{"id":8984,"date":"2011-12-12T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T08:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2013-11-18T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T03:52:36","slug":"former-dubya-speechwriter-frum-tells-cnns-kurz-that-fox-news-talk-radio-destroying-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8984","title":{"rendered":"Former Dubya Speechwriter Frum Tells CNN&#8217;s Kurtz That Fox &#8216;News,&#8217; Talk Radio Destroying GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN&#8217;s reliable RWer-disguised-as-media-critic Howard Kurtz interviews the former George W. Bush Administration speech writer, David &#8220;Axis of Evil&#8221; Frum, on his recent, <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/politics\/conservatives-david-frum-2011-11\/\">blistering <i>New York<\/i> magazine condemnation<\/a>, &#8220;When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?&#8221; The lengthy, and rather courageous article, blames, in no small part, Fox &#8220;News&#8221; and talk radio for having destroyed his party through the creation of an entire &#8220;alternative knowledge system.&#8221; (The piece is a must-read, btw, if you haven&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n<p>Good for him! (Frum, not Kurtz. The latter feigns skepticism throughout the interview in the face of Frum&#8217;s statements of the obvious-to-all-but-those-who-have-reason-to-act-like-it-isn&#8217;t)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"416\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"ep\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=politics\/2011\/12\/11\/rs-frum-conservative-media.cnn\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=politics\/2011\/12\/11\/rs-frum-conservative-media.cnn\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"416\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"374\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN&#8217;s reliable RWer-disguised-as-media-critic Howard Kurtz interviews the former George W. Bush Administration speech writer, David &#8220;Axis of Evil&#8221; Frum, on his recent, blistering New York magazine condemnation, &#8220;When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?&#8221; The lengthy, and rather courageous article, blames, in no small part, Fox &#8220;News&#8221; and talk radio for having destroyed his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,405,19,14,674,188,300,307],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-bush-legacy","category-cnn","category-fox-news","category-howard-kurtz","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-republicans","category-rush-limbaugh"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}