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The Loony Brigade (SCHIP)
CBS News ^ | Oct 9, 2007 | Kevin Drum

Posted on 10/09/2007 11:36:31 AM PDT by Lorianne

As near as I can tell, the right-wing blogosphere has spent the past three years fantasizing obsessively about uncovering a new Rathergate. It was their great triumph (Blog of the Year from Time magazine!), and now it seems like hardly a month goes by without the hysterical discovery of yet another faked photo, planted note, or lying liberal. Almost without fail, though, they turn out to be.....wrong. Embarrassingly, completely, unquestionably, flat-on-their-faces wrong.

But they don't give up. The latest example is 12-year-old Graeme Frost, whose great sin was to tape a radio address supporting expansion of the SCHIP children's health program. Unsurprisingly, the latest crackpot loony brigade is headed up by the chief crackpot, Michelle Malkin, who has distinguished herself by staking out Graeme's house and grilling his father's friends. Other members of the brigade have dug up property records, scoured wedding announcements, checked out school websites, and when trash day comes will probably be rooting through their garbage barrels.

And the point of all this? To "prove" that the Frosts are secret zillionaires who don't deserve government help with their medical bills. In this, the loon brigade is, as usual, embarrassingly, completely, unquestionably, flat-on-their-faces wrong. I'll give you one guess about whether that's going to stop them.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; bias; cbs; graemefrost; mediabias; msm; schip
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see any facts in this article. Did I miss something?
1 posted on 10/09/2007 11:36:33 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Liberals are soooo cute when they’re angry.


2 posted on 10/09/2007 11:38:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U (At least we didn't lose to Stanford))
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To: Lorianne

Did I misread this, where’s the “flat on their face” wrong part?


3 posted on 10/09/2007 11:38:48 AM PDT by ljco
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To: Lorianne

They just hate it when we are right all the time.


4 posted on 10/09/2007 11:40:24 AM PDT by bmwcyle (BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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To: Lorianne

obviously you are missing the entire point...rat-wingers don’t need facts; they just throw sh!t out there and it’s true...

as with See BS, it’s up to everyone else to prove false their stories and reports...and even then they proven as a lie rat-wingers still question the evidence, not being able to back up their own original statements or stories...


5 posted on 10/09/2007 11:42:27 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Lorianne

I didn’t see any facts.


6 posted on 10/09/2007 11:43:01 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: jennyjenny

Liberals don’t need facts, all they need is feeeelings.


7 posted on 10/09/2007 11:44:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U (At least we didn't lose to Stanford))
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To: Lorianne
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see any facts in this article. Did I miss something?

Nope. CBS News appears to be a fact free zone.

8 posted on 10/09/2007 11:45:41 AM PDT by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: Lorianne

Conservative:
Here’s fact one, proof two, example three, etc etc etc.

“Liberal” screaming with his hands in his ears:
“You’re wrong! Wrong! Wrong!”


9 posted on 10/09/2007 11:46:56 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Lorianne

Yes, I kept waiting to see their facts and why us crackpots were wrong about the Frosts.


10 posted on 10/09/2007 11:47:33 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: Lorianne

Oh, another thing typically liberal -

notice there’s no links or email address which you might reply and ask for more clarification of little Kev’s position.


11 posted on 10/09/2007 11:48:39 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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Well at least they admit to there being an actual ‘Rathergate’ and the nut-wingers being responsible for it. Progress?
12 posted on 10/09/2007 11:50:28 AM PDT by poobear (Pure democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. God save the Republic!)
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To: Lorianne
Unsurprisingly, the latest crackpot loony brigade is headed up by the chief crackpot, Michelle Malkin, who has distinguished herself by staking out Graeme's house and grilling his father's friends.

Ooh. That really irks them. You have to have an Associate's Degree in Journalism from South Central LA Community College before you can be allowed to do that...

13 posted on 10/09/2007 11:51:02 AM PDT by Philistone (If someone tells you it's for the children, he believes that YOU are a child.)
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Michelle Malkin, who has distinguished herself by staking out Graeme's house and grilling his father's friends

Uh, hello? This is called JOURNALISM, its what the folks in the MSM do to conservatives/republicans all the time. Now, if the MSM had been doing its job fairly, they would have known about this already..

14 posted on 10/09/2007 11:53:13 AM PDT by Paradox (Politics: The art of convincing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
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To: Lorianne

Heck, this family is one of the rich families that the left would like to hammer with more taxes to expand government programs.


15 posted on 10/09/2007 11:54:55 AM PDT by CSM ("Dogs and beer. Proof that God loves us.- Al Gator (8/24/2007))
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"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see any facts in this article. Did I miss something?"

Of course not; were talking about seeBS here. If ypou want facts check Free Reupblic.

16 posted on 10/09/2007 11:55:43 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Lorianne
It reminds me of when the lamestreammedia unilaterally declared the Swift Boat Vets "discredited" dispite the FACT that they did not retract one issue and sKerry was forced to fall all over himself about seared in memories.

They didn't need any proof then and they sure don't need any now.

17 posted on 10/09/2007 12:02:11 PM PDT by Pietro
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I understand that the Frost’s would want to find some way to have their children’s medical bills paid rather than have the bills show up on their credit rating. I understand that even with some employer-provided health coverage, the bills are often more than the insurance will cover. However, the American dream has always been filled with ups and downs, triumph and tragedy. One of the tragedies of life is that you can lose it all in the blink of an eye. Sometimes you reach a point when you have to declare bankruptcy. Sometimes you have to sell everything you have. It does not mean you will never be a success. It’s life.

The Frosts’ case reminds me of the folks who try to hide Grandma’s money prior to putting Grandma in a nursing home. If they don’t, they lose all of Grandma’s assets because they can’t get Medicare/Medicaid to cover Grandma’s nursing home bills until her assets are all gone. The Frosts are hiding their assets in order to pay little to cover their children’s medical bills. But I could be wrong. Maybe they don’t have more than $47K/year to live on. Maybe their parents don’t help them out at all.


18 posted on 10/09/2007 12:02:25 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: CSM

That’s true! This is the logic of the left.


19 posted on 10/09/2007 12:02:56 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Hey, Mr. Drum, sux when the left’s lies get exposed, don’t it?

All liberals, excuuuuse me, “progressives”, want their subjects on the plantation, and when it comes to said subjects hearing the truth about your party, you throw a hissy fit.


20 posted on 10/09/2007 12:03:42 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (FRED!)
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