Another SCHIP Update

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Republican Slime Machine Targets Injured 12-Year Old

Graeme Frost speaking to reporters after delivering the Democratic radio response to Bush's SCHIP veto.

Just when you thought Mister 22% and his Brownshirts couldn't go any lower in their efforts to prevent millions of children from accessing health care through the State Children's Health Insurance Program [SCHIP], they managed to find yet another sub-basement cesspool from which to spew slime.

When Bush vetoed the SCHIP legislation passed by both the House and Senate, the Democratic response was delivered by courageous 12-year old Graeme Frost of Baltimore, Maryland. Graeme and his parents, who earn ~$45,000 a year but get no employer-provided health care and with 4 children cannot afford $1,200 a month for private coverage, went public with how the SCHIP program helped them after a 2004 auto accident left Graeme and his younger sister seriously injured and hospitalized for five months.

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Limbaugh’s Dittoheads vs. U.S. War Veterans

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Recent Wingnut Madness

My goodness! The war between Rush Limbaugh’s chickenhawk dittoheads and veterans of the current U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has certainly lit up the airwaves and internet for the past couple of weeks! It’s getting so heated that it just might be time to buy some popcorn futures (or take up dealing OxyContin…).

In case you’re one of the few who missed it when the fireworks started, right wing hate pundit Limbaugh (who got out of military service during the VietNam draft due to boils on his fat ass) created quite a stir when he libeled some Iraq war veterans on his daily radio show [date] by calling them “phony soldiers” and likening them to “suicide bombers.”

His beef wasn’t that they hadn’t volunteered to serve, or didn’t serve at the front for more time than they’d bargained for, or that some of them were badly injured. It was that they started speaking out against the war once they got home.


VoteVets, an activist organization of veterans against the war, produced an ad in response to Limbaugh’s smears and aired it on Fox News as well as on Clear Channel radio, though they refused to air it during Limbaugh’s show.

The ad features Iraq war veteran Brian McGough, who was awarded the Purple Heart for traumatic brain injury he received as the result of a suicide bomber. You can view the ad at the VoteVets link above, and read the latest of Limbaugh’s self-righteous defenses (the transcripts have been edited quite regularly) on his link given above.

But for me, the most entertaining part is the hate mail Limbaugh’s loyal dittohead fans have been sending to VoteVets vice-chair Brandon Friedman as well as to the wounded veteran Brian McGough himself. Both Briedman and McGough posted some of their hate mail on DKos at the links in this paragraph, and they have to be read to be believed.

Just a few choice tidbits to whet your whistle…

To McGough:

You aren’t the lying asshole Liberal Poster Boy veteran on tv are you?

and…

…I am not a fan of Rush but you guys are the pits. ?You are just liberal ass holes who hear what they want to hear. ?Just looking to smear who ever you don’t like. ?Like I said.. Ass-Holes. That means you mother was an ass-hole because the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. ?In your case, you’re hanging on your mother dress. What a ass hole baby you are.
Remember, Liberalism is a disease. ?Maybe that metal in your head is making you stupid. NO wait “An Ass Hole”

Friedman has received some really colorful hate mail from Limbaugh’s most loyal (and badly educated) fans. My pick of the litter is from “Chuck in Allentown, PA,” and it takes the cake…

YOU PEOPLE HAVE BEEN EXPOSED AS CLEARLY A LEFT WING GROUP WHO WILL STOOP AT NOTHING TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS ….A WEAKER AMERICA , AND A WEAKER MILITARY. YOU AND YOUR GROUP ARE DOING THIS COUNTRY A DISHONORABLE SERVICE . MC GOUGH IS NOW THE NEW POSTER BOY JOHN KERRY LOOK AND ACT ALIKE ! RUSH NEVER CALLED MC GOUGH A SUICIDE BOMBER AND YOU KNOW IT ! IT’S JUST ALL SAD POLITICAL GAME WITH YOU PEOPLE …YOU VETS HAVE CHOISEN TO GET POLITICAL …YOUI ARE FAIR GAME TO BE TAKEN OUT AS A DANGEROUS LEFT WING GROUP …THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE ….THE MILITARY VERSION OF CODE PINK !!!!!! AND MOVE ON !!!! SHAME ON YOU ! BE AGAINST THE WAR IN AN HONORABLE FASHION….YOU PEOPLE ARE NOW IN THE GUTTER WITH OTHER EXTREME LEFT WING GROUPS WHO USE ANY DIRTY AND DECEITFUL TACTIC TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS ! WHEN YOU START PLACING PAWNS LIKE MC GOUGH ON SHOWS LIKE KEITH OLBERMAN’S LEFT WING DIATRIBE SHOW COUNTDOWN TO DISTORTB AND LIE ABOUT THE FACTS , YOU HAVE EXPOSED YOURSELVES AS TO WHO AND WHAT YOU TRULY ARE ….AN EXTREME LEFT WING ARM OF THE OTHER NUT JOBS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY . CHUCK……ALLENTOWN PA. PA. HOME OF THE BUM JACK MURTHA ….WHO ACCUSED OUR MARINES , YOUR BROTHERS, FALSELY OF MURDER IN IRAQ…FACT ! RUSH LIMBAUGH IS NOT YOUR ENEMY….THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS YOUR TRUE ENEMY……THE THINGS THAT YOUR DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN AND SENATORS HAVE SAID FAR OUTWEIGH ANY DISTORTIONS THAT YOU HAVE TRIED TO CREATE ABOUT RUSH ….. CHECK OUT THE COMMENTS OF KERRY , DURBIN , MURTHA , KENNEDY , REID, BOXER AND OTHER DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS HAVE SAID ABOUT ….YOU ……THE AMERICAN SOLDIER ! YOU ARE BEING LIED TO BY THE VERY SAME PEOPLE YOU SUPPORT ….SAD ….TRULY SAD ….YOU ARE DOING LOND TERM DAMAGE TO THIS COUNTRY JUST LIKE VETS LIKE JOHN KERRY DID MABOUT VIETNAM …REMEMBER WHAT KERRY SAID ABOUT YOU …IN NSO MANY WORDS….IF YOUR STUPID ENOUGH YOUR STUCK IN IRAQ…HE CALLED YOU STUPID….YOU LIKE BEING CALLED STUPID BY A UNITED STATES SENATOR ?…. YOU LIKE BEING COMPARED TO NAZI’S ?LIKE SEN DURBIN DID ON THE SENATE FLOOR !!!!!! YOU LIKE WHEN OBAMA SAYS YOU PEOPLE ARE AIR RAIDING VILLAGES ????? YEH , I KNOW …YOU IGNORE ALL OF THESE HARD FACTS BUT YOU GO AFTER RUSH ….WHY ??? HE’S BIGGER ON THE RIGHT ,THAN ANYONE YOU HAVE ON THE LEFT ….ANYONE !!! IT’S JUST A DIRTY POLITICAL GAME YOU ARE TRYING , BUT GUESS WHAT ??? YOU ARE INCREASING RUSH’S VIEWING AUDIENCE AND YOU ARE LOSING YOUR BATTLE AGAINST THE CHARACTER OF RUSH . YOU AND YOUR POLITICAL CRONIES LIKE HARRY REID , WHO SAID THAT THE WAR IS LOST !!!! ANOTHER U.S SENATOR WAR IS LOST ?????? YOU HAVE NO SHAME ….YOU TRULY DON’T AND YOUR POLITICAL TRICK HAS EXPOSED YOUR ORGANIZATION AS A FAR LEFT WING DISGRACEFUL ORGANIZATION !

Well, there you have it! Ain’t politics fun?