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

Hmm, if he read my comments would he know who I was? LOL -- actually, the answer to that question is probably "no." Like I said, he kinda annoyed me by assuming I was a liberal just 'cause I was anti-apartheid. I really don't think he appreciated the fact that I was a conservative.

I will tell you this: David Frum suffered more publicly, and I more quietly, in our HLS classes together. It's not like I went through Harvard Law wearing a sign that said "Hi, I'm conservative." That would be asking for trouble. There were definitely classmates who frowned on people just for not being left.

E.g., I remember one rather famous class in our first year, a criminal law class taught by Professor Weinberg. He was teaching us the law of rape -- a topic in previous years he had avoided (no doubt to avoid big political debates) until the Women's Law Association complained. So there he was, teaching us the law of rape, and David Frum said something to suggest that the law should be so-and-so so that the crime of rape wasn't done differently than other crimes for prosecution purposes. (I'm vague on what the issue was -- perhaps how thoroughly one can impeach the victim.) Well, there was this lady Clair LaPorte I believe her name was who just *lashed* out at David -- she first of all led the class in laughter and then dug into him.

Now David's not sexist any more than he's racist. He was taking a reasonable position from a legal perspective. And she just *went* for his throat. He wanted to respond but Prof. Weinberg cut the conversation off. And started the next class with a reminder not to laugh at the comments of fellow students.

So, to David's credit, he was always doing things like that. I remember thinking: he said what he said anyway, knowing that the riot would ensue. So, to his credit, he was fearless and articulate and he wasn't easily silenced. Speaking out in sensitive situations and giving the conservative point of view was something he did often, even though he knew he was going to get a shrill liberal response.

So, having chided him for his over-pronunciation of consonants, I do feel compelled to say something nice. He was a perfect gentleman in debate at HLS and that's far more than you could say for the opposition. I recall many such episodes of him holding his own there.

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.......

After reading your post yesterday, I just couldn't stop thinking about what you had written. Let me get this straight. Are you saying that Frum was more than likely given Guiliani's name as Chief of Homeland Security; that he leaked it to that snake in conservative clothing, Kristol; who then predicted the appointment on Fox? The White House then made the connection and poof, Frum is out!

If I understand this correctly, I'd like to thank you. When I tell this to my 83 year old mother this evening, she's going to dance a jig.

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