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THE NEOCON MERGE TEMPLATE REVEALED.
Read the following and see if you can guess whether David Frum is writing about Iraq back in 2003, or about Iran today:
"You want realism? It's this: The emerging US-____ confrontation is a confrontation of ___'s choice and ____'s making. It is ____ that has determined to seek nuclear weapons, ____ that has declared it will use those weapons aggressively against its neighbors, and ____ that has made a nonsense of the long negotiations with the UK, France, and Germany. We are rapidly reaching the point - maybe we have reached it already - where ____ has succeeded in reducing our choices to two: acquiesce in a nuclear bomb or stop it by force. As for the idea that the present ____ regime can be a negotiating partner - a constructive force in the region - or anything other than a menace to its neighbors or its own people, well we need another term for that. How about "fantasy"?"
Answer: Why should anybody give a ____ what David Frum writes at this point?
--Matthew Duss
COMMENTS (10)
Republicans don't need facts, just arguments.
Posted by: kazumatan | October 3, 2007 2:40 PM
Answer: Why should anybody give a ____ what David Frum writes at this point?
--Matthew Duss
Hahahahaha. I lol'd.
Posted by: soullite | October 3, 2007 3:30 PM
Why should anybody give a ____ what you have to say at any point?
Posted by: Curious | October 3, 2007 5:03 PM
Why should anybody give a ____ what you have to say at any point?
Posting under an false name is a bit ______ _____, Mr Frum.
Posted by: pseudonymous in nc | October 3, 2007 6:44 PM
I recall Frum on public radio commenting in 2003 a few weeks before the start of the war that people in the know knew that Hans Blix was a terrible, terrible inspector of WMD and their failure to find them was just a result of their incompetence.
Posted by: jIM | October 3, 2007 8:10 PM
"Read the following and see if you can guess whether David Frum is writing about Iraq back in 2003, or about Iran today"
my guess is both...and the rewriting wasn't difficult.
Posted by: della Rovere | October 3, 2007 10:34 PM
Why should anybody give a ____ what you have to say at any point?
I'll take Matt Duss over David Frum on any and all matters to be decided, every day of the week.
Hell, I'd trust Duss to recite, more accurately, what Frum's favorite color, food and movies are.
Seriously, though: If Bush et al were listening more to people like Duss, and less to people like Frum, the world would be a vastly improved place at the moment.
Unless Curious would argue that Frum's track record is something to hold in high esteem.
Now I'm curious.
Posted by: Eric Martin | October 4, 2007 10:16 AM
"A nonsense"? So "nonsense" is a count noun in Frum's idiolect? Does anyone else speak that language?
Frum could save work with the same global replacement the White House uses.
Posted by: KCinDC | October 4, 2007 10:19 AM
Isn't Davey set to start serving Conrad Black's prison sentence any day now?
Posted by: Roger Ailes | October 4, 2007 11:30 AM
Is Frum a Canadian? The use of the article that way sounds French.
Posted by: Davis X. Machina | October 4, 2007 11:48 AM