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They eat their own. David Frum is blacklisted from Fox for speaking negatively of El Rushbo

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David Frum has been consistently honest with his criticisms of the right wing.  He accused it of having "epistemic closure", that is only willing to get its information from an echo chamber.  He blasted the Republicans all or nothing strategy against health care reform, and was promptly fired from the Koch brothers financed AEI.

Now this.   Quoting:

Conservative pundit David Frum contends that he was blacklisted from Fox News after criticizing Rush Limbaugh in 2009. (h/t Inside Cable News)

Frum made the charge in a piece for New York magazine. Back in 2009, he authored an article forNewsweek "arguing that Republicans would regret conceding so much power to Rush Limbaugh." According to Frum, he had been a frequent contributor on Fox News but "some kind of fatwa was laid down" on him following his Newsweek article.

Frum wrote that producers would call to book him on a segment. He then described the "embarrassed second call" he would receive, in which those same producers would call him back to say they had decided to go "'in a different direction.'"

Frum has since become a fierce critic of Fox News. Most famously, he said in 2010 that "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox."



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/david-frum-fox-news-rush-limbaugh-criticisms_n_1105000.html?ref=tw