For McConnell, the lying trumps the smear
Nearly two weeks later, the right's smear of 12-year-old Graeme Frost and his family is long over, but the problems for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) remain. His office was, as we now know, directly involved in pushing the attacks on the Frosts, but just as importantly, McConnell appears to have been caught lying about it.
By now, we've all heard the play-by-play. Right-wing activists went after the Frost family, and McConnell's spokesperson contacted political reporters, urging them to pick up on the story. Later, after learning that the conservative hatchet men were wrong, an embarrassed McConnell aide backpedaled and discouraged his media contacts from pursuing the bogus story.
The aide, Don Stewart, told the Louisville Courier-Journal that he briefed his boss on all of this last Thursday. As it turns out, that's the problem.
Mitch McConnell can't have it both ways. He can't luxuriate in a reputation for personal caution and political control, yet claim he knew nothing about the role his office tried to play in sliming a Baltimore boy and his family when they came forward in support of the SCHIP health care expansion.
Mr. Stewart told The Courier-Journal he explained all that to his boss on Thursday. So Sen. McConnell was deliberately untruthful the next day, when he told WHAS-TV's Mark Hebert, "There was no involvement whatsoever." The senator will object to any suggestion of lying, but what else is it when you knowingly misrepresent facts?
It's clear what Mitch McConnell knew and when he knew it. It's clear he deceived the public when he answered Mr. Hebert as he did about the e-mail sent by his press agent.
Mr. McConnell is so used to Washington-style gamesmanship and inside-the-beltway rules that he has forgotten what constituents back in Kentucky want: the simple truth.
Greg Sargent wonders what the media's interest would be if this had happened to a Dem.
This lying pig should be censured. If they can't get that through, you can just forget any help from your government.
Perhaps the media should just label this clown a Dem and drag is name through the mud. Isn't that how it works?
Or is that just Faux news?
The Dems/progressives should not cut the rethugs any slack when it comes to their lies and smears. They should "name it and shame it" over and over again. That includes not allowing Limbaugh to get away with his lies. He lied about Graeme Frost just like he lied about his excuse for the phony soldier comment, like he lied about Michael J. Foxx.
Molnardian @ 2:
Mud???......yes,yes...please do.
What?...you were expecting them to be honest?.....the media will let this and all other instances slide.......
Rush Limbaugh is the face of right wing American cowardice. Mitch McConnell is the face of their deceitfulness.
All these neocons do is lie all over the place spinning and distorting the truth!
Greg Sargent wonders what the media’s interest would be if this had happened to a Dem.
They, the "media" would trash the Democrat demand apologies and insist on resigning. I mean come on if President Bill Clinton did just 1% of the criminal and immoral things bush has inflicted on our country's reputation they would be demanding a public hanging from the Washington Memorial. The "media" is already claiming Ms. Clinton is the Democratic nominee and not one vote has been registered. They want Clinton just so they can trash her all over again. It also plays directly into republican hopes to keep control of the White House because Ms. Clinton is so hated by the right by running her it's their best chance to do just that.
peace
If a Democrat did it, we would be setting on the faithless, feckless fool our damn selves. That is but one defining difference between us and them.
wldj @ 8:
Vote Kucinich!
Do the good citizens, think 'good Germans', of Kentucky actually give a shit? I think his approval is below 50% last I looked. But never, never underestimate the
stupidity of those fat, dumb suckas of the Glorious Southron Hegemony!
Nixon had them pegged.
xoites defends Constitution @ 10:
The Beaver's gonna....jes as soon as he's old enough!
on a bright note....Mel Martinez resigns as RNC chair man.....as for "If this was a dem?"..I'm with BlueGirl........we would demand something be done.I know I would.
Why does my gaydar go off every time I look at his picture?
McConnell is looking more and more like Jesse Helms everyday. I guess years of hate and smear takes a toll on you after a while morphing you into a hideous troll.
The face of pure evil! Wonder if he ever had a blood transfusion from Cheney?
If there is a God, Larry Flynt will have an October surprise for this despicable beast. I expect gooper leadership to be lying scum, but this hypocrite has a stench that carries miles.
Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee GUARANTEES spectacular right-wing turnout at the polls. Just sayin'.
