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http://ift.tt/1nWazSU “. . . Frum is also the guy who gave George W. Bush the phrase ‘axis of evil,’ in which those famous rivals, Saddam’s Iraq and the mullahs’ Iran, were supposedly secretly aligned. (That’s what an ‘axis’ is, you know. An alliance.) So the man is no stranger to dubious conspiracy tales. But he consistently describes that sort of thinking as though it’s something those other people do, not a phenomenon you can see among establishment figures like Frum as well as fringy folks like Alex Jones. Let this episode be a reminder that paranoia can flourish at the top as well as the bottom of the social pecking order.”