Was A McConnell Staffer Behind The Campaign To Smear The 12-Yr Old SCHIP Recipient?

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Was A McConnell Staffer Behind The Campaign To Smear The 12-Yr Old SCHIP Recipient?

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Mounting evidence suggests that the right-wing smear campaign may have been orchestrated by a staffer in Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) office.

First, ABC News reported earlier this week that a staffer in Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) office received an email that was not intended for him. The email from a “Senate Republican leadership aide” showed the minority leader’s office was intently tracking the smear campaign well before it had gained widespread attention:

“This is a perverse distraction from the issue at hand,” said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Reid, D-Nev. “Instead of debating the merits of providing health care to children, some in GOP leadership and their right-wing friends would rather attack a 12-year-old boy and his sister who were in a horrific car accident.”

Manley cited an e-mail sent to reporters by a Senate Republican leadership aide, summing up recent blog traffic about the boy’s family. A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., declined to comment on Manley’s charge that GOP aides were complicit in spreading disparaging information about Frosts.

Today, the New York Times adds more to the story, reporting that Sen. McConnell’s office was preparing to issue a press release to attack the Frost family, but pulled back once the progressive blogosphere revealed the malicious campaign:

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Michelle "Wingnut Pyscho Hypocrite" Malkin stalks 12-yr-old Graeme Frost's family

[Botany]

1. Good ol' Mitch Mc'Chinless

When you have a bad hand claim that the playing cards aren't any good.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Being chinless is not his fault. Being a toadie for the American Hosp. Assn is. nt

[electprogdems]

2. This whole brouhaha just reeks of the contempt that all

of these right wing pigs have for the average working family. How dare they not go bankrupt while taking care of their children. How dare they blink at forking over 1/4 of their income paying for profit and executive salaries and bonus's of big health care and pharma. Why can't the repubs just pass this thing and get back to their real agenda of suppressing wage growth, helping the money flow to the top, and making the world safe for the white Christian male. I mean, really now.

[Bolo Boffin]

4. That's the truth.

The Frosts wouldn't have had that house for Malkinites to scream about if they hadn't had affordable insurance for their children.