Tuesday, October 09, 2007

History of Democrats making up stories to satisfy their emotional urges

In 1996, Hillary Clinton propped up young Jennifer Bush, a seven-year-old with mystery ailments whose mother coached her to lobby for universal health care Jennifer was trotted out to present the Clintons a lucky silver dollar “to bring you good luck so everyone can have good insurance.” Jennifer’s mother was later convicted of aggravated child abuse and welfare fraud for misrepresenting $60,000 in assets on Medicaid forms.

In 2000, Al Gore propped up elderly widow Winifred Skinner to lambaste high drug prices. Gore repeated her claim that she had to pick up cans on the side of the road to pay for medicine. Dan Rather bemoaned: “She’s no child, but she belongs on a poster about high drug costs.” One problem: Winifred’s own well-to-do son, businessman Earl King, debunked those claims.

In 2004, John Kerry propped up Mary Ann Knowles, a breast cancer patient who he claimed “had to keep working day after day right through her chemotherapy, no matter how sick she felt, because she was terrified of losing her family’s health insurance?” The conservative Manchester Union Leader editorial page reported: “Knowles chose to work through most, but not all, of her chemotherapy because her husband was out of a job…She and husband John did not want to take the pay cut that would have come with disability leave, so Mary Ann kept working.”

Go after the heartstrings...people who vote Dem think with emotion, not their brains.

15 comments:

hashfanatic said...

Malkin
Steyn
Bozell
Free Republic


attacking americans....

oy veyyyy....

PCD said...

Hashhole,

You attack real americans daily because they do not subscribe to your ideas of a Che style dictatorship run by you.

The Game said...

over here hash, focus, stay with us...

jhbowden said...

"Go after the heartstrings...people who vote Dem think with emotion, not their brains."

Isn't that the truth.

hashfanatic said...

Jason, you wouldn't know the truth if it hit you across the skull with a shovel (and, Blessed Is The Lord, surely it will...)

hashfanatic said...

"You attack real americans daily..."

Since when do you give two shits about "real Americans", Fudgepacker Dan?

PCD said...

Che Hashhole,

Just because you want to apply the Trotsky solution to Jason, you didn't refute him.

Again, you've never used anything but anger and delusions in addressing posts.

The Game said...

I knew this post was golden...when you really get to liberals they either hide under their desks and don't say anything, or they start with the personal attacks...
Dem's trot out sympathetic characters to make their points for them, and much of the time they are not sympathetic at all...because the good looking, clean cut,hard working person who needs govt help is very, very hard to find.

PCD said...

game,

Did you ever wonder if Che Hashhole's parents ever look at what he is typing? Talk about identifying problems in the inner city, parents just don't take time with their kids anymore.

Game,

Did you look at the Vegan "teacher" story I left a link for?

The Game said...

not yet...I'm at a new school, crazy right now...sorry...will soon...

Jim said...

I'm not saying nothing. I just got home to read this hogwash.

Are you f**king kidding me? You must have missed the "snowflake" children and every other child that Bush has used as a prop for the last seven years.

Give it a rest!

And, I'd like for you to present one example of Democrats or liberals attacking and harassing any of these children.

The actions of Malkin, Rush and others attacking the Frosts is filth at its lowest level.

Attack the Democrats if you must for using Graemme Frost. But leave the kid and his family alone.

Sickos!

hashfanatic said...

"So emotional liberals like yourself can attack Rush and Malkin when they point out the liberal trick."

No, no, no. The purpose of picking this family, was doubtless to demonstrate that it is NOT just low- or working-class Americans who are screwed by the current lack of a healthcare system in America. I've already pointed out the differences in scale between your expenses and theirs, how much further your money goes in the economically depressed Midwest, and in the impossibly-expensive Atlantic regions.

Now, there is an even more vast gulf between the reader on the East Coast, and the one in Mississippi, Alabama, etc. Imagine how a parent there feels, even more so than you, when they see the assets of the Eastern family, without compensating for the elevated expense levels here....the conservative pundits, egged on by their neocon benefactors, exploited this weakness in their story's validity intentionally, to pull the chains of Southern and Midwestern conservative loyalists living in economically depressed regions where the cost of living is low.

Now, I believe the conservatives could and should have made a valid point by countering and going to the hills of Appalachia or western Pennsylvania and locating and highlighting the plight of some coal miners' kid, who will never receive a scholarship to anything and STILL won't receive any healthcare because the state guidelines forbid it for various reasons (family is too small, seasonal overtime pay jumps, etc.)

But, no.

They had to go into attack mode and senselessly, needlessly STALK the kid and his family (the vast majority of my anger is for the shirt launderess and her tactics, I do believe the conservatives had a right to challenge the eligibility criteria, even though they were incorrect)...

Just to clarify what had been bothering me most of all about this story, all week.

Jim said...

Republicans are not attacking the person

Are you f**king kidding me? What universe are you living in?

He's out there to demonstrate how the program has helped his family and how more families would be helped if Bush cared about them as much as he cares about being an ideologue who opposes something he calls socialized medicine.

This is really, really simple stuff game.

PCD said...

Once again the left gets caught in lies, now the New Republic is in a Nixonian Stonewall concerning Scott Thomas (Beauchamp).

http://patterico.com/2007/10/12/the
-new-republic-is-headed-for-a-
great-fall/

Again, there are returns to make sure the URL prints for the honest people who will read the article first before complaining about Limbaugh hating the troops and the other Think Progress deflection points.

Marshal Art said...

Jim,

You last is really goofy. You are doing exactly what Game is saying by saying that Bush doesn't care because he fights the liberal healthcare ideas. This is typical and it's crap. Everyone's concerned about healthcare costs, but because the right sees the flaws of the lefty position, that's only an attack on the position, not on the idea of fixing the healthcare situation. Take the S-CHIPS deal. He's taking heat for vetoing the expanded bill, but he's not for doing away with the program. Doesn't matter to Dems. They use his veto to lie and say he doesn't care. He simply has a different way of getting it done. Had the Dems simply gone for an extension, there'd be no veto. If the Dems truly cared, they'd be trying to figure out how the current plan isn't being utilized by all who qualify.