Posted on 03/23/2010 3:52:31 AM PDT by ICAB9USA
Looking at the state of both parties after President Obama’s health bill win in the House, ABC’s Terry Moran elevated the view of “prominent conservative” David Frum, author a year ago of Newsweek’s “Why Rush is Wrong” cover story, who blamed Rush Limbaugh and Fox News for what he’s dubbed the GOP’s “Waterloo.” On Nightline, Moran contended “anger, stoking it, expressing it, riding it...was the Republican strategy to defeat health care. And over the weekend all that anger got ugly, as some Democratic Members of Congress were called vial, racial and anti-gay slurs.”
But, he warned, “in the wake of the Democrats’ victory, some Republicans are not sure all that anger makes good politics,” as if Limbaugh and other conservative leaders advocated yelling the “slurs.” Moran relayed how “Frum says the real leadership of the Republican Party during the course of the health care battle was not to be found in the halls of Congress, but on the air waves” since “it was talk radio and Fox News, Frum argues, that drove the GOP strategy.” Moran paraphrased Frum’s take:
It sounds like you're saying that the Glenn Becks, Rush Limbaughs, hijacked the Republican Party and drove it to a defeat?
Frum rued: “Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox. The balance here has been completely reversed and the thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican Party.” On his FrumForum blog on Sunday, in a post titled “Waterloo,” Frum charged: “We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat.”
An excerpt from his tirade against talk radio and Limbaugh for making it impossible for Republicans to make a deal with Democrats, as if that’s a bad thing, as Frum claimed Limbaugh really wants Republicans to fail so he has more listeners and can sell more ads: ....There were leaders who knew better, who would have liked to deal. But they were trapped. Conservative talkers on Fox and talk radio had whipped the Republican voting base into such a frenzy that deal-making was rendered impossible. How do you negotiate with somebody who wants to murder your grandmother? Or – more exactly – with somebody whom your voters have been persuaded to believe wants to murder their grandmother?
I’ve been on a soapbox for months now about the harm that our overheated talk is doing to us. Yes it mobilizes supporters – but by mobilizing them with hysterical accusations and pseudo-information, overheated talk has made it impossible for representatives to represent and elected leaders to lead. The real leaders are on TV and radio, and they have very different imperatives from people in government. Talk radio thrives on confrontation and recrimination.
When Rush Limbaugh said that he wanted President Obama to fail, he was intelligently explaining his own interests. What he omitted to say – but what is equally true – is that he also wants Republicans to fail. If Republicans succeed – if they govern successfully in office and negotiate attractive compromises out of office – Rush’s listeners get less angry. And if they are less angry, they listen to the radio less, and hear fewer ads for Sleepnumber beds.
So today’s defeat for free-market economics and Republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry. Their listeners and viewers will now be even more enraged, even more frustrated, even more disappointed in everybody except the responsibility-free talkers on television and radio. For them, it’s mission accomplished. For the cause they purport to represent, it’s Waterloo all right: ours.
ABC is totally, fatally biased.
As for Frum, I don’t sympathize with people who want to become the Democrats’ favorite conservative.
It’s not surprising that a liberal, Democratic news outlet like ABC would trumpet a conservative who criticizes conservatives.
This guy Frum is an idiot.
With such large majorities in both houses of Congress, Barry should of had no problem ramming his socialization of America down our throats.
It is because of the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Palin and most importantly the Tea Partiers that it took so long and why the Rats will pay such a heavy price in November.
Of course, with the thought of another 16,000 IRS agents being added to the roster I will be visiting my local gun shop today and making an addition to my “collection”.
I am thinking another Bushmaster, I have had my eye on a Bushmaster Module Carbine for awhile now.
http://www.bushmaster.com/catalog_xm15_BCWVMF16FMC.asp
David Frum wrote an article in the liberal rag Newsweek “Why Rush is Wrong,” March 7, 2009. After reading the article and noting numerous factual errors I found myself agreeing with Mark Levin: “Hey Frum, you’re a putz.”
Apparently people like Frum don’t have any core conservative principles they are willing to make a stand on. It seems we must forever “compromise” with the other side no matter how un-American the other side is. Hey Dave, how about OPPOSING what the other side does rather than kowtowing to and approving the March to Socialism?
Frum is an Obama loving useful idiot. I can’t wait to hear his blustering excuses after the November elections.
Frum strikes me as a derivative Modern character possessed of soft hands, gelatinous spine and weak heart who nevertheless fancies himself superior to others because he learned in college how to get good grades on term papers by sycophantically appealing to the prejudices of his professors. Politically incorrect thoughts and unbending principles are to those like him as garlic is to the vampires of legend: things to be avoided lest they turn one’s flesh to dust or worse, result in editorial rejection.
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You are so, so correct.
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