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Why, David Frum?

Posted on | September 21, 2012 | 60 Comments

This is just embarrassing. Grant that he’s already burnt a lot of bridges behind him in an apparent quest to become the Most Famous Republican Who Hates Everything About Republicans — a tough competition with Peggy Noonan these days — but did David Frum really have to go after Michelle Malkin?

As Ace of Spades points out, Frum makes reference to his recent novel, and his novel was brutally panned by Mark Judge.

Having expended much energy lately in an attempt to prevent a thermonuclear blogwar meltdown — evidently with no luck, given the latest ugly incident — I feel a need to emphasize once again just how much I hate this kind of stuff.

There is no rule that every conservative must like (or agree with) every other conservative, but why permit mere dislike or disagreement to become the basis for an all-or-nothing vendetta?

Why push it to the point that your friends feel so embarrassed — indeed, mortified — by your purposeful insults to their other friends?

David, you’re wrong, and I don’t mean incorrect, I mean wrong.

You ought to apologize and re-think whatever the hell you were thinking that got you so far down this road, or else you’ll finish your career guest-blogging at Little Green Footballs.

Update (Smitty): thanks, Instapundit and Daily Pundit!

Category: Michelle Malkin

Comments

60 Responses to “Why, David Frum?”

  1. RichFader
    September 21st, 2012 @ 11:50 pm

    Because for reasons best known to himself, he’s always wanted to know what it’d feel like to have a girl grab him by the scrotum and pull it all the way over his head. Um, rhetorically speaking, of course.

  2. richard mcenroe
    September 21st, 2012 @ 11:55 pm

    Malkin’s up to it but she’ll need a running start. Bet she sticks the dismount, tho…

  3. Adjoran
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 12:17 am

    Frum has always been a nasty little man, which was more evident than him being any sort of conservative. Why anyone ever paid any attention to him at all is a mystery. Why anyone still does is downright confounding.

  4. Bob Belvedere
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 12:48 am

    Exactly.

  5. Bob Belvedere
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 12:49 am

    In the case of the latest, ugly incident, @FilmLadd was correct in going after Brooks Bayne because he revealed himself to be a Holocaust Denier.

  6. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 1:59 am

    Frum is not worth a blog war. He is nothing.

  7. Adjoran
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:01 am

    Yeah, finally had to unfollow him after that, although he’d been spending more time attacking our side than anything else. I’m thinking a CJ-esque mental meltdown.

  8. Bob Belvedere
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:20 am

    I’ve been following him since June and the decline has been steep.
    He’s now blocked.

  9. Rose
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:48 am

    “or else you’ll finish your career guest-blogging at Little Green Footballs.” LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

  10. greyhorsestudio
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:54 am

    David Frum has a career?

  11. K-Bob
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 3:43 am

    Frum and Charles. Have they ever been seen together?

  12. Joseph Fein
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 4:32 am

    I think we should follow the precedent of what my friend, the Chair of the San Diego GOP did. A mayoral candidate split to being an (I). Every person (Consultants and campaigners) related to that campaign were told not to darken the SDGOP ever again.

    As Bloggers, we should put out names who deserve to be Persona Non Grata in the GOP — Frum for backstabbing, as well as Noonan. And make sure, all 50 State parties and the National (RNC, NRCC, and NRSC) hold to Our standards.

    If we don’t put up with their crap (as Bloggers and activists), they cannot market themselves as something they are not.

    But, let the betting begin when Frum switches to the D’s.

  13. K-Bob
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 6:47 am

    Here’s why.

    There was a man named Gene…

  14. DaMav
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 6:52 am

    I’m shocked, shocked to find that anyone outside of the pink NYC-DC Axis of Weasel would consider Frum a “conservative”.

  15. rosalie
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 8:04 am

    Love the last paragraph He certainly doesn’t deserve any better. Frum is only relevant to the Left.

  16. Dai Alanye
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 9:51 am

    Frum is a bright and knowledgeable guy. His problem is that he thinks himself the brightest guy in every room he enters, and expects everyone else to acknowledge it. In other words, he’s a narcissist who bitterly resents those who fail to acknowledge his universal and unfailing brilliance.

    I haven’t read his novel, but based on the two scenes quoted by Judge, Frum has a long, long way to go before he can be considered a fiction writer. “Her tousled brown hair and big matching eyes…” Tousled eyes, is it, or matching eyes? His phrasing is embarrassingly clumsy.

  17. Relatively Speaking | Daily Pundit
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 10:30 am

    […] Speaking Posted on September 22, 2012 7:30 am by Bill Quick Why, David Frum? : The Other McCain David, you’re wrong, and I don’t mean incorrect, I mean […]

  18. rosalie
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 11:06 am

    “His problem is that he thinks himself the brightest guy in every room he enters, and expects everyone else to acknowledge it. In other words, he’s a narcissist who bitterly resents those who fail to acknowledge his universal and unfailing brilliance.”
    He sounds just like O.

  19. Instapundit » Blog Archive » WHAT’S WRONG WITH David Frum? “Why push it to the point that your friends feel so embarrassed — i…
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:11 pm

    […] WRONG WITH David Frum? “Why push it to the point that your friends feel so embarrassed — indeed, mortified – by […]

  20. SineWaveII
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:17 pm

    David, who?

