What does David Brock, Andy Sullivan and our very own Charles Johnson have in common? They are all way to the Left! If there is any proof needed (and there should not be) that David Frum is no bleeping conservative then look no further than those three aforementioned gents who came rushing breathlessly over to his defense. I guess Kathleen Parker, David Brooks, and Peggy Noonan will be the next ones to come to Frum’s defense as an authentic conservative. After Johnson’s December 1, 2009 stream of consciousness post of “My 10 reasons for parting with the Right” – David Frum begged Charles Johnson not to leave, see (Come Back Charles Johnson). The Johnson was never even close to being a member of “the Right” to begin with and neither apparently was Frum.
Hat tip – Ace
by John Hawkins
On Monday, I smacked David Frum around on RWN, partially for being David Frum, but mostly for complaining about being denied a spot in the Blogads Conservative Hive.
David Frum did fire back, but honestly, just between you, me, and all the other people who will read this today, I initially wasn’t planning to respond because it was well…very weak tea. It was like Frum wrote the response while he was really sleepy or something. So, what’s the point of rehashing the same old argument, right?
However, something happened that turned me completely around on the idea of doing a post. Blogs started supporting Frum — but, not just any blogs. Andrew Sullivan from the Daily Dish, Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs and David Brock’s Media Matters all spoke up to defend David Frum.
Hey, wait a second. There’s something about those three websites….Let’s see, they’re all liberal. They all hate anything and everything conservative. They all stick up for Frum — which, and this is probably breaking some heretofore unknown corollary of Godwin’s law, but for a “conservative” to be defended by all three of those websites is like a liberal being praised by Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Daniel Ortega. Gee, it’s almost like there’s something else. Oh, yeah — didn’t Andrew Sullivan, Charles Johnson, and David Brock all used to be on the Right before they flipped and started attacking everybody on their own side? Now, they’re all defending David Frum who’s making a name for himself by attacking people who are supposed to be on his side? Ah, that’s probably just coincidence. Still, maybe it’s just me, but isn’t it a wee bit odd that all of these websites that spend their days ceaselessly venting their spleen at all things conservative, are all sticking up for David Frum? Weird, isn’t it?
In fact, let’s do a little comparison. All of these websites are going all fuzzy kittens over David Frum, who has a gig at CNN. So, let’s see what they all had to say when another blogger, the much more popular Erick Erickson of Redstate was hired at CNN. David’s a “conservative” blogger and Erick’s a conservative blogger — so, I’m sure the commentary was compatible, right? Let’s find out!
Wow, how strange! Charles Johnson, in his own inimitable way, posted a Jon Stewart video attacking Erickson and wrote a single negative, rambling sentence about it. Media Matters pumped out 1420 words attacking the hire including a section called “Erickson’s history of violent incendiary, sexist, and racially charged commentary” which featured Erick going WAY OVER THE LINE by saying awful things like Michelle Obama is a “marxist harpy wife” (Snicker). Sullivan quoted some silly nonsense about the hire of Erickson “moving the center” to the right because Erick’s an “extreme partisan.” Lord knows we can’t have “extreme partisans” on CNN. We better just leave that channel to unbiased observers of the news like James Carville, Donna Brazile, and Paul Begala.
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Let me also add that Frum’s last line there is particularly funny — “A lucre-seeking cynic would do much better to conform to conservative groupthink than to challenge it.” Really? Because it’s no surprise that an unaccomplished airhead like Meghan McCain has a column in the Daily Beast. David Brooks? He’s a very fuzzy thinker — so why does he have a gig at the New York Times? How is it that Kathleen Parker of all people is getting a new TV show on CNN? David, why do you think you have a column at CNN? Do you think Newsweek would have given you a cover story if you were going to say nice things about Rush Limbaugh?
If you were going by talent, personality, or ability to hold an audience, none of the people I’ve just mentioned, including David Frum, have the ability to claw their way up the conservative food chain like Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and Mark Levin have. So, to use David Frum’s word again, they’re willing to prostitute themselves (If Meghan McCain happens to read this, I don’t mean that literally — like a street walker. It means you’re selling out your principles. If you get confused, ask your daddy to hire someone to explain it to you) to the liberals in the mainstream media who want “conservatives” who are willing to tell liberals what they want to hear. This is no secret to David Frum or anybody else who works in this business.
Right Wing News v. David Frum, Little Green Footballs, Media Matters, and Excitable Andy!
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