Like his old buddy Excitable Andy, he is often wrong but Rarely in doubt. And he never doubts that the public needs the brilliance of David Frum.
Now he wants to be the arbiter of acceptable political rhetoric.
Apparently, calling some one a socialist is out of bounds, but it is just fine to label people "unpatriotic" if they disagree with the foreign adventures promoted by David Frum.
Stanley Kurtz treats Frum with more respect than he deserves.
David Frum, Speech Policeman
Frum desperately wants to be seen as a serious conservative leader. Yet his stock-in-trade are strident attacks on other conservatives. His treatment of Kurtz's book is bizarre even by Frum's standards.
The announcement made it clear that my book was the result of more than two years of empirical and historical research into Barack Obama’s political past, and would marshal “a wide array of never-before-seen evidence to establish that the president of the United States is indeed a socialist.” Frum, however, didn’t wait to consider my evidence or argument, or even bother to read my book. Instead, he invited a self-described Democratic activist who writes under the pseudonym “Eugene Victor Debs” to attack the very idea of my book — before either had read it.
Frum's actions stand as stellar examples of the hypocrisy and feline thuggishness of the Obamacons.
Is there a better example of "epistemic closure" than attacking a book before you read it?
UPDATE: Kurtz and Jonah Goldberg continue the discussion:
David Frum’s Wrong Direction
Politics Without Labels? What a Silly Concept
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