Wow.
Meet the New Frosts, Same as the Old Frosts
Another S-CHIP family.
I can’t even excerpt this yet. You can either read the whole thing now, or be kind and wait for me.
I need to take an icy shower and roll around numbly on the floor for awhile, banging my head with a hammer.
Inter-Alia Update:
Above: Journalist Hemingway
The race to the bottom continued today as Michelle whooped up an attack against a 2-year-old girl with heart trouble:
S-CHIP and the Democrats’ human shield campaign; Update: The Dems choose another shield
By Michelle Malkin
October 15, 2007 09:28 AM
Update 7:30pm Eastern. I didn’t have time today to respond to a Politico reporter wanting to bait me somehow over the Dems’ latest S-Chip poster family. Like the Frosts, the new spokesfamily has a tragic personal story and is a curious example of the supposedly pressing need for S-CHIP expansion…because the family already qualifies for the existing program and nothing President Bush or the Dems propose to do would change that.
The Baltimore Sun blog says the new toddler-aged human shield will speak on the Hill tomorrow:
Now meet Bethany Wilkerson, the latest youngster enlisted by congressional Democrats or their allies to help build support for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Having suffered from heart failure as an infant, USAction says, the Florida toddler would not be alive today but for the government-funded program for moderate-income families not poor enough to qualifty for Medicaid.
Now Bethany is scheduled to speak at a Capitol Hill rally Tuesday evening, according to a release this morning by Americans United For Change.
There was no word on what the 2-year-old plans to say. But she joins a flurry of 11th-hour activity in advance of the attempt by House Democrats on Thursday to override Bush’s veto of legislation to expand coverage to 4 million more children at a cost of $35 billion over five years.
‘Human shield’ is a clever one. It says that some people are so callous, so mercenary, that they’ll put a toddler where Malkin and her friends are sure to go berserk and savage her.
How much lower can it go? It’s starting to seem as though we’re watching history in the making.
Mikey sends a screen-capture of mysterious, yet authoritative nature:
Above: The net of proof grows tighter
Watertiger sends the following tidings:
From: “Michelle Malkin”
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:04:58 -0400
Subject: Re: Michelle no longer on the Factor?I made the decision to quit appearing on the O’Reilly show in response to the poor handling of the Geraldo Rivera matter (the staged “apology” on The Factor was a complete farce). I won’t go into details, but please know that your support means a lot to me. You can catch me on other Fox News shows and read my daily blog posts and weekly columns at MichelleMalkin.com.
Best,
Michelle
Translation: The O’Reilly show fired me for my poor handling of the Graeme Frost matter (my continuing attacks on a 12-year-old kid with traumatic brain injury made me a liability) and for my endless campaign against Geraldo Rivera, to list some of this month’s examples. Having been given the opportunity to resign, I have turned it around on the O’Reilly show and am now performing my Brave Little Topsy act. Can you believe their poor handling of the. . .uh, thing? I am so outraged at this lack of professionalism that I will die here in this snowbank before continuing to associate myself with such a program.
You can catch me on other Fox shows unless I’ve really done it to myself this time, in which case I’m calling Howie Kurtz to bail me out again, plus I still have a blog and a syndicated column, so nyeah.
Bradrocket adds: I dunno. If she got to interview the Black Panthers every night, I think it would be an entertaining, Jerry Springer-esque carnivale:
(Via TBizzy)
Ann Coulter said what she said, which true to her habit was revolting yet unsurprising. It’s classic Christian anti-Semitism, and like its Islamic counterpart is simply the “logical” conclusion that must come to the fundamentalist believer of a universalist religion. Ann Coulter is an extremely offensive fundie bigot, and one who picks and chooses among Christian beliefs to assemble the most noxious and violent battery of attributes possible, which, in turn, is par for the course for members of the American Talibangelical movement and [Yaaaaaaaaawn]…
Just as revolting yet unsurprising — but more interesting — was the reaction of the wingnut-o-sphere to Coulter’s remarks:
Take, for instance, Chuckles of the Little Green American Bund. The most rabid of the New Right’s pretend philo-Semites, a consistent Chuckie would have called for Coulter to be “glassified.” Which, of course, didn’t happen. But then since anti-Semitic ventilations such as Coulter’s do not give Charles Johnson an excuse to wish for the genocide of Muslims (his real interest in politics, in blogging, and, no doubt, in life), his reaction was confined to equivocating on Coulter and bashing Media Matters for reporting the story.
Then there’s The Anchoress, a truly dedicated William F. Buckley-style Phalangist. The Anchoress dislikes Coulter’s style but is most sympathetic to the substance of Coulter’s remarks. She frets that Coulter will make her fellow fundie Christians look bad, and worst of all will reinforce the “ever-growing moral equivalence narrative that says ‘Christians are just like Islamic Fundamentalists!'” Well, one can hope. After all, they are morally and theologically equivalent: only the cultural and governmental successes of liberals (who include a great many Jews) and liberalism — all of which fundamentalist Christians have fought tooth and nail — keep people like Anchoress and Coulter from setting up their own version of Sharia.
…and “Sharia” is exactly the word Roger El-Simon uses apropos Coulter’s comments. He’s appalled. Yet Simon, too, equivocates. He frets that Coulter, as celebrity pundit, underlines [my emphasis] “the supposed bigotry of the extreme right,” but doesn’t tell us how the bigotry Coulter confirms can remain “supposed.” Maybe it’s just as well; for Simon, Coulter’s narcissism “rivals, maybe even out-strips, the egomaniacs on the Hollywood Left.” Thus Simon conveys the real purpose of his post: yet another jealous whine from the creator of Moses Wine, just another excuse for Simon to bash the evil Hollywood Libs who won’t invite him to their parties anymore. At any rate, smarmy, tenth-rate Christopher Hitchens-wannabe Michael Totten got the point. He echoes Rajah’s whine with ringing stupidity: “Those who think she isn’t a severe liability for you [Republicans], just ask yourself what favors Michael Moore does for the Democrats.”
