In their first television interview since Michelle Malkin, Rush Limbaugh and others on the right decided to crucify their 12 year old son and swiftboat their family, the parents of Graeme Frost sat down and talked with Keith Olbermann tonight on Countdown.
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Bonnie and Halsey Frost, with much the same grace and dignity shown by Shawn Hornbeck’s parents after their son was victimized by Bill O’Reilly, tell Keith about dealing with the attacks, including death threats, and debunk all the lies that were spread about their family by the rabid right. To bring this whole disgusting episode into perspective, Keith showed heartbreaking pictures of Graeme and his sister Gemma in the hospital shortly after their horrific accident — bringing full circle the REAL ISSUE — which is the SCHIP program that made it possible for the Frost children to get the care and ongoing therapy they need, and is so desperately needed by millions more American children.
How can you look on these poor, broken bodies after the car crash and be heartless enough to say they don’t deserve the benefits they received? How can you look at those children hooked up to a hundred devices and tell their parents that they should lose their home, or their children deserve their fate? Never allow the Republicans to call themselves the pro-life party if they have no problem begrudging these children their right to life.
UPDATE: (Nicole) True to her heartlessness, Michelle Malkin (I’m not linking her because she deserves your contempt, not your hits) has this to say:
The Frost parents finally made a wise choice and decided not to put their son on Olbermann. Instead, they appeared to field Olbermann’s softball questions about the “lunatic fringe.”
Olbermann prodded the family to supply pictures of their children in the hospital recovering from their terrible accident. The photos were displayed as Olbermann and the couple complained about the Right’s “distraction” techniques.
It really doesn’t get much lower or much cheaper or much sadder than this.
Oh yeah, Michelle, you traitor to motherhood, you’ve just proven how much sadder it can be. How dare you? Speaking as a mother, I pray with every bone of my liberal body that you never, ever spend one day as the Frosts have, hoping against the odds for the recovery of their children. I can’t look at those pictures and not have tears for the pain they must have felt–that’s what becoming a mother has done for me–I want to take care of children. You, on the other hand, can’t get your horrible partisan brain out of your horrible partisan tush to see any pain, just your own pathetic attempt to raise your own profile among those who could not care less about anyone other than themselves.
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11 Trackbacks To “Frost Parents Talk About The Right’s Jihad Against Their Son On Countdown“
I can hear it now…”the one on the right must be gay because he’s wearing lipstick”…”the one on the left is an example of the left’s predilection toward pedophilia…YOU CAN SEE HER PANTIES!”
World Class Assholes the folks on the right are!
hey send those pics to michelle and rush…here’s your enemies you hateful human monsters.
Every lowlife who dared utter an unkind word about the Frosts ought to perform hara-kiri to restore honor to their own family.
look at those poor babies. look at those struggling parents. then look at screenshots of those arrogant pricks at FOX smearing these people.
I can’t believe no Christian organization has moved to boycott these anti-human pricks.
I can’t believe no politician has moved to censure these anti-citizen pricks.
I can’t believe no freak with anger management issues hasn’t punched any of these pricks in the faces.
FOX deserves their own Public Relations jihad. situations like this - I’d really prefer to see a lot of people take FOX’s first response to situations like this, and globally debase them for the pissant Enquirer-level-relevant crap “journalists” that they are.
Watch the new SCHIP ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkAvxrgtLr4
Powerful stuff!
If both of these kids had been declared brain dead and their parents were going to remove life support, would Shrub fly in from where he is squatting (the WH) to sigh a Congressional Bill to save them?
What a bunch of hypocritical assholes. Again.
WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER.
Of course, the GOP would only care if the kids were already dead — SCHIAVO -IP!
One of my favorite George Carlin routines involves his take on the “pro-life” movement: “They’re not pro-life, they’re anti-woman.” He further said that “if you’re pre-born, you’re fine; if you’re pre-school, you’re fucked” and that “conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”
Anyway, good job out of Keith for apologizing on behalf of the media in general for the second time in a week to the parents of a child the right (especially Rush and Billo) has demonized for their own political advantage. You’re a class act, Keith. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for mentioning the potential loss of their home for medical bills. The insane right has been yammering on and on about how these “affleunt” homeowners should not have been able to receive any government assistance in the care of their critically injured children. No, according to those filthy rejects, people should lose everything they own, even their modest homes and fair-to-middlin’ privately owned small businesses, in order to save their children (or themselves, for that matter). And naturally, their brain dead listeners, most of whom would be in the same spot as the Frosts should they encounter a medical catastrophe, can’t muster the empathy to realize that it could well be THEM next.
What righties really want to make is to that any kind of government aid will only go to the most impoverished of Americans, so that they can THEN snidely call it a welfare program, thereby making it easier to work up their usually attack machines in order to cut funds or close it down altogether.
Scum, scum, scum!
