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The term '''Liberal media conservative''' describes the commitment by the mainstream news media to so-called [[fairness]]. The typical offering from the mainstream media is a single moderate conservative speaker, reporter, columnist among hundreds of fellow liberal employees.  This person's view is almost exclusively [[moderate]] and they would most likely find more in common with their liberal counterparts than with their own conservative base. On occasion, a single true conservative such as [[Bill Kristol]] finds employment with the mainstream media, but it never lasts because of their commitment to real [[conservative]] viewpoints. The [[liberal media]] demands that they hire their brand of conservative- that will attack conservatives.
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The term '''"token conservative"''' describes the lip service paid by the mainstream, [[liberal media]] to so-called [[fairness]]. The typical offering from the mainstream media is a single moderate, so-called "conservative" speaker, reporter, columnist among hundreds of fellow liberal employees.  This person's view is almost exclusively "New World" moderate and they would most likely find more in common with their liberal counterparts than with real American conservatives. On occasion, a single true conservative such as [[Bill Kristol]] finds employment with the mainstream media, but it never lasts because of their commitment to real [[conservative]] viewpoints. The liberal media demands that they hire their brand of "conservative" – one that will attack real conservatives.
  
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==Lone Conservative Views==
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==Token Conservative views and personalities==
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*[[New York Times]] - Ross G. Douthat
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*[[New York Times]]—[[David Brooks]]
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According to the New York Times, Douthat’s writing “steers away from partisanship — he frequently criticizes [[Republican]]s — or doctrine."  
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::Brooks supports [[same-sex "marriage"]]<ref>Brooks, David (November 22, 2003). [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/22/opinion/the-power-of-marriage.html The Power Of Marriage]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved May 19, 2017.</ref> and [[abortion]].<ref>Brooks, David (April 22, 2007). [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE6D9163EF931A15757C0A9619C8B63 Postures in Public, Facts in the Womb]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved May 19, 2017.</ref> He strongly opposes [[Donald Trump]]<ref>Brooks, David (March 18, 2016). [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/opinion/no-not-trump-not-ever.html No, Not Trump, Not Ever]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved May 19, 2017.</ref> and considered the far-left elitist [[Hillary Clinton]] to be more "competent" and "normal" than Trump.<ref>Schwartz, Ian (June 11, 2017). [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/06/11/david_brooks_people_will_be_sick_of_trump_and_vote_for_hillary_she_will_be_competent_and_normal.html David Brooks: People Will Be Sick Of Trump And Vote For Hillary, "She Will be Competent And Normal"]. ''RealClearPolitics''. Retrieved May 19, 2017.</ref> On the Senate floor, socialist Democrat Majority Leader [[Harry Reid]] gave Brooks accolades for denouncing Republicans as 'not normal'.<ref>[http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/08/krauthammer-on-nyts-david-brooks-hes-not-a-conservative/ Krauthammer on NYT’s David Brooks: ‘He’s not a conservative’, Daily Caller, July 8, 2011]</ref>
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Douthat said "‘I’m sort of a squishy pro-lifer,’ interested in finding areas of compromise."
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*[[Newsweek]] - David Frum
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*[[New York Times]]—Ross G. Douthat
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"What is irrational is the failure of conservatives and Republicans to perceive the divergence between Fox’s interests and their own." <ref>[http://www.newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=dbff28e1-9ed3-4a23-be49-5dc02006b61d Must We Make It so Easy for Obama?] NewMajority.com, April 14, 2009</ref>
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::According to the New York Times, Douthat’s writing “steers away from partisanship — '''he frequently criticizes [[Republican]]s — or doctrine'''."
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::Douthat said "‘I’m sort of a squishy pro-lifer,’ interested in finding areas of compromise." In May 2017, he called for conservative U.S. President [[Donald Trump]]'s impeachment, but because of any "high crimes and misdemeanors," which Douthat admitted Trump did not commit, but because Trump was supposedly unfit to serve.<ref>Pollak, Joel B. (May 17, 2017). [http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/05/17/new-york-times-conservative-columnist-calls-trump-ousted/ New York Times’ ‘Conservative’ Columnist Calls for Trump to be Ousted]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 17, 2017.</ref>
  
