Malkin Debunks Malkin over Health Care: WSJ calls them the "Internet Mob"
By John Amato Friday Oct 12, 2007 12:32pmWe'll let Michelle Malkin debunk herself on the issue of health care and and her attacks on the Frost family. I hope with some deep reflection she can come to grips with her callousness: (from 08/24/04)
After my husband quit his job earlier this year (to become a full-time stay-at-home dad), we had a choice. We could either buy health insurance from his former employer through a program called COBRA at a cost of more than $1,000 per month(!) or we could go it alone in Maryland’s individual market. Given our financial circumstances, that “choice” wasn’t much of a choice at all.
We had to go on our own. We discovered that the most generous plans in Maryland’s individual market cost $700 per month yet provide no more than $1,500 per year of prescription drug coverage–a drop in the bucket if someone in our family were to be diagnosed with a serious illness. With health insurance choices like that, no wonder so many people opt to go uninsured.
Oppps. Barbara O'Brien responds:
What they haven’t yet realized is that if they face a medical disaster similar to what the Frost family went through, their insurer will drop them like a hot calabasa unless state regulations say otherwise.
TREX has much more...
The WSJ editorial board has jumped in and called the Malkinites: "The Internet Mob"
Unfortunately, that narrative was bolstered this week by some conservative bloggers. After the Schip veto, Democrats chose a 12-year-old boy named Graeme Frost to deliver a two-minute rebuttal. While that was a political stunt, the Washington habit of employing "poster children" is hardly new. But the Internet mob leapt to some dubious conclusions and claimed the Frost kids shouldn't have been on Schip in the first place. As it turns out, they belonged to just the sort of family that a modest Schip is supposed to help.
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It's spelled "oops."
I gotta say....that them folks are very ugly....I wonder how they sleep at night? Surely this will contribute to their down fall.....it's long over due.
Michelle "anchor baby" Malkin, is nothing more than a asian racist, whom Bill Oreilly & Sean Hannity use as a shill on their shows when they need a dark skinned right winger too support their racist/bigot views without sounding bigoted/racist, a common tactic if one notes the high frequency of right wing defenders of Bush Policy are Black, funny these are the faces they trot out when defending a unpopular issue or situation...they have a very well known black man who brags how he worked in Bush's administration and he is seen on all the news channels defending Bushites policies, republican agenda, he recently debated a Iraq War veteran and claimed he did his duty in Bushes office when asked why he did not serve in military...., but back too Michelle Malkin, she is most famous for her writings on how it was justified too intern the Japenese Americans during world war II, even though presidents, congress/senate/US Supreme court all ruled it unconstitional, national disgrace, so for her too attack a 12 year old child just out of a coma is not surprising, no great leap, she harps on hispanic anchor babies but she herself is a anchor baby born of asian parents in the USA on work visa...., she is merely a dark skinned version of Ann "the wicked witch of right wing" Coulter, saying outrageous things too get the right wing racists/bigots exicted and give them cover they are not racist/bigots they have a Asian preaching their agenda...., it if funny how the republican party, a white dominated party has their "house servants" doing the dirty work, kind've harkens back too the old days in the deep south when the "master" had his special slaves too work in the big house...
Now, lets go easy on Malkin. Afterall, pulling ones head out of their own ass takes effort of biblical proportions.
You know you've gone off the rails when the WSJ editorial board thinks you're too zealously right-wing.
The parents of Graeme Frost will be Keith Olbermann's guest next Monday on Countdown. Will Michelle Malkin have issued an apology by then to young Graeme and his parents for the vitriol and abuse that she has hurled their way?
If Malkin could afford mental health care she and we would be much bette off.
"We’ll let Michelle Malkin debunk herself on the issue of health care and and her attacks on the Frost family. I hope with some deep reflection she can come to grips with her callousness: "
I have trouble imagining you're this naive Mr. Amato. I'll allow you the optimistic hope of this sentiment - but I feel that the feelings that connect people like this to humanity are completely missing. Very psychotic - a sociopath in fact.
No one will be able to save Michele Malkin from herself.
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Erroll @ 6:
Doubtful. Malkin is a one trick pony; all she has is vitriol and abuse.
Joementum @ 5:
I thought the exact same thing.......man... that woman is insane!
I hope someone corners her with this..live on the air.But who in their right mind would go on her show?....Geraldo?
well said RH, the insanity of the Reichwing knows no bounds, they aspire to pure evil.
Once she loses her job at Fixed News....she'll probably be w/o health ins......wouldn't that be something?
The rightwing nut jobs will stop to any level in their futile attempt to maintain the status quo
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We need to hammer those supposed pro-life republicans who voted against this "modest" program
the wsj editorial board said that? clearly murdoch's gang hasn't taken over yet!
