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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 02:14 PM
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David Frum criticized the right for embracing "false & paranoid narratives"
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/exbush-speechwriter-denounces-rights-paranoid-narratives-obama/

Conservative David Frum on Sunday criticized some on the right for embracing "false and paranoid narratives" about President Barack Obama that he said were contributing to a toxic political climate.

"The thing I worry about is not rhetoric. It’s the construction of paranoid narratives," Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush who now runs his own blog, said on CNN's "Reliable Sources."

"When people say that Barack Obama is deliberately trying to destroy the economy of the United States in order to overthrow the constitution and lead us to a Marxist dictatorship – you can say that without a single harsh syllable or negative adjective, but it's a false and paranoid narrative, and that attacks the governance of the country," Frum said. <snip>



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TheEuclideanOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 02:53 PM
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1. One thing that bothers me as much as psychos like this shooter is
all the people that listen to the same narrative everyday. Sure, maybe they won't shoot a congressman, but they still digest all of the same material that would drive somebody to shoot up a room of people. Instead, they go through life as really bitter and angry people who believe all of the same things and act out in other ways.
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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 03:05 PM
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2. they are the "useful idiots" in the right wing march toward fascism...
but as long as TPTB keep a few liberals and brown skinned people around to persecute and hate, they probably won't notice.
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TheEuclideanOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 03:33 PM
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3. think about how many millions of people who are affected by this poison
How can this be good for society. Millions of angry idiots, angry about things that are not even true, but they are too stupid to figure out so.
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 03:45 PM
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4. He'll be apologizing to Rush in ... 3...2...1... n/t
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Faryn Balyncd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 04:40 PM
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5. Frum often makes just enough sense to be dangerous.
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