McConnell caught in a lie about SCHIP smear campaign.
On Thursday, ThinkProgress reported that Don Stewart, the communications director for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), had sent an e-mail encouraging reporters to cover the right-wing smear campaign of 12-year old Graeme Frost. But on Friday, McConnell claimed his office was not involved:
Q: Was there an indication that your office was trying to push reporters to dig into this 12-year old’s background?
McCONNELL: No
Q: Then what was the deal with the e-mail from your staffer?
McCONNELL:There was no involvement whatsoever.
Q: From your staff.
McCONNELL: None.
Watch it:
Yesterday, Stewart admitted that he helped launch the smear campaign.
(HT: Page One Kentucky)
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“There was no story in defending the Frost family”?!?!
Brilliant, so the fact that the subhuman reich-wingers are sliming a 12 year old and his family is not worthy of exposure. Jebus, reich-wingers are senseless.
October 16th, 2007 at 6:57 pmOK WHAS, ball is in your court. You HAVE been lied to lets see if you can do your job.
October 16th, 2007 at 6:59 pmIt is HILARIOUS that all the Repugs were up in arms about Billy C lying about his blow job but have no compunction about lying their collective asses off when the mood hits them if it fits their agendas.
I also wonder if McConnell will send a X-mas card to the Frosts this year? My guess is, he won’t get one from them.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:05 pmMcConnell, the baglady, lying again? Amazing what he’s hiding underneath that chin of his!
October 16th, 2007 at 7:06 pmAnother Christian lair.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:07 pmWell don’t look for Larry Craig to support him in his lie.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:08 pmMcConnell another tip tip member of the men’s room Club is another closet gay. He was really fast in turning his back on a 27 year friendship with Craig. Now the public see the liar McConnell really is.
That’s not the only lie, McConnell was outed last year along with Craig. The press ignored both outings for the most part, saying that both men were married, and it didn’t make sense. Yet we see with Craig exactly how ‘married’ he was!
McConnell is another self loathing closet queen hatemonger! If anyone is curious why he’s such a freak!
October 16th, 2007 at 7:09 pmQ: How many reich-wingers can you fit in the closet?
October 16th, 2007 at 7:14 pmA: Apparently all of them
Time to throw the staff under the bus…..
October 16th, 2007 at 7:23 pmIf you are a Republican . . . you aren’t human.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:28 pmThis is the consequence of the right-wing’s successful efforts to bring “balance” into a field where it is not necessary - journalism. Journalism is about finding and reporting the objective facts. Sure, a reporter might characterize the weather in a personal way (say, if he’s susceptible to the cold, he might give the impression that it’s colder than it really is, or would be to you and me), but that’s more of an adjective choice, not one of facts. But the right wing complained all the time that their “message” wasn’t getting out, so they started buying up media and presenting a heavily-slanted view of the news (to bring it into “balance”.) For example, you’ve probably heasrd of some news networks that feel if you aren’t getting both sides of the story, you’re not getting a “fair and balanced” view of the news. They feel you should present both sides of any dispute and give then equal validity. Then you’re supposed to let the viewers (or readers) decide. The problem is, when you don’t report the objective facts, the audience doesn’t know who is being truthful and who isn’t. So McConnell’s attitude is to deny that anyone on his staff was involved, and let the audience at home decide for themselves who’s telling the truth. A good reporter would follow up McConnell’s false denial with the fact that the staffer confessed to doing it. If that makes McConnell look bad, so what? He’s lying. Why should anyone go to the trouble of making him look good? That would not be in the nation’s best interests.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:29 pmMcConnell did not lie. He was merely “in character” for the traveling Monty Python Show that’s coming to Kentucky, where he will audition for the Pet Store Owner in “The Dead Parrot” sketch.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:35 pma leading republican lied…oh…shock of shocks…
October 16th, 2007 at 7:36 pm.
Turtleboy is up in 2008. Maybe the good folks in the Bluegrass state can turn the turf there a nice aquamarine.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:36 pmIn addition to being a pasty-faced doughboy, McConnell is apparently a god-damned liar. And a Republican, no less. Surprise, surprise.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:39 pmhe told the truth yesterday. then he lied today. amazing!
October 16th, 2007 at 7:50 pmIt’s tough going when all your collegues are so prone to lying or washroom adventure. And are sooo Christian to boot.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:53 pmRepukian Fascist Brownshirt Lockstep Lemming Pigs Lie, DO TELL !!!
Of course they lie, you can tell because their LIPS are MOVING.