EJ Dionne: "Left-of-center blogs whose political views I largely share have published offensive stuff, too."
Is this just thrown in to show "balance"? Examples, please.
Dean Booth @ 15:
With the all-important context surrounding the examples. We know how the morans demand 'context' for their nasty comments.
If it was truly offensive, the the offender is not left leaning, no matter what s/he purports to represent. Full stop. Their actions determine right and left, not weak mealy-mouthed claims.
Malkin has 2 blog revenue streams now so she doesn't care about people struggling like she did 3 years ago.
as the bitch isnt ceasing her smears on the family, and continues to print outright lies about what they own and their overall economic worth, i will not note that malkin and her lazy ass hubby did figure out a way to pay for health insurance, as she noted in her diatribe for not debating ezra.
in malkin's world, if you cant afford health insurance, you should sell your car, live in a hovel, and not accept a scholarship to a private school
Socialized medicine now. You want special care, you pay for it. Insurance is a scam. They are middle men and Vegas odds players with our health. We should have a national healthcare system and a national priority put on people leading healthy lives and eating healthy.
Repugnacans spew the party line without thinking about how policy effects them personally. The theme song for the repugnacan convention should be "If I Only Had A Brian."
Did anybody catch at the first about how her husband became a Stay At Home Dad (SAHDs, as TDS brilliantly satirized a while back) while she went back to work?
The is an up and coming issue for the religious right-bashing on moms working and dads staying home with the kids. I've taken note of it because, in large part, I am one.
As Coulterish as she's become of late I'm surprised she hasn't adopted this point of view too.
I had a severe case of stomach flu requiring overnight stay in the hospital for IV treatment. There was no bill when I left.
ckerst @ 20:
Does Larry Craig sing that song?
You don't see liberals targeting Malkin's spawn for anything and you never will.
That's why I love rightwingers...viscous, lying hypocritical souls all for me.
Mike the Canuck @ 22:
thanks for rubbing it in. I hope you still have diarrhea. ;) kidding
Mike the Canuck @ 22:
My friend was in New Zealand and accidentally broke her ankle. They took care of her efficiently and compassionately. She asked, "What's the bill?" They said, "No charge."
Another friend in France was broadsided by a speeding vehicle as she drove through an intersection. She spent a month in the hospital, one week of which was in ICU. No charge. Her husband receives first-rate treatment for hep C, no charge.
No country is perfect, but this idea that we should dig so deep into our pockets to pay for health care is ridiculous. And for many of those with employer-provided health care who feel no responsibility to help the non-insured because you think you're paying your own way, guess what? Everyone else is paying for your insurance, because your company passes those costs along to whomever uses their goods or services. Those costs are increasing, and companies are looking more and more into getting rid of employer-provided insurance, or increasing the employee's percentage of contribution.
Now if I were one of those nasty Redstate pieces of shite, I'd write something like this:
"The Malkins should DIE!!!! (lots of exclamation points are MANDATORY in Redstate postings)
"What, I'm supposed to pay for that slope-headed bitch's husband to QUIT HIS JOB???? and raise the satanic race-mixed vermin they produced????? (lots of question marks are MANDATORY in Redstate postings)
"I hope every true Redstater out there digs out every piece of information they can on this lying scheming socialistic swine and blackmail her with until she commits suicide!!!!
"THEN maybe all those liberal socialistic scum will think twice!!!!!!"
But of course, I'm no Redstater, so I'll just hope that Malkin rethinks her position and decides that sauce for the Malkin is sauce for the Frost.
Again, we are letting "the Internet Mob" take attention from where it belongs: Bush did not slime Graeme Frost, he slimed millions of kids like him by refusing them access to health care. The Internet Mob is a despicable bunch, but their God King is the true villain in this piece.
You should not do a single post about S-CHIP or the Frosts without keeping Bush the Childkiller front and center.
Waddya bet, they're all pleased as punch, and doing their best Tony Soprano imitations?
lacrimose @ 23:
No he sang "If Only I Had Some Head."
I have noticed that the main talking point from the "Con-servatives" is that there real anger is that the parents allowed their son to be the face of this issue and that this is careless. While I tend to agree that allowing your child to be the face of a political issue may be a bad idea; it certainly doesn't justify the attacks and stalker like behavior. When your point of view requires you to stalk a 12-year old, it is probably not a great point of view. More interesting, is where were these same Con-servatives when the current administration or Republicans used children as political props? I don't recall any of their concern then or them even mentioning it. Perhaps this is a new concern for them. I do remember numerous children and babies being used as props when the Stem Cell research bill was vetoed; but not outrage and no concern.
As is so often the case, the talking point lacks any historical consistency. They have no problem using children for their own political purposes, it is when it is used against them that they have a real problem.
[...] John Amato wrote an interesting post today on Malkin Debunks Malkin over Health Care: WSJ calls them the …Here’s a quick excerptWith health insurance choices like that, no wonder so many people opt to go uninsured. Oppps. Barbara O’Brien responds:. What they haven’t yet realized is that if they face a medical disaster similar to what the Frost family went … [...]
I'm not all that interested in American health care problems. I do think this private insurance system sucks big time, but it's a purely domestic issue. Good luck. (Ignore the lies you hear about Canadian helth care. No one in my family has a single complaint.)
Anyhow, the reason I came in here, and from what I see, a lot of people on the right, and a lot of their noise machine, and president Bush for vetoing the bill, all seem to have stepped in a very large pile of dog do-do. It's things like this that bring people down, often more than the big stuff. I think they've hit a few raw nerves with the American public. People struggling to make ends meet won't soon forget!!!
ysbaddaden @ 30:
I'm sure he was just tapping out that old washroom favourite: "Here I sit, broken hearted, paid a dime, and ...got busted."
I find it interesting that insurance companies deny claims that are supposed to be covered and drop people from coverage when they become expensive to the insurance company. We buy insurance so this burden falls on the insurance company, not us. The insurance company is happy to take our money as long as we are giving them more that we cost them.
I teach in Michigan and am covered by MESSA insurance. (Michigan Education Special Services Association) MESSA works hard to cover and pay whatever their policy says is covered. No one is ever dropped. Costs, while substantial, are in line with the level of coverage and are kept in line by risk sharing and pooling. In the last three years costs went up 12%, then 2% and this year have actually dropped by about 2% in the pool I am in.
My point is that MESSA is real coverage that has the interests of the policy holder first. I would love to see it as a model for national universal coverage. Check it out.
MESSA
"fter the Schip veto, Democrats chose a 12-year-old boy named Graeme Frost to deliver a two-minute rebuttal. While that was a political stunt, the Washington habit of employing “poster children” is hardly new....As it turns out, they belonged to just the sort of family that a modest Schip is supposed to help."
In other words, it was less of a "stunt" than an ACTUAL APT CASE OF WHO THE VETO WOULD HURT.
WSJ ought to look back on its coverage of Terry Schiavo to determine what a 'stunt' is. This isn't "as it turns out," this is 'as the Dems chose well,' and didn't LIE about the issue, like Schiavo's would-be defenders.
For instance, here is Peggy Noonan, contributing editor of the Wall Street Journal:
First, bash the victim:
"[Michael Schiavo] has fought the battle to kill her with a determination that at this point seems not single-minded or passionate but strange.... politically this is a struggle between many serious people who really mean it and one, just one, strange-o. And the few bearded and depressed-looking academics he's drawn to his side."
And then make a medical determination from scratch:
"At the heart of the case at this point is a question: Is Terri Schiavo brain-dead? That is, is remedy, healing, physiologically impossible? No. Oddly enough anyone who sees the film and tape of her can see that her brain tells her lungs to breathe, that she can open her eyes, that she seems to respond at times and to some degree to her family. She can laugh. (I heard it this morning on the news. It's a childlike chuckle.) In the language of computers she appears not to be a broken hard drive but a computer in deep hibernation."
The autopsy, of course, proved that she COULD NOT see, COULD NOT be conscious, COULD NOT recover -- ever.
Yet Noonan knows what to do:
"A final note to the Republican leadership in the House and Senate: You have to pull out all the stops. You have to run over your chairmen if they're being obstructionist for this niggling reason and that. Run over their egos, run past their fatigue. You have to win on this. If you don't, you can't imagine how much you're going to lose. And from people who have faith in you.
Bill Frist and Tom DeLay and Jim Sensenbrenner and Denny Hastert and all the rest would be better off risking looking ridiculous and flying down to Florida, standing outside Terri Schiavo's room and physically restraining the poor harassed staff who may be told soon to remove her feeding tube, than standing by in Washington..."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110006442
If necessary, they should bomb the clinic, eh, Peggy?
Dean Booth @ 15:
I'm sure he read a few of those nasty Cheney comments on the Huffington Post that Kurtz cried about.
You hope that Malkin can come to terms with her callousness?
Have you ever heard of a mad dog apologizing before tearing some one's throat out? Malkin is a moral pervert, a defective human who will never renounce her viciousness till her rabies does her in.
I've still heard nary a peep from the MSM about (gri)malkin stalkin' a 12 year old boy.
Maybe it satisfies some kind of sexual fantasies.
"The Democrats chose to outsource their airtime to a Seventh Grader," wrote National Review's Mark Steyn. "If a political party is desperate enough to send a boy to do a man's job, then the boy is fair game."
But don't dare attack a General sent to do the presidents job.
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