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Get ready to rap at Teclft 'welcoming experience'
Nov 1, Georgia Tech,
my third favorite
team in the whole
wide world tUGA is first,
anybody playing Tech is sec
ond, you can figure out the
rest) meets Virginia TVch at
Grant Field in Atlanta.
To those of us unsophis
ticated in such matters, we
would assume there was
going to be a football game
occurring that evening. We
would assume wrong. It will
not be a game, according to
what 1 read recently. Instead,
it will be a "welcoming expe
rience.” So says Jennifer
Pierce, recently implanted
(Vom the fruitcake capital of
the world, California, to the
staff of the athletic depart
ment at Georgia Tech, where
she serves as director of pro
motions and events.
It should be quite an eve
ning. If all the old architects
and bridge builders in their
The Democrats’ unhealthy poster child abuse
A few weeks ago.
Democrat Senate
Majority Leader
Ham’ Reid lim'd two young
children to the public spot-
light to
help him
pass a
massive
expansion
of gov
ernment
health
ins u r -
a nee.
Gem m a
and
Gra e m e
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Michelle Midkin
Columnist
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Frost, 9 and 12 years old
respectively, were severely
injured in a car accident
three years ago.
Their parents obtained
government health care
through the non-means
tested Children's Health
Insurance Program in
Maryland. President Hush’s
veto doesn’t change that
- and there’s the rub.
Because liberal lawmakers
cannot honestly defend their
expansion plans as bona fide
aid to the needy, they have
surrounded themselves with
the Frosts and other kiddie
human shields to deflect any
tough scrutiny.
As they push for an over
ride of the president 's veto,
scheduled for Oct. 18, the
desperate Dems will shame
lessly invoke the Absolute
Moral Authority kiddie card
to attack their critics for
“attacking the children.”
Alter 12-year-old Graeme
Frost delivered the Democrat
radio address, which was
penned for him bv Senate
staffers, conservatives on
the Freeßepublic.com forum
and across the Internet
asked the questions the
mainstream media wouldn’t
ask about the family’s finan
cial situation.
The couple claims a com
bined annual income of
about $45,000. Neither the
Democrats nor t he Baltimore
Sun indicates how t hey veri
fied that assertion before
circulating it.
What is verifiable: The
Frosts own a home in
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aren’t
sound
asleep and
drooling
on their
ties by
halftime,
they have
a unique
experi-
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Columnist
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ence - welcomed or not -
awaiting them. Instead of the
Pride of the Mighty Wasps
Marching Band tromping
up and down the field play
ing perky fight songs and
mqjorettes tossing their slide
rules high in the air, they will
be treated to an honest-to
goodness rap concert by none
other than hip-hop legend
Antwan “Big Boi” Patton,
also known to his adoring
fans as “Daddy Fat Sacks,"
“Sir Lucious L. Leftfoot,”
“Hot Tub Tony” and/or
Baltimore purchased for
$55,000 16 years ago - and
now’ worth an estimated
$500,000. That’s a lot of
equity.
In addition, the children’s
father, Halsey Frost, owns
commercial real estate and
his own small business, but
chose not to buy health
insurance for himself and
his wife, whom he hired as
an employee.
She now apparently
works freelance at a medi
cal publishing firm, which
also reportedly doesn't offer
insurance.
Gemma and Graeme both
attend expensive private
