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.
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.”
Actually, I think that Frum demonstrates exactly what has become of the Republican Party. Let him and his gather together in their demise. The Republican Party has long ago lost the public. Time for a new party folks.
Ever since Frum left the Bush White House, he slowly but surely began moving further and further left. Eventually, most conservatives began to realize that Frum had become nothing more than a leftist, so they largely ignored what he had to say just as they ignore Michael Moore's rants. So Frum needs to run to his friends in MSM outlets to attack conservatives like Palin, Rush, Beck, etc.
Spitting on the corpse of Breitbart is just what anyone who has been paying attention to Frum's career path should have expected from him.
Although I appreciated Ace of Spades takedown, the best payback we can give Frum is to completely ignore him.
"It" was called "Pigford" because TIMOTHY PIGFORD filed the lawsuit (Pigford vs. Glickman) just as Roe v. Wade is called "Roe" all the time or Citizens United v. the FEC is called "Citizens United" or Kelo v. The City of New London is called "Kelo."
How can we hope to strive beyond this morass with scum like Frum seeding discontent and discord at any attempt of discourse. A pox on the tactless protuberance known as Frum.
Frum isn’t fit to shine Andrew’s shoes.
When the entire video was later finally obtained it showed that Shirley Sherrod was even more of a racist than the original clip indicated.
Frum has to know this.
Therefore, Frum is now a documented liar.
And sure, he's still a regular old scumbag, too.
Forum discredited nobody else nearly as much as himself in this episode.
I don't like to take anyone to task on the day of their death. If I encounter someone lying about their true worth, I may do a low burn reminder of truth, but you'll never see me lying about them.
Frum jumps the shark here.
Failing to recognize Barack Hussein Obama (mmm mmm mmm) as the primary race baiter in America—and attributing race baiting to the outspoken conservatives in our nation is evidence enough this former speech writer has lost his bearings.
Someone lock Frum up with that chain smoking has-been liberal Susan Estrich. They deserve each other.
Greta attacked him to on her blog.
Don't get your kickers in a wad over this Panty-waist. We have so many of our Conservative "voices" let us down, Krute, Kristol, Coutler, Noonan , Parker, etc. etc etc. I don't even listen to them anymore Ditto that Frum, they all suck, I can think for myself, the beltway punditry class is a circle of jerks.
Andrew (Rest in Peace, Guardian of Liberty) went off on his own and exposed people for what they were.
As Springsteen said; "and the poets down here don't write nothin' at all they just stand back and let it all be"
He just told the truth, spoke his mind, and thought for himself.
We are better off going that route than listening to Frum...
They been handing us our Divorce papers and we the dysfunctional have been hoping for reconciliation.
It is time for what I call 11.3.12, they day after we get our asses handed to us via Romney if we get stuck with that dog, The Party of Reagan.
Mark Levin burned David Frum to the ground (rhetorically speaking) months ago. I believe he was invited on the show and, for some reason, he declined to engage TGO.
This finding of the inner “racist” in everyone who opposes the incipient dictatorship would be laughable if it were not so effective with the weak minded who are bound with some sort of guilt and self hatred.
frum works for axledick and satan.
LLS
Name 'em, smartass.
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