David Frum Reacts To Hannity’s Palin Interview: “She Should Stop Talking Now” (Mythbot)

Mediaite ^ | January 17, 2011 | Frances Martel

[2ndDivisionVet]

Perhaps anticipating that the media would begin ripping Sarah Palin’s interview with Sean Hannity earlier tonight underestimated the speed of the news cycle. Less than an hour later and a network away, Palin’s fellow conservative David Frum responded to her comments with a good-natured plea for her to just “stop talking now.” On MSNBC’s The Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell noted that he would have wanted to hear Palin explain the difficulty of finding an appropriate timing to respond to the attacks on her, introducing the review of her performance on Hannity without deeply analyzing any particular part of it. Frum didn’t explain what he would have wanted to see, but he made it clear that, whatever it was, it was not yet another media appearance about the same topic.

“She should stop talking now,” he put it, rather curtly, though the extended explanation of why seemed more favorable to her than this may indicate. His argument appeared not to be that she was incapable of speaking eloquently (though that implication was certainly present throughout this discussion), but that meta-responding to a response she already gave– the video statement she released days after the massacre– would only dig her deeper into her current political hole. “There is no one left in America that would blame her” for Tucson, he argued, and so the defense seemed far too vocal.

“What should have happened was that one video released should have been the end of it,” he suggested instead, noting that this last interview was a result of Palin being “all too aware” of the attacks on her and, as such, “very shaken.” Even though that first video was a “disaster” and “failure,” according to Frum, “you have to live with the consequences and just cease.”

The Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman, who was also on the panel, agreed with Frum that “her answers didn’t add up or make sense” and that she appeared “rattled.” Moreover, Fineman argued that her interview answers did little to assuage the average American viewer, and even though “she was only talking to her own core supporters,” her answers were barely enough to calm them down, either.

The segment via MSNBC below:

(VIDEO AT LINK)

[mas cerveza por favor]

I could barely stand to watch Frum with his fluttering left eyelid.

[Kickass Conservative]

35% are Morons.

They don’t require facts to form a opinion, they just need a cause. In this case, destroying another person who they disagree with is their Holy Grail.

The willing Media feeds their fantasy.

Pathetic doesn’t even come close.

[freekitty]

This guy is a joke.

[Aria]

I refuse to watch those people....I have better thinks to do.

[onyx]

[Rational Thought]

It doesn't matter what Gov Palin says or doesn't say. The corrupt media establishment in this Country have their marching orders. They will always be attacking the Governor as she is likely the biggest threat to their owner.

[Josh Painter]

“Is Rinocide a word?”
__________

It is now.

- JP

[sarah palin rocks]

If Frum hates her Hannity interview then we know that Sarah hit it out of the park! Not that there was any doubt about it.

Lol Frum is obsessed with Palin and can’t stop talking about her. Very strange.

[Rashputin]

When sour Kraut and Frum have become the lead Palin bashers in the media, you KNOW the left is in trouble. They'd never out their own fifth-columnists this way if they weren't aware that everyone with a (D) for damned after their name is considered to be a liar by 80% of the population.

[Tempest]

Frum is such an embarrassment.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Frum is just another right-wing Leftist and RINO lover.

[caveat emptor]

David Frum should “stop talking now”. Oh wait. He can’t. He doesn’t have any other job.

[The Wizard]

her video was very presidential and she was just fine and tough as nails last night ....they can all see the writing on the wall.......NOTE......none of her detractors have any influence with her and as such will be out in the cold if she is elected.....

[kanawa]

A comment I left on his blog a few days ago...

God, you are such a dweeb.

You’re a cold cup of coffee, a bowl of melted ice cream,
a breeze so light it doesn’t stir the grass,
a cloud that squeezes out a single drop of rain then dissipates.

Palin is more masculine than you, Sven Robinson less emotional and Don Cherry more relevant.

You need to go canoeing and cease your whimpering.

[jazzlite]

Go to this link and find out why they hate her.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2658755/posts

[Diogenesis]

Frum got his "conservative" credentials
by attacking the GOP ticket to help his Romney
THROW the election to their beloved Obama.

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."

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David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

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David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician… I will support him without qualm."

[Verginius Rufus]

According to his Wikipedia biography, he’s a distant cousin of Paul Krugman. He was born in Canada but finally became a US citizen in 2007. He had a job at the White House while still a foreign national.