterest in laying the matter to rest, it’s obvious that Sarah Palin’s pregnancy and its “images, thoughts, and impulses” are occurring “over and over and over and over” in Agent Sully’s mind. Much like a dryer, with a wet tennis shoe tumbling around inside, with no “off” button, or Agent Sully’s brain locked inside a metal barrel drum, endlessly falling over Niagra Falls.

You don’t want to have these ideas – in fact, you know that they don’t make any sense. But you can’t stop them. Unfortunately, these obsessive thoughts are usually disturbing and distracting.

“Disturbing” in more ways than one. “Distracting” from the real issue: a grown man obsessing over a woman’s pregnancy.

Obsessive-Compulsive Catergories

Washers:

Are afraid of contamination. They usually have cleaning or hand-washing compulsions.

Checkers:

Repeatedly check things (oven turned off, door locked, women’s gestation periods, etc.) that they associate with harm or danger.

Doubters and sinners:

Afraid that if everything isn’t perfect, or done just right, something terrible will happen, or they will be punished. (For some reason, more Catholics fall into this category)

Counters and arrangers:

Obsessed with order and symmetry. They may have superstitions about certain numbers, (like nine months), colors, or arrangements.

Hoarders:

Fear that something bad will happen if they throw anything away. They compulsively hoard things that they don’t need or use. (Also afraid to let go of an “idea”, or compulsively hoard bizarre theories relating to political parties they oppose)

“We’re going to start taking donations, to see if Andrew Sullivan can’t get some help.”
–Mondo Frazier

Treatment for OCD

Exposure and Response Prevention

“For example, if you are a compulsive hand washer, you might be asked to touch the door handle in a public restroom and then be prevented from washing up. As you sit with the anxiety, the urge to wash your hands will gradually begin to go away on its own. (So they say) In this way, you learn that you don’t need the ritual to get rid of your anxiety – that you have some control over your obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.”

If you are a compulsive “pregnancy” doubter, you might be asked to change “poopy” diapers at Our Lady of Perpetual Guilt Hospital’s nursery, or have Sister Leo Magdalene whack your hand with ruler every time a “Palin pregnancy” thought pops into your head.

In the interim, we’d like to note, that for real sufferers of OCD, it’s a serious condition that can wreck havoc on one’s life. As for Andrew Sullivan’s obsession with Sarah Palin’s pregnancy, an “obsession” or “compulsion” seemed to be the most apt description of truly bizarre behavior.

By LBG

Source – Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Image – X Files
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