Buck Fush
October 16th, 2007 at 8:04 pmNow that was predictable.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:09 pmDo you think that the press is ever going to go back to really reporting the news and even doing some investigating? I fear that we have lost our news forever to infotainment. All I can say is “thank god for the internet”.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:10 pmAnd what’s with the reporter saying in the end “There’s no story in defending the Frost family”? So, there’s a story in sliming them, but no story in defending them? These people are truly sick and twisted. I would hate to be part of their extended family.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:11 pmThey lie for the lie, they live for the lie, they lie for the sake of lying.
And nearly all of them practice this art of lying. Coulter, Rove, Dick. Rush, Oreilly, Hannity, Morgan, Reed, Abramoff, Cunningham, Haggard, Craig, Allen, Murphy, Libby, Rice, Wolfowitz, Taylor, Doan, Malkin, Geraldo.
God is not happy with liars.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:13 pmthey lie for the sake of lying
that is part of Leo Strauss’ philosophy.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:26 pmComments by plunger
I hope you don’t mind me reporting you for spamming, but you’re over-the-top, and horribly off-topic.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:03 pmIf you read the thread title, it says nothing of fascism.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:13 pm“The actions of McConnell are learned behavior…all part of the broader CONSPIRACY - which you all see before you - but feel compelled to deny.”
I’m not denying anything. But if you think people don’t ignore long, consecutive posts, you have a higher regard for others’ attention spans - and patience - than I.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:18 pm“An elected official involved in a smear campaign against a 12 year old boy to the sole benefit of the insurance companies at the expense of the people?
It speaks ONLY of Fascism.”
I have trouble with your “to the sole benefit of the insurance companies” assertion. This bogus attack benefits more than simply “insurance companies,” and you know it. It also gives rhetorical cover to those whose political agenda involves discrediting social services in general.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:24 pm“If people don’t want to know the entire truth, because they have no patience to read it and absorb it - they get the country they deserve - while the world moves closer to its demise.”
Comment by plunger
Another false assertion. Working people have a limited amount of time to research such things, and it has little to do with their “patience,” so much as with their busy lives. You can stand on your virtual TP streetcorner posting “the end is near” as much as you like, but after a while, people will tune you out if all you’re doing is pontificating.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:30 pm“Thank you for confirming that this thread is about Fascism - precisely.”
Comment by plunger
Who are you talking to? Not me, if you think anything I’ve typed agrees with your fascism assertion.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:32 pmIf he was caught lying, he must have been caught with his mouth open. When has he not lied? When has Mitch Mconnell and the GOP ever told the truth? If the fascist pigs told the truth, they would never have been elected. Not ever the numbnuts in the 28% would vote for these fascists if they weren’t lied to.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:33 pmThe United States of Fascist America?
October 16th, 2007 at 9:44 pmI don’t think the masses can keep up with an extra letter in the chant: it throws off the whole rhythm.
Are Mitch’s lips moving? If so, then he’s lying.
October 16th, 2007 at 10:05 pmExcuse me while I “tune you out†without critiquing your particular style, as you have felt the need to do with mine”
Comment by plunger — October 16, 2007 @ 9:34 pm
Comment by barfly — October 16, 2007 @ 9:24 pm
This is the very definition of Fascism.
Comment by plunger — October 16, 2007 @ 9:36 pm
I thought you were going to tune me out…
October 16th, 2007 at 10:25 pmPlunger,
October 16th, 2007 at 11:04 pmyou’re Ace and I know there is room for your commentaries, tis a far stranger world out there than anyone can know. TP has had it’s fair share of crackpots in the past but I buy some of your insights, just tell me you’re not Santos!
Introducing . . . Sen. Mitch McCacca!
He was caught on WHAS tape, lying to Mark Hebert about the cover-up in his office regarding Don Stewart’s Oct. 8th email, which was the go ahead for the media to smear Graeme Frost and family. McCacca earned his new name.
We are grateful that this is finally — after 8 days — a national story. McCacca is coming unraveled. He usually gets away with his slander smear hit jobs because he is a pathological liar who says, “I was not involved.” You were caught this time, McCacca, and it is about time.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:00 am“An elected official involved in a smear campaign against a 12 year old boy to the sole benefit of the insurance companies at the expense of the people?
I agree we are in a sad way when smearing children has become the fulcrum in fight over OUR money. Wheres the debate in that?
I somewhat disagree with the term fascism as well. Corporations will surely use whatever means to make a profit but the government is not under the control of single corporate ideology that I know of so I withdraw from the term fascism, though we have alot of political hatred, for no good reason, other than idiot TV and those self-serving controversialists $$, note I didnt say conversationalists.