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Rush Limbaugh Is "A Walking Stereotype Of Self-Indulgence" <ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/id/188279 Why Rush is wrong] Newsweek, March 7, 2009</ref>
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*[[Newsweek]], [[The Atlantic]], [[CNN]], [[The Daily Beast]]—[[David Frum]]
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::David Frum, who voiced relatively conservative views prior to around the later part of the Bush II presidency, shifted strongly to the Left after the election of Obama in 2008. Among his left-wing positions, he supports the immoral practice of [[Same-sex marriage|homosexual "marriage"]] and believes homosexual "marriage" is not a threat to family stability.<ref>http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-27/opinion/frum.gay.marriage_1_family-stability-marriage-hispanic-mothers/2?_s=PM:OPINION</ref> He also believes in the discredited, pseudoscientific theory of [[global warming]].<ref>http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2009/04/five_questions_for_david_frum</ref> In addition, he voted for the far-left [[Hillary Clinton]] over conservative Donald Trump in the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 presidential election]]<ref>Revesz, Rachael (November 3, 2017). [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/david-frum-george-w-bush-speechwriter-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-vote-endorse-george-w-bush-a7394676.html George W Bush’s speechwriter says he voted for Hillary Clinton]. ''The Independent''. Retrieved May 19, 2017.</ref> and later called for President Trump to resign.<ref>[https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/864273111159623680 David Frum]. ''Twitter''. May 15, 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2017.</ref>
  
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*[[MSNBC]] - Joe Scarborough
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::"What is irrational is the failure of conservatives and Republicans to perceive the divergence between Fox’s interests and their own." <ref>[http://www.newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=dbff28e1-9ed3-4a23-be49-5dc02006b61d Must We Make It so Easy for Obama?] NewMajority.com, April 14, 2009</ref>
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"..how conservative the Republican Party's become, they've got it backwards. We have not been conservative as a party, we've been radical." <ref>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/05/03/scarborough-todays-gop-not-too-conservative-its-too-radical Scarborough: Today's GOP is Not Too Conservative It's Too Radical] Newsbusters.org, May 3, 2009 </ref>
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Scarborough writes a book titled ''The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise''. To promote the release he visits with many left-leaning media outlets and trashes all well known conservatives; Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich and more. <ref>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/06/20/joe-scarborough-conservative-bashing-book-flops-bigtime Joe Scarborough Conservative Bashing Book Tour Flops Bigtime] NewsBusters.org, June 20, 2009 </ref>
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::Rush Limbaugh Is "A Walking Stereotype Of Self-Indulgence" <ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/id/188279 Why Rush is wrong] Newsweek, March 7, 2009</ref>
  
