Matt Ortega

If you don’t want questions, don’t foist these children onto the public stage.

Fight your battles like adults and stop hiding behind youngsters dragging around red wagons filled with your talking points.

–Michelle Malkin, conservative blogger
(MichelleMalkin.com, 10/08/07)

Congressman Tom Reynolds (R-Clarence, N.Y.), then-chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) last fall, hiding behind children to avoid questions about what he knew of former Congressman Mark Foley’s (R-West Palm Beach, Fla.) inappropriate, likely illegal, sexual behavior with underage Congressional pages:

Who could ever forget President Bush’s infamous snowflake baby photo-op following his veto of stem-cell research over two years ago?

Malkin and her acolytes in the conservative blogosphere are relentlessly attacking the family of a young boy who gave the Democratic Weekly Radio Address. (Flag lapel pins and children giving radio addresses — this is what the far reaches of the conservative base spend their time on these days, along with hating Mexicans, Persians, Arabs, and Muslims.)

Thers holds his ground:

But all this shit started with obviously stupid and dishonest “questions” that weren’t questions at all, but vile innuendo. The reason actual journalists didn’t ask these “questions” is that there was never any reason to ask them except to engage in this innuendo.

Both sides have and will likely continue to incorporate children in political messaging. (”Family values,” anyone?) It is nothing new.

However, digging into the background of a child’s family to score political points that never come to fruition, because the person’s suspicions were ultimately proven wrong, is yet another sign of just how pathetic and determined these people are, and hypocritical. (Malkin sold her house and changed her children’s schools after her private information was divulged, in retaliation for publicizing and promoting phone numbers and e-mails, which she reposted multiple times after she was contacted that her readers were leaving death threats.)

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