As Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh and the right wing hate machine’s jihad against SCHIP and 12 year old Graeme Frost blows up in their faces, Countdown host Keith Olbermann and Air America Radio’s Rachel Maddow lay out what is without a doubt, the best framing of the latest and reprehensible episode for the Republican Party. Olbermann and Maddow give the GOP and their hordes a brilliant beating, Rachel sums it up perfectly:
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Maddow: “Twelve year old Graeme Frost, meet Cindy Sheehan, meet 9/11 widows, meet Staff Sgt. Brian McGough, meet Michael J. Fox, meet the kids who were targeted by Mark Foley, meet Jack Murtha. I mean, Graeme Frost as a twelve year old now joins an esteemed list of Americans who have been personally attacked, personally slimed, called liars and cowards and frauds, and threatened for daring to publicly espouse a view that the right disagrees with. I mean, just when you think you’ve found the person who they can’t possibly slime, I don’t know, say a twelve year old kid just out of a coma, turns out yeah, the bar does actually go that low, it’s just astonishing.”
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As long as childrens is learning, do we care if they’re healthy. (snark)
They couldn’t afford private insurance, because “I know how hard it is to put food on your family.”
I’d take it as a badge of honor if I were attacked by the right.
You would think Rush Limbaugh would want healthy childrem. Especially those who are in the Dominican Republic.
woohhooo
love the two of them…
Here’s what I wrote to CNN about their stupidly biased and incredibly wrong report on the Frost family controversy. John Roberts is such a tool for the RW. Oh, and let’s see how much the MSM will be tarring Mitch McConnell for his shameless role in the matter. I hope these right-wing fuckwads choke blood on this one:
John Robert’s recent report on the shameless harrassment of the Frost family tries to make the Democratic party the bad guys in this scenario, instead of blaming the right-wing nutcases who are using lies and innuendo to tar the family. When are you in the mainstream media going to learn that sometimes there are NOT two sides to every story? The right-wing Republicans are on the losing side of the SCHIP issue , and all they can do is attack a 12-year-old boy and his family, yet CNN does its best to defend Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh and the rest as though they were the harbringers of truth. You should be ashamed. Why don’t you just broadcast the logo for the Republican Party instead of the logo for CNN? It would truthfully show where your loyalties lie. They surely don’t lie with the American public. And I guess that John Roberts still hasn’t learned about what journalism is since he left CBS, has he? But maybe he really wants employment with FoxNews and is just using CNN as a springboard to a new job. You’d think that he would just TRY to hide his right-wing bias. I really hope they bring back the Fairness Doctrine so faux-reporters like him have to think about what they say instead of repeating right-wing talking points.
I caught a clip of an angry Charles Manson the other day, and not only did he LOOK like Bush (except for the swastika tattoo), he SOUNDED like Bush. He was also an expert at attacking his perceived enemies.
and nothing will come of it either.
there will be some posts on various blogs, but thats it, the Democrats STILL dont have a spine.
and this is from the same ppl that have REPEATEDLY USED CHILDREN in politcal speeches/campaigns.
remember the “stem cell babies” (not their term,cant remember the catch phrase)that Bush paraded out in front of the cameras. He was getting alot of flack for opposing stem cell research, so HE brought out MANY CHILDREN.
Dont recall an outcry from Malkin on that one, oh and if ya wanna give her a piece of youre mind,,,,,,,,,go to this link, its interesting.
Oh screw it, forget the link, [deleted–we do not give out numbers on this site]
hopefully its still connected.lol.
Be polite,yet informative.
Afellow might find himself investigating as a “journalist”.
In HER Bushes.
I clicked the link to the Baltimore Sun story above and got to reading the comments. After seeing the rethugs in the blogosphere react to this, I think I need to find a way to rinse my brain out with bleach. One of them even tried saying that liberals are trying to create a fascist state and reinstitute slavery.
scrub scrub scrub
Or the really fantastic poster who suggested that they should be audited and then hanged. No messy arraignment, trial, sentencing or appeal if you noticed.
scrub scrub scrub
Now this is what I call a DeSPERATE GOP……..
http://www.webloggin.com/natio.....es-a-pass/
Are these people serious?? And you thought the Swift Boat “facts” were questionable…….
Charles @ 3:
I agree. Considering the reich-wing are wrong on EVERY issue, if you are attacked by these anti-American clowns you know you are the correct side.
Who is surprised? They don’t care about poor people. They think people who are poor deserve it, and they derive their superiority from this belief. It is at the core of their non-relative close-minded view of the world.
These people have always been around, but until recently, they weren’t given so much attention. That is the only difference.
kulshan @ 8:
They were “snowflake babies” (or “snowflake children”).
I keep waiting for the American people as a whole to rise up and say “YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR THIS TIME.” Just like when that fool editor was going to publish OJ’s “confession”.
The American People (Britney Spears and Michelle Malkin aside) still have some standard of decency…don’t we?
Enough.
And who beside left wing pundits are attacking the GOP slime machine over this deplorable action? J
ust asking.
moniker @ 7:
Excellent parallel moniker.
kulshan @ 10:
I wonder if they’ll blame the MSM for not reporting the “important story” that Bat Boy endorses Hillary Clinton for president.
