Digby:
This is so loathesome I am literally sick to my stomach… They went after Michael J. Fox. They went after a wounded Iraq war veteran. Now they are going after handicapped kids. There is obviously no limit to how low these people will go. They’d better pray that they stay rich and healthy and live forever because if there is a hell these people are going to be on the express train to the 9th circle the minute they shuffle off their useless mortal coils. Scum.
Left in Lowell:
If you haven’t heard about the recent all-out right-wing Swiftboat-style smear against a twelve year old, then read up. To me, it’s unbelievable how low the Republicans sink to defend their pretty indefensible voting patterns. Either they blame the immigrants, or they blame the victim, or my favorite – they pretend to be the victim. If my own party started attacking little kids personally like this, I would be livid and ready to smack them down. But, par for the course for the right wing.
John Aravosis:
Now they’re smearing a 12 year old boy who spoke out about how the SCHIP program helped him and his family. It’s one thing for the Republicans to play these cute smear games with John Kerry or MoveOn. Still despicable, but at least they’re adults. But going after 12 year old boys?
Keith Olbermann: Olbermann invited the parents of Graeme Frost onto his show to make their case. In doing so, he complained that ‘the right has targeted Graeme and his family,’ and that ‘easily disproved lies… have been posted online anonymously about them.’ FireDogLake:
Here’s a truth…honestly. If the folks who run Powerline or Michelle Malkin or any of these other folks had a child in danger and contacted me to ask about what they should do to contact authorities or protect their child, I would help them in a heartbeat. Hell, I’d probably try to save the kid from a speeding bus if my auto-immune-achy limbs could move fast enough. Because that is what compassionate people who care about childrens’ well-being do. Compassionate people don’t attack kids who desperately need help — they help them. It is human instinct at its basest level — ask any good parent (who isn’t involved in an abuse and neglect case, since I’ve seen far too many of those in my lifetime to know that some parents don’t have this trait) about the ache they feel when their child cries out in the night. Hell, ask any person with a heart if they wouldn’t do whatever it took to help a child in need, and see you don’t get “yes, what can I do to help?” as your answer…
Reading these passages, you would think there’d be a universal outcry on the Left to leave the Palins alone; to let the family process Bristol’s pregnancy outside the harsh media spotlight. After all, caring liberals are concerned first and foremost about the children, right?
