The road.

I for one, am tired of paying for other people to go joy-riding or traveling to jobs when they could — with a little effort — learn to telecommute like me! Let’s put an end to this massive government payout that no one but the oil companies and auto industry really benefit from!

We could start with their utter and complete immiseration. Poverty, illness, deformed children, unemployment: any of those, if they seemed permanent, would very likely do the trick. If all those befell, the gutless punks’d drug out.

which may be true, but it matters little if you still tote the old one around in your ammo belts…

She quotes Klein as saying:

[Frost] and his family spoke of their experience receiving health care through the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. For this, right wingers travel to their home, insinuate that the family is engaged in large-scale fraud, make threatening phone calls to the family, interrogate the neighbors as to the family’s character and financial state.

Malkin laughs at the idea that anyone has done any of those things. But, with the exception of the phone calls, she admits to all of it in her response. Then her commenters laud her for her work fact-checking the Democrat lies.

One commenter seems to get it:

Michelle – Isn’t all this discussion about the Frosts’ personal situation a “perverse distraction and a waste of time”. We can spend hours debating whether or not the Frosts should qualify for assistance or should have been used as the poster family for the program. That said, shouldn’t the discussion be turned to the real issues, SCHIP, its validity, who should be covered, criteria for coverage, etc. Isn’t that the agenda that is being foisted on the country unimpeded, not the Frosts? So if you’re so confident in your position and the facts, why not debate him? What do you have to loose?

He gets shouted down as a passive/aggressive concern troll by the other commenters, but oddly no one addresses the actual content: why are right-wingers attacking the Frost family, instead of the SCHIP program?

I’m trying not to sound like a mirror of her echo chamber, but the lack of awareness here is really breathtaking. Malkin and her commenters tell us we’re unreachable brainless beings, living in a fantasy world and willing to twist any fact to its breaking point to justify our agenda–and they do so directly beneath a column that attempts to justify attacking middle-class American citizens for the crime of getting government help for their sick kids.

What would it take to get through to these people?

I don’t think so. I believe they met in college (Oberlin, maybe?), so unless he was her crrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeepy PolySci professor . . .

Yglesias, on the other hand . . .

is Jessie not like, 20 years older than her, then the fan boys would have a chance to make those wet dreams a reality….

Well, she’s always written as if she were shooting up.

The ego just drips off the page…

That was one part ego to two parts gin.

Very cool.