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  • Mona Charen: Book describes Bush's integrity

    01/12/2003 12:59:52 PM PST · by Jean S · 12 replies · 202+ views
    Omaha World-Herald ^ | 1/12/03 | Mona Charen
    WASHINGTON - Former speechwriter David Frum has authored the first inside account of the Bush White House. It is characterized by Frum's exceptional intelligence, historical fluency and pungent prose. Frum has produced an intensely gripping account of his personal experience inside the White House at one of the turning points in our history and a chronicle of the dramatic metamorphosis of George W. Bush. True, "The Right Man" is not a cheerleading book. Frum, who joined the White House somewhat skeptical about the president, maintains his critical distance and keen discernment throughout. That is what makes his insights so valuable...
  • David Frum interview by Tim Russert, CNBC now.

    01/11/2003 7:10:50 PM PST · by LurkerNoMore! · 26 replies · 302+ views
    CNBC | 01/11/03 | LurkerNomore!
    Tim Russert's interview with David Frum, author of "The Right Man", is on CNBC now, and replays a few times this weekend.
  • WHITE HOUSE ANGER AT BOOK BY BUSH 'AXIS OF EVIL' SPEECHWRITER!

    01/05/2003 7:13:38 PM PST · by ConservativeMan55 · 104 replies · 1,466+ views
    Drudge ^ | January 5th 2002. | Drudge
    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...
  • Enough preparation, it's time for action (David Frum: Let's Roll!!!)

    12/28/2002 9:46:05 AM PST · by knighthawk · 5 replies · 160+ views
    National Post ^ | December 28 2002 | David Frum
    In the war on terror, 2002 was a year of preparation and waiting. The year 2003 will be one of action and decision. Here's a look back -- and a guess at what lies ahead. After the spectacular triumphs in Afghanistan in November 2001, the war on terror went quiet -- so quiet that it often seemed that nothing was happening at all. In fact, serious and important work was being done in four separate areas -- and all of them are about to pay off. First, order was restored to Afghanistan. For all the questions about whether the United...
  • Quit hemming and hawing over Hezbollah (David Frum vs the Chrétien Liberals)

    12/11/2002 8:54:04 AM PST · by knighthawk · 1 replies · 174+ views
    National Post ^ | December 11 2002 | David Frum
    James Traficant, the former congressman from Youngstown, Ohio, now a prisoner in a federal penitentiary, got his start in national politics when the FBI videotaped him taking a US$163,000 bribe from a local mobster in 1983. At his trial, Traficant explained that he had been conducting a personal sting investigation into mob corruption. He was acquitted and elected to Congress the following year. Traficant built his political career on the insight that some people will believe anything. And the Chrétien Liberals follow the same rule. Last week, the National Post reported that the government had almost, nearly, just about, getting...
  • Moment of Truth-National Review Asks for Added Clarification of Lott's Remarks to Thurmond

    12/09/2002 8:33:56 AM PST · by ewing · 225 replies · 373+ views
    National Review Magazine ^ | Dec. 9, 2002 | David Frum
    I cannot help thinking that this story is not over-That Republicans will hear Sen. Lott's words quoted at them again and again in the coming months. I for one do not believe Trent Lott is a racist or segregationist. My guess is a speechwriter gave him note cards with a few jokes, and when Lott finished reading them, he launched himself into what he probably intended to be nothing more than a big squirt of greasy flattery. But that's not what came out of Lott's mouth.
  • The disloyal Powell should be sacked (David Frum vs. Colin Powell)

    11/20/2002 6:04:28 AM PST · by knighthawk · 14 replies · 4+ views
    National Post ^ | November 20 2002 | David Frum
    U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell should have been fired Sunday. It was on Sunday that The Washington Post posted its first excerpt from Bob Woodward's new book, Bush At War. Like Woodward's book on the Gulf War, The Generals, Bush at War is essentially an edited transcript of Powell leaks, all of them calculated to protect himself against blame if things go wrong -- and to undermine the policies of the administration for which he theoretically works. For more than a year, we've been reading nasty little stories in the papers about Bush adviser Karl Rove, Secretary of Defense...
  • The Democrats lost ugly (David Frum and National Post vs. Democrats)

    11/13/2002 3:38:56 PM PST · by knighthawk · 16 replies · 73+ views
    National Post ^ | November 13 2002 | David Frum
    WASHINGTON - A week after the big Republican win in the U.S. off-year election and the evidence is accumulating: the Democrats lost ugly. Consider just two cases: 1. South Dakota. As Byron York reports on NationalReview.com, up until 6:38 a.m. on the morning after election day, it looked as if the Democrats had lost the South Dakota Senate race. With 838 of the state's 844 precincts reporting, Republican challenger John Thune led Democratic incumbent Tim Johnson by more than 1,000 votes. Then something odd happened. Six precincts that normally report early delivered their results very late. And guess what? All...
  • September 11 killed the race card

