Nicole's Knifework (David Frum Identifies the anti-Palin Leaker)

National Review ^ | November 6, 2008 | David Frum

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Wow -that is some savage cutting & gutting that Nicole Wallace has just performed upon Sarah Palin. Nicole & I crossed swords once, during the Harriet Miers nomination battle. Watching what Nicole can do when she is seriously annoyed, I am grateful that I got away from that fight with nothing worse than a few bumps and bruises ....

That said: Some of these stories do not ring quite true to me, especially the story about Palin allegedly not realizing that Africa was a continent rather than a country. Apparently she did not grasp that "South Africa" was not the same thing as "southern Africa." But there a lot of possible innocent explanations for a mistake like that.

[tx_eggman]

Guilty

[Bringbackthedraft]

Guilty!

[trisham]

[rightwingintelligentsia]

And so did Fred Barnes, a week or so ago.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

I knew it. I knew it. I knew it.

Especially when it talked about Sarah making campaign staff cry. And coming out of the shower. I was thinking, either the McCain Campaign is being ran by the Boy George International Fan Club. or “the leaker” is a woman.

I am hearing that Steve Schmidt is in on it too,

Their political careers are OVER.

[Petronski]

LOL

Why should we believe Bill Kristol?

[NetSurfer]

[big black dog]

Wallace quote: "The more that we see kind of the crazies like Ann Coulter out attacking John McCain, the better Republicans feel about their chances in the general election."

http://newsbusters.org/people/nicole-wallace

[redk]

Ok now that we know what do we do about it?

[bereanway]

I saw her on Fox right after they’d called OH for zer0. I guess it’s CYA time for Nicole. Don’t need embedded snipers, she’s on the list.

[freespirited]

There is no excuse for Cameron and FOX to be broadcasting this garbage with only a single source.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Yeah, Kristol was the one that predicted Colin Powell would endorse Obama, and speak at the Democrat Convention.

He was only half right.

[lady lawyer]

Ah. So it wasn’t Mitt. Where are the Mitt/Mormon haters on this thread?

[RadioCirca1970]

X2

[Nichevo]

Randy Scheunemann

[RadioCirca1970]

Not hot...probable lesbo.

just leakin..../s

[kbennkc]

I thought I heard Fred Barnes apologize on the air to Wallace . If campaign staff gives information the the press without attribution , I think it is reasonable to assume the candidate is behind it if they do not find out who is leaking and get rid of them .

[redk]

Apparently Fred Barnes said it too. Do we really think all 3 of them just feel like picking on this woman?

[3AngelaD]

They will get lucrative gigs as “consultants” to CNN and Fox.

[Dr. Thorne]

Why are we even reading this guy, didn’t he support Obama?

Frum is definitely a squish. He belongs to the Peggy Noonan/David Gergan/David Brooks School of Leftist's Favorite Pseudo-Conservative Sell-outs.