Posted on 03/10/2009 9:27:14 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Perhaps David Frum is jealous of all the media adoration Kathleen Parker now receives. Knowing he would be challenged on other media outlets, as he was previously on Mark Levin’s radio show, Frum appeared with MSNBC's Chris Matthews tonight. He talked about his recent column in Newsweek titled on the magazine's cover as "A Conservative's Case Against Rush Limbaugh."
Appearing on Hardball to plug his anti-Limbaugh Newsweek article denotes that Frum knew he would be addressing not only the Obama White House but also the mainly liberal fans of MSNBC.
If Frum was truly interested in endearing his article to a right of center audience, obviously, he would have been all over Fox News before he went to MSNBC. Just the fact that Frum wrote his piece in Newsweek and not a conservative publication will make conservatives wonder if Frum will do a political 180 a la Arianna Huffington.
Matthews jumped on the opportunity to prod Frum to say (or at least imply) that Limbaugh is a racist. (My emphasis added throughout) :
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Hmmm...let me think....
Oh. None. Unless you count Al Roker. Which I don’t.
Someone needs to tell Frum that it is We Conservatives who decide who speaks for us - not him. He is NOT a conservative. He is lipstick on a pig.
He does. Read what he writes about Christian Conservatives and Governor Palin.
You compare him to liberal east coast elites... well they DO despise Christian Conservatives.
Here are some of the current flock of traitorous Dems on video
These are part of the current crop of elected socialist/commies that are trying to make the United States part of the communist league of killing fields.
Frum cannot make a conservative case for anything, he is not one.
David Brookes, David Frum, Rod Dreher et al... all of the ‘token’ consrvatives who aren’t should be booted from the ‘conservative’ label.
When OBama’s band starts playing, just notice which Repubs get up and start dancing.
The whole Limbaugh issue is Obama’s meme-of-the-moment. Certain supposed conservatives have fired up their keyboards and their quotable-quotes-generator as if on cue. So now you know where they get their cues from. Its pretty simple.
Bo Snerdly is also no fan of the Zero and revels in mocking him, so of course to people like Chrissy Boy, that makes him an un-black, un-person.
Time to rewrite the rules.
Of course, the black people with whom Rush is friends don't really count, because they're conservatives, so they can't be 'authentically' black. /s
Some clearly do, that's true. But people who mistake their prejudices for wisdom will never be cured of bigotry. It's a judgment call for sure, but with Frum, I don't get that same lofty, ethereal sense of moral superiority that I always get from, say, Peggy Noonan. I just think his world is remote from the one inhabited by observant Christians; he's like an opera star at a folk festival. When writing about George W. Bush in the aftermath of 9/11 (The Right Man), Frum clearly admired the President, and described the presence of his strong religious convictions, but did so (I recall thinking) without really understanding their meaning.
Frum has gone over to the dark side. Leave him there. Let him spend his future trying to get into Chrissy’s pants to feel the 0bama thrill. He doesn’t have anything to offer Republicans but ridicule.
I think you've nailed it. Canadian conservatism doesn't directly correspond to American conservatism. He passed as conservative because of his positions on foreign policy. But he doesn't seem to understand the philosophical underpinnings of American conservatism. The whole "limited government" thing probably doesn't mean much to him.
And he misunderstands conservative views on race. The Democratic Party is the party of the race obsessed; Limbaugh has criticized them on that quite frequently, their inability to see past race, their inability to conceive of a color-blind world, their inability to judge a man's character and philosophy without taking notice of his color. They can't do it, they can't believe anyone else can do it, and they don't believe its necessarily a good thing if you could do it, which they don't believe you can.
Thats Limbaugh's criticism of Democrats, and Frum sees that as racism, because he comes at race from the same angle as any Democrat. The absense of racism, the rejection of race as an indicator of character and philosophy, he interprets as racism.
So, no, he is no Republican, and he is no conservative in the American mold. He doesn't get it, and he doesn't get what he doesn't get.
Chrissy is a gender-confused, self-exalted, lick-spittle birdbrain and, as such, has become the preferred forum for those on the left and turncoat conservatives whose spurious, disingenuous and illogical arguments would crumble under the scrutiny of an even marginally unbiased and competent host — in short, guests just like Chrissy. Frum, on Hardball (and in Newsweek), can spew his his indefendable garbage with impunity and receive praise and love for so doing. Rush has nothing to fear from Frum, Matthews, Olbermann or any other swill-sucking mouthpiece of our Kenyan demagogue.
Um, he's gay?
LOL. No, but in many cases that would be a good guess. He's a very, very smart guy, albeit a Washington elitist with the relevant credentials: Yale undergraduate, Harvard Law School, lives in a fashionable (i.e.: non-crime-ridden) D.C. neighborhood with his well-regarded novelist wife and their kids.
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