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GOP Senate Leader Caught Lying about Smear of Young Graeme Frost

Think Progress:

On Thursday, ThinkProgress reported that Don Stewart, the communications director for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), had sent an e-mail encouraging reporters to cover the right-wing smear campaign of 12-year old Graeme Frost. But on Friday, McConnell claimed his office was not involved:

Q: Was there an indication that your office was trying to push reporters to dig into this 12-year old’s background?

McCONNELL: No

Q: Then what was the deal with the e-mail from your staffer?

McCONNELL:There was no involvement whatsoever.

Q: From your staff.

McCONNELL: None.

And yet:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s spokesman acknowledged [on Oct. 15] that he alerted reporters last week to questions bloggers raised about the financial circumstances of a 12-year-old boy Democrats had used to urge passage of an expanded children’s health insurance program.

Imagine the howling on the right and in the MSM if a Democratic leader had been caught telling a bald-faced lie.

4 Responses »

  1. Isn’t this Mitch McConnell guy “rumored to be gay” and rabidly anti-gay?

  2. Is there not someone with a data base and the indignation to mount a bombardment of outrage to McConnells office ?
    Typical that the Reps don’t believe in the right of a woman to choose, but don’t want the choice of life for the born. I know, it’s a class thing.

  3. What is bumburbia?

    grerycrapzoog | Jan. 6, 2009 - 9:37 am

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