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*[[CNN]] - Lou Dobbs
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::Speaking about [[Palin]], “This is a woman who has got into a position of leadership by sending very powerful sexual signals,” Frum told reporter Judy Woodruff. “And we see that in the way that men like her much more than women do.”
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*[[MSNBC]]—[[Joe Scarborough]]
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::"..how conservative the Republican Party's become, they've got it backwards. We have not been conservative as a party, we've been radical." <ref>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/05/03/scarborough-todays-gop-not-too-conservative-its-too-radical Scarborough: Today's GOP is Not Too Conservative It's Too Radical] Newsbusters.org, May 3, 2009</ref>
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::Scarborough writes a book titled ''The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise''. To promote the release he visits with many left-leaning media outlets and trashes all well known conservatives; [[Rush Limbaugh]], [[Karl Rove]], [[Newt Gingrich]] and more.<ref>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/06/20/joe-scarborough-conservative-bashing-book-flops-bigtime Joe Scarborough Conservative Bashing Book Tour Flops Bigtime] NewsBusters.org, June 20, 2009</ref>
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*[[Washington Post]]—[[George Will]] ([[evolutionist]]/[[creation denial|creation denier]]<ref>[http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090208/NEWS04/902080322/-1/rss30 On Darwin, evolution and Congress], George Will, ''Pocono Record,'' February 8, 2009</ref> and self-proclaimed "[[heathen]]" and [[agnostic]]<ref>[http://www.lookwhosturning.com/category/famous-birthdays-today/ Look Who's Turning]</ref>)
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*Washington Post—[[Charles Krauthammer]]
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::Krauthammer is much more conservative than the others listed here, and although he could not bring himself to vote for Trump in 2016, he was more sympathetic and supportive towards him than the other "token conservatives," especially after Trump's inauguration. However, he remains [[pro-abortion]],<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/10/AR2007051001806.html Giuliani's Abortion 'Gaffe'], Charles Krauthammer, ''The Washington Post,'' May 11, 2007</ref> an [[evolutionist]]/[[creation denial|creation denier]],<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111701304.html Phony Theory, False Conflict], Charles Krauthammer, ''The Washington Post,'' November 18, 2005</ref> and a former Walter Mondale speechwriter)
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*Washington Post—[[Jennifer Rubin]]
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::Rubin writes a blog titled "Right Turn", but the only direction she goes is Left. She sounds like a leftist Democrat in her blog posts. She calls the Republican Party a "party of all white, angry, abusive men"<ref>Rubin, Jennifer (October 26, 2016). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/10/26/trumps-party-of-angry-white-abusive-males/?utm_term=.8f1c1b3cc595 Trump’s party of angry, white, abusive males]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved October 27, 2016.</ref> and during the 2016 election she has attacked [[Donald Trump]] (who is much more bold for conservative issues than RINOs like Romney or McCain, which she likely supports), likely, in every single blog post she has made, even in the general election and after the election when Trump won.<ref>Rubin, Jennifer (November 21, 2016). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/11/21/nevertrump-must-become-theresistance/?utm_term=.3f2e67b22886 #NeverTrump must become #TheResistance]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved November 25, 2016.</ref> '''She mocks conservative evangelical Christians, calling them "evangelical charlatans", and she borrows leftist attack lines against conservative Republicans.'''<ref>Rubin, Jennifer (October 26, 2016). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/10/26/sane-republicans-should-pack-their-bags-and-flee-the-gop/?utm_term=.c84221ca54cb Sane Republicans should pack their bags and flee the GOP]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved October 27, 2016.</ref> She supports the [[homosexual agenda]].<ref>Rubin, Jennifer (November 21, 2013). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/11/21/the-marriage-mission/?utm_term=.83a9bb8d2d24 The marriage mission]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved October 27, 2016.</ref> She hates [[Fox News]] because she believes it is conservative, and she denies that extremely talented and credible journalists such as [[Tucker Carlson]] are neither.<ref>Rubin, Jennifer (January 6, 2017). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/01/06/the-fox-news-nighttime-lineup-has-shed-its-last-element-of-real-journalism/?utm_term=.ef110524d7c4 The Fox News nighttime lineup has shed its last element of real journalism]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved January 6, 2017.</ref><ref name="RubinJoke">Rubin, Jennfier (January 4, 2017). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/01/04/without-megyn-kelly-fox-newss-prime-time-lineup-is-a-complete-joke/?utm_term=.4f07fae0b292 Without Megyn Kelly, Fox News’s prime-time lineup is a complete joke]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved January 6, 2017.</ref> She states "What’s good for Fox is not good for the GOP or the country. Perhaps a credible center-right TV news operation is needed" (one should note that her vision of "center-right" news closely resembles leftist scams such as MSNBC).<ref name="RubinJoke"/> She genuinely believes that Fox's commentators are "racist", despite having no real evidence, other than the fact that they oppose Barack Obama and actually defended Donald Trump (of course, will she say the same thing about similar statements from the Left?).<ref>Rubin, Jennifer (October 26, 2016). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/10/26/the-mainstreaming-of-racism-on-fox-news/?utm_term=.182081e81d23 The mainstreaming of racism on Fox News]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved May 21, 2017.</ref> She advocates for "center-right" politics (whatever that even means) but attacks solid conservatives.
  