    11/07/2002 3:59:30 PM PST · by knighthawk · 29 replies · 325+ views
    National Post ^ | November 7 2002 | David Frum
    A less angry, more patriotic electorate It only seems like nothing happened. For hour after hour on election night, the wires reported no change, no change, no change. But that "no change" was a big change from elections past. The president's party typically loses seats in off-years -- an average of 30 House seats and almost always Senate seats as well. In recession years like 1982, 1970 and 1958, the president's party does much worse. As we went to press last night, however, the Republicans seemed at least to be holding their own. There are many reasons why the Republicans...
  • Truth a casualty of anti-gun crusade (David Frum vs. Michael Bellesiles)

    10/30/2002 2:56:27 PM PST · by knighthawk · 18 replies · 234+ views
    National Post ^ | October 30 2002 | David Frum
    WASHINGTON - By a strange coincidence, the Washington snipers were caught in the very same weekend that Professor Michael Bellesiles was forced to resign his professorship at Emory University. You may wonder: What's coincidental about that? Here's what. For many Americans, the sniper shootings proved the need for tighter gun laws. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the Democratic candidate for governor of Maryland, the state most terrorized by the snipers, reminds audiences at every appearance that her father and uncle, Senator Robert Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy, died of bullet wounds -- and she blasts her opponent, Republican Robert Ehrlich, as...
  • The supreme lesson of the sniper case (David Frum)

    10/28/2002 2:39:49 PM PST · by knighthawk · 18 replies · 293+ views
    National Post ^ | October 28 2002 | David Frum
    WASHINGTON - A gunman named Muhammad has terrorized the Washington area for weeks. He was a follower of Louis Farrakhan and joined the security detail at the Million Man March in Washington in 1996. He had expressed admiration for the 9/11 terrorists and violent hatred for the infidel United States. So: Could this murderous rampage have anything to do with, um, Islamic terror? If you have been watching television you already know the answer: Naaaah. Sometimes it seems that the single most important prerequisite for a successful media career is a talent for ignoring the obvious. Every interviewer on television...
  • There is no making deals with dangerous regimes (David Frum)

    10/21/2002 3:57:10 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 6 replies · 114+ views
    National Post ^ | October 21 2002 | David Frum
    "Experience is a hard teacher, but fools will have no other." -- Benjamin Franklin. God likes his little jokes. Not one week after Jimmy Carter received his Nobel Peace Prize, we learn that his most important post-presidential assignment ended the way most of his policies in offices did: in total disaster. In 1993, the United States detected a North Korean nuclear weapons program. The dangers of allowing the world's looniest regime to develop nuclear weapons were obviously terrifying. On the other hand, the then-new Clinton administration abhorred confrontation and the use of force. So rather than eliminate the North Korean...
  • What journalism schools don't teach

    10/16/2002 2:41:24 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 7 replies · 94+ views
    National Post ^ | October 16 2002 | David Frum
    Journalism school is a remarkable institution: the only form of professional education despised by its own profession. I have seldom heard a journalist say a good word for j-school, and many journalists actively scorn it. No wonder then that Columbia's new president, Lee Bollinger, has made radical reform of the Columbia School of Journalism one of his first priorities. In July, Bollinger postponed the appointment of a new dean of the school to replace departing dean Tom Goldstein. Bollinger called for a task force to rethink journalism education from top to bottom. Since Columbia is the oldest, richest and most...
  • Jimmy Carter doesn't deserve a Nobel (David Frum vs. Jimmy Carter)

    10/15/2002 3:28:36 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 31 replies · 338+ views
    National Post ^ | October 15 2002 | David Frum
    Could there be a less deserved Nobel Prize than the one just awarded to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter? In his four years as President, Carter managed through weakness and ineptitude to create crisis after crisis. During the 1976 presidential campaign, he pledged to withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea -- a pledge that emboldened the North Koreans to position eight additional infantry divisions and 35% more tanks against the South. North Korean bellicosity forced Carter to break his pledge, but he had left behind a deadly permanent legacy: It was during the Carter years that the North Koreans started...
  • He sure does not lack friends in Canada (David Frum vs. Saddam Hussein)

    10/02/2002 2:56:16 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 6 replies · 103+ views
    National Post ^ | October 2 2002 | David Frum
    'The way to deal with Saddam Hussein is not by killing thousands of Iraqi civilians, any more than the way to deal with American foreign policy was by killing thousands of American civilians on September 11th," said Michael Mandel, an Osgoode Hall law professor. -- National Post, Sept. 26. One thing you can say about Saddam Hussein: He sure does not lack friends in Canada. Toronto Sun columnist Eric Margolis will defend Saddam in the premier issue of Patrick Buchanan's new magazine, The American Conservative. And last week, 120 prominent Canadians signed a manifesto condemning any war against Saddam Hussein...
  • Muslim radicalism reshapes Euro-politics (David Frum)

    09/30/2002 3:15:26 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 42 replies · 271+ views
    National Post ^ | September 30 2002 | David Frum
    Saturday, September 28, 2002 Today, some 100,000 people are expected to demonstrate in London's Hyde Park against the Blair government's Iraq policy. This "Stop the War" march is the biggest protest in British history since -- well, since 400,000 people turned out the previous weekend to protest the Blair government's proposed ban on fox hunting. I've spent a week here talking to politicians and journalists, and I have found almost none of them gung-ho for war. But while they are not eager, the majority are ready to act. While 160 of the Labor Government's 412 Members of Parliament have in...