Posted on 10/12/2007 6:13:47 AM PDT by kristinn
Conservatives claim to be in favor of stable families, small businesses, hard work, private schools, investment and homeownership.
So why in the world are so many on the right attacking the family of Graeme Frost?
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The kids were treated, thanks to S-CHIP. The Frosts spoke out so the public would know that real people lie behind the acronym.
Their reward was to be trashed on right-wing blogs and talk radio as if they were multimillionaires ripping off the system. The assault on the Frosts apparently began on the Free Republic website and quickly spread to National Review Online, Power Line, and Michelle Malkin's blog, as well as Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
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OK, the Democrats are "fair game," but a 12-year-old? No wonder nobody talks about compassionate conservatism anymore.
As a general rule, I am a fan of the blogosphere. It has broadened the public debate and brought new people into politics. And nasty stuff is by no means limited to the right-wing blogs. Left-of-center blogs whose political views I largely share have published offensive stuff, too. Shaun Mullen, who blogs at The Moderate Voice--yes, there are moderate blogs--is right to generalize when he says that the targeting of the Frost family reveals "the vicious underbelly of the blogosphere."
So rather than just condemn the right-wingers as meanies, let's take their claims seriously. Doing so makes clear that they are engaged in a truly perverse and incoherent form of class warfare.
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But here is a family with modest possessions doing everything conservatives tell people they should do, and the right trashes them for getting help to buy health insurance for their children.
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The media has been reporting the $45k household income. How do they know that figure is right?
Everything here is by the playbook..yawn...put a victim out there, and when he’s challenged, go after the attackers as being “mean.” They set us up all the time.
Ms Dione fails to mention that SCHIP did indeed cover these pukes when they needed it. At what point is any Dem going to ask any adult to take on adult responsibilities. Rediculous. Now we have suburban puppies who feel they need a subsidy to make it through life. How about we create a national program to develop character in our people?
Hey EJ Honey....no one is picking onm the brain damaged 12 year old.........but his parents are GAMING the system!! Hey EJ Honey....ask to see there TAX FILING!!!! HA....they will refuse because they are FRAUDS!! They want their neighbors to pay but they don;t want to.
He also is not admitting it was the left that served the whole thing up and lying about who this family is.
People like this author just don’t matter anymore. There is no credibility; no challenge, no truth in what they write. It’s like they make stuff up and throw it out there as reality.
In other words, they are just plain boring; almost as boring as the lies they all tell.
Somehow a family earning $45K a year who does not prioritize their kids could not be the problem, could they? Nah. It must be those real killers OJ is chasing.
I still wonder what kind of parents let their kids go without medical insurance and demands that somebody else pay for it when they get hurt. No, I don’t wonder, I know. Those kind of parents are also known as Democrats.
They don’t. The Baltimore Sun claims the Frost’s declined their request to see their 2006 tax return. However, a spokesman for the Maryland office that runs the health insurance program assured the media the Frost’s are quaified.
Yet another fine example of “selective reality”. This Brave New World thing is sure gonna be fun. /sarc
Doing so makes clear that they are engaged in a truly perverse and incoherent form of class warfare.
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This liberal story-book scenario is right out of the Dem playbook. It just smells of class warfare and typical liberal divisiveness. But now the playbook includes a new section that says to include attacks on the New Media, including Talk Radio, the patriotic blogosphere, and anything not LIBERAL. Typical.
E.J. is a man. Sort of. FYI.
This is a very intriguing statement because when we have a Compassionate Conservative in office the left calls him every name in the book and accuses him of being racist.
Who's blaming the kid? I blame his parents and the 'Rats for using him as a political "human shield".
Also, the primary question recently on the SCHIP program is whether it is being expanded away from its original aim of socializing medicine for poor kids to socializing medicine for all but the richest kids including a lot whose parents could and should be paying for insurance themselves. The Frosts have proven to be a perfect example of that rather than the Dems plan to use them as an example of the struggling poor family.
Do you believe some bureaucrat Democrat??? I sure don’t.
He’s a chick, baby!
The Donks served him up as a “victim” of evil conservatives. We simply knocked him outta the park.
He just doesn't get it, does he? ......
You need to let go your antiquated notion of fact based reality, and rise to a higher truth. Relax, let the warm needle of liberal narrative do its work. You are getting tired, aren’t you? Sleepy. Sleepy. vote democrat....
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