Freepers attacking 12 year old Graeme Frost

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/10/dems-poster-chi.html

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According to Senate Democratic aides, some bloggers have made repeated phone calls to the home of 12-year-old Graeme Frost, demanding information about his family's private life. On Monday, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused GOP leadership aides of "pushing falsehood" in an effort to distract from the political battle over S-CHIP.

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When Graeme and his sister were seriously injured in a 2004 car crash, their parents relied on S-CHIP coverage to help them recover. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office became aware of the Frosts through a healthcare interest group, FamiliesUSA, Democratic leaders turned to Graeme to deliver the party's weekly radio address Sept. 29.

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A blogger on FreeRepublic.com discovered that Frost and his sister, Gemma, attend a private school where tuition costs $20,000 a year. Their father, Halsey, is a self-employed woodworker, meaning that if his family doesn’t have health insurance, it’s because Halsey Frost -- as his own boss -- chooses not to purchase it for himself.

"One has to wonder that if time and money can be found to remodel a home, send kids to exclusive private schools, purchase commercial property and run your own business . . . maybe money can be found for other things," a blogger with the handle "icwhatudo" wrote on FreeRepublic.

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But Manley say conservative bloggers didn't dig deep enough. It turns out that the Frost children attend Baltimore’s Park School on near-full scholarships; they pay roughly $500 per child per year in tuition, he said.

Like many small-business owners, Halsey Frost can't even afford to provide health insurance to himself, Manley said.

"Last year, the Frost's made $45,000 combined," Manley said. "Over the past few years they have made no more than $50,000 combined depending on Halsey's ability to find work."

[SeattleGirl]

1. Freepers never let the facts get in the way.

They cherry pick more than migrant farmworkers do.

[tandot]

2. Freepers are scum.

:mad:

[redqueen]

4. Can't put it any plainer.

It's just a sad, sad fact.

[Richard Steele]

12. "Scum" serves a useful purpose within its given ecosystem. Freepers cannot say the same.

Freepers are CANCER; pointless growth that consumes without reciproction
and will, if unchecked, grow & consume until it KILLS the host it
depends upon for its very existence.

[tandot]

16. "Freepers are CANCER" ... that is a great analogy

Thanks, dicksteele. Hope you don't mind if I use that from now on :)

[Richard Steele]

25. I don't mind at all. Use it wherever it seems useful, friend. nm

[AX10]

3. Remeber their systematic attacks on anyone who...

opposed them, the Dixie Chicks for example....

[Occulus]

5. Shades of Andy Stephenson... n/t

[bluestateguy]

6. What did you expect would happen?

It was stupid to inject a 12 year old, intelligent as the boy may be, into the debate. Of course the Freepers would rip him apart. I'm also quite certain that if the Bush White House had a 12 year old boy give the presidential radio address calling for more war in Iraq, that he would be pilloried by many here at DU.

Politics is a nasty, dirty business, which is why it should be for adults only.

[TheMadMonk]

21. No Bush & the child's PARENTS would be pilloried.

Bloody big difference.

[Pawel K]

27. Totally agree. There is no excuse for throwing a 12 year old kid under the bus for your gain

this is shameful, the democrats should know better.

[ChipperbackDemocrat]

29. This kid is an AMERICAN.

"It was stupid to inject a 12 year old, intelligent as the boy may be, into the debate. Of course the Freepers would rip him apart.

That kid has to right to speak out like any American citizen. And he has the right to civilized disagreement.

To hell with the "Freepers". They are cowards.

This is just another example of why I just don't like these bastards.

[Monk06]

7. Freepers use the Rove playbook. "Lying is not the first option. It's the only option." n/t

[EFerrari]

8. I may just have to call Mr. Manley and give him the lowdown

on the "conservative" "bloggers" at FR.

[Missy Vixen]

9. This wouldn't be the first time they've attacked a child

in order to further their agenda. It also would not have been the first time they posted a child's full name, address, phone number, and the name of her parents on their website. You all might be interested in the story of 12-year-old Charlotte Aldebron, who came to the attention of the FReepers over an essay she wrote at school about the American flag.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1101-06.htm

FReepers count on intimidation and fear to get their point across. I hope this young man's parents will make it clear that they will litigate against anyone employing scare tactics early and often.

Julie

[jberryhill]

10. Pinewood Derby Veterans For Truth...

According to members of his former Cub Scout troop, several of his merit badges were based on uncompleted work.

AND he was overweight by 3 grams in the Pinewood Derby.

[liberal1973]

11. Freeper.com

Freeper.com the favorite website for right-wing terrorist and cowards.

[EFerrari]

15. Agree and welcome to DU.

:)

[cali]

13. I detest them for this

almost more than I've detested them for any of their other despicable shit.

[EFerrari]

14. Can someone refresh my memory re that freep that was arrested

for sending threats through the mail -- last year?

[Cheap_Trick]

17. freepers are frothing at the mouth

bark at the moon lying sacks of shit. they are begging for the old yeller treatment.

[EFerrari]

24. That may be the best use of their mouths since few of them speak English. nt

[NMMNG]

18. And they claim to be *against* terrorists

:eyes:

[MindPilot]

19. Did Mr Frost not have car insurance either?

Helping the sub-human freeperscum smack a 12-year-old-kid around is not the point of this post, obviously.

The fact that the kids were injured in a car crash jumped out at me. A big hunk of what you pay for car insurance is to cover the medical expenses regardless of who's at fault in the crash. So I wondered why S-CHIP would be paying for anything related to a motor vehicle accident...shouldn't the car insurance be paying the medical bills?

Clearly we don't have all the facts, so anything and everything is speculation, but that one thing struck me as a little strange.

[unpossibles]

22. there could be a lot more to it

for instance, maybe they did have insurance, but someone hit them without insurance, and their own policy either lacked or was not large enough for "uninsured drivers" coverage.

Or, perhaps their claim was denied for whatever reason. I had an insurance company try to screw me out of coverage, and even after the claim was done, I still found problems that cropped up later in me and in my car.

[NanceGreggs]

20. Who are these "Freepers" of which you speak?

I assumed that site went down years ago, after all of the posters enlisted and went to Iraq to fight for freedom and democracy ...

:shrug:

[johnaries]

23. That means they would have to leave their parents' basement.

Which they never do. Unless, of course, it's to attend one of their HUGE protest rallies of 10 or 20 people.

[MindPilot]

26. Or to run to the mailbox with a envelope of white powder.

[skip fox]

28. They know no bounds. They call themselves upholders of morals, but

are rarely moral themselves. Etc.

I've had people write the chair of my department and the president of my university because I have posted in DU (the post they point to is a list of hotlinks on Iraqi War data).

They have no shame. Perhaps because they think the world thye are trying to preserve (not the one that their actions proceed from) is worth the foul means they use.