Religions > Atheism > GOP Losers' New Election Strategy: Smearing 2 Year Old Girl Who Almost Died
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"Yang, AthD h.c" |
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16 Oct 2007 10:19:00 PM |
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GOP Losers' New Election Strategy: Smearing 2 Year Old Girl Who Almost Died |
LOL! Let us know how that's gonna work out.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/16/bethany-attacks/
Yesterday, TrueMajorityAction released an ad of 2-year old Bethany
Wilkerson, who was born with a serious heart problem and received
health insurance through the SCHIP program. Today, the Wilkerson
family will appear with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to rally support for
increased funding of the SCHIP program.
Like the Frost family, the Wilkerson family has already become the
subject of right-wing attacks. Michelle Malkin — whose baseless smear
campaign against 12-year old Graeme Frost was deemed too bogus for
even Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — is now trying to rally the right
against Bethany.
Heralding the arrival of a “new toddler-aged human shield,” Malkin
writes that “the Wilkersons made a choice” — a seeming reference to
the fact that Malkin now believes she has the license to attack the
Wilkersons for their public support of SCHIP. “We need more ‘partisan
bickering,’ not less,” added Malkin.
Malkin’s not alone in her rage. In a piece entitled “Meet the New
Frosts, Same As the Old Frosts,” the National Review’s Mark Hemingway
attacks the Wilkersons as irresponsible parents:
While the debate around the Frost family at least initially
centered around their relative wealth, the issue really at hand is one
of bad behavior. […]
For Dara and Brian Wilkerson, the fact that they don’t have health
insurance is less about falling through the cracks than the decisions
they’ve made.
Hemingway claims that Bethany’s mother, Dara, “voluntarily left a job
at a country club that had good health insurance, because the
situation was ‘unmanageable,’” to “take a job at a restaurant with no
health insurance.” He mourns the fact that the Wilkersons “went on to
have a baby anyway.”
Dara Wilkerson released this statement responding to the attacks on
her choice of employment:
We have seen the statement about my previous employment and here
is what we have to say: I left my previous place of employment years
before Bethany became part of our lives. I am a hard working woman. I
have worked at Snappers Sea Grill for over 6 years. It is a good work
environment and I am a loyal employee. My husband and I were blessed
with Bethany two years ago and we are even more blessed to still have
her with us today.
So according to this “pro-life” right-wing logic, the Wilkersons
should have sacrificed having a daughter in order to stay in an
“unmanageable” job.
--
Yang
a.a.#28
"I can hardly wait for your head to explode when the Repubs hold onto
both houses of Congress this November. And Yang can quote me on that."
-Fred Stone, 6/14/2006
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