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In reply to the discussion: Frum: Fox News creates an ‘alternative knowledge system’ [View all]rocktivity
(44,583 posts)38. Frum was an employee of the rightwing think tank American Enterprise Institute
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who apparently had no problem with his writing this barely a week BEFORE the 2008 election:
(WashingtonPost.com, 10/26/2008)...(T)he McCain campaign has Palin-ized itself to make the most of its last asset...(T)he base has responded..(b)ut there's a downside: The very same campaign strategy that has belatedly mobilized the Republican core has alienated and offended the great national middle, which was the only place where the 2008 election could have been won.
I could pile up the poll numbers here, but frankly, it's too depressing...McCain's awful campaign is having awful consequences down the ballot...
I could pile up the poll numbers here, but frankly, it's too depressing...McCain's awful campaign is having awful consequences down the ballot...
But he was "terminated" by AEI just days after this was published about healthcare reform being passed:
(FrumForum.com, 3/21/2010) Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s. Its hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster...A huge part of the blame...attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves...We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat...
Ive been on a soapbox for months now about...(how)...our overheated talk...has made it impossible for representatives to represent and elected leaders to lead...Rush Limbaugh...said that he wanted President Obama to fail...What...is equally true is that he also wants Republicans to fail...If Republicans succeed...Rushs listeners get less angry. And if they are less angry, they listen to the radio less, and hear fewer ads...
Ive been on a soapbox for months now about...(how)...our overheated talk...has made it impossible for representatives to represent and elected leaders to lead...Rush Limbaugh...said that he wanted President Obama to fail...What...is equally true is that he also wants Republicans to fail...If Republicans succeed...Rushs listeners get less angry. And if they are less angry, they listen to the radio less, and hear fewer ads...
Frum was free to criticize the "alternative-knowledge-system" -- and even in the voice of a moderate conservative -- as long as he wasn't criticizing the REAL system. Spitting in the eyes of McCain and Palin when he was supposed to be glorifying them wasn't grounds for termination; stepping on the toes of Limbaugh and the Rethug leadership was. And he's said that he's going to vote Republican no matter what anyway? I don't trust him any farther than I can throw an elephant. Cue the DU "Cry Me A River" String Quartet!
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He did say that he would vote for the GOP candidate no matter who he or she is.
libinnyandia
Dec 2011
#5
"or you don't deserve the freedom they protect" when it's about "the troops."
arely staircase
Dec 2011
#34
K and R...outstanding post...someone inside admitting....."an alternative Knowldge system..."
Stuart G
Dec 2011
#9
ditto Regnery and their "Politically Incorrect Guides" ("the hippies wanted a dictatorship!")
MisterP
Dec 2011
#10
Outsiders are ridiculed, & if reality doesn't agree with them, they'll.... warp reality
AlbertCat
Dec 2011
#42
Frum didn't have a problem with Fox when they were catapulting the propaganda for
smokey nj
Dec 2011
#30
Frum was an employee of the rightwing think tank American Enterprise Institute
rocktivity
Dec 2011
#38
At least those who "immerse their audience in a total environment of pseudo-facts and pretend
indepat
Dec 2011
#41