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Republican commentator David Frum loses job after criticizing GOP health-care strategy
Wapo ^
| 03/25/10
| Howie Kurtz
Posted on 03/25/2010 3:08:38 PM PDT by freespirited
Three days after calling health-care reform a debacle for the Republicans, David Frum was forced out of his job at the American Enterprise Institute on Wednesday.
The ouster also came one day after a harsh Wall Street Journal editorial about the former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, which said that he "now makes his living as the media's go-to basher of fellow Republicans" and accused him of "peddling bad revisionist history."
Frum made clear in a letter to AEI President Arthur Brooks that his departure after seven years at the conservative think tank was not voluntary. "I have had many fruitful years at the American Enterprise Institute," he wrote, "and I do regret this abrupt and unexpected conclusion of our relationship." AEI did not comment immediately.
In a brief interview, Frum said "there was no suggestion by AEI" that his sharp criticism of the GOP's health-care strategy was the reason for his dismissal. He declined to say what Brooks had told him.
"They invited me to remain associated with AEI on a non-salaried basis," Frum said, and he declined.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; aei; arthurbrooks; bhohealthcare; davidfrum; frum; gophealthcare; healthcare; kurtz
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I don't blame AEI.
To: freespirited
Good, Frum is not a Republican.
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:10:28 PM PDT
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
To: freespirited
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:11:10 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
("When the national government and Congress start going wild, it's up the states to rein them in.")
To: freespirited
He’s probably off to MSNBC. Enjoy your stay in the sewer.
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:11:23 PM PDT
by
Pit1
To: freespirited
“They invited me to remain associated with AEI on a non-salaried basis,”
“Son, we’re going to give you a chance
to advance yourself.”
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:11:37 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: freespirited
The other side will open their arms wide for him.
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:13:37 PM PDT
by
GoCards
("We eat therefore we hunt...")
To: freespirited
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:13:59 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
(ObamaCare = VA hospitals for everyone)
To: alice_in_bubbaland
GOP take note! If one pretends to be a “conservative” simply kick them out. Is that so hard to understand?
He’ll be off to NPR and cry his eyes out..
To: freespirited
Hey 0bama, how's about you make Frum, the shrimp, your new media czar(aka Conservatives Attacker in Chief)?
To: alice_in_bubbaland
alice_in_bubbaland wrote: Good, Frum is not a Republican.Neither is they guy he wrote speeches for.
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:16:16 PM PDT
by
Thane_Banquo
(The GOP: The Big Tent with a Fifth Column.)
To: freespirited
Buh Bye David
Take Kathleen Brooks with you
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:16:24 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Karl Marx was NOT one of America's Founding Fathers)
To: GoCards
Frum is going on Olberman tonight.
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:16:50 PM PDT
by
roses of sharon
(I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
To: freespirited
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:18:43 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
To: max americana
Yep, in primetime drive time.
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:18:51 PM PDT
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
To: tet68
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:19:10 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Facts don't matter. Proof not required. Anything goes! Racial slurs, death threats.....)
To: Thane_Banquo
I know hubby call him “Bush the Socialist”.
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:19:45 PM PDT
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
To: freespirited
Frum does’nt decide, voters do. News at 11 {November, that is]
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:20:16 PM PDT
by
ex-snook
("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
To: freespirited
Scarborough and Frum debuts next week?
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:20:47 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
(If this be treason make the most of it. - Patrick Henry)
To: freespirited
Adios David. Maybe you can team up with Scott McClellan on you next book.
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:22:30 PM PDT
by
SueRae
To: Pan_Yan
I confess I was thinking the exact same thing.
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posted on
03/25/2010 3:23:18 PM PDT
by
freespirited
(I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. --Robert Frost)
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