Friday, October 12, 2007

Moral Crisis on the Right - Who Woulda Thunk it DOH!!!!

PAUL KRUGMAN of the NY Times brings us more on the bashing that the rightwing nut jobs have trying to do on the Graeme Frost 12 year old.

All in all, the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate. If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”; if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s faking his Parkinson’s symptoms; if an injured 12-year-old child makes the case for a government health insurance program, he’s a fraud.

Meanwhile, leading conservative politicians, far from trying to distance themselves from these smears, rush to embrace them. And some people in the news media are still willing to be used as patsies.

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