Brushing up his “most despicable American commentator” creds I see.
Mind Droppings From David Frum
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Complicit”. Such a useful word. With it, one may tar the most innocent stranger with the most unforgivable sins imaginable with minimal effort and much peacock virtue on one’s own part. Sloth and calumny in one neat package.
Pause before Tweeting, Mr. Frum. According to news sources with videos it appears that the youngster was chased, attacked before each shooting. More information will be forthcoming.
Mere facts have never deterred Frum from pontificating.
Good for Frum! There’s so much more competition for that title these days.
Anyway, my understanding is downtown Antioch is only 20 miles from downtown Kenosha. I’d be willing to bet David Frum commutes farther than that.
And if he doesn’t, it’s because he’s wealthy enough that he can afford not to.
An easy way to prevent this would have been for those rioters to not have tried to kill Kyle. There were several points where he had the opportunity to shoot people who were unarmed or otherwise not a threat, and he did not. The surviving thug even pretended to surrender, and was only shot after he grabbed his own gun.
ED Kain, one of the founders of the “League of Ordinary Gentleman” blog once said he tried on ideas for size. So here we have David Frum, the son of a Toronto centimillionaire. He decamps to the states, lands a job as an editorial writer, enrolls in law school, then, upon graduating never practices and goes back to writing. He presents himself as a libertarian ca. 1994, as the Boswell of the war on terror ca. 2003, and as the recrudescence of the Rockefeller Republican dispensation ca. 2009. And, for four years, he’s been manufactory of NeverTrump discourse that has zero resonance with Republican voters. A very bored, very wealthy man whose whole professional life has been cosplay.
I also suspect that Frum is making the same mistake the three men (ages, 36, 26, 26) who attacked Rittenhouse made.
They saw a boyish face and “baby hands” holding a lethal weapon which they coveted, without noticing the disciplined way in which he held it.
Don’t start nuttin’, won’t BE nuttin’!
You’d think a bunch of BLM/Antifa types would be familiar with that cliche.
It doesn’t take a boatload of perspicacity to realize that in this day and age crucial bits of information leak out over days and weeks. Twitter takes show you people’s capacity to reserve judgment and what their biases are. This guy is 60 years old. What’s his excuse?
Besides Twitter addiction? Arrested Adolescence and/or John Podhoretz envy I’d say.
Why would he envy John Podhoretz? Podhoretz is handsomely paid by Commentary‘s septuagenarian donors to run a non-profit which employs 10 people, but Podhoretz’ absurd salary is indubitably a fraction of Frum’s post-tax interest and dividend income. Frum might be dissatisfied with his face, but he surely wouldn’t want Podhoretz face. (Both of their wives are handsome). They both have a problem inasmuch as neither can be particularly confident of his own accomplishments. Mrs. Podhoretz is a big pine cone in her field; Mrs. Frum is not.
An easy way to prevent this would have been for those rioters to not have tried to kill Kyle.
Bingo.
And it’s about 15 miles, per bing.
Almost 20 is by the road.
My understanding from elsewhere is that Podhoretz is another Twitter spazz. I was assuming there was some kind of unspoken Twitter spazz competition going on.
IIRC, Podhoretz got off Twitter because he came to the conclusion that it brings out the worst in people. I’m assuming someone in the wife / mother / sister nexus in his family staged an intervention.
His mother, now 93, has a fine body of writings very much worth consulting. His sister publishes some occasional journalism that’s sensible as well. Reading the man, you get the impression that he’s a capable book reviewer who came of age professionally at a time when very few people could make a living doing that, so he made use of family connections to get his foot in the door in the world of topical commentary, for which he has no particular talent.
I listen to the podcast John Pod does with Jonah Goldberg and Rob Long and while John does have sometimes the interesting insight into film and TV, his other commentary is….
Well he knows New York, I’ll put it that way. Jonah at least travels to Alaska and has spoken of cross country driving so he has some awareness of the rest of the country. Rob Long is humorous in his admittance that he’s out of touch – and frequently displaying the most self-awareness of the three.
John also is one of those who always seems to try and dominate any conversation he’s in because he won’t ever bother stopping to take a breath. Which I think was a repeated joke people made at one of the roasts that happened recently. (Maybe it was Pod’s, but I think it was Jonah’s.)
Both of the J’s are a demonstration of what happens when you stop distrusting the media.