Palestinian Child Abuse
Sorry, force of habit.
That should read Democratic Child Abuse
The most buzzworthy story on the right side of the blogosphere this weekend concerned young Graeme Frost, the 12-year-old child severely injured in a terrible car accident that also left his sister with permanent disabilities. Graeme Frost was propped up by Democrats desperate to avert the president’s veto of S-CHIP legislation, which would have massively expanded the government health care entitlement. The Dems are trying to muster up enough votes to override President Bush’s veto. They’ve scheduled a vote for Oct. 18. The boy gave the Democratic radio address last week, written for him by Senate Democrat staffers, and made several Beltway lobbying appearances with top Dem leaders. (Listen to Graeme’s address here.) The accident was horrible. The children deserve much sympathy and compassion.
But legislation-by-anecdote is a tricky thing, and should only be done when the anecdotes actually hold some water.
It turns out–as it does with so many health care stories pimped by the Democrats and the MSM–that there is much more to the Frosts’ story than meets the eye.The family is not as destitute as the MSM has made them out to be.
Many have picked up on this “destitution” angle of this story, but let me explore the abuse/exploitation angle. I have a 12-year-old, and I would never use my child as bait. I’ll let other parents make other choices, but shame on the Democrats for dangling Tiny Tim in front of the media. Even if they have no shame (the evidence of which lack is beyond dispute), surely they should have the political acumen not to open their blatant politicization of children to scrutiny?