Hello rr—can I call you rr? I have news for you: you just disqualified yourself from being taken seriously.

Why even bother asking where Frum was over the past eight years and the fever swamps of Leftist rage and hate. No matter. This extraordinary movement that vexes Frum is overwhelmingly civil and informed and emerging as one of the most astonishing irruptions of legitimate outrage in our history. Frum doesn’t get it, and moreover resents it. It is indecorous and threatens the world he knows and inhabits as a well-schooled and dutiful elite. He resents those who do get it, such as Palin, who, channeling Orwell and Reagan, can nail the innate duplicity and lethality of the Left in a few well-chosen lines and drive Obama into a corner.

Tough. Anyway, we’ve long since reckoned with the uselessness of those such as Frum. We’ll do just fine without them

………..If you feel NM has no merit one wonders why you spend so much time here boring us all to death with your kudzu like prose (complete with stage directions)…….Why don’t you go and bore for your country elsewhere?

“I think David Frum is perfectly rational.”

OK. Me too, when it comes right down to it. (*GRUDGINGLY SMILING*)

But how’bout these kids and that Elise (???) woman and a few other of his “contributors” who seriously seem to believe they’re “reporting” and that NM is some sort of authentic journalistic enterprise…???

I mean I can understand how “nicer” folks than I would yearn to give these people the benefit of the doubt, but, jeez… resume inflation is one thing… these folks actually seem to believe they’re “reporters” and “editors” in a journalistic sense.

(*SHRUG*)

Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall when (if) these people get together in person?! (*CHUCKLE*)

BILL

…….Still NOT a jingoist, fundamentalist, movement conservative, but DEFINITELY an all too obvious liar, alas

“Posner- Since his underlying assumption is that markets are efficient (which isn’t accurate) much of his conclusions are incorrect. ”

………So you reject one of the central tenets of the Chicago school……that’s fine, so do I(or at least assumptions of their absolute efficiency), hence my comment:

” and very good although I don’t agree with all Posner’s conclusions some of which seem skewed to propping up his long held Chicago school theories”

…….for someone who gives lectures on comprehension you seem remarkably shaky in your grasp of it

“I just had a problem with the Internet so my much lengthier post was lost. ”

…….we must be thankful for small mercies I suppose

“And yes, Bartlett in addition to being a hack–came as somewhat thin-skinned in his comments on this blog.”

……..this one made me titter…..from the thinnest skin I’ve ever seen

” Bartlett isn’t much of a conservative. He has posted on this blog…”

Yeah. Bartlett was/is a HUGE disappointment to me. I used to love reading his stuff in the Journal, but now…

(*SIGH*)

He’s also thin skinned and frankly nasty. I tried to engage him in serious debate and just couldn’t get the man to engage.

(*SHRUG*)

Ireign. Let me ask you… do you (like me) question to an extent whether Frum and his merry band are “quite right” in the head?

I’m being serious here.

They actually try to portray themselves as “journalists,” as “reporters.” They keep on trying to pass on this illusion that NewMajority.com is a “press” site, a “news media” site.

I mean, sure… it could be just arrogance and wishful thinking… but a few of these folks are starting to worry me!

(*GRIN*) (*CHUCKLE*)

BILL

……..I just followed your link to Rich and must confess to being somewhat underwhelmed…..he has a piece whining because “the poor” have been cut out of the cash for clunkers program…..how the hell would he know……does he have any data……no just a theory……cash for clunkers is a cheap and cheerful program to inject some demand into the economy and has an environmental/reduced oil dependancy side benefit…….give me a break…..he’ll be complaining the poor are squeezed out of buying at Tiffany’s next