My response to the right-wing’s ridiculous attack on a 12 year old?
- What about the $10 trillion national debt?
- What about 47 million uninsured?
- What about an illegal oil war that’s killed 1.2 million Iraqis?
- What about the end of Habeas Corpus?
- What about the President having his own private right-wing army?
Don’t let them change the subject. Don’t let them write the daily narrative. Just because they control almost all the corporate media we can’t let them decide EVERY SINGLE DAY what Americans will be talking about. We can’t fall into that trap. We must be smarter. And we must start buying our own mainstream media outlets so we’re not on the DEFENSIVE every single day.
He who control the media controls the national conversation. He who controls the national conversation controls the country!
Maybe he was faking it, like Michael J. Fox.
Reynolds using kids for props when answering questions about Foley.
At least Reynolds was just using them as props…
Keith & Rachel make a formidable news/commentary team who are spot on. Particularly on this overarching issue of the sickness that is the Republican mind.
I guess it was inevitable that after living for years in their privileged, twisted, evangelical neo-conservative holier-than-thou worlds, there was bound to be hoards of pedophiles, bathroom trollers, and related sociopath junk yard dogs wrapped in the flag and oozing up from the depths of human existence for the more reasonable among us to contend with.
God give us strength.
Conservatives heard
Christ had suffered the children
and His base was pleased
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Inherit the meek
If you can afford the tax
of true divine love
libdemKS @ 9:
I was brave enough to read some the hate spewed by the reich-winger comments; it’s not hard to believe that reich-wingers still are denial even after facts and data completely refute every hateful point they attempted to make. All they do is just add another layer of foil.
moniker @ 7:
I saw a Manson interview a few months back and thought the EXACT SAME THING!!!!!
Dr. Matt @ 13:
bwaaaaah lmao
youre right.
and all white I imagine , right?
Space Coyote @ 24:
Now that I think about it, Manson does have that same stupefied boyish look of Bush. If he was cleaned up (ie: shave and haircut), he could easily pass as a Bush brother.
Space Coyote @ 24:
Dumbyas swastika is on his a.s.s. , where the skull&bones camp put it.
kulshan @ 25:
It’s hard to tell: http://img503.imageshack.us/im.....b3cyk7.jpg
Unbelievable how reich-wingers in the US would even think of attacking a sick kid. I can’t imagine even the worst of our righties here in Canada even thinking of such despicable behavior.
Of course, here in Canada there’s not much debate about whether all children are entitled to health care.
Don’t forget the boy who was kidnapped, tortured, and held for years who they criticized for not running away. Further details of what the boy endured are now out, and O’Reilly et al. have yet more to be ashamed of.
These blowhards know that if what they say is exposed to a wide audience, not only will they be shunned, but so will those who still listen to their spewing hatred.
kulshan @ 8:
guess we’ll have to settle for a link to the Right-winger that posted her nuumber….
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Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh and the likes are acting out with the desperation of someone who’s about to lose the farm. They’re time is coming to an end and they know it.
Super Karate Monkey Death Car @ 30:
thats why they dont tolerate alternative viewpoints to their hate-mongering , heres and example……..
i.e. see “comment policy” on many right wing blogs.
why do reich-wingers hate Freedom of Speech.??
My 2 cents: Oh, if only the little boy had worm a flag lapel pin, this wouldn’t have turned into such a mess.
That’ll teach them smart-aleckey kids not to talk back to the Decider!
“And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them” (2 Kgs. 2:23-24).
Death of the Children of Bethel
by Laurent de La Hyre, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Arras, France
Chris from Ohio @ 32:
I guess that would explain the GOP and Reich-wing attempt to smear Dem Presidential candidate with NATIONAl Inquirer articles??
http://www.webloggin.com/natio.....s/#respond
A repug that I know tried to tell a group of us that it was a democratic congress that got us the prescription drug plan with the donut hole. I told him he was nuts. Tell me if I’m wrong because I’m not sure how it was passed. The rest of group agreed with me.
Peace @ 18:
murdoc controls it all
OK, ok….how do we shut down these people? I mean, in practical terms? What can an average schmo do? When we have this screeching harpie and those of like ilk talking about “perfecting” those of other faiths, I mean where or when we do we just say enough, this shall not go on….? I’m asking. It only seems to inflate it more when the attack come back at them as vitriol, like they want, so how do we go about this?
Remember, when dealing with conservotards, lies are truth, evil is good and hate is love.
I think the President himself needs to publicly trounce his party for this kind of bullshit. If he can publicly denounce the MoveOn advertisement, he needs to publicly denounce this shameful tactic from his own party.
Dom @ 6:
Ab-so-toot-lee. Nothing Is True- Everything Is Fair And Balanced. Well done!
Propaganda Haikuist @ 22:
“Suffer the children to com unto me…and never mind what they cost.”-HST
Who was the politician that surrounded himself with kids so that he could avoid being asked about some sexual scandal? It was like he used them as a human shield to avoid any tough questions.
Anyone know?