🎙️ What a show tells
The David Frum Show
- LEFTour grouping of the show
- 12claims in our motif index
- 14motifs they came up in
⚠️ Stories told, not claims that they're true.
What the show's hosts, guests, callers and the clips they play said, as claims in our words, filed by the shape of the story. "Came up on" the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which.
✍️ Its signature
the motifs it tells far more than the other shows we follow do
🧩 Institutions sell their soul 🧩 Electability
👯 Tells the most alike
the shows whose stories overlap most with its own, whatever their lean
- 🎙️ Left, Right & Center 24% alike · center
- 🎙️ Know Your Enemy 23% alike · left
- 🎙️ Breaking Points 23% alike · center
- 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 22% alike · right
- 🎙️ Hacks on Tap 18% alike · left
🧩 Its repertoire
every motif its claims came up in, the most first
🧩 Institutions sell their soul ×2 🧩 Electability ×2 🧩 Backfiring policy ×1 🧩 Algorithmic bias distorts discourse ×1 🧩 Distorted markets ×1 🧩 Political realignment ×1 🧩 Blaming technology ×1 🧩 Fighting the last war ×1 🧩 AI is existentially dangerous ×1 🧩 Pay to play ×1 🧩 Debt crisis ×1 🧩 Regulatory capture ×1 🧩 Coming for your job ×1 🧩 Somebody knew ×1
🎙️ Lately on the show
its latest claims, in our words, with their motifs
- 2026-10-24 “The federal government's massive deficit drives up interest rates for everyone else.”
🧩 Debt crisis - 2026-10-21 “Social media splits people apart because polarization is its business plan.”
🧩 Algorithmic bias distorts discourse 🧩 Blaming technology - 2026-10-21 “Tech leaders are running companies that produce products they fear will kill humanity.”
🧩 AI is existentially dangerous 🧩 Coming for your job - 2026-10-21 “Hillary Clinton is only popular when she is not running for office.”
🧩 Electability - 2026-10-21 “Hillary Clinton is popular only when she is not running for office.”
🧩 Electability - 2026-10-21 “Tech companies will become too powerful to regulate because of their massive lobbying and financial resources.”
🧩 Regulatory capture - 2026-10-17 “Traders placed large bets on falling oil prices shortly before Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran.”
🧩 Somebody knew - 2026-10-10 “Guilfoyle's potential appointment as ambassador to Greece raises questions regarding corruption laws and income tax violations.”
🧩 Pay to play - 2026-10-07 “City governments make it difficult to increase housing supply by imposing mandatory affordable housing requirements and labor regulations.”
🧩 Backfiring policy 🧩 Distorted markets - 2026-10-07 “Conservatism is losing its status as a workable political philosophy.”
🧩 Political realignment 🧩 Institutions sell their soul - 2026-10-07 “The Trump Defense Department is failing to adapt to new technological realities like drone warfare.”
🧩 Fighting the last war - 2026-10-07 “The Republican Party is moving toward protectionism, chauvinism, and xenophobia.”
🧩 Institutions sell their soul