For context:

David Jeffrey Frum is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, who is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic as well as an MSNBC contributor. In 2003, Frum authored the first book about Bush's presidency written by a former member of the administration. He has taken credit for inspiring the phrase "axis of evil" in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address.

Proof I'm not a lib

Edit - And of course the Brunch Bunch is out in force. 🥂

  • Lester_Peterson [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If you want to hate David and his wife, Danielle Crittenden, even more; read their account of the time she got so terrified of two Muslim dudes praying in an airport lobby that she made David report them to airline employees as terrorists. Then when the airline refused to remove the men from their flight (cuz they were doing absolutely nothing wrong) David and Danielle choose to cancel their flight and spend an extra night in Paris rather than get on the plane (which, surprisingly had absolutely nothing happen midflight).

    Even a decade later Crittenden had this to say

    Now, nearly seven years later, and in the wake of the Juan Williams incident, I ask myself: Would I make that same decision again?

    Without question. And I hope I would still have the guts to report a troubling passenger to an airline clerk without fear that I might be branded racist.

    https://gawker.com/5671725/huffington-post-columnist-fondly-remembers-the-time-she-profiled-arabs

    • Claus [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      4 years ago

      Oh my...

      Mission accomplished.