When right wing attacks backfire.

The Plank has a good writeup on the wingnuts' smearing of the Frosts.

For some reason, the Frosts did, as right-wing bloggers dup up what they said were some inconvenient details: One house in the Graeme's neighborhood has recently sold for half a million dollars, they reported. Graeme's father, Halsey, owned his own business and had his own commercial property. Graeme and his sister went to an elite private school where tuition was some $20,000 a year. The Frost house had granite countertops in the kitchen.

"If business owners with half-million-dollar-plus homes and kids in expensive private schools now count as 'working families,' does this mean they'll get tax cuts?" Glenn Reynolds queried.

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Funny thing, though. It's not clear how many, if any, of the right-wingers digging into the story -- the ones in such high dudgeon over the failure to "report" this story fully -- actually spoke to the Frosts themselves. In fact, it looks like a lot of them picked out a fact or two -- or, in some cases, merely speculated about what the facts were -- and then wrote screeds accusing the Frosts, the media, and the supporters of S-CHIP.

Read the whole thing.