{"id":27251,"date":"2007-10-23T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:45:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:45:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:45:33","slug":"the_frost_family_mini_smear2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/23\/the_frost_family_mini_smear2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Frost Family Mini-Smear"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, your host is in the process of another mini-smear, and that mini-smear is taking place out on the left-wing blogosphere, and it is centered around the false allegation that I &#8216;attacked\u2019 a 12-year-old kid, Graeme Frost &#8212; of the famous Frost family, of the famous response of Graeme Frost to President Bush\u2019s radio address, in trying to sell a bogus, lying, distorted version of the expansion of the S-CHIP program. Well, we\u2019re hoping Pelosi will send a letter on this, but she\u2019s in deep doo-doo with her own people. I think she\u2019s worried about salvaging herself leadership-wise before dealing with me. But now get this. This is from the Washington Post today: &#8216;A Maryland family caught in the partisan crossfire over a children\u2019s health-care bill in Congress is now stepping back into the divisive debate, advocating this time for state legislation that would expand coverage for adults.\u2019 Oh, I get it. Up until now, the Frost family was just an innocent bunch of victims of an unfair and unjust US health care system, and President Bush was the evil Darth Vader trying to prevent them and their kids and others like them from having adequate health care. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125116.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>That was the lie. The Frost family was covered under the current structure of the S-CHIP program. Now we find out that the mother of Graeme Frost has become an activist, and is advocating for state legislation that would expand coverage for adults. Thank you, Mrs. Frost! Then everybody would be covered. The whole family could be covered. We have SA-CHIP. We have S-CHIP. We\u2019d have everything covered in the Frost family. Frost family can then save up their money. They won\u2019t have to spend on health care. By the way, folks, about these dishwashers and these tenement dwellers and so forth in Chinatown, $1,000, $2,000 donation to Hillary Clinton? They can\u2019t afford health care, but they can afford a grand or two grand to give to her presidential campaign? (interruption) Yeah, right. Well, that\u2019s right. That\u2019s another thing. Here\u2019s another &#8216;family caught in the partisan crossfire.\u2019 They weren\u2019t &#8216;caught\u2019 in anything! They entered it. They showed up in it. This story indicates that we were right all along about it: This is an activist family. They were found by some child services outfit in Maryland and then supposedly (this is how the story goes) the Democrats in Washington were told about this family by the child services bunch in Maryland. It\u2019s like the grandparents driving around Florida happened to listen in to Newt\u2019s conversation on a cell phone in a car, like we all do. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Three weeks ago, after 12-year-old Graeme Frost offered a radio appeal for expansion of the State Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), his family became fodder for conservative bloggers. The Frosts were derided as freeloaders who relied on government insurance for their children while they sent two to private school. Bloggers staked out their Baltimore rowhouse, declaring it too fancy for a family that can\u2019t afford to pay for health insurance. Commentator Rush Limbaugh imitated&#8230;\u2019 Oh! Ohhhh. I didn\u2019t read this far in the story. &#8216;Commentator Rush Limbaugh imitated Graeme Frost\u2019s voice, damaged in a car accident, and said congressional Democrats were using the boy to &#8216;advance a distortion.&#8221; I wasn\u2019t &#8216;imitating his voice.\u2019 I\u2019ve never heard his voice. I used my classic little kid voice. See? You\u2019ve got people&#8230; This is Media Matters. This is Media Matters, again. They don\u2019t listen to the program, so they don\u2019t know the context. (classic little kid voice) &#8216;They don\u2019t know I have a little 12-year-old voice, a little kid voice that I use. I\u2019ve been doing for 18 years,\u2019 even longer than that. So now I\u2019m &#8216;imitating\u2019 the kid\u2019s voice when I wasn\u2019t, just like I was not &#8216;making fun\u2019 of Michael J. Fox and his Parkinson\u2019s Disease. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, &#8216;Democrats rushed to the boy\u2019s defense, accusing conservatives of distorting the family\u2019s finances and attacking Graeme unfairly,\u2019 and then we had the Doonesbury cartoon yesterday. But now we find out that Mrs. Frost wants to expand state health care for adults. &#8216;She said she didn\u2019t hesitate to join the Maryland effort, despite the events of the past three weeks. &#8216;I\u2019m not going to let the nasty bloggers scare me away from standing up for what\u2019s important,\u2019 she said yesterday.\u2019 Well, hubba hubba. So if anything, this is vindication. However, it\u2019s not just about vindication, folks. It is the fact that this bunch is actually interested in the expansion of government to fund everybody\u2019s health care, when you start talking about adults being included. They\u2019re Democrat pawns, and I think they like the attention. I don\u2019t know what their activist status was prior to all this. But they clearly like this attention now. A lot of people do. Everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame. Everybody wants that. Now they\u2019re stars, even though they\u2019re in the middle of a controversy. The Drive-By Media is defending \u2019em so their virtue is intact as far as they\u2019re concerned. &#8216;So go for it! Let\u2019s get even more involved,\u2019 and that\u2019s the thinking behind this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, your host is in the process of another mini-smear, and that mini-smear is taking place out on the left-wing blogosphere, and it is centered around the false allegation that I &#8216;attacked\u2019 a 12-year-old kid, Graeme Frost &#8212; of the famous Frost family, of the famous response of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Frost Family Mini-Smear - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/23\/the_frost_family_mini_smear2\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Frost Family Mini-Smear - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, your host is in the process of another mini-smear, and that mini-smear is taking place out on the left-wing blogosphere, and it is centered around the false allegation that I &#8216;attacked\u2019 a 12-year-old kid, Graeme Frost &#8212; 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