Talk about a major boost to the growing anti-Mitch movement in KY
KY at War
Tommy @ 18:
I spent two weeks last month drinking coffee with every bow hunter east of the Thompson Fork of the Grand River in northern Missouri, six miles outside a town of 386 people. I was shocked by the shift in their political outlook. They hate Bush, would NEVER vote for Rudy, think Mitt is a phony and McCain is insane. They actually like Hillary. I was staggered by the shift since last year.
Hey, he's just doing what he sees being done, no? Deliberate psy ops (black ops are going on against We, the People all the time; "fake election/military takeover" is our MO), first-use of WMDs (mass deception in the present case; smallpox-infested blankets back in the day) collateral damage including children, then flat-out denial. Where have I heard this story before?
Oh yeah. Tell it to the Indians, but try not to stand on stolen land when you do it.
As Vine Deloria Jr. might've said, we're laughing ourselves sick in Indian Country, to hear all this talk of how it's not like the US to wage a war of aggression.
Here in the great state of Washington, the US signed a treaty with a tribe, then cut that reservation almost exactly in half when gold was found under the stolen half. No justification other than, our guns can slaughter you like we did the buffalo.
How would you like to watch a graveyard in which your ancestors rest be bulldozed for a freaking parking lot, their bones treated like something shameful or radioactive to be hidden ASAP lest we lose time or money or both? A direct descendant of Chief Joseph is still fighting the Smithsonian for his bones.
How do you think we in Indian country feel when we hear "no permanent bases in Iraq"? The tribes RESERVED lands and rights which people acting in the name of the US government but solely on their own behalf stole away. And they didn't even bother to keep track of who owed what to which tribe or member, because they never had any intention of paying it back. Now the BIA can't account for all that money. Sound like Iraq?
I wholeheartedly agree: Bushco is a crime syndicate. Look at Daddy Warbucks-Bush, selling weapons for the Carlyle group while Carter and Gore collect Nobel prizes. Just save some of your righteous indignation for yourselves. You'll need it if you ever expand your definition of We to include All of Us.
Mr. Plastic Face. He is worried about his upper lip flipping up over his nose because of the plastic surgeries that he can’t think very well.
Where in the world does the GOP find this bottomless supply of dorks? They truly are the completely uncool party.
Off with his head! Next!
All of our "leaders" know that they can lie with impunity. One poster above says "if there is a God" ... sigh ... if only. Oh, how I hate these fuckwads. Someone needs to make a movie, kind of like Falling Down, where someone just goes apeshit on these assholes because they've had enough. I'd watch it over and over.
No, they don't. Stop being so damned naive already!! To quote Jack Nicholson's character in 'A Few Good Men'.... "You can't handle the truth!" Hence the current abortion that passes itself off as the US presidential administration. If americans really wanted The Truth they would've already hung BushCo out to dry. Please spare me the BS.....
Today, Oct. 20th, is DAY 9 since McConnell lied to the WHAS reporter and said that his office had no role in the GOP smear job of the Frost family. We will count the days until McConnell comes clean on the scandal. We demand:
1. McConnell apologize to the Frost family for starting the smear job. (Can they file suit against him?)
2. McConnell immediately fire Don Stewart, his "Communication Director."
See www.ditchmitchky.com for all updates. Call McConnell's offices -- Louisville, 502-582-6304 and DC, 1-800-828-0498.
I think the fact that he lied about it is small potatoes -- standard operating procedure for a politician -- and a distraction from the real issue. Namely, why is one of the most powerful Republicans in the country leading a smear campaign against a disabled 12-year-old?
OK, we already know the answer. But now that we know there was "involvement," that should be issue, not Mitch's lame fib.
"we love you, we only attack Democrats"-media to Mitch Mcchinless
Yes, the Corporate Media is generating a lot of heat about Stark's comments at the behest of the Republicans, but all they can say about McConnel's orchestrated smear campaign against Graeme Frost and his family is that Democrats are to blame for Republican smears by allowing him to advocate for SCHIP a program from which he benefited. It's the same double standard employed by the right leaning Corporate Media machine every time. They pick up Republican framing and run with it. Just like they did with the swiftboat smears against Kerry. Never mind that there is no substance to the charges made by Republicans, the Democrats are always to blame for leaving themselves open to baseless Republican attacks.