Finally, we come to the reactions of two Coulter-wannabes who happen to be Jews. First the Shrieking Harpy:
According to an anonymous source, Mickey Kaus regularly blows goats. Either he fails to deny this strongly enough, in which case his goat blowing proclivities are assuredly true, or his denials will impugn the integrity of my source which makes him a tremendously bad person. And, of course, a goat blower.
Thanks, Slate, for all you’ve done for our discourse.
-Atrios 17:11
Now that photographic evidence has emerged, Mickey must provide the truth.
-Atrios 19:23
ZOMG! That picture is clearly one of those phony fake photos that the liberal MSM is always phonily and fakely trying to foist on folks in a fact-free fashion, and we’re launching an investigation!
Oh wait, this just in:
So Predictable: Pro-Terrorist, Anti-Semitic Arab Group Attacks “Anti-Semitic” Ann Coulter
Above: The Grosse Pointe Blankity-Blank
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
Above: Canadian pundit Mark Steyn
“O Canada GOP, we stand on guard for thee.”
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
Above: The noted blogger Fjordman
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
First it was twelve year old boys, and now it’s injured Iraqi war vets:
How does one decipher whether a person is truly mentally ill, or is exploiting their battle experiences to their fullest advantage?
How do we know if Troy is the person he is because of the battlefield experiences, or if he is choosing to be this person because others are enabling him? Since we’re not hearing from Troy’s pre-war family and friends it is difficult to really know what he was life prior to his tour in Iraq.
I’m very skeptical of Troy’s “problems” and so should others who read this article.
He is capable of rational thought and he is making choices. He choses to swallow pills and watch TV in the dark- to shut himself in…to refuse medical/psych care and, I really wonder- the required services that would make him a better person.
When we enable some people to be the worst they can be, they take advantage and do just that.
Of course, when you read the article, it’s hard to see how someone could come to the conclusion that this vet is faking illness:
Troy’s problems started after his tour. While he was on home leave from Fort Stewart one weekend, Michelle found him sitting on the bed with a bottle of pills. He said he couldn’t go back. Michelle drove him to the Martinsburg VA hospital, which shipped him to Walter Reed for three weeks of psychiatric care.
He was sent back to Fort Stewart and returned to duty, a reality he could not cope with. Twice he tried to commit suicide and was hospitalized at Winn Army Community Hospital before being medically discharged for PTSD in 2004. After 13 years in uniform, Troy got nearly the lowest disability rating possible, a $11,349 severance check and no benefits.
You know, I’ve had jobs I’ve hated before. I mean really, really hated. And I have taken mental health days by calling in sick once or twice in my life. But I can’t recall ever attempting suicide in an effort to get out of going to work. Perhaps in Raven’s world, this is a sign of a malingerer. But when normal people hear a story like this, their first thought isn’t “ooh, what a faker!”; their first thought is “this is a man who is really suffering”.
I love this new version of conservatism. There is nothing too base, too venal, too cold-blooded for them to say. There is no one they won’t smear, no reputation they won’t seek to tarnish, no depth to which they will not sink in order to destroy anything that interferes with their pet narratives about how they think the world works, whether it be ‘government insurance is socialism’ or ‘the Iraq war is a war for civilization and therefore worth any sacrifice (as long as it’s not mine).’ Anything — absolutely anything at all — is acceptable, except for even the barest hint of the thought that they might actually be wrong about something in even the slightest measure.
The only good thing for us is that, as reality becomes ever more obviously divergent from the bizarre pictures of it painted in the minds of people like this, the ranting that comes from them becomes ever more obviously foul and disgusting. It showed in the howling brigades’ smears of Graeme Frost, and it shows here. There is hope that, if most people really are not baying monsters at heart, but decent individuals, the increasing levels of bile coming from those who actually are baying monsters will start to drive the decent people away from them.
In the last week, they’ve stalked a twelve year old with disabilities and called an Iraqi war vet with brain injuries a malingerer. I’m holding out for the trifecta: these guys don’t support the war. Any chance one of you might want to go kick one of them in the face? Be sure to get pictures, so we can all see how brave and patriotic you are.
Update:
Jesus Christ. Raven has taken issue with my characterization of her as a “baying monster,” and has linked to other posts she’s written to demonstrate her infinite compassion for our veterans. Upon reading another account of a soldier who ended up on total disability from post-traumatic stress disorder, her truly bodhisattva-like compassion motived her to say:
You know, when I read lines like this, I lose respect and sympathy…does that make me cruel or cold? I don’t think so. Mr. Awad [the disabled soldier] should realize he is lucky to be alive. He should visit with some of my patients- who are alive, but who have lost it all.
Well. How could I ever have questioned the deeply caring nature of this person? Truly, the shame is mine.
Clif adds:
Kender, a commenter over at Raven’s nest, kicks it up a notch:
The liberal mindset is what causes PTSD. Boys being raised to men without a strong male role model, and having a false sense of what life is about is causing our young men to go to war and come home freaked out.
To which the compassionate Raven squawks:
Kender, there is a lot of truth to what you’ve said.
When we consider that the past wars were much gorier and bloodier. My own father saw a lot of gore; he lost many friends. Yet he managed to move on without letting it get to him; he chose to live his life as he wanted and not to succumb to his ghosts, as I call them.
The men of the past are a lost breed.
Words fail me.
Gavin adds:
Apparently, Raven is trying to ‘win’ the debate by deleting comments unfavorable to her position. Why do people do that?
