Not Good Enough, Rush. Not Good Enough At All

March 5th, 2012

Frum's Bullshit-Detector is pinned

Again, one of my conservative heroes steps up to the plate. He also hits it out of the park.

Regarding Rush's phony "apology," David Frum gives what may be the most dignified smackdown in recent political history.

He has four points over at CNN regarding the Limbaugh/Fluke spectacle that all ring true:

"Point 1: Even by the rough standards of cable/talk radio/digital talk, Limbaugh's verbal abuse of Sandra Fluke set a new kind of low. I can't recall anything as brutal, ugly and deliberate ever being said by such a prominent person and so emphatically repeated. This was not a case of a bad "word choice." It was a brutally sexualized accusation, against a specific person, prolonged over three days.

Great Songs No One Knows

May 6th, 2011

In late 1997, this obscure outfit released some wonderful material on Branson's V2 label. It should have been huge.