Reichwing Jeezus says, ‘God helps those who help themselves’…. (to taxpayer $)
It’s not often that the evening news has me close to tears, but seeing those kids on a hospital bed did it for me. So did the part where the father thanked Keith for covering their story so responsibly. I knew Keith as a hard-hitting and honest journalist, but I like him even better as a person after watching the sheer humanity that shone through that interview. He is America’s, and humankind’s, counterpoint to what the American media has let itself become.
….but if we continue to cut taxes then it will all
be OK?
Heartless
My favorite bumpersticker:
“GOP Right to Life: Begins at Conception and Ends at Birth, Suckers!“
You must not know any Republicans. I tried to get one at work once to look at some pictures of mutilated children in Iraq. I virtually thrust it in his face and he refused to look. Another one that I was talking to at work recently told me that the only reason that health care was so expensive in the United States was because people go to the doctor for colds. He claimed he never goes to the doctor and seemed to think that because he doesn’t have to, no one else should. Republicans live in a constant state of denial, paranoia, delusions of grandeur and envy of anyone they think might get more attention and sympathy than them (that includes the sick and poor). Conservatism is pathology masquerading as political ideology.
I must be on another planet or have totally missed the boat on this. But why is the right attacking kids that are being hospitalized?
It’s kind of wierd. A couple years ago they tried to save a woman who was essentially brain dead and even Bush short his vacation to tend to the matter but they are now complaining about kids involved in an accident that I guess can fully recover.
Maybe I should stay on that other planet I’m on. This proves they care more about the unborn then the ones that are sharing the same oxygen they are.
Next up on Faux News, Dr cat killer Bill Frist says he can tell just from the pictures that the Frost kids were just faking it.
Glenda Beck @ 10:
Actually, Ben Franklin said that.
The book of Acts talks about all the followers selling everything they own so no one would be without. Light years from today’s fat, disgusting hatemongers,…
Glenda Beck @ 10:
I’ll tell you one thing, I sometimes hope that these crazy fucks have it right; that there is only a one, true christian God, exactly as they describe him, etc etc. Because they are in for one big, bloody surprise when they go to meet their maker and while the rest of us heathen Muslims, Buddhists, druids, agnostics, Hindus, Great Flying Spaghetti Monster worshippers, etc are filing through the Pearly Gates and saying to each other, “Well, how about that! A beard and everthing, just like they said! Hey, dibsies on that cloud over there! Wheee!”, directly to our left God will be stomping their wretched asses one at a time, straight through the clouds and telling them, “You really didn’t get it, did you? All and of you had to do was be NICE. Good-bye.” STOMP!
Ahh, the idea just warms my heart…..
Can someone define “Compassionate Conservatism” for me? Is it really a concept? If so what does it mean?
I think Bush, McConnell, Limbaugh and Malkin should all have to do community service volunteering in one of these rehab units, working with children who’s families are struggling to care for them while struggling to pay their medical bills, before they are allowed to make decisions to open their mouths in front of cameras or online. Bush should be FORCED to spend time in the families’ homes, watching first hand just how traumatic and draining these kinds of medical difficulties are on the families before he is allowed to pull out that veto pen.
I don’t have words (that I can say publicly) to describe what I think of these people.
Bush is frankly lower than pond scum. Lower than the fungus that feeds on pond scum. Actually, lower than the pus that infects the mucus that cruds up the fungus that feeds on the pond scum. (I borrowed this…)
xoites defends Constitution @ 19:
It means compassion for the super-wealthy and the bigots, apparently.
Because someone appears human, does not guarantee they have humanity within them. The same evil that allowed the skin of Jews to be used to make lampshades for the Nazis infects those that attack the Frosts and SCHIPS. The leader by example is the sadistic dry drunk coward known as George W. Bush. In a just world, he would be on trial for crimes against humanity. So would all his neocon enablers.
It is to Keith’s credit that both Shawn’s and Graemes parents appeared on his show to address these attacks. The parents aren’t seasoned pros yet handled themselves with grace and dignity unlike BOR, MM, AC and RL. I can’t write out their names, like Geraldo I would spit on them. Except I don’t spit.
Let us keep up the pressure and bring this house of cards down and begin to build up our country again to the great nation it was once was. Let’s show these people true patriotism.
Chip @ 15:
In my humble opinion, it’s really pretty simple:
In the first case, they were trying to rally the pro-life (anti-choice) base.
In the second case, they have a specific political agenda concerning money and the fact that nobody should have any except the rich elite. Every nickel you or I have in our pockets is just on loan from them until they can get a vacuum attachment long enough to suck them out and add them to The Pile.
Or if you prefer: they are a pack of base, lying, selfish, short-sighted hypocrites.
I work at a rehab hospital. Mrs. Frost is absolutely speaking the truth. I knew when I heard Graeme say he had been in hospital for 5-1/2 months, probably 4-plus months were spent in rehab. We get Brain Injury patients daily who have to RELEARN EVERYTHING.
