Sit down, because I know you'll be stunned to read this. You know the whole right-wing attack on the Frosts? It was abetted by an aide from Mitch McConnell's office:
ABC News reported earlier in the week that an e-mail sent to reporters by “a Senate Republican leadership aide” in McConnell’s office suggested that “GOP aides were complicit in spreading disparaging information about the Frosts.” A McConnell spokesman refused to deny the office’s involvement in the affair.
ThinkProgress has obtained an email that congressional sources tell us was sent to reporters by Sen. McConnell’s communications director Don Stewart.
Yes, Stewart shared this with the media:
Seen the latest blogswarm? Apparently, there’s more to the story on the kid (Graeme Frost) that did the Dems’ radio response on SCHIP. Bloggers have done a little digging and turned up that the Dad owns his own business (and the building it’s in), seems to have some commercial rental income and Graeme and a sister go to a private school that, according to its website, costs about $20k a year ‹for each kid‹ despite the news profiles reporting a family income of only $45k for the Frosts. Could the Dems really have done that bad of a job vetting this family?
It would be nice to think that the right wing fever swamp is operating on their own, but they're not. They're getting support from the GOP itself.
It would be easy to say we should resort to the same down-and-dirty tactics, but what does it profit us to gain the world and lose our souls? I don't want to be like Malkin, filled with hatred of the other side. But there's a difference between being like them and being unafraid of them. Recovering conservative John Cole says it well:
This never was about policy to Michelle and her net followers. This was about rage. This was about “us” versus “them” and “they” had to be destroyed because “they” are evil leftists who dared to challenge Bush. It was about fomenting anger, about whipping people up into a jealous rage- “LOOK AT THE BIG HOUSE THE FROST FAMILY HAS- WORTH A HALF A MILLION- AND THEY WANT YOU TO PAY FOR THEIR CHILDREN,” and then letting the mob do the rest. Goebbels truly would be proud.
But like all schoolyard bullies, when punched in the mouth, they back down. Given the chance to debate the policy she clearly feels so strongly about, Michelle wimped out. She turned her tails and fled. One could say she gave the French response.
I hope a lesson has been learned this week- when Malkin and her cohorts attack, you stiffen your spine, put on your hip waders to deal with their bullshit, and you throw it back in their face. Behind all that bluster, there really is not much there. Just scared, petty, loudmouth bullies.
Indeed. We don't have to destroy Malkin and her cohort. We just have to stand up when they tell us to sit down. If we are unafraid of them, they will continue to froth and sputter, until they destroy themselves in the process.
Shocked -- Shocked!
Sit down, because I know you'll be stunned to read this. You know the whole right-wing attack on the Frosts? It was abetted by an aide from Mitch McConnell's office:
Yes, Stewart shared this with the media:
It would be nice to think that the right wing fever swamp is operating on their own, but they're not. They're getting support from the GOP itself.
It would be easy to say we should resort to the same down-and-dirty tactics, but what does it profit us to gain the world and lose our souls? I don't want to be like Malkin, filled with hatred of the other side. But there's a difference between being like them and being unafraid of them. Recovering conservative John Cole says it well:
Indeed. We don't have to destroy Malkin and her cohort. We just have to stand up when they tell us to sit down. If we are unafraid of them, they will continue to froth and sputter, until they destroy themselves in the process.
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ABC News reported earlier in the week that an e-mail sent to reporters by “a Senate Republican leadership aide” in McConnell’s office suggested that “GOP aides were complicit in spreading disparaging information about the Frosts.” A McConnell spokesman refused to deny the office’s involvement in the affair.
ThinkProgress has obtained an email that congressional sources tell us was sent to reporters by Sen. McConnell’s communications director Don Stewart.
Yes, Stewart shared this with the media:
Seen the latest blogswarm? Apparently, there’s more to the story on the kid (Graeme Frost) that did the Dems’ radio response on SCHIP. Bloggers have done a little digging and turned up that the Dad owns his own business (and the building it’s in), seems to have some commercial rental income and Graeme and a sister go to a private school that, according to its website, costs about $20k a year ‹for each kid‹ despite the news profiles reporting a family income of only $45k for the Frosts. Could the Dems really have done that bad of a job vetting this family?
It would be nice to think that the right wing fever swamp is operating on their own, but they're not. They're getting support from the GOP itself.
It would be easy to say we should resort to the same down-and-dirty tactics, but what does it profit us to gain the world and lose our souls? I don't want to be like Malkin, filled with hatred of the other side. But there's a difference between being like them and being unafraid of them. Recovering conservative John Cole says it well:
This never was about policy to Michelle and her net followers. This was about rage. This was about “us” versus “them” and “they” had to be destroyed because “they” are evil leftists who dared to challenge Bush. It was about fomenting anger, about whipping people up into a jealous rage- “LOOK AT THE BIG HOUSE THE FROST FAMILY HAS- WORTH A HALF A MILLION- AND THEY WANT YOU TO PAY FOR THEIR CHILDREN,” and then letting the mob do the rest. Goebbels truly would be proud.
But like all schoolyard bullies, when punched in the mouth, they back down. Given the chance to debate the policy she clearly feels so strongly about, Michelle wimped out. She turned her tails and fled. One could say she gave the French response.
I hope a lesson has been learned this week- when Malkin and her cohorts attack, you stiffen your spine, put on your hip waders to deal with their bullshit, and you throw it back in their face. Behind all that bluster, there really is not much there. Just scared, petty, loudmouth bullies.
Indeed. We don't have to destroy Malkin and her cohort. We just have to stand up when they tell us to sit down. If we are unafraid of them, they will continue to froth and sputter, until they destroy themselves in the process.
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