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In reply to the discussion: Frum: Fox News creates an ‘alternative knowledge system’ [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,396 posts)47. He seems to be trying to have his cake and eat it too.
He sounds all high minded and principled by being willing to criticize his own party (and he mostly seems to speak "the truth" about it IMHO) and its descent into total Tea Party-induced madness but yet he decides he's going to continue voting for them anyway. Either he's too stupid to notice the contradictions between the two things he's saying or he's simply using it to get attention (I'm guessing the latter).
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He did say that he would vote for the GOP candidate no matter who he or she is.
libinnyandia
Dec 2011
#5
"or you don't deserve the freedom they protect" when it's about "the troops."
arely staircase
Dec 2011
#34
K and R...outstanding post...someone inside admitting....."an alternative Knowldge system..."
Stuart G
Dec 2011
#9
ditto Regnery and their "Politically Incorrect Guides" ("the hippies wanted a dictatorship!")
MisterP
Dec 2011
#10
Outsiders are ridiculed, & if reality doesn't agree with them, they'll.... warp reality
AlbertCat
Dec 2011
#42
Frum didn't have a problem with Fox when they were catapulting the propaganda for
smokey nj
Dec 2011
#30
Frum was an employee of the rightwing think tank American Enterprise Institute
rocktivity
Dec 2011
#38
At least those who "immerse their audience in a total environment of pseudo-facts and pretend
indepat
Dec 2011
#41