Pelosi: Radio attacks on boy unfair [Free Republic.com, posted a report that said Frost attended..]

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[Sub-Driver]

Pelosi: Radio attacks on boy unfair

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 53 minutes ago

Seeking support for a vetoed children's health insurance bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi charged Tuesday that "hate radio has made a vicious attack" on a 12-year-old Baltimore boy who receives coverage through the program.

Pelosi said the allegations were "beneath the dignity of the debate" that surrounds the legislation.

Democrats hope to enact the measure over Bush's opposition, and a House vote scheduled for Thursday. A two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress is required to override a veto, and supporters of the measure appear well short of their goal in the House.

Speaking at a news conference attended by singer Paul Simon, Pelosi, D-Calif., did not identify the targets of her criticism by name. Numerous conservative commentators in recent days have questioned whether the 12-year-old boy, Graeme Frost should qualify for the program for lower-income children.

Democrats enlisted Frost to speak on a recent weekly radio program, where he said the children's insurance program allowed him to get medical help after suffering brain injuries in an automobile accident.

"I just hope the president will listen to my story and help other kids be as lucky as me," he said at the time.

One blog, Free Republic.com, posted a report that said Frost attended a private school where tuition was $20,000 a year, that the family lives in an area where one home recently sold for nearly $500,000, and that a photo and "shows what appears to be a recent remodeling job with granite counter tops and glass-front cabinets."

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh also commented. "This family owns a house in a neighborhood of homes valued in the 400,000 to 500,000 range," he said on Oct. 8.

[Sub-Driver]

such nonsense...........

[battlecry]

“beneath the dignity of the debate”

heheheheeee...

[dynachrome]

It used to be that real reporters, when confronted with conflicting stories, would go out and find the truth and report it, along with who lied. No more, I guess.

[NonValueAdded]

The boy is not under attack. His parents’ sense of responsibility is under attack as are the motives of the RATs who put forth that family from obscurity into the spotlight for their own partisan ends. I don’t recall anyone saying the boy should not receive medical care or a decent education - simply questioning why the taxpayers should foot the bill when the parents have the means to pay for it themselves.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Dems & their media lapdogs never address the facts...absolutely pathetic.

[LibLieSlayer]

Who exactly does this b!tch think still believes anything that she says?

LLS

[TheDon]

ping

[popdonnelly]

I have yet to read anything by anyone attacking this boy.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What millennia was that? So-called “journalists” have always had a bias and an axe to grind. It’s just easier to see now that we have alternative sources of information (i.e., blogs, FR, talk radio, etc..)

[Ferox]

The boy’s family created this mess. Is it not strange that telling the truth is considered an attack? What does this say about Pelosi and her ilk?

[dynachrome]

Ha. I tried to think of some names so I could defend my post. I couldn’t!

[sappy]

SCHIP recipients have not been harmed by this.

Nancee Pelosee

[popdonnelly]

Maybe Nancy should ask why these residents of Baltimore feel compelled to send their kids to private schools? If they sent them to public schools, they could afford health insurance. Maybe there are problems in the public schools that need to be addressed.

[cmsgop]

Pelosi’s talking Turkey, Oh WAit.........

[wastedyears]

Paul Simon is a Liberal?

[bmwcyle]

Yes coke head Paul Simon is a Liberal.

[SueRae]

They are collectively setting their sights on any forum that would DARE question their policies. And will they ever get it right? FR is not a blog. sheesh.

Anything to distract, discredit and denigrate those opposed to their tack, that is the weasel war cry. They are pitiful.

I expect a lot of ‘administrative’ work will have to be done here over the next year or so to deal with increased riffraff traffic. Expect a lot of malevolent visitors, who will be laying for the offhand comment or anything they can run with.

[TexasCajun]

Democrata fight like mooslim men, they hide behind women and children and cry don’t attack me.

[socialismisinsidious]

Pelosi said the allegations were "beneath the dignity of the debate

Of course they are b/c she doesn't want for everyone to know the dirty little secret: that there are a lot of families in the Frost's position who qualify for SCHIPs precisely b/c of a child's diagnosis (and for many I'm talking "minor" ailments such as 'speech delayed')....the Frost family is NOT the only family getting government paid for health care while living in a half a million dollar house. You would think a real journalist would be looking into that little aspect of this story but they won't...they have an agenda and its name is socialized medicine.

[originalbuckeye]

I’d guess that about 95% of the popular musicians are Liberals, along with about 95% of the entertainers. You have to really search to find a conservative in these waters.