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Sisyphus Shrugged ( jmhm) wrote,@ 2003-01-19 07:11:00 |
Scary
One of the most memorably nasty eviscerations I've seen recently, on David Frum, in the Washington Post.
Highlights include:
David Frum seems to be trying a little too hard to make it in this town -- and that's saying something.
...
Frum's coinage of "axis of evil" was revealed in a tacky episode last March when his wife, the writer Danielle Crittenden, bragged of his achievement in a mass e-mail.
...
(It's unclear, however, how familiar the author was with the president's thinking. Asked how many one-on-one meetings he had with the president, Frum says there were "six or eight." But when pressed to exclude walk-by encounters in the hallways, the total falls to "two or three.")
[which, in fairness, is about as many times as Peggy Noonan met with Ronald Reagan]
Conversations with people who know Frum begin with on-the-record praise and spiral into on-background ridicule. "There's a sort of desperate edge to David's need to be noticed," says one well-known conservative who knows Frum and has ties to the White House. Frum has an outsider's zealousness for recognition, he says. In addition to still being a Canadian citizen, Frum was also one of the few Jews in the Bush White House, a point of which he seems acutely conscious.
...
A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, Frum is the kind of conspicuous smarty-pants that Bush had little use for during his own days in the Ivy League.
Shame no-one in the White House realized what a loser this guy was before he set our foreign policy, isn't it.
One of the most memorably nasty eviscerations I've seen recently, on David Frum, in the Washington Post.
Highlights include:
David Frum seems to be trying a little too hard to make it in this town -- and that's saying something.
...
Frum's coinage of "axis of evil" was revealed in a tacky episode last March when his wife, the writer Danielle Crittenden, bragged of his achievement in a mass e-mail.
...
(It's unclear, however, how familiar the author was with the president's thinking. Asked how many one-on-one meetings he had with the president, Frum says there were "six or eight." But when pressed to exclude walk-by encounters in the hallways, the total falls to "two or three.")
[which, in fairness, is about as many times as Peggy Noonan met with Ronald Reagan]
Conversations with people who know Frum begin with on-the-record praise and spiral into on-background ridicule. "There's a sort of desperate edge to David's need to be noticed," says one well-known conservative who knows Frum and has ties to the White House. Frum has an outsider's zealousness for recognition, he says. In addition to still being a Canadian citizen, Frum was also one of the few Jews in the Bush White House, a point of which he seems acutely conscious.
...
A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, Frum is the kind of conspicuous smarty-pants that Bush had little use for during his own days in the Ivy League.
Shame no-one in the White House realized what a loser this guy was before he set our foreign policy, isn't it.