WHITE HOUSE ANGER AT BOOK BY BUSH 'AXIS OF EVIL' SPEECHWRITER!

Drudge ^ | January 5th 2002. | Drudge

[Cicero]

I believe Bush's advisers are familiar with Lewis and Pipes and their recent writings. They would be hard to miss. Being a first-rate theorist and scholar doesn't necessarily make you a useful day-to-day adviser.

[PianoMan]

The current equivalent would be giving Daniel Pipes or Bernard Lewis a great say in how to deal with the Middle East.

Sounds like Frum has the same type of snobbery towards think tanks shared by the media and the academy. The national think tanks (and even the regional) have a great deal of high-powered minds that are not welcome in places with a liberal imprimatur. I think Bush's cabinet has many brilliant faces and the tanks are giving him advice to match any academic scholar, especially given the abyssmal condition of our humanities departments.

[PianoMan]

how paltry the pickings of dissension and scandal are in this WH

So true. And the potentially large impact of this on voters is totally lost on the pundits, who with their craving for things to talk about see no virtue in their absence.

[ConservativeMan55]

Where in that post did I say to use the nukes?

I said it is helpful in dealing with the Middle East to have Nukes. Certainly if our enemies..er...Americans enemies...the enemies of freedom had nukes they would have used them.

[PianoMan]

Where in that post did I say to use the nukes?

Foul! 15-yard penalty. :)

[evad]

Hey, we do have SOME conservatives up here. David Frum is very much a conservative..

I'm glad to hear that...
on both accounts.

No personal offense intended ;0)

[ConservativeMan55]

If the damn terrorists had nukes they would use them.
When and if they use them...they will get it right back at em.

[ladyinred]

He "was hardly the obvious man for the job. But by a very strange fate, he turned out to be, of all unlikely things, the right man."

I find the first part of this statement offensive to say the least. What pray tell makes this true? He ran for President as a governor of a large state, and was elected by the legal process just as any other President has been.

Seems to me that the real statement should be that the author was hardly the obvious man for the job that the President entrusted him with!
He clearly has a agenda here, and it is not hard to decipher his motives.

[ConservativeMan55]

I completely agree Lady in Red. Bush was elected...and proved that he was the right man for the job. Nobody else could have done a better job.
Well maybe G. Gordon Liddy...but he didn't run.

[Destro]

Must every president have a pet of somekind? God forbid we have a petless president.

[ConservativeMan55]

I'm still waiting for your answer. It seems you responded to my post because you felt that I would use the nukes. A classic liberal. Always uses feelings before facts.

[ConservativeMan55]

I'm still waiting for your answer. It seems you responded to my post because you felt that I would use the nukes. A classic liberal. Always uses feelings before facts.

[ConservativeMan55]

Clinton had Monica.

[A Citizen Reporter]

"He clearly has a agenda here, and it is not hard to decipher his motives."

Clearly. I will never forget that Bill Kristol went on Fox News shortly before President Bush's State of the Union Address to "predict" that Rudy Guiliani was to be named the first ever Homeland Security Chief. Hours later I collapsed in guffaws when Tom Ridge was named. Later I learned that David Frum, who was formerly a writer for the Weakly Standard was one of the speechwriters. (Although not the head speechwriter.) It was months later that all this flap occurred about the axis of evil, and Frum's wife taking credit for her hubby. I will always believe that the WH was smokin' out their leakers......and Frum was one of the first to fall.......

[PoisedWoman]

I agree, the book is probably complimentary to Bush. Let's wait and see.

[ConservativeMan55]

That was very astute of you to notice that.

[Ragin1]

"Mr. Frum should seriously consider letting the president speak for himself on these highly volatile matters."

Mr. Bush should have spoke for himself to start with.

[OReilly]

The TODAY SHOW has reserved a money slot for Frum on Tuesday morning.

What in the world is that supposed to mean? Not being a newsee wannabe like drudge.

[fromnovascotia]

Not everyone takes Frum as seriously as he takes himself. Just for laughs, here's The White House Diaries of David Frum, by some writer in Vancouver.

[ConservativeMan55]

He's going to come on and talk about the State of the Economy.
Of course it means that they've booked him as a guest.