David Frum Joining Daily Beast and Newsweek

NEW YORK -- Conservative journalist and commentator David Frum is joining the Daily Beast and Newsweek, where he'll write a blog for the site and features for the weekly magazine.

In making the move, Frum shut down operations of his own site, FrumForum.

"Over the past 3 years, the hard work of over 70 regular contributors and hundreds of other supporters has made a tremendous editorial success out of first NewMajority.com, then FrumForum.com," Frum wrote in a Friday morning email to contributors.

"Together we have forcefully joined the debate over the future of the Republican party -- and I think we together have shifted that debate. When we started, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck were real forces in American politics. I don't think we can take all the credit for seeing them off, but we do deserve at least some of it!"

Frum, a former President George W. Bush speechwriter, has never been shy when it comes to taking on some of the loudest talkers on the right. In 2009, prior to the merger with the Daily Beast, Frum wrote a Newsweek cover story on "Why Rush Is Wrong." A life-long Republican, Frum wrote a first-person New York magazine piece in November about how the current primary races shows a party losing "touch with reality."

(Disclosure: Danielle Crittenden, Frum's wife, is managing editor, blogs for Huffington Post Canada).

Comments

[chefacree]

02:55 PM on 01/09/2012

This is what republicans used to be like. Some of them anyway.A republican that's not always going off the deep end over some contrived issue/event/idea/comment someone said/ do or didn't do.

[WernerPatels]

10:15 PM on 01/10/2012

Well, he is Canadian, and shows what real conservatism is all about...hint: it has nothing to do with today's Repulicans

[Superpac]

01:43 PM on 01/09/2012

I think Frum is finally beginning to channel his mother (late, respected, smart, cbc anchor).
The Canadian in him must be showing through.

[Greg Aleksey]

12:37 PM on 01/09/2012

Good luck to him. I really enjoyed Frum Forum.

[Cloball]

10:41 AM on 01/09/2012

You forgot to mention how he was fired from a GOP "Think Tank" in 2009 for saying that Fox use to work for the GOP, but now the GOP works for Fox.

[Jay Lewis]

08:00 PM on 01/07/2012

Recent stirrings of Frum and others within the Republican Party parameters seem to me to be signaling a rebellious attitude growing within all Republican ranks.

Could it be that the Koch brothers and other modern day Birchers are finally being challenged in their coup?

Keep hope alive.

[1ccc1]

04:47 PM on 01/07/2012

wasn't he the speechwriter for bush's bogus 'wmd's' speech to drag us into invading Iraq? these retreads need to go away. we need real media, not more slanting.

[PollyTics]

11:08 PM on 01/07/2012

Frum was infamous for the phrase "Axis of Evil" in Bush's State of the Union Speech, 2002, although David's actually wording was "Axis of hatred". His wife unfortunately began bragging to her friends about his part in that speech even though it got him into some hot water.

[emm29056]

03:41 PM on 01/07/2012

David is the rearest of rarities...a rational, pragmatic conservative.

[olderdem]

03:57 PM on 01/08/2012

There's an oxymoron in there somewhere "rational pragmatic conservative"

[cabot]

06:39 AM on 01/07/2012

I wonder if the fact that both Frum and David Brooks are Canadians of Canadian parents that they are amongst two of the more logic, less ideological pundits on the Republican side who both happen to be very bright? It may very well be that being brought up in homes that had more tolerance and a wider world perspective may have contributed to their uniqueness when compared to the majority of ignorant, intolerant and hypocritical Republicans out there .

[JSD08]

01:55 PM on 01/07/2012

Thinking the exact same thing.

[Miller Time]

04:54 PM on 01/07/2012

As is Charles Krauthammer.

[PollyTics]

11:10 PM on 01/07/2012

Krauthammer is hardly what could be described as tolerant!

[miketothad]

03:57 AM on 01/07/2012

Very smart move.

[Sirlarek]

02:28 AM on 01/07/2012

"A life-long Republican, Frum wrote a first-person New York magazine piece in November about how the current primary races shows a party losing "touch with reality.""

Frum has only been an American since 2007. Sorry...hardly a life long Republican. Nearly a life long conservative, though, like many Canadian teenagers, he began campaigning as a socialist.

[Al91206]

02:04 AM on 01/07/2012

How unfortunate that media outlets keep conservative columnists in business....

[French Toast]

01:06 AM on 01/07/2012

He's cashing in? Good for him, I suppose. I don't think he adds anything of value but at least he doesn't stoop to the levels Rush has to every day for his paycheck.

[DeanWormer]

11:12 PM on 01/06/2012

The guy needs a paycheck clearly, even a small one.

[Pollytiques]

11:13 AM on 01/07/2012

He needs to be deported back to his country for the harm he helped the bush administration do to America.

[goola1]

08:25 PM on 01/09/2012

I agree

[Tiger70]

10:13 PM on 01/06/2012

I wish David Frum the best of luck in his new endeavors. As a subscriber to Newsweek, I look forward to his forthcoming articles.

[JHKH]

10:00 PM on 01/06/2012

He can write whatever, for whomever. It doesn't mean I'm going to read a word of it. His opinions are irrelevant. He's just trying not to go off the deep end of insanity with the GOP he's tied to.

[Al91206]

02:05 AM on 01/07/2012

Exactly, folks like Frum try to minimize their fanaticism even though they fully agree with the sentiments behind it.