The Frost Family Fiasco

The right-wing critics went WAY overboard on this one and many are still floundering, trying to support their arguments.  I haven't seen a single one that's working for me.  In fact, by continuing to argue the unarguable, they're looking uglier and uglier...

The Frost family fiasco: a right-wing smear gone awry

At this point, the jig is just about up. The right-wing mob grabbed their torches and pitchforks, went after a struggling, down-on-their-luck family of six, only to find that the real villains were the ones leading the mindless gang in misguided rage. Time’s Karen Tumulty did a piece on the conservative smear of 12-year-old Graeme Frost [...]

And, who better to take on the bad guys, than my favorite dynamic duo.  I really wish they'd give Maddow a regular spot on Countdown -

Olbermann And Maddow On The Right’s Jihad On 12 Year Old Boy

As Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh and the right wing hate machine’s jihad against SCHIP and 12 year old Graeme Frost blows up in their faces, Countdown host Keith Olbermann and Air America Radio’s Rachel Maddow lay out what is without a doubt, the best framing of the latest and reprehensible episode for the Republican [...]

Yes, indeed, the hits just keep on coming -

Is There No Decency Left in the Republican Party?

The American people have many reasons to be repulsed by the Republican Party and their deeply unpopular President. This gang of thugs abandoned every principle they ever professed and instead became the party of corruption, dishonesty, incompetence, coddling the privileged and systematically neglecting the nation’s needs, while debasing the nation’s honor with torture, kidnappings, [...]

Over at the Newshoggers site, Libby lays it on the line -

I pity the hatemongers

It's taken me a full week to be able to address the vicious attacks on the Frost family with a civilized response and by now everything that can be said about this instant matter, has been, and quite eloquently by many, including our own Shamanic, but I can't stop thinking about it. Maybe because my initial response makes me cringe. I read what I said and I feel icky and embarrassed because I sound like -- them. It makes me realize what a fine line there is between [...]

Think this story is going away anytime soon?  Think again, my friend. Think again. And tell me if THIS isn't going to cause some grief for Mitch McConnell -

EXCLUSIVE: E-mail Reveals That McConnell Staffer Propagated Smear Campaign Against Graeme Frost

Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that there was mounting evidence that a staffer for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may have been involved in the right-wing campaign to smear Graeme Frost and his family. ABC News reported earlier in the week that an e-mail sent to reporters by “a Senate Republican leadership aide” in McConnell’s office suggested [...]

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