(Swiped from O Hell Nawl, via Tommy Christopher)
On a related note:
On the one side, the president of the United States: soft-spoken and conciliatory, never angry, always invoking the recession and its victims. This president invokes the language of "responsibility," and in his own life seems to epitomize that ideal: He is physically honed and disciplined, his worst vice an occasional cigarette. He is at the same time an apparently devoted husband and father. Unsurprisingly, women voters trust and admire him.
And for the leader of the Republicans? A man who is aggressive and bombastic, cutting and sarcastic, who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as "losers." With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence …
-- David Frum(!), via pampl
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Way to go, Mr. Canadian! Get those intra-party battles going!
Heh. I wonder how long it will be before one of the RedState Trike Force, Purity Police Division, plays the C card on Frum.
Joy here:
This was an apostasy too far. The conservative radio host and National Review columnist Mark Levin shouted that Frum was a "Canadian a-hole," a "jerk," and a "putz." When Frum called in to respond, Levin sputtered that "nobody knows who you are," no one reads "[your] pathetic books and pathetic articles," and—in what seems customary of right-wing yakkers—when he attempted to repond to this flurry of ad hominem invective, Levin cut his microphone. Frum, he declared, was "damaging the conservative movement" with his criticism of fellow conservatives.
I had heard the Levin/Frum exchange, and read Frum's related posts, but I guess the enjoyment of the popcorn caused me to forget that Levin used Frum's country of origin as an insult. Good call.
Thanks also for the Reason link. A good read.
On a related note, you might like this piece by Michelle Goldberg.
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