Right Wing pundits go after a child who lost his mother.

I didn't care for the comments made by Beck and Limbough. But putting these children on TV like this is terrible. I lose respect for both sides on this issue.

 

"putting these children on tv"

there's an important word in there, somewhere...

 

Rush and Beck did not say anything about the kid at all, they talked about what he was being used for. They never went after the kid himself, they went after the people behind putting the kid up there and the organizations themselves.

 

Do you really think a 5th grader knows much about the healthcare system? He did not write what he was saying on stage.

And again, no one took any shots at the kid himself, the title is misleading

 

Again, they took no shots at the kid. They questioned whether or not the people running these organizations should be having an 11 year old going around telling his story. It is obviously an attempt to get an emotional response out of their audience. It's not an unreasonable claim to think that the misfortunes of this child are being exploited.

 

How is the Rush quote an attack? She'd still be dead, he should find that out sooner than later

I agree that the Malkin one is certainly an attack. Being labled a poster boy for anything involving Democrats is slander!

 

What Rush said is douchy, but not an attack on the kid, he was demonstrating a point. And if the kid truly knows as much about healthcare as you seem to think, I think he would be able to handle Rush saying that.

There were not any clips from Michelle Malkin, but the quote they stated from her said he was a "human kiddy shield for the democratic party." That again is taking a shot at the dems for exploiting a child, not the kid himself.

 

You really don;t think anyone on the other side is exploiting the kid's terrible situation?

 

If they are they are doing so for the devious purpose of saving lives. Republicans, on the other hand, are trying to prevent them from saving lives. Way to back the wrong team, rhino.

 

Of course it's an obvious attempt to get an emotional response from the audience. And it's about damn time the Dems started doing it. Do you think 'Death Panels!' was anything other than a (dishonest) attempt to get an emotional response from people?

 

WORD.

The criticisms by Beck and Limbaugh are more about the puppeteers than the puppets.

This is just a kinder version of Human Shielding; BOTH sides do it so as to discourage criticism by making the critics look heartless...

... but the Democrats try harder to make it into a crime against humanity.

Another important note: why is it that people think that Universal Healthcare will make us immortal? People are still going to die.

BTW, as the father of a daughter who was BORN UN-INSURABLE, I'm in favor of some kind of healthcare reform; I just don't think I want the Federal government as UberLord.... :grin:

 

FB, as much as we disagree, I don't believe that you are really gullible enough to take that at face value. That's just Rush's style of sensationalism. He's either a lovable or detestable windbag, depending on your POV, but he is a windbag! I don't seem his as a real life Scrooge which he'd have to be to actually do something like that. That kind of talk is just a ratings ploy... and a barb to irritate people like you who hate him.

Of course not but I don't spend a minute worrying about someone doing that. It only exists in the ether.

I'd go with self-serving and stupid but isn't some of what he said factually true? This kid's mother's health problems began BEFORE Obama was even a US Senator. Some people are still going to die regardless of the healthcare program in place. I'm not trying to read her chart and neither is Rush.

I must have missed the attack on the child.... do you think it was the kid's idea to be featured in a press conference like that?

Much of, maybe even most of, modern politicking is disagreeable. We are all just more wounded by it when we are on the side that disagrees.