Today, David Frum a self proclaimed Conservative with very strong ties to the Republican Party who is not a comedian, but today made me laugh. He tries to be a serious pundit, using his white privilege and powers of being financially sufficient. He sees the world never from the basement of a sky scraper, but most of the time from one of the upper floors, never the Penthouse, because well is not that kind of a Republican. The joke that made me laugh, the unintentional joke, by the way, was Mr Frum’s outrage that someone or some entity is leaking information from the Oval Office. Now that alone is a serious matter, but with all good comics, a GREAT joke has a lead in, a dead pan kind of preparation, for the punch line. Mr Frum (I am paraphrasing) suggested, that to leak a phone call from the Oval Office evaporates the credibility that a president has in speaking with world leaders…WTF…as if the guy sitting in the Oval Office had or has credibility, is hilariously funny…the fact that leaking phone calls will defuse the power of the presidency, with Trump sitting in White House, well I almost broke a rib.
Mr Frum, is, himself, in my opinion playing a very stupid game. He is not alone in playing it either. Just because Trump, via hacking/Russian collusion/gerrymandering won the election does not mean he should be taken seriously. What Mr Frum should be whining about is just how awfully, INTENTIONALLY allow the Republican leadership has been to either prove the allegations or dismiss them. What the Republicans have done is ignore them…what is destroying any foreign leader, with the exception of perhaps Putin from talking with the Trump, is TRUMP…and does it ever make you wonder, why not a single Putin call has been leaked…wonder which secret phone in President Bannon’s office that call is being made.
