Republican Leader McConnell's Office Behind Concerted Attack On 12 Year Old SCHIP Recipient
Posted by Kombiz Lavasany on October 16, 2007 at 03:13 PM
The Journal Courier in Kentucky reports today that Senator Mitch McConnell's staff has admitted that they tried to fan the flame of the smear campaign against the Frost family last week.
In the e-mail, Stewart claimed that research by conservative bloggers proved that Democrats did a bad job “vetting this family.”Stewart acknowledged yesterday in an interview with the Louisville Courier-Journal that he “pointed out” the smear campaign to reporters.
As ThinkProgress and BluegrassRoots point out, even in admitting culpability in pushing the smear campaign, McConnell's office misled reporters by claiming they only pointed to the story, rather than pushing it.
The only “skepticism” Stewart showed in his original email was a veiled partisan attack that came in the form of a question. He never “vetted” the research he was propagating to reporters.As Greg Sargent notes, “when Michelle Malkin pointed her finger at the Frosts and started howling, McConnell’s staff immediately joined in the fun — that is, until they realized that they had a big dud on their hands.”
Television station WHAS-11 is unhappy that Senator McConnell mislead the new station about the story.
It appears Senator Mitch McConnell may have misled WHAS11 News when he told us nobody on his staff had anything to do with an effort to dig into the background of a 12-year-old boy....
WHAS11's Mark Hebert asked the senator about it on Friday.
“There was no involvement,” McConnell said. “None.”
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