Ethics

Frum vs Horowitz

By Ed Brayton

David Frum is still working overtime in his efforts to save the Republican party and the conservative movement from being taken over by the most extreme fringe elements and he is now taking on David Horowitz, who criticized Frum for criticizing Glenn Beck over his over-the-top attacks on Cass Sunstein. Horowitz responded with that perfect moral myopia that nearly all extremists use to justify their behavior:

I don't have a big quarrel with Frum's view that Beck's view of Cass Sunstein is "over the top" or off target. ... Frum is right that Sunstein is not a raving leftist. ... [But] Our country is under assault by a determined, deceitful and powerful left which will stop at nothing to realize its goals. Facing them, I would rather have Glenn Beck out there fighting for our side than 10,000 David Frums who think that appeasing leftists will make them think well of us. No it won't. It will only whet their appetite for our heads.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).