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David Frum Attacks Breitbart On The Day Of His Death As Racist…
Weasel Zippers ^ | March 1, 2012 | Weasel Zippers

Posted on 03/01/2012 9:15:40 PM PST by Qbert

I wish I could offer up a better retort to this pathetic sh**bag ( Ace does it better than I ever could) but all I have to offer is this — piss off and die.

Via Daily Beat/David Frum:

“Of the dead, speak nothing but what is good.”

It’s an ancient rule and a wise one, but one that does not do justice to the life and career of Andrew Breitbart, dead today aged 43.

It is impossible to speak nothing of a man who traced such a spectacular course through the contemporary media.

But to speak only “good” of Andrew Breitbart would be to miss the story and indeed to misunderstand the man.

Because President Obama was black, and because Breitbart believed in using every and any weapon at hand, Breitbart’s politics did inevitably become racially coded. Breitbart’s memory will always be linked to his defamation of Shirley Sherrod and his attempt to make a national scandal out of back payments to black farmers: the story he always called “Pigford” with self-conscious resonance. [...]

And this is where it becomes difficult to honor the Roman injunction to speak no ill of the dead. It’s difficult for me to assess Breitbart’s impact upon American media and American politics as anything other than poisonous. When one of the leading media figures of the day achieves his success by his giddy disdain for truth and fairness — when one of our leading political figures offers to his admirers a politics inflamed by rage and devoid of ideas — how to withhold a profoundly negative judgment on his life and career?

Especially when that career was so representative of his times?

We live in a time of political and media demagoguery unparalleled since the 19th century. Many of our most important public figures have gained their influence and power by inciting and exploiting the ugliest of passions — by manipulating fears and prejudices — by serving up falsehoods as reported truth. In time these figures will one by one die. What are we to say of this cohort, this group, this generation? That their mothers loved them? That their families are bereaved? That their fans admired them and their employees treated generously by them? Public figures are inescapably judged by their public actions. When those public actions are poisonous, the obituary cannot be pleasant reading.

Keep reading…

I know Frum worked in the Bush administration and for the Giuliani campaign but will the MSM please, for the love of God, stop calling him a “conservative.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backstabberfrum; breitbart; davidfrum; frum4backstabberfrum; frum4romney; viciousfrum
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The disgraced pseudo-con, who got fired from his job for never showing up to work, clamors for more attention.
1 posted on 03/01/2012 9:15:47 PM PST by Qbert
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To: Qbert

This worthless bastard is a vile POS. I hope he suffers some great loss or calamity in his life so I can be the first to ridicule and mock this Commie Lib. This turd should crawl back into the sewer he came from.


2 posted on 03/01/2012 9:20:38 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Qbert

What a douche bag!


3 posted on 03/01/2012 9:21:32 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Qbert
What a vile disgusting worm of a creature. Every word I read made me want to smash his face more and more.

He is purposely misrepresenting the Shirley Sherrod incident.

FUDF

4 posted on 03/01/2012 9:22:28 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: Qbert

Actually I don’t want to be labeled as anti Frum, so... what an enema bag!

What a jerk!


5 posted on 03/01/2012 9:24:04 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Qbert

F david frum. He doesn’t even deserve captial letters and isn’t fit to carry a water pail for the likes of Andrew.

Such class...shame it’s all low.


6 posted on 03/01/2012 9:24:36 PM PST by SueRae (Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
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To: Qbert
racially coded

For those who don't speak liberal, this phrase means "we just make crap up and claim you said it."

For example, if you say "a giraffe has a long neck," that's racially coded for "black people should die."

Douchebags who play this game are the lowest dirt on the earth. That's my racially coded way of saying "douchebags who play this game are the lowest dirt on the earth."

7 posted on 03/01/2012 9:25:50 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Qbert

I can hear Breitbart from here. F you!


8 posted on 03/01/2012 9:26:51 PM PST by Irenic
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To: Qbert

9 posted on 03/01/2012 9:27:03 PM PST by CainConservative (Santorum/Huck 2012 w/ Newt, Cain, Palin, Bach, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in the Cabinet)
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To: Qbert

Frum is a pandering whore to his leftist master overloads


10 posted on 03/01/2012 9:27:35 PM PST by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: dead
I gotta righteous anger going on for Shrum...stop makin’ me laugh.
11 posted on 03/01/2012 9:28:20 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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Frum is a pseudocon — a liberal masquerading as a conservative. We can see right through him.

Dead Right, indeed!


12 posted on 03/01/2012 9:29:13 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: dead

See what you did....FRUM!!!


13 posted on 03/01/2012 9:29:45 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: Qbert

Pardon my French, but what an asshole Frum is. He couldn’t even wait for the body to get cold.


14 posted on 03/01/2012 9:30:25 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Common sense isn't a blessing. It's a curse because you have to deal with those who don't have it.)
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Ace aced it-—Breitbart is smiling from heaven, and Frum should be running for a dark corner in la-la land.


15 posted on 03/01/2012 9:30:49 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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“Frum You”!!


16 posted on 03/01/2012 9:31:16 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("The door is open" PALIN 2012)
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To: Qbert

Andrew grew up with the Hollywood libs. One of the reasons he became a conservative was because of the stealth racism on the left.


17 posted on 03/01/2012 9:31:31 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
I gotta righteous anger going on for Shrum...

Shrum. Frum. Whatever...

18 posted on 03/01/2012 9:32:22 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Qbert

David Frum is one of the main reasons I dropped my subscriptions to National Review and the Weekly Standard.
The last paragraph in his article could be corrected briefly: Most of the anger and incivility in politics today can be attributed to a staunchly left-wing mainstream media and the administration of a Marxist, race-baiting president and his vitriolically partisan party.
And after this libel on a dead man, this fraud Frum will still try to fly under conservative colors.
No to Romney. No to McCain. No to dishonest `crunchy cons’ like Frum and no to `moderate’ Republicans like Dick Luger.
“Can we count on your support this fall?” GOP
No.


19 posted on 03/01/2012 9:33:47 PM PST by tumblindice (zero+zero=zero)
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To: TBP

Frum’s mother, Barbara, worked for government television (CBC) here in Canada. He’s always been a statist.


20 posted on 03/01/2012 9:34:05 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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