 
==Common Characteristics==
 
==Common Characteristics==
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Most liberal media conservatives share the following viewpoints;
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Most liberal media "conservatives" share the following viewpoints;
  
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* Attack popular conservatives
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* [[RINO]] "big tent" inclusive party
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* Republicans must compromise or concede on liberal social issues
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* Lacking principled stances on issues, unless, of course, they take an explicitly left-wing stance on an issue
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* Claim to know what is the best for the Republican party
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* Attack solid, principled conservatives
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* Write books which nobody reads
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* Republicans must compromise or concede to liberals on social issues, they claim
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* Claim to know what is the best for the Republican Party
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* Write books which nobody reads – books which have the consistent theme of how to make the "conservative" movement succeed, but which are always promoted by liberals
  
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==External links==
 
* [http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=44918 NY Times Hires Its Version of A Conservative to Write Op-Ed Column]
 
* [http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=44918 NY Times Hires Its Version of A Conservative to Write Op-Ed Column]
 
* [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2009/05/20/today-turns-leftist-moderate-advice-gop-comeback NBC 'Today' Turns to Leftist and a Moderate for Advice on GOP Comeback]
 
* [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2009/05/20/today-turns-leftist-moderate-advice-gop-comeback NBC 'Today' Turns to Leftist and a Moderate for Advice on GOP Comeback]
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The term "token conservative" describes the lip service paid by the mainstream, liberal media to so-called fairness. The typical offering from the mainstream media is a single moderate, so-called "conservative" speaker, reporter, columnist among hundreds of fellow liberal employees. This person's view is almost exclusively "New World" moderate and they would most likely find more in common with their liberal counterparts than with real American conservatives. On occasion, a single true conservative such as Bill Kristol finds employment with the mainstream media, but it never lasts because of their commitment to real conservative viewpoints. The liberal media demands that they hire their brand of "conservative" – one that will attack real conservatives.

Token Conservative views and personalities

Brooks supports same-sex "marriage"[1] and abortion.[2] He strongly opposes Donald Trump[3] and considered the far-left elitist Hillary Clinton to be more "competent" and "normal" than Trump.[4] On the Senate floor, socialist Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid gave Brooks accolades for denouncing Republicans as 'not normal'.[5]
According to the New York Times, Douthat’s writing “steers away from partisanship — he frequently criticizes Republicans — or doctrine."
Douthat said "‘I’m sort of a squishy pro-lifer,’ interested in finding areas of compromise." In May 2017, he called for conservative U.S. President Donald Trump's impeachment, but because of any "high crimes and misdemeanors," which Douthat admitted Trump did not commit, but because Trump was supposedly unfit to serve.[6]
David Frum, who voiced relatively conservative views prior to around the later part of the Bush II presidency, shifted strongly to the Left after the election of Obama in 2008. Among his left-wing positions, he supports the immoral practice of homosexual "marriage" and believes homosexual "marriage" is not a threat to family stability.[7] He also believes in the discredited, pseudoscientific theory of global warming.[8] In addition, he voted for the far-left Hillary Clinton over conservative Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election[9] and later called for President Trump to resign.[10]
"What is irrational is the failure of conservatives and Republicans to perceive the divergence between Fox’s interests and their own." [11]
Rush Limbaugh Is "A Walking Stereotype Of Self-Indulgence" [12]
Speaking about Palin, “This is a woman who has got into a position of leadership by sending very powerful sexual signals,” Frum told reporter Judy Woodruff. “And we see that in the way that men like her much more than women do.”
"..how conservative the Republican Party's become, they've got it backwards. We have not been conservative as a party, we've been radical." [13]
Scarborough writes a book titled The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise. To promote the release he visits with many left-leaning media outlets and trashes all well known conservatives; Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich and more.[14]
Krauthammer is much more conservative than the others listed here, and although he could not bring himself to vote for Trump in 2016, he was more sympathetic and supportive towards him than the other "token conservatives," especially after Trump's inauguration. However, he remains pro-abortion,[17] an evolutionist/creation denier,[18] and a former Walter Mondale speechwriter)
Rubin writes a blog titled "Right Turn", but the only direction she goes is Left. She sounds like a leftist Democrat in her blog posts. She calls the Republican Party a "party of all white, angry, abusive men"[19] and during the 2016 election she has attacked Donald Trump (who is much more bold for conservative issues than RINOs like Romney or McCain, which she likely supports), likely, in every single blog post she has made, even in the general election and after the election when Trump won.[20] She mocks conservative evangelical Christians, calling them "evangelical charlatans", and she borrows leftist attack lines against conservative Republicans.[21] She supports the homosexual agenda.[22] She hates Fox News because she believes it is conservative, and she denies that extremely talented and credible journalists such as Tucker Carlson are neither.[23][24] She states "What’s good for Fox is not good for the GOP or the country. Perhaps a credible center-right TV news operation is needed" (one should note that her vision of "center-right" news closely resembles leftist scams such as MSNBC).[24] She genuinely believes that Fox's commentators are "racist", despite having no real evidence, other than the fact that they oppose Barack Obama and actually defended Donald Trump (of course, will she say the same thing about similar statements from the Left?).[25] She advocates for "center-right" politics (whatever that even means) but attacks solid conservatives.

