{"id":260,"date":"2008-10-14T16:41:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/10\/14\/ode-to-david-frum\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T18:34:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T22:34:37","slug":"ode-to-david-frum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/10\/14\/ode-to-david-frum\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To David Frum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Frum, infamous for fathering (or at least taking credit for fathering) the phrase &#8220;Axis of Evil,&#8221; took on the wrong person last night.\u00a0I&#8217;m referring, of course, to Rachel Maddow.<\/p>\n<p>Frum (without any provocation) insulted Maddow several times during his\u00a0interview on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26315908\/\">Rachel&#8217;s\u00a0MSNBC show<\/a>.\u00a0 And the classy and brilliant Maddow let him have it in such a gracious manner, Frum didn&#8217;t seem to know what hit him.\u00a0 Bravo Rachel!!!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The contrast between Frum&#8217;s rude,\u00a0 condescending behavior and Maddow&#8217;s calm, graceful,\u00a0 yet powerful\u00a0 take-down was a beautiful thing to watch.\u00a0\u00a0(You can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/bravenewfilms.org\/blog\/57330-rachel-maddow-blasts-former-bush-speechwriter-david-frum\">Maddow\/Frum clip<\/a> here.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d celebrate with a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Ode To David Frum<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>There once was a fellow named Frum<br \/>\nWho made a mistake rather dumb:<br \/>\nHe started a fight<br \/>\nWith Ms. Maddow one night.<br \/>\nWhen she finished, he looked like a bum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Frum, infamous for fathering (or at least taking credit for fathering) the phrase &#8220;Axis of Evil,&#8221; took on the wrong person last night.\u00a0I&#8217;m referring, of course, to Rachel Maddow. Frum (without any provocation) insulted Maddow several times during his\u00a0interview on\u00a0Rachel&#8217;s\u00a0MSNBC show.\u00a0 And the classy and brilliant Maddow let him have it in such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[181,26,162],"tags":[339,2822,340,2832,338,275,337,2811],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}