Posted on 10/19/2009 10:42:54 AM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
In his worst post yet David Frum picks up some Andrew Sullivan foam (which is pretty much what Andrew produces since he became a celebrity of the left) and takes it to the next level of nasty. “Do Limbaugh and Beck Believe What They Say?” is the title of Andrew’s thoughtless little jape. At least Sullivan deploys the question as an unabashed instrument of derision which he doesn’t himself take seriously. We’ve all asked the question, which is our way of saying no one in his right mind could believe that. It’s what every liberal thinks (when they’re not thinking) of every conservative and vice versa. Does Michael Moore believe what he says? Does Al Gore? Since George Bush entered the White House liberals have ceased to think altogether about certain questions — the election of 2000, the decision to go to war in Iraq, global warming — and have come to the conclusion that they are indeed the only sane people around.
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The question is not do they believe what they say. They do. The question is who would bother reading their tripe?
David Frum is a crumb. Period.
No Dave. Everyone’s the same kind of lying idiot you are. Everyone has the same kind of insecure ramblings you do. What an incessant boob, at what point do you become embarassed to show your face?
Frumm is Canadian.
Seems the queer crowd including Frum, Andrew Sullivan and Pariz Hilton are having a difficult time coping these days. Must be too much estrogen in their systems.
Hey Frum, how about dropping the personalities and just verifying the facts.
It’s the truth that conservatives want. It is the truth that has value.
“Hey Frum, how about dropping the personalities and just verifying the facts.}
I’m not sure they understand that distinction, really. It’s Marshall McLuhan “the medium is the message” thought process, IMO.
In any case, the can’t attack the message, because it’s all on tape, on video, in print. How can they possibly attack that?
On his first day he passed a WH staffer in hall who cheerily said, "Hi", then added, "We missed you at Bible study this morning". I love that story.
“Frumm is Canadian.”
Not my fault!!
Looks like he’s perpetually on the verge of tears.
“Not my fault!!”
Hey, there are only a handful of white, Anglophone Canadians. They all have to be from the same DNA chain.
Guilty!
The funny thing is that its Frum whose ideological underpinnings seem to be weak and shapeless. What precisely does he believe? Does anyone know? Does he know? Or are poses what pass for positions in his world?
Limbaugh is one of the more clear-minded commentators on the air today. Whereas Hannity, just for example, seems to follow the Repub talking points of the day, Limbaugh is usually out ahead of them, but in a clear and principled way. I don’t agree necessarily with every thought that comes out of his mouth but I understand exactly where he is coming from because I understand the principles that inform his commentary. Does he believe the things he says? Of course he does.
The people who dislike him always mystify me a bit, accusing him of being hateful or divisive. I suppose I hear with different ears, because I hear optimism and good humor. And I can’t remember the last time he mistreated a caller, even one he disagreed with.
Beck? Not nearly as clear ideologically speaking, he tends to zig and zag a bit philosophically. But he does have a clear sense of right and wrong, and a nose for hipocrisy, so after a bit of zigging and zagging he gets there. He is also more thorough in his research than just about anyone; he is breaking stories that ought to be coming from newsrooms if newsrooms were doing their jobs.
Does he believe what he says? What specifically does he say that you don’t believe? Considering that, mostly, he lets his philosophical enemies speak for themselves for the most part. He just runs the tape, and they do the damage themselves.
Andrew ran off with his soiled panties in hand when Bush supported the Defense of Marriage Act. His hatred of social conservatives overruled whatever was left of his reasoning brain. Frum has Potomac poisoning, the deadly belief that the solution to every problem lies in the power and wisdom of government. He accuses conservatives of not having ideas because he rejects the validity of any idea that doesn’t depend on big government.
I just don’t understand how Frum can make his living and form his life around denying the truth. Talk about making a deal with the Devil!
When I’m stubborn, yet finally accept the truth, it feels wonderful. Why do people like Frum avoid that moment? It can only be a matter for God. Give me Jesus every time, Amen!
You say that like it's a bad thing. Personally I believe that is what makes chocolate eating, tear shedding Glenn Beck so focused and sharp: too much estrogen.
Actually it seems that since O was elected. the dellusional left have stopped taking their meds.
They print ANY wild and fleeting thought that crosses their minds. As I have always believed. The Lefties ALWAYS go a step to far.
Do they actually think they will still have a job after we get rid of the Dums in the House/Senate in 2010? And ofcourse the larger goal of fumigating the WH in 2012.
Remember Frum et al, the internet never forgets.
LOLOL. Post of the day!
I've been an avid listener since 1991 (less so in the last three or four years), and in all that time I've heard him "mistreat" maybe two or three callers, if mistreat means call them "a failure" and essentially hang up on them.
In every case I was glad he dealt with them as he did. Far more frequent have been the times he strung along with a caller he should have dismissed, but didn't, trying to reason with them, or (sometimes) playing them for laughs.
Mark Levin is much harder on them.
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