Everytime I read David Frum I get an itchy feeling. It is not because of his rightist bent. I can listen to the most anarchical libertarian if they are lucid and enjoy the perspective even if I don't buy the results. But yesterday's interview on Fresh Air got me scratching again. I think it is because he is as dishonest as a four year old at the cookie jar.

Yesterday, promoting his book An End to Evil  he kept saying that "since 1993" this and "since 1993" that never addressing the real problem of the origins of this wave of fundamentalist terrorism was not during Clinton's terms in office but during those of Regan and George Bush Sr. Historical revisionism of any kind is offensive and stupifying but, when you add to the mix the old connections between the Bush clan and the House of Saud which is one of the critical but seemingly unspeakable factors in the War on Terror, it is dangerous.   Rather than be actually heard and rejected, however, having built a paying audience of the rich and simple who do not care about his regular omissions of fact, he is praised and doors are opened.

I suppose that Americans are not really aware that he is one of those Canadian media children who, like Leah McLaren and Alison Gzowski, received undeserved early press access and attention without which he might be, say, a bitter junior high school teacher in Scarborough.