Thread: The Stalker Right

If you are an American family and you speak out for health care for kids, right wing bloggers will drive-by your home, sniff around your work place and do price checks of your kitchen appliances in order to accuse you of making too much money to deserve help getting health care for your kids.

No, really.

Oh, and please note that the link above is from a right wing blogger who disagrees with the expansion of S-CHIP, but thinks Michelle Malkin is a psychotic douche-bag. Rational conservatives are wincing at the drooling hatred directed at this family.

[W]hile the Frosts were helping a bipartisan majority in Congress sell a plan to expand the program, they were not prepared for comments such as this one, posted over the weekend on the conservative Web site Redstate:

“If federal funds were required [they] could die for all I care. Let the parents get second jobs, let their state foot the bill or let them seek help from private charities. … I would hire a team of PIs and find out exactly how much their parents made and where they spent every nickel. Then I’d do everything possible to destroy their lives with that info.” […]

“Hang ‘em. Publically,” [a Redstate] contributor wrote. “Let ‘em twist in the wind and be eaten by ravens. Then maybe the bunch of socialist patsies will think twice.”

Malkin claims the outpouring of disgust over the hounding of this family is an attempt to silence her and the rest of the right-wing blogosphere - of course tactics like these are really about silencing anyone who disagrees with her.

Oh, fuck off already ya goddamn socialist.

Right Wing Launches Baseless Smear Campaign Against 12 Year Old Recipient Of SCHIP

Two weeks ago, the Democratic radio address was delivered by a 12-year old Maryland boy named Graeme Frost. Graeme told his story of being involved in a severe car accident three years ago, and having received access to medical care because of the Children’s Health Insurance Program. He said:

If it weren’t for CHIP, I might not be here today. … We got the help we needed because we had health insurance for us through the CHIP program. But there are millions of kids out there who don’t have CHIP, and they wouldn’t get the care that my sister and I did if they got hurt. … I just hope the President will listen to my story and help other kids to be as lucky as me.

The right-wing immediately condemned Democrats for daring to put a human face on the SCHIP program at a time when Bush was proposing a “diminishment of the number of children covered.” Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) — who has posed with children to advance his own political agenda — claimed Graeme was being used “as a human shield.”

Conservatives have more recently turned their targets on young Graeme Frost himself. A poster at the Free Republic propagated information alleging that Frost was actually a rich kid being pampered by the government. Among other bits of information, the post by the Freeper “icwhatudo” asserts that Graeme and his sister Gemma attend wealthy schools that cost “nearly $40,000 per year for tuition” and live in a well-off home.

The smear attack against Graeme has taken firm hold in the right-wing blogosphere. The National Review, Michelle Malkin, Wizbang, Powerline, and the Weekly Standard blog have all launched assaults on the Frost family. The story is slowly working its way into traditional media outlets as well.

Here are the facts that the right-wing distorted in order to attack young Graeme:

1) Graeme has a scholarship to a private school. The school costs $15K a year, but the family only pays $500 a year.

2) His sister Gemma attends another private school to help her with the brain injuries that occurred due to her accident. The school costs $23,000 a year, but the state pays the entire cost.

3) They bought their “lavish house” sixteen years ago for $55,000 at a time when the neighborhood was less than safe.

4) Last year, the Frosts made $45,000 combined. Over the past few years they have made no more than $50,000 combined.

5) The state of Maryland has found them eligible to participate in the CHIP program.

Desperate to defend Bush’s decision to cut off millions of children from health care, the right wing has stooped to launching baseless and uninformed attacks against a 12 year old child and his family.

Right wing bloggers have been harassing the Frosts, calling their home numerous times to get information about their private lives. Compassionate conservatism indeed.

Whine!!!!!!

This whole episode really says something about Malkin and the right wing, they ought to be ashamed.

This thread really says something about the socialist assholes who would turn over 1/8 of our economy to a bunch of idiot political hack who can't even run SS effectively. Dumb asses.

I will say that even I am a conservative, I don't approve of anyone harrassing anyone. The program is a good program but the Democrats refused to make changes to the bill, so it was vetoed. They were only wanting to make a showing of caring for low income people.

The congressional budget office says the program needs another 15 billion just to maintain the coverage of the children it helps now - and the hugely successful program reduced the number of uninsured children by a fourth - much less be able to expand it to the remaining 9 million children with no coverage at all.

Bush's offer of 5 billion is a de facto cut to an effective successful program - which the insurance industry loved by the way - and a direct attack on the health of low income children. That's not a compromise.

Originally Posted by Rusty Idols

The congressional budget office says the program needs another 15 billion just to maintain the coverage of the children it helps now - and the hugely successful program reduced the number of uninsured children by a fourth - much less be able to expand it to the remaining 9 million children with no coverage at all.

Bush's offer of 5 billion is a de facto cut to an effective successful program - which the insurance industry loved by the way - and a direct attack on the health of low income children. That's not a compromise.

This is what I think...

Anyone notice a little rodent running around...


Maybe we need to bring in a cat to eat it.