Common Characteristics

Most liberal media "conservatives" share the following viewpoints;

  • RINO "big tent" inclusive party
  • Lacking principled stances on issues, unless, of course, they take an explicitly left-wing stance on an issue
  • Attack solid, principled conservatives
  • Republicans must compromise or concede to liberals on social issues, they claim
  • Claim to know what is the best for the Republican Party
  • Write books which nobody reads – books which have the consistent theme of how to make the "conservative" movement succeed, but which are always promoted by liberals

External links

References

  1. ↑ Brooks, David (November 22, 2003). The Power Of Marriage. The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ Brooks, David (April 22, 2007). Postures in Public, Facts in the Womb. The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ Brooks, David (March 18, 2016). No, Not Trump, Not Ever. The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  4. ↑ Schwartz, Ian (June 11, 2017). David Brooks: People Will Be Sick Of Trump And Vote For Hillary, "She Will be Competent And Normal". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ Krauthammer on NYT’s David Brooks: ‘He’s not a conservative’, Daily Caller, July 8, 2011
  6. ↑ Pollak, Joel B. (May 17, 2017). New York Times’ ‘Conservative’ Columnist Calls for Trump to be Ousted. Breitbart News. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  7. ↑ http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-27/opinion/frum.gay.marriage_1_family-stability-marriage-hispanic-mothers/2?_s=PM:OPINION
  8. ↑ http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2009/04/five_questions_for_david_frum
  9. ↑ Revesz, Rachael (November 3, 2017). George W Bush’s speechwriter says he voted for Hillary Clinton. The Independent. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  10. ↑ David Frum. Twitter. May 15, 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  11. ↑ Must We Make It so Easy for Obama? NewMajority.com, April 14, 2009
  12. ↑ Why Rush is wrong Newsweek, March 7, 2009
  13. ↑ Scarborough: Today's GOP is Not Too Conservative It's Too Radical Newsbusters.org, May 3, 2009
  14. ↑ Joe Scarborough Conservative Bashing Book Tour Flops Bigtime NewsBusters.org, June 20, 2009
  15. ↑ On Darwin, evolution and Congress, George Will, Pocono Record, February 8, 2009
  16. ↑ Look Who's Turning
  17. ↑ Giuliani's Abortion 'Gaffe', Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, May 11, 2007
  18. ↑ Phony Theory, False Conflict, Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, November 18, 2005
  19. ↑ Rubin, Jennifer (October 26, 2016). Trump’s party of angry, white, abusive males. The Washington Post. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  20. ↑ Rubin, Jennifer (November 21, 2016). #NeverTrump must become #TheResistance. The Washington Post. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  21. ↑ Rubin, Jennifer (October 26, 2016). Sane Republicans should pack their bags and flee the GOP. The Washington Post. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  22. ↑ Rubin, Jennifer (November 21, 2013). The marriage mission. The Washington Post. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  23. ↑ Rubin, Jennifer (January 6, 2017). The Fox News nighttime lineup has shed its last element of real journalism. The Washington Post. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Rubin, Jennfier (January 4, 2017). Without Megyn Kelly, Fox News’s prime-time lineup is a complete joke. The Washington Post. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  25. ↑ Rubin, Jennifer (October 26, 2016). The mainstreaming of racism on Fox News. The Washington Post. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
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