A: It’s for the geniusness of this kind of commentary.
Posted by TFG on October 8th, 2007
Q: Why do I keep John Cole on a secret blogroll?
Example 3: I do have a problem with publishing a desperate family’s financial information, scouring pictures of their kitchen to determine the value of their appliances, and stalking their abode. Even if they were used at a press conference by Democrats.
As I read the story, it wasn’t ‘used at a press conference.’ I, and most sensible people, would take ‘used at a press conference’ as meaning the young lad was a participant at a press conference which was called for, attended to, and run by Democrats. The headline, though, says “Baltimore native to speak today for Democrats” about the lad. The story also says this “The Senate staffers wrote the script for Graeme.” Maybe the Sun is lying, and the young man didn’t give the national radio address, and the script wasn’t written by presumably Democratic staffers. And maybe we should all put dishwash soap in the dishwasher.
Here’s a tip, John - don’t put it in the washing machine, either. Don’t say nobody ever told you about that one, professor. One more - don’t enlist small children to be your national spokesmen and expect innoculatoin from national criticism simply because they’re small children.
I don’t think I’m being partisan here. Have there been small children used to provide a platform plank for the Republicans? I hope not, and it wouldn’t suprise me, and I hope all parties will stick with adults talking to adults and not using small children reading scripts as their mouthpiece. It might spell disaster for fishwraps like the Sun looking for column fodder, but them’s the breaks.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:56 am
I hope this doesn’t post multiple times, but the page wouldn’t load for some reason. I took out some hyperlinks and just left the URLs as text, maybe that’ll help. If this does triple-post, sorry. If it doesn’t post at all, well, screw it, it’s too much trouble.
I don’t think I’m being partisan here. Have there been small children used to provide a platform plank for the Republicans?
Yes, there have.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/29/boehners-kids/
http://www.nightlight.org/Copy%20of%20snowflakefactsheet.pdf
http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/03/nrsc-uses-small-children-as-human-shields
The last of those is hilarious, by the way.
One more - don’t enlist small children to be your national spokesmen and expect innoculatoin [sic] from national criticism simply because they’re small children.
So you don’t see any difference between “criticism” and publishing their home address, interviewing their neighbors, giving the name of the school the kids go to and the name of their father’s business, and trying to estimate the value of the shelves in their kitchen? Personally, I don’t understand how that disproves whether the family needed help with medical bills (seehttp://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/08/attacking-graeme-frost), let alone how all that is relevant to S-CHIP in the first place.
And if people are a little creeped out right now about a family getting attention like that, can you blame us?
October 9th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Heh heh heh… “Boehner’s Kids.”
I don’t care how he pronounces it, he’s still a boner to me.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Interviewing the neighbors, publishing the father’s business name — no problem. I didn’t read any shelving valuation, nor did I see any home address information. The former is just odd, and the latter is probably public information.
My contention is that national spokespeople will get attention. Don’t use your kid for advertising if you’re not prepared for that attention. You’re just asking for trouble. Stick to the adults.
So, let’s check on the links:
- A Republican at a school - check. No links to where the pix are from - check. Equivalent? Not in my book…maybe your’s.
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Oh well meeting time. C ya
October 11th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Damnitalltohell, we have to convert to socialism … for the children! Now, be quiet and get back to generating more revenue to be confiscated as taxes to fund the statist domination plans of the Democrat Party. I can’t believe you are so ungallant as to complain about their desire and willingness to use your money to make themselves feel better about helping other people, as if your heart is as pure as theirs.
In a related note, I read something about Jimmy Carter mouthing off again and wondered why anyone would/should listen to Jimmy Carter. After a minute or two I decided that we should indeed listen to Jimmy Carter because apparently too many people still don’t understand the meaning of the aphorism, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” And, yes, I am admittedly being generous here with the word good, but I suspect he really does believe he is advocating the right things.