TagsTagsDavid Frum has a long piece in New York Magazine today, plaintively asking the question: When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? It's an interesting read, a cry for help and a plea for the GOP to return to sanity, but it's also a complete waste of time. The Republican ...
Republican Party, Extremism, Bad Craziness, David Frum, Anti-Science, Anti-Reality
Of all the partisan Republican pundits on the scene, David Frum is probably the most sensible. But occasionally he issues one of these pieces, in which his partisanship completely clouds his judgment: A Great Week for the GOP. 1) The Republican caucus accepted a deal to avert a government shutdown. ...
David Frum seems surprised that conservative media helped Andrew Breitbart smear an innocent woman: Shirley Sherrod and the shame of conservative media. I’m not sure why he’s surprised. I got over being surprised a while ago. Frum calls Breitbart “the conservative Dan Rather.” But Joshua Green thinks Breitbart is something much darker. Breitbart ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Fox News, David Frum, Joshua Green
David Frum is finding out just how mean-spirited and vindictive the right wing blogosphere can be, as his request to join the “conservative Blogads network” is rejected by dim bulb John Hawkins: Responding to John Hawkins. Observe a few things: 1) Observe that Hawkins does not say, “We denied FrumForum admission ...
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Stephen Colbert, Comedy, David Frum, Right Wing, Video, Politics
Politico’s Mike Allen has an interesting post about David Frum’s excommunication from the American Enterprise Institute; apparently Frum’s departure was ordered by the AEI’s deep pockets donors, who cannot stand criticism as the right wing slides ever deeper into an abyss of powerless rage and negativity. EXCLUSIVE: David Frum told ...
Republican Party, GOP, David Frum, American Enterprise Institute
Quote of the week so far, a painfully accurate observation from David Frum: “Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we’re discovering we work for Fox. And the balance here has been completely reversed. The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines ...
Republican Party, GOP, Bad Craziness, Birthers, Populism, Fox News, David Frum
David Frum quotes my post about Minnesota Governor Pawlenty and his support for teaching “intelligent design” creationism to public school children, and takes exception to my remarks: A Problem for Pawlenty. Johnson’s comment seems to me radically unfair. Pawlenty is a model of sensible modern conservatism. His answers to Newsweek’s ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Anti-Gay, Tim Pawlenty, GOP, Republican Party, David Frum
Here’s an interesting piece by David Frum on the recent legal losses suffered by radical Islamic front group CAIR: The truth about Hamas - and its followers. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) Over the past two years, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its Canadian affiliate, CAIR-Canada, have filed a series of ...