  21. Larry Patty
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:28 pm

    Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark!

  22. Dave Ivers
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:37 pm

    He’ll be lucky to get to guest blog at LGF. [I gave up on the place really, really early.] That doesn’t mean he won’t be able to continue to be paid by the NYT and MSDNC or others so long as he’s willing to call himself a Republican and crap on Republicans.

  23. Bilwick
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:41 pm

    Frum and Brooks–the “Uncle Daves” of conservatism (if in fact they are conservatives). Polite, deferential to the Hive, and no threat to the Plantation. Not like them uppity field-hand conservatives like Limbaugh, who just don’t know their place..

  24. Dantes
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:45 pm

    Why do conservatives keep feeding the odious troll Frum? We have bigger problems than this pipsqueak. Every time you reference him, or link to him, it gives him another breath of blogxygen.

  25. Bandit
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:45 pm

    He’s angling for his spot in the Ministry of Truth

  26. Rich K
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 2:49 pm

    Please Stacy, Dave has been a ball licking fool as long as Ive heard him,going back to the wars with Dan Rhiel.F him.

  27. Jum
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 3:02 pm

    Okay, here’s where the problem is: this is not a case of conservative infighting. Why not? Because DAVID FRUM IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE.

    He hasn’t been expelled; nobody kicked him out of the treehouse; and he didn’t have his epaulets ripped off and his saber broken because of Bitter Creek. He’s the one who abandoned conservatives, not the other way around..

    It’s an old story. And all because of the oldest of reasons: he wanted to be thought well of by the New York politico-glitterati. It’s sad really, because it’s so desperate, weak and needy. He’s made his choice – let him live with it.

  28. Jum
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 3:08 pm

    My point exactly: only in the tumbleweeds-strewn corridors of the NYT would anyone consider Frum a “conservative”. Indeed, the management there loves having their ideological Stepin Fetchit always always at hand, don’t they?

  29. William Manuel
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 3:13 pm

    I predict David Frum will fight it out with Robert Reich to replace Jim Hightower in those free weekly arts & entertainment magazines many locations have.

  30. David Ferguson
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 3:20 pm

    Frum could get a job with Brooks Bayne as well.

  31. TC_LeatherPenguin
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 3:26 pm

    A shiny example why I call him “the ineffably brutal” Stacy McCain….

  32. Steve Neely
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 3:34 pm

    Frum, like Noonan, Gerson, Brooks, Kristol, et al., is a tool of Democrats. It doesn’t matter whether they do it for money or to look wise and righteous, or both. They are tools.

  33. EP
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 3:36 pm

    Can’t get much lower than LGF

  34. richard mcenroe
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 3:49 pm

    both the same color, presumably, always a plus unless you’re a Husky…

  35. scooby509
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 4:02 pm

    I didn’t even think it was funny, just true. The worst part is that CJ’s not even a liberal, he’s just their tool.

  36. Truman North
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 4:04 pm

    David Frum has conservative friends?

  37. Paul Izzo
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 4:06 pm

    David Frum? Peggy Noonan? Who cares what they think? Both both used Republicans to acquire celebrity and then turned on us. They are no different from David Brock.

  38. DirkBelig
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 4:14 pm

    It must be fun during feeding time at the NYT as Brooks and Frum (aren’t they a country act? I don’t follow that scene) jockey for position at the bowl when Bill Keller pours in their kibble ration.

  39. Martin Johnson
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 4:42 pm

    Why does David Frum now remind me of Andrew Sullivan and David Brock?
    Oh, a “so-called” conservative who never really was. And apparently a bit unbalanced about it. Living a lie will do that to you, I guess.

  40. MoReport
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 4:55 pm

    Heh. ‘The Egregious Frum’ is what Pournelle called him,
    after Frum read him out of the Conservative movement.

  41. FranInAtlanta
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 5:11 pm

    Even when he was conservative, he was an Eeyore. I quit reading anything he wrote. The sky is never falling.

  42. SDN
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 5:26 pm

    Which country is the question….

  43. Robert Schwartz
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 5:33 pm

    “you’ll finish your career guest-blogging at Little Green Footballs.”

    Owww. That is going to leave a mark.

  44. Aaron1960
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 5:38 pm

    David Brock must be clearing desk space for him over at MM.

  45. Aaron1960
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 5:39 pm

    They do it to keep the DC circuit party invites coming.

  46. Mike
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 5:57 pm

    Hellllll-oooo. David Frum is Canadian. Canadian is like dressing up as a tooth in the school play.

  47. zimriel
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 5:59 pm

    I dunno. I can picture David Brock looking at the hunky Roman centurion sculpture… then at Frum’s picture… then back at the centurion sculpture.

    I’m sure Brock would rather keep the sculpture.

  48. Popehat
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 8:35 pm

    They’ll dump the Idiot the second he’s no longer Useful. He’d better pray Romney wins, or 2013 will be a hard year.

  49. rollory
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 9:14 pm

    pournelle likes noonan. not the best judge.

  50. teapartydoc
    September 22nd, 2012 @ 11:25 pm

    Frum is a ridiculous little loser. Ignore him.