Where’s the Media outrage over McConnell’s staffer smearing the Frost family?

Published: October 17, 2007, 7:30 pm

Tags: health science, republican hypocrisy, right wing pundits, right wing radio, right wing stupidity, scandals, smears, the senate

Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and Harry Reid’s office acted in the same disgusting fashion as Mitch McConnell’s staff did to Graeme Frost? It would be plastered all over Drudge, FOX and Limbaugh–all day and night. Hannity would be having candlelight vigils outside the Frosts’ home. The outrage would be deafening and the NRO would be calling for Reid to resign. Update: Remember the outrage over John Kerry’s botched joke? McCain attacked him ferociously. The RNC released their own ad attacking Kerry and demanding an apology. The right wing bloggers spread vile lies about him. (nothing changed there) Yet, the media has gone AWOL over the smearing of a sick, 12 year old boy. Oh, how times have changed. Greg Sargent explains: Here’s a question: When are the cable nets and the Capitol Hill press and the pundits going to dig into the role that GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell played in pushing the smear of the Frost family? Lefty bloggers

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