As Stephen mentions in his guest post below, the Frost family has become the target of the rightwing because 12-year-old Graeme served as a spokesman for the SCHIP program. The breadth and viciousness of the smears is rather breathtaking—and if you're feeling masochistic, you can find a round-up of some the nastiest shit to come from the conservosphere in at least a week at Memeorandum. You can also find a lot of excellent, eloquent, and passionate repudiation of those smears, chock full of "facts." (They don't call us the Reality Based Community for nuttin'!) But, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so you can't beat for brevity this exposition on how completely fucked the rightwingers' smear job is (via John Cole):

Duke and Duchess Frost in the forward gardens of their palatial estate.
(Sun photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor / October 9, 2007)