It is not depressing; it is fucking inspiring!! The human body and the human spirit is awe-inspiring. That boy has done remarkable to go from that hospital bed to giving the Democratic response. He IS a hero!
Another telling comment that Mr. Frost briefly mentions is that the reason that he closed up his family owned small business was the cost of health care insurance for his employees… Ironic, no?
nwmuse @ 20:
Keeep going…..
:)
Stan @ 23:
Me neither, but I could make that sound. (cheezy grin!)
Snowball @ 14:
You mean you go to work with pictures of mutilated bodies and thrust them in people’s faces? I’m surprised you still have a job, you psycho.
I see this good family and the attacks and threats by pompous elites high up in the power structure and I think one thing:
Blood (figuratively). I want to see the careers of these bullies destroyed. Completely.
Mitch McConnell (Senate minority leader)
Nick Thompson (Shrub staffer)
Rush Limbaugh
Michelle Malkin
save a bloodclot-deny a sick child
xoites defends Constitution @ 19:
Traded that in for…..
Smoke ‘em out
Bring it on
WMD
Mission Accomplished
Fight ‘em over there, not here
Terror,Terror,Terror!!!
Fear often, Fear always!
Ownership society
And on and on and on…
thank you Keith and the Frost family. i can’t believe their is so much hate and evil in America and it’s fueled by the disgusting right wing radio scum, republican scum and Bushco neo-con scum.
from: Terrorist Freepers Want Perverts To Attack Frost Children
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The only reason to publish the address on the web of a home full of children is to terrorize the family and to lay a candy path for perverts and other psychopaths right to their door.
What the freepers did, with their willing accomplices in right wing media and entertainment industry (Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, et. al.) was/were and is/are the actions of a terrorist and a terrorist group. What kind of fear is evoked when your home address and phone number suddenly appears all over the web, and all of a sudden you are answering angry phone calls and having people visit your home. Couple that with emails they have also received, and we all know how hateful freeper email is, and voila, a climate of fear and intimidation has been established.
This is terrorism and it and they should be labeled as such.
Many Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi have stood up for the Frosts against the attacks. But knowing Republican media and entertainment industry, the attacks will continue so long as it provide them traction.
It matters not to them, whether they investigated before they sat at the keyboard and pressed “publish.” And we know they did not. It matters not if it was the truth. All that matters is the attack and to leave nothing standing when they are through.
Instead of just writing your outrage in the comments on a blog- DO SOMETHING, show that we will help and protect those who place themselves, and their families in front, and that we will not let these slash and burn tactics continue.
Send a positive note/card to the Frosts. Given what human nature is they will focus on the negatives UNLESS the positives overwhelm the negatives.
Send the Frosts some money. $10, $20, $50, $100
They will need it to increase their security and security around their home and their children.
I did not wish to put the Frost’s home address in this diary, but you can find it on the freeper’s post. But considering Nancy Pelosi has weighed in on this checks written to the Frost’s could be sent to Nancy Pelosi’s office. I believe that an aide could deliver them.
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
Washington, D.C. Office
235 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515 - (202) 225-4965
Contact your Senators and Congresspersons If they are Democrats ask them to move to protect the Frosts. If they are Republican ask them to not only move to protect the Frosts but ask them how their supporters can put children in harms way.
Coordinate with some group, maybe even the Maryland Democratic Party to provide physical support and face to face words and action of support . I’d say go to their place of business but I don’t want anyone of us to mistaken for a freeper than might do them harm.
Answer the right wing media and entertainment industry. Demand that Free Republic take down any and all posts that contain the Frosts addresses. Yeah it’s already out there, but it’s a start.
Pepper all right wing talk radio hosts and television personalities who jumped on this story. Ask them how they could terrorize a family and damage the security of 4 children, 2 of them handicapped. Where is their compassion?
Stand with and go on the offense for this family. We cannot let this thuggery stand unchallenged, or we are just like our legislators who won’t try because it will be a waste of time because “nothing will come of it.”
Apparently Ms. Malkin doesn’t know the difference between questioning and terrorism.
It’s time it is explained to her
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Terrorist Freepers Want Perverts To Attack Frost Children
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/10/9181/6512
Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 09:18:01 AM EDT
I love how this administration just sits back and remains quiet or chooses the middle ground in what they say then sends out their Brown Shirts to do the dirty work. I am a firm believer Bush and the gang now exactly what is going to be said and the lies their followers will spread. We see it here and we’ll will see it over the next few days with Gen. Sanchez. It just shows you that NO ONE is safe from attack from Neo-Cons.
SkipSmith @ 29:
You are so right, SkipSmith. It is much more sane to sit at home and watch football and pretend our government is not using our money, our children’s money and our grandchildren’s money to mutilate children in Iraq than try to make people aware of what our government is doing. By the way, since you are in there can you tell me what the inside of your colin looks like?
Snowball @ 14: