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WHITE HOUSE ANGER AT BOOK BY BUSH 'AXIS OF EVIL' SPEECHWRITER!
Drudge ^ | January 5th 2002. | Drudge

Posted on 01/05/2003 7:13:38 PM PST by ConservativeMan55

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JAN 05, 2003 19:25:38 ET XXXXX

WHITE HOUSE ANGER AT BOOK BY BUSH 'AXIS OF EVIL' SPEECHWRITER; CONCERN MEDIA TOUR WILL MUDDLE MESSAGE; FRUM DESCRIBES PRESIDENT AS 'TART'

**World Exclusive**

Former Bush speechwriter David Frum -- credited with the phrase 'Axis of Evil' -- has infuriated top officials at the White House with his controversial new book, the first insider account of the W. Bush Administration, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Frum helped make international headlines when President Bush's 2002 State of the Union address linked international terrorists to Iran, Iraq and North Korea.

But now Axis Man must walk a fine line between the art of hyping a book and overshadowing a president's own words and policy.

WARNINGS NOT TO GRANDSTAND

"He's going on the TODAY show to talk about North Korea, Iraq?!" an alarmed Bush intimate told the DRUDGE REPORT on Sunday. "Mr. Frum should seriously consider letting the president speak for himself on these highly volatile matters."

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Frum, who left the White House less than a year ago, is set to launch THE RIGHT MAN: THE SURPRISE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W, BUSH on Tuesday with a high-impact media tour, giving the speechwriter and journalist a platform to elaborate on his Bush insights.

Among the White House staff, there was a "dearth of really high-powered brains," Frum, a neoconservative, writes in RIGHT MAN, obtained exclusively by the DRUDGE REPORT.

"One seldom heard an unexpected thought in the Bush White House or met someone who possessed unusual knowledge."

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"Bush was a sharp exception to the White House code of niceness. He was tart, not sweet," charges Frum.

[RIGHT MAN was ranked #2134 on the AMAZON hit parade Sunday evening]

Native Canadian-style quips not withstanding, Frum reveals a grudging admiration for Bush throughout his prose.

Frum writes of the president: He "was hardly the obvious man for the job. But by a very strange fate, he turned out to be, of all unlikely things, the right man."

Bush is neither dumb [as portrayed by the left] nor nice [the president assigns cute nicknames to people only to remember who they are], Frum claims.

With his upclose look at White House players Rove, Hughes and Card, Frum is the first Bush staffer to publish a firsthand account.

Insiders question the "quick turn around" of the book, and one top Bush adviser is said to believe Frum rushed to cashout on his direct access to the president, sources said.

RANDOM HOUSE has printed 125,000 copies of the book. The TODAY SHOW has reserved a money slot for Frum on Tuesday morning. And with North Korea/Iraq currently on the covers of both NEWSWEEK and TIME: Enter the speechwriter.

Developing...

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1 posted on 01/05/2003 7:13:39 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55
Didn't that say "Not for reproduction without permission of author. Drudge Exclusive"
2 posted on 01/05/2003 7:16:50 PM PST by College Repub
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To: ConservativeMan55
This David Frum guy is clearly cashing in on having close access to the President.
Especially by going on the Today Show, an almost traiterous offence. If not to the country, definately to Bush himself.
3 posted on 01/05/2003 7:17:27 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: College Repub
We didn't reproduce the report...we just copied it.
4 posted on 01/05/2003 7:18:04 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55
Hey, any one remember the Drudge article, "Former White House Aide Turns on Rove?"

Looks like we know who that aid was, if we didn't already.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/798821/posts
5 posted on 01/05/2003 7:21:00 PM PST by PianoMan
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To: ConservativeMan55
We didn't reproduce the report...we just copied it.

The Napster Republic :)

6 posted on 01/05/2003 7:21:19 PM PST by chance33_98
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To: ConservativeMan55
Already posted here.......

Let me guess, you just got another e-mail?

7 posted on 01/05/2003 7:21:20 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: ConservativeMan55
Why would Bush hire a canuk (sp?)

They hate us...conservatives I mean.

8 posted on 01/05/2003 7:21:26 PM PST by evad
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To: ConservativeMan55
For it to be traiterous, wouldn't he have to be a US citizen first?

The book is clearly favourable to Bush. Perhaps the WH is trying to help promote it this way.
9 posted on 01/05/2003 7:22:27 PM PST by Grig
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To: hole_n_one
LOL....nope...but this post has the full article and that other one was before it was posted....hehe. While I'm at it...Drudge has got some more breaking news...as well.

EXCLUSIVE: STREISAND IN HEATED ARGUMENT OVER 'GLOBAL WARMING'...
10 posted on 01/05/2003 7:22:56 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: evad
Hey, we do have SOME conservatives up here. David Frum is very much a conservative.
11 posted on 01/05/2003 7:23:34 PM PST by Grig
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To: ConservativeMan55
"He's going on the TODAY show to talk about North Korea, Iraq?!"

He needs to bite his tongue.

I doubt that he has insights into North Korea, and Iraq.

12 posted on 01/05/2003 7:24:01 PM PST by Spunky
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To: Grig
I don't neccessarily mean traiterous to the country..but specifically the Bush Administration.
They gave him a job...and he's biting the hand that fed him.
13 posted on 01/05/2003 7:24:06 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55
"dearth of really high-powered brains,"

If true, this is sad. Reagan benefitted tremendously from having people like Richard Pipes (dean of Russian Studies at Harvard) on the National Security Council, when dealing with the Soviet Union. People who had studied the damn thing and knew how to hit it hard.

The current equivalent would be giving Daniel Pipes or Bernard Lewis a great say in how to deal with the Middle East.

14 posted on 01/05/2003 7:24:33 PM PST by ExpandNATO
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To: Grig
He's a Trent Lott type of conservative.
and if he's going on the Today Show to divulge secrets about the White House he's a sellout.
15 posted on 01/05/2003 7:25:31 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: ExpandNATO
It doesn't take a degree to deal with the Middle East.
Just a couple of nukes.
16 posted on 01/05/2003 7:27:12 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55
Drudge is just making mischief. I read many months ago that Frum and his wife were on the make, and the WH knew it. Bush has known for a long time that David Frum was highly unlikely to ever adhere to a "no grandstanding" order.

What's really instructive is to consider how paltry the pickings of dissension and scandal are in this WH, to the point where mudrakers are reduced to ginning up as scandalous appearances by former staffers on talking head shows. In comparison, by this time in the Clinton administration, one dead body and several mind blowing scandals had already been delivered to the meat eaters in the press corps.

17 posted on 01/05/2003 7:30:55 PM PST by beckett
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To: ConservativeMan55

Frum

18 posted on 01/05/2003 7:31:02 PM PST by martin_fierro
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To: ConservativeMan55
Frum is a clown who has insubordinated himself out of every job he has ever had,
19 posted on 01/05/2003 7:31:14 PM PST by ContentiousObjector
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To: ConservativeMan55
If you feel like incinerating the innocent along with the guilty a nuke will do, for the rest of us a more intelligent approach is called for.
20 posted on 01/05/2003 7:32:03 PM PST by ExpandNATO
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