Mr "no chin" has always impressed me as a slimely toady kind of neocon. As such I have never been even slightly inclined to believe anything that slithers out of his mouth. I hope the thinking people in his home state have seen enough of his brand of Rethuglican crap and will send him packing. But I am sure that the thinking people don't want him back either. Maybe they should exile him to Texas whither goes all slime in 2009.
I feel that since Mitch McConnell & his Republican cronies are above the law & can get away with everything the media should continue to keep this story in the news. They are supposed to be perfect & above reproach.
He is just another republican crook. Tells a lot about the people of Kentuky.
Clark Barr @ 14:
hmmmm, closeted gay republican... That would be rare :-I
"Nearly two weeks later, the right’s smear of 12-year-old Graeme Frost and his family is long over,"
Are you fuggin' kidding me? How about this?:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200710190007?f=h_top
What happened to McConnell's upper lip? Please gus, all of us from Texas aren't that bad. The Bushes migrated here from Connecticut
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) is probably a pedophile or closet bi-sexual. Aren't all rebulican'ts ?
I wonder howmany of these republican cocksuckers are going to give up their gov't paid healthcare?
also I saw a headline that said Fred Thompson was targeting the Republican "Values Voters" if there is a republican lurking out there can you please tell me what a republican "Value" is? I have searched and searched and I can't find a single thing that you idiots actually believe in, so please help me to understand.
These guys get away with it whether they're in the Senate or the House, but meanwhile in the House the old hausfrau Nancy is practically correcting her member's spelling, grammer and diction.
"Personal attack time"...this guy looks like a rodent. I have to wonder if he gnaws on wood to sharpen his yellow teeth?
another phuKKKing repug. fuggem. no surprise here.
Clark Barr @ 14:
I would not be surprised if craig takes his 'wide stance' right in front of mcconnell.
PurplePatriot @ 24:
shooter with danny glover, mark wahlberg, one incredibly HOT newcomer young lady! lotsa justice handed out
Late Saturday afternoon, 10/20 -- Day 9 since Sen. Mitch McCacca lied to the camera about how his office smeared the Frosts -- and not a word from Mitch about this scandal. No wonder people are pissed. I was glad to read today that Bonnie Frost will continue to speak out in support of S-CHIP. It would be great if our Congress had the guts of Graeme's mother -- who has been through a terrible health tragedy with two of her children and now has to endure McCacca, Limbaugh, and other rightwing nuts. Thank you, Bonnie Frost.
Mr McConnell;
We have your chin. We will return it when you cease being a lying douchebag.
No-Lips Mitch reminds me of Mr. Potato-head, a toy in the late 50's early 60's. With a head made of Styrofoam, all other parts were interchangeable. The picture on the front of the box looks just like No-Lips mitch!
What a repulsive, disgusting pig that man is. (My apologies to pigs.)
Just think of the lies that he and the other republicans will tell to protect the corruption of Bush , Cheney on the budget, war in Iraq , war contractors and the theft of our tax dollars with their no-bid contracts.
A government as the one we have now should be run out of office.
And to think of the tax dollars the republicans spent on investigating Clinton to come up with a lie about sex, and how they have screwed Americans in the last 7 years. There should be a cell in prison waiting for all of them.
Wow, if they want the simple truth, they're in for a ride.
Do they want to know the simple truth of Mitch being gay?
That old queen needs to start their club with Haggard, Drier, Foley, Craig, Jeff Gannon ... oh wait, they are all part of the same pathetic closet club!
This is a dangerous and demented man.
I sense terrible things in those eyes.
Kentucky is KY not Ken.
Betrayus times forty-seven:
http://www.light-to-dark.com/senate_republicans_visit_iraq.html
Busy sacrificing freedom for world domination.
I'm sensing a serious disconnect here...[That would be YOUR problem, not ours. Deal with it away from here-Sitemonitor]
I wish you would lay off poor old befuddled Mitch McComical. He has plenty on his mind these days, like having to worry about that lobbyist junket he took a year ago with Sen. Larry Craig. The way I hear it, they share a bedroom in the Bahamas and hardly left to suite the whole time they were there.
When can we start hunting politicians?
Ruthless People @ 15:
He has Helms' dead-looking, tiny, black piggy eyes. One look tells you there's no soul behind them.
his smirk is annoying
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