{"id":18617,"date":"2017-03-01T21:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/01\/30\/david-frum-admits-heckling-didnt-occur-then-slams-michelle-malkin-as-sociopath\/"},"modified":"2017-03-01T21:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:45:39","slug":"david-frum-admits-heckling-didnt-occur-then-slams-michelle-malkin-as-sociopath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/18617","title":{"rendered":"David Frum admits heckling didn’t occur, then slams Michelle Malkin as sociopath"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/davidfrum\/status\/296612267481526273\n

After doubling down<\/a>, tripling down<\/a>, and quadrupling down<\/a> on the Newtown heckling hoax, conservative-turned-liberal David Frum has finally backed down. Sort of.<\/p>\n

Earlier this morning, he posted a response to Twitchy and other critics who criticized him for repeatedly pushing the false “heckling” narrative:<\/p>\n\n\n

My answer to #tcot<\/a> and Twitchy about Neil Heslin and those who shouted at him thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/…<\/a><\/p>\n

— davidfrum (@davidfrum) January 30, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

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Following Slate<\/a>, The Week<\/a>, Anderson Cooper<\/a>, and many others, Frum conceded<\/a> that no heckling occurred at Monday’s gun control  hearing in Connecticut:<\/p>\n

[I]n retrospect, I’ll concede this: the CTPost‘ s use of the word “heckling” was misjudged, and it was not the right word for me to have repeated.<\/p>\n

He also acknowledged<\/a> that MSNBC edited its video in a way that distorted what happened:<\/p>\n

I didn’t see and wasn’t influenced by the MSNBC video, but I’ll agree: it was edited too tightly and in a way that made treatment of Neil Heslin look worse than it was.<\/p>\n

About an hour later, Frum posted this tweet accusing Twitchy founder\/owner Michelle Malkin of being “sociopathic”:<\/p>\n\n\n

We need to keep in mind the distinction between what is politically conservative and what is merely sociopathic. twitter.com\/michellemalkin…<\/a><\/p>\n

— davidfrum (@davidfrum) January 30, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

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The link didn’t work, but Frum was undaunted. He returned to Twitter to post the correct link:<\/p>\n\n\n

Corrected link: twitter.com\/michellemalkin…<\/a><\/p>\n

— davidfrum (@davidfrum) January 30, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here’s the tweet that has him hot and bothered:<\/p>\n\n\n

.@piersmorgan<\/a> @davidfrum<\/a> You execrable hacks. No fair-minded person can watch FULL vid & keep lying like you do. twitchy.com\/2013\/01\/29\/out…<\/a><\/p>\n

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) January 30, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

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On the one hand, Michelle Malkin correctly noted that no heckling occurred. She criticized liberal “journalists” who continued to propagate the heckling myth even hours after Twitchy posted the unedited video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, David Frum repeatedly defended his bogus “heckling” characterization<\/a>, falsely accused those who called him out of condoning the heckling of a grieving father<\/a>, and likened those who disagreed with him to rape apologists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clearly,  someone needs help from a mental health professional, but we assure you it’s not Twitchy’s founder.<\/p>

Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/01\/30\/david-frum-admits-heckling-didnt-occur-then-slams-michelle-malkin-as-sociopath\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/davidfrum\/status\/296612267481526273 After doubling down, tripling down, and quadrupling down on the Newtown heckling hoax, conservative-turned-liberal David Frum has finally backed down. Sort of. Earlier this morning, he posted a response to Twitchy and other critics who criticized him for repeatedly pushing the false “heckling” narrative: My answer to #tcot and Twitchy about Neil Heslin and … Continue reading David Frum admits heckling didn’t occur, then slams Michelle Malkin as sociopath<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14883399582484-sociopath.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}