It's funny how dissent is now an insult but six years ago it was important.
Posted on 09/11/2009 5:26:06 PM PDT by pissant
When Glenn Beck made his Fox debut, some shrewd conservatives responded with a wink. Maybe the show was paranoid and hysterical. Maybe Beck was none too scrupulous about facts and truth. But why be squeamish? The other side did as bad, or nearly. And see how usefully he mobilized the base!
Those shrewd conservatives assumed Beck was working for them. Big mistake. Beck is working for himself – and he chooses his targets according to his own scheme of priorities.
The newest target is Cass Sunstein, confirmed yesterday by the Senate as director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs within the Office of Management and Budget.
For more about Sunstein, see Tim Mak’s adjoining report. Bottom line: For those who champion free competitive markets, Cass Sunstein is about the best possible choice to be hoped for from a Democratic administration.
I arrive at this opinion through first hand knowledge. I studied in one of Cass Sunstein’s seminars at Harvard Law School, and witnessed for two hours per week the fair play of his mind. But it’s not only my opinion. It’s the opinion of: Chris DeMuth, past president of the American Enterprise Institute; of the Wall Street Journal editorial page; and of the editors of Cato’s Regulation magazine. And while Republican-appointed judges like Chief Justice John Roberts and Court of Appeals Judge Michael McConnell cannot properly express a view, I’d wager dollars-to-doughnuts they too support Sunstein: after all, he endorsed both of them.
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He’s a schmuck!
David Frum is the South end of a North bound HORSE!
Beck gets things done and isn’t a partisan hack.
I thought he already was a Dem...
What’s a Frum? Must be a dinosaur from an earlier age of docile conservatism, the kind that wanted to be part of the in-crowd on the coasts.
“Frum has gotta be considering joining the democrats anytime now.”
My contention is he’s always been one, and is one of the many posing as “Conservative Media” to undermine Conservatism from within (the is Propaganda-as-a-system toppling tool 101). But even if it’s not true - then let him go. Good riddance.
I wonder if Frum smells as bad as what he really is....??
The Harvard crowd have shown themselves to be bigots, and it is they who have grown government to the point that we are all slaves now.
It's funny how dissent is now an insult but six years ago it was important.
Could anyone be more useless than David Frum? His website project has gone nowhere. Which is where he is going.
LOL
I would like for one these losers to actually point out something Beck says that is not factual. They never do they only say he plays fast and loose with the facts but never actually names any.
Who cares?
The jig is up. No one cares what the opposition thinks.
For too long, the rules of engagement were written by the left and the rules were predicated on this belief: If the left says it, it must be so.
That game is soooo over.
He needs to run an old fashioned gauntlet of conservatives on his way out. Just for being a douchebag.
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