You Know That Kid Democrats Signed Up To Sell Their SCHIP Expansion?
I posted about him last week. I pointed out that using a kid to hawk what is in effect a push toward socialized medicine is politics of emotion and not politics or fact. But, obviously, the media was quite taken with the maneuver.
President Bush, are you smarter than a seventh-grader?
Apparently not. Graeme Frost of Baltimore is 12 years old, a seventh-grader at the Park School, and he understands why children need health care and their parents need help paying for it. He explained it during a rebuttal to the president’s Saturday radio address. Yes, we know, Senate staffers wrote the speech for Graeme. That doesn’t take away from the message. Does anyone really think President Bush writes his own material?
The problem is that Graeme Frost’s family is hardly a “working class” family that should be receiving government-provided health care. Why? Because his family lives in a home worth more than $500,000, he and his sibling go to a $20,000/year private school, and his father owns a private design company. Also, the article linked above says that the family couldn’t find a private health insurance plan that cost less than $1,200/month. Yet a little poking around shows that there are plans in their area for no more than $640.
A little investigative reporting from the media could have fleshed this out, and put the use of Graeme as a Democrat propaganda public out as a gross falsehood, but they didn’t. Because the story the Democrats told about Graeme fit the story the media wanted to tell. So they swallowed it whole.