Whereas many corporations do find favor with lobbyists and profiting thur earmarks and accepting government welfare, the Republican party, as late as 1994 was against such corporate welfare, such as John Reich, the labor of secretary.
America was founded, funded I should say, by oligarchial thinking and thru the revolution and our constitution, we said, no thanks.
Many of the Republicans fail to see that by reducing social systems for Americans by Americans, has the opposite effect of what was intended, it breaks apart our republic and does not strengthen it, We need only to look at the disparity charts to see that education is simply not the answer to the problem of the inherent problems with ‘bottom line’ economism which, by its unintended nature, creates disparity. America exploded unto the scene saving the oligarchy from collapse and now America is falling prey to what made it great, and the only way to keep growing is to keep finding cheaper sources and cheaper sources of labor.
I hear the phrase “Liberals are communists living in America” which is of course just silly euphemism because its over exploitative capitalism that stagnates the pond. Look at what happened with the age of the robber barons, industrialism was great, at first, for America, no doubt, but the need for cheap labor soon created poverty, child labor, crime and wretched living conditions. Fat lotta good that did for humanty as a whole.
Liberals will not destroy America nor will capitalism destroy America because they require one another to exist. Capitalism, be the CEO Atheist, Christian, Jewish or whatever creates liberalism. Liberalism, in reality, is being free to persue one own ideas and when that occurs Capitalism thrives. Just look around, people of all religions, or not, own bars, or sell beer, or make pornographic films, or become gay, or do drugs, or sell sex toys, make liberal movies, theme parks, technology, good and bad.
Liberalism and Capitalism go hand in hand. So what is a liberal? Someone who gives more than they recieve. And what is its opposite? Usury, or someone who takes more than they give.
America is the Santas versus the Grinches. Moderation is the Christmas tree the Grinch stole and then gave back.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:39 amBartlebee is right. McConnell was caught lying. He is trying to cover-up his role in the smear job of Graeme Frost. He lied on camera. Case closed.
Call McConnell tomorrow and demand his resignation:
October 17th, 2007 at 12:50 amLouisville: 502-582-6304
DC: 1-800-828-0498
Q: Then what was the deal with the e-mail from your staffer?
McCONNELL:There was no involvement whatsoever.
Q: From your staff.
McCONNELL: None.
Yesterday, Stewart admitted that he helped launch the smear campaign.
Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!
October 17th, 2007 at 1:45 amBeing caught in a baldfaced lie, on TV no less….
Isn’t that conduct unbecoming a Senator?
Plus he broke the
MafiaRepublican’s number one rule.Don’t get caught.
The Republicans should be hollering for him to resign.
hehe
October 17th, 2007 at 2:23 amPlunger, I finally found you. You said:
Excuse me while I “tune you out†without critiquing your particular style, as you have felt the need to do with mine - up to and including reporting my posts as somehow abusive.
If it is your goal to limit the quantity of truth that is revealed to the citizens of America, who do you suppose that benefits?
Good evening.
Comment by plunger — October 16, 2007 @ 9:34 pm
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Good evenining. It is not the “quantity” but the “Quality” of truth that is sought. Ten pounds of your BS does not amount to a quantum of truth.
October 17th, 2007 at 3:16 amPS
While your posts may not rise to the level of “abuse” in a clinical sense, they do amount to brain damage, a trying offense.
Put the plunger to good use. . . . Plug it.
October 17th, 2007 at 3:21 amI have reported plunger for abuse. He is a troll. He needs to be removed from the TP site permanently.
Please join me in reporting him for abuse, and an attempt to dominate and distract this thread. Thank you.
October 17th, 2007 at 3:53 amMcConnell’s staff has rung the death knell of this useless senator’s career.
Say good-bye, Mitch!
October 17th, 2007 at 3:56 amPlunger/Ace,
You just messed with the wrong blogger.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:22 amAce,
I am patient. I have time.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:24 amI heard McConnell plans to retire.
Any truth to that?
October 17th, 2007 at 5:42 am>I am patient. I have time.
are you going to eat that skin?
October 17th, 2007 at 6:58 amyou can tell a Repig is lying when their lips move.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:58 amSame ol’ stuff. What I can’t understand is how these people who smear sleep at night. They put the smear out there on kids and anyone else that disagrees with them rather than having a good honest nose to nose debate. A healthy process not the childish shit they put out. These smear campaigns are worse than high school kids, in fact elementary school kids, sniping at each other. This is not what will move this country forward in a positive and effective manner. It’s one upmanship in rhetorical horseshit and that is as kind as I can be. Grow up McConnell and oh…you might want to check with your staff before you open your noise hole.
October 17th, 2007 at 11:24 pm