Another story that continues to really raise my blood pressure - the tragic way the right (in blogs, on radio and on television) continue to stalk and harass the family that allowed their 12 year old son to tell of their experiences with the SCHIP insurance program. It's a story of how even middle-income families can find themselves in trouble. It's a story that some on the right continue to deny. If they would just listen, they would find that it's a story being told by more and more American families and it's not always, as they claim, simply a matter of "making bad choices" and not wanting to deal with those choices. Maybe some of them are better than the rest of us, maybe they planned every aspect of their life and managed to dodge all of those boulders that life puts in our way. If so, congratulations. You truly are better than many Americans. Still, I maintain that it's not simply a matter of "choices" that went awry. There are many, many, middle class Americans who are in trouble right now. Deep trouble. And they need help. Not a degrading lecture from condescending commentators who don't have a clue.
PEEK: Michelle Malkin, Leave the Sick and Injured Kids Alone!
TRex: Just when I think you can't possibly become any more loathsome and despicable, you find another trap door and gleefully sink to new depths [...]
I'm amazed that most of these critics are hanging in there and continuing their assault, when it's been pointed out over and over that they have the facts wrong. Flat. Out. Wrong.
Michelle sends out the distress signal to Greater Wingnuttia, and, predictably, it is she who is the victim yet again: "On Monday, I did something that has everyone from King Kos on down to the dregs (a short traveling distance, to be sure) screaming “Stalker!” What did I do? I went up to Baltimore and interviewed [...]
Hunter posts at Daily Kos, taking the bloggers, and radio talkers and TV pundits to task. Big Time. And, rightfully so. They are W-A-Y off base with this attack.
Ya know, I've been following what Malkin, Free Republic, Riehl and the like have been doing to Graeme Frost's family. I can't post much of anything on it, because any honest, no-holds-barred post I write about it right now would probably get me arrested. It's one of those little things about living in a civilized society -- sometimes you have to know where the boundaries are. And yet, there are continual examples of [...]
One additional key point, made so well (with supporting material) by John Cole -
About this whole Frost debate is the obvious irrational belief that a 260k house in the heart of Butcher Hill in Baltimore is somehow a big deal. Granted, here in WV, depending on the area you live, a 260k house is something that could be pretty nice, but in most urban areas, 260k is [...]
There is no "middle ground" on this issue and it's beginning to take on political implications. Could you support a Republican Senator who stuck his nose into this mess and seemed to side with the Malkins of the world?
What’s with the non-denial from Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office? Is one of his aides indeed coordinating with wingnuttia for the attacks on a 12-year-old boy and his sister and their family? From ABC News, via Digby: “This is a perverse distraction from the issue at hand,” said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Reid, D-Nev. “Instead of debating the [...]
I know this is getting long, even for my "new" format, but there's one final post that pulls the so many thoughts all together. via Mahablog -
The right-wing hate campaign against Graeme Frost has finally seeped into mainstream media. Here’s Richard Wolf in USA Today: Bloggers showed a photo of the couple’s glass-front cabinets and 1992 wedding announcement in The New York Times. Democrats “filled this kid’s head with lies,” Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show. The blogs were “pretty insulting stuff, [...]
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