(Remember this ad for Bush in ‘04?) Do you actually think I would ever have considered attacking her and her family because of their support of Bush? I mean, it boggles the mind, doesn’t it?
The utter depravity of it all. The sickness that dwells inside the Malkinites must run deeper than I thought. That’s the only way they can continue to dwell in such slime. I have an exclusive quote from an anonymous source close to the story:
“What these right wing bloggers and some of their Republican friends in Washington have done to this family is simply unconscionable. Instead of attacking the issue, they decided to attack a 12-year old boy. This entire smear campaign by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and their allies has been a perverse distraction from the issue at hand - the plight of millions of uninsured children in this country. It also needs to be remembered that the Frosts were viciously attacked for simply speaking their minds and voicing their support for the SCHIP program that was so instrumental in saving the lives of their children. From the Frosts’ perspective, what could be more American?
Hmmm…just debating the issue at hand. Now there’s an idea. You may remember that Howard Kurtz wrote a glowing profile of the right wing’s very own Michelle Malkin a while back. It was rather odd, but not surprising. Soon after he attacked the Huffington Post for having some nasty comments about Dick Cheney on their site, which is a favorite trick of the mmm-essss-mmm. It was dirty pool because he understands the nature of blogging. Since you write about the bloggers quite often, Howie, will you denounce the right wing/Malkin attempts to smear a family and a 12 year old boy? (Here is a public email: http://projects.washingtonpost
One critic, in an e-mail message to Graeme’s mother, Bonnie, warned: “Lie down with dogs, and expect to get fleas.” As it turns out, the Frosts say, Graeme attends the private school on scholarship. The business that the critics said Mr. Frost owned was dissolved in 1999. The family’s home, in the modest Butchers Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, was bought for $55,000 in 1990 and is now worth about $260,000, according to public records. And, for the record, the Frosts say, their kitchen counters are concrete.
Republicans on Capitol Hill, who were gearing up to use Graeme as evidence that Democrats have over-expanded the health program to include families wealthy enough to afford private insurance, have backed off.
An aide to Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, expressed relief that his office had not issued a press release criticizing the Frosts.
As for accusations that bloggers were unfairly attacking a 12-year-old, Ms. Malkin wrote on her blog, “If you don’t want questions, don’t foist these children onto the public stage.”
All the proof you need is Rep. Mitch McConnell backing off of the Frost family. Would he so willingly fade away? Actually the real message is that if anyone stands up against the Republican agenda, the right wing bloggers will smear and stalk you with the desired effect of “STFU or we’ll ruin you.” Intimidation, plain and simple. How many times have we seen this? But to be so low as to go after a child. Joe Gandleman–who isn’t a liberal–has a great take on it:
But no, it’s easier to go after a 12 year-old. After all, these days, anyone who is in the way of an agenda has to be discredited so that no one listens to them anymore. Yet, once upon a time, American society would pull out all stops not to go after a kid. The bar has been lowered yet again. This time it has been lowered so far, it has struck oil amid the sleaze…read on
Filed Under: Health/Science, Media Bias, Media Criticism, Michelle Malkin, Smears
Tags: Kurtz, malkin, SCHIP, smears. Media criticism
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Please excuse the OT
People, do not miss this:
http://blueherald.com/2007/10/.....ident-yet/
That quote is completely anodyne. Maybe it’s important if you know who the source is. But it could be from anyone outside the wingnutosphere.
And these people are still given a platform and supported by the repuke party. If corporate media did their jobs and widely reported these disgusting attacks the repuke party would have no future in this country.
Let’s put impeachment “back on the table” and give the repugs something new to bash.
Why is Michelle Malkin still allowed outside without a minder? And a straitjacket?
I made a video clip earlier this week- I took a clip you guys posted of Geraldo, O’Reilly, and Malkin, and when Malkin spoke, on the audio track, I replaced the object of her sentences with various permutations of the hooker in “Apocalypse Now”- So Malkin would reply to Geraldo with “Hey, baby! Me so hawny, love you long time…” It was so cathartic that I laughed until tears came, but I thought better of posting it to YouTube, lest it be reduced to a mere ethnic slur, which it was not. Anything that downgrades Malkin to a loudmouthed strumpet from a “commentator” if fair….the upshot is, keith Olberman was right on target last night, calling these pigs out for what they are- mental cases. And Malkin is the worst of the worst.
Two hundred grand is what most operations not covered by HMOs usually cost nowadays. Those Republiscum are really out of touch if they think that family is “rich”.
“Malkin Debases Herself…”SHOCKING!
(But the glad reality is that nobody (except hard-core bloggers on both sides) know who the hell she is or what she says about anything)
You have to keep in mind Malkins fan base.
http://tinyurl.com/bvv7m
The children are citizens too. They can be grateful for a government program that saved their life if they want to be.
By the way. McConnell is my Senator. I’m composing a letter in my head to write to him. It is NOT polite. Something along the lines of this:
Thank goodness I can afford insurance - my son was born about a month ago and the “bill” (statement) came in the mail today. $5000 for the delivery and for my wife to stay in the hospital for 48 hours.
$5000 for a baby delivery - my mind boggles at how much a more complicated medical procedure would cost.
we can expect more of the same..across the board.Their running scared now.Kinda like a cornered wild animal.OH…Slippytoad….good letter!
From the McConnell link:
Manley cited an e-mail sent to reporters by a Senate Republican leadership aide, summing up recent blog traffic about the boy’s family. A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., declined to comment on Manley’s charge that GOP aides were complicit in spreading disparaging information about Frosts.
So the witch hunt blew up in McConnell’s face, and he just walks away from it? Not so fast, Mitch.
This scumbag should be held accountable.
The fine folks at SadlyNo! have found an old article Michelle wrote on her blog. Please take the time to read it and try and tell me what is wrong with this hypocritical lunatic.
Oh yes, there was a time Michelle was frustrated and without healthcare.
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/7460.html
the woman is insane…period.
i see malkin and i think chipmunks:)
slippytoad @ 11:
I like it. By the way, Mitch is up for re-election next year.
Marco @ 15:
thanks Marco…..it jusy confirms my point…..she has be driven insane by hatred.
Oh the irony of the corporatist attack dogs going after this family for suggested government largess.
The corporate welfare under this administration meanwhile has gone through the roof.
The game goes on.
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Sane people everywhere need to keep talking and talking about this kind of stuff (since teh Dems are incapable of pointing it out…).
Who exactly is Malkin and her ilk convincing with such attacks? You don’t win over people by attacking 12 year old boys, wounded GIs, old veterans, 9/11 widows etc. When Malkin and her herd attack people like this, they are only shoring up the mean-spirited, camo-wearing, beer can hugging, lawn chair lugging border watchers, KKK members and skinhead base with stupid attacks like these. They are in “circle the wagons” mode and they know it.
Pile on. Pile on these idiot right wingers public graves. They deserve it and their success is not going to last. There will always be the 29% percenters but the rest of us, the 71%, are getting goddam sick of this stuff. The right wing hate/smear machine is the worst it’s ever been in American history that I’m aware of but they are starting to chew their own heads off by pulling stunts like this. You can only do it so many times before it starts to register with even the most superficial, uninformed, soundbite seeking voter.
And as I mentioned before, Michelle Malkin is one of the most vicious, hateful bitches I can even think of. I either laugh or develop tremendous concern when I actually sit and think that somebody like her is certain she is a Christian. Her brain has got to be a mess of misfiring circuits and big spots of hate and resentment and incomprehension. She simply doesn’t understand what an evil bitch she is or what she represents.
Pile it on guys. Keep it going. Bury this inhuman garbage.
MICHELLE MALKIN ENLISTS CHRIS HANSEN TO CHECK KITCHEN COUNTERS OF ‘SCHIP RECIPIENTS’
Ms. Malkin wrote on her blog, “If you don’t want questions, don’t foist these children onto the public stage.”
There’s a difference between questions and stalking a kid at his home or his father where he makes his living. Trick please.
From bar girl to rightwing crazed chihuahua. Something went awry.
As far as chinless mitch, don’t skip town.
nonbeliever @ 24:
Anyone know Malkin’s attitude concerning criticism of the bush twins? We know the right wing’s treatment of Chelsea was about as bad as it gets.
Everything is fair game to people like Malkin. It’s time to turn the tables and expose everything in her life, past and present.
Where is our generation’s Joseph Welch? And no, I don’t mean the cantankerous ol’ fart who ran General Electric, either. Remember the guy who stood up to McCarthy with “have you no sense of decency, sir?” With Malkin, Coulter and Hanitwit, we need about a half dozen Welch’s, I think.
nonbeliever @ 18:
Don’t I fucking know it. I think Democrats are a bit slow finding an opponent, but I’m going to make sure they’ve got this particular arrow in their quiver. It’s practically as good as a photograph of him kicking puppies.
Amato: Do you actually think I would ever have considered attacking her and her family because of their support of Bush? I mean, it boggles the mind, doesn’t it?
Would you ever say Senator McCain has a lovechild? No!
You know, I wonder if that’s why neocons win because they’re willing to do anything, say anything about anyone or anything…damn the treachery of it all. How do you fight something like that? It’s like freakin’ Mordor.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has hired influential Washington attorney George Terwilliger to represent him as a probe continues into allegations he misled lawmakers about a controversial surveillance program and illegally let politics influence hiring and firing decisions at the Justice Department.
Terwilliger tells CNN his firm is “assisting Judge Gonzales as we assist many companies and individuals when they are cooperating with investigations. It is always unfair for anyone to assume that hiring a lawyer represents anything other than common sense.”
the difference between this administration, its enablers and us is that we care about everyone while they only care about themselves.
First off…Slippytoad…excellent letter. In a time when we are constantly horrified by the everyday actions of the government…it remains not an easy task to remember that ‘the people’ really are supposed to be the ones calling the shots…my goodness, what a concept!
As for Malkin & her ilk…I keep being reminded of the film ‘Network’, made way back in 1976.
It just seems to me, that for the sake of ratings (and thereby money & power), characters such as Malkin, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, etc (you get my drift) are given soapboxes to spew their extreme rantings and are encouraged (unfortunately some of the time by upset & well-meaning liberals) to behave ever more outrageous & confrontational…just to keep their ratings high.
That she would give out this family’s home address is totally unconscionable…her apparent opinion of herself goes way beyond arrogant!!!
nonbeliever @ 24:
You know, what I don’t understand is the disconnect between this kid speaking on S-Chip, and the Republican support for the “Snowflake Babies” who acted as human shields when Bush vetoed the Stem Cell Research Bill.
Now, think about this. When in-vitro is done, the doctors implant 6 or 7 embryos at a time. Usually the majority of these embryos are flushed from the system. Sometimes, a doctor aborts some of the embryos to avoid multiple births. Therefore, for every 1 Snowflake Baby, 5 or 6 of the Snowflake Baby’s “sister” embryos are “killed.”
Now, imagine the uproar, if Democrats investigated the medical reports of the snowflake families and stalked the kids to ask them about their “killed” “sisters,” and tormented the families with questions of why they didn’t adopt one of the hundreds of thousand kids in the U.S. needing homes instead of using in vitro, etc, etc. After all, these people put their children into the public stage, right?
Politically, this is a very stupid move of the part of the GOP and the rightwing noise machine. I have to wonder why the rightwing demonizes universal health care, when its favored by 60-70% majority.
It’s like watching the GOP walk into a buzz saw. A thing of sublime beauty.
Pelosi and Reid are doing smacking the GOP around on health care. It’s an issue Americans care deeply about, and GOP members of Congress, if they want to keep their jobs, are gonna have to split with the White House on this. That’s a first, and it bodes well for the Dems’ effort to reign in Bush’s Iraq fiasco.
I am not sure, perhaps I can be enlightened. I suspect that Ms. Malkin is a victim of the fall of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos when Ferdinand had invited Benigno Aquino back to the Phillippines and then promptly executed him on the tarmac at the Manilla airport. Thus her family was deprived of their ill-gotten gains. Much like the South Florida Cubans who lost their whore houses, gambling casinos and slave sugar plantations when Castro took power and ran them out.
Ninoy’s wife became the president after Ferdinand fled to Hawaii with his heavily shoed wife and conveniently died of cancer just like the Shaw of Iran in Mexico.
Ms. Malkin is sour grapes.
I have a woman friend who speaks five languages, has two BA’s and a pHd, she teaches in Switzerland because in the United States of America you cannot make money being a teacher. Ignorance is power (Duh! George Orwell). She signed a contract to teach in an international school in Manila for two years. They were so corrupt that she left before one year passed.
Ms. Malkin is a creep!
Is there a fund anywhere to contribute to this family? I bet a bunch of donations would go a long way toward restoring their good thoughts about humanity.
Ya think it’s something in the KKKool Aide that drives these freaks SUPER CRAZY?
Coulter attacks 9-11 widows = Crazy republicon spilling hate.
O’Reilley goes after students = Crazy republicon spilling hate.
Malikin goes after children = Crazy republicon spilling hate.
Limbaugh goes after soldier = = Crazy republicon spilling hate.
I think the 70% sane people see what is going on with these FREAKS!
I can’t wait until nextyear when we remove the “microphone” from these luantics.
Mcconnell and his Senate Repub colleage, Jim ’senile’ Bunning, make a pair. Bunning is an old loon, ala James Inhofe, and had some ‘wonderful’ slanders against his Democratic opponent in his 2004 re-election bid: …In 2004, Senator Jim Bunning characterized Mongiardo, then a bachelor, as a “limp wrist”. Anyone who saw Mongiardo’s fiancé on the podium with him at Steve Beshear’s victory party last month knows otherwise. Yet these sick, desperate right-wingers continue to slander him.
Bunning also made bigoted comments against Mongiardo’s Italian heritage. In response to Mongiardo’s dark features, Bunning declared that Mongiardo “looked like one of Saddam Hussein’s sons.” Even more bizarre, Bunning later went on to declare that Mongiardo’s “thugs” had assaulted his wife.
Kentucky can certainly do better than these two and hopefully will oust Mitch next year.
slippytoad @ 28:
McConnell and Inhofe are the two long shots I’d like to see get tossed out of the Senate next year. Either way, I have a feeling we’ll get up to 60 next year.
Coulter does not even believe herself, she admits it. We are the dupes and she knows it. Wink wink, nod nod. She is cute and rich though!
As for accusations that bloggers were unfairly attacking a 12-year-old, Ms. Malkin wrote on her blog, “If you don’t want questions, don’t foist these children onto the public stage.”
Yes, they belong out of sight in workhouses…
With apologies to Dickens.