Axis of Weasels · 7 February 2002
Must be horrible, being David Frum. The homely and widely ridiculed author of eyeglazing neocon pap sought refuge in the free-market “think tanks” of Washington, DC a few years ago, whereupon he published a formless, scantly argued and unselfconsciously hilarious blip of social theory in which he tongues Henry Kissinger for rescuing Chile from a “Leftist coup” and blames feminism for – among other damages – shoplifting.
Last year he made a stoic, puff-chested departure from his column at the National Post, claiming an appointment as “special advisor” to the President on economic issues. Turned out he was just hired as a speech hack. But he was, at least, entirely off the public radar – and it must have been horrible for him.
And for his shrill wife, a simpering idiot of similar revisionist tendencies – all glowing ovaries and girdled Womanhood – who, relieved at last to get some media heat after all this uncredited national service, sent out a mass email on Tuesday trumpeting her David for coming up with the phrase “axis of evil” for Dubya’s State of the Union speech. Oh, how the invitations to the Beltway’s power cocktail parties will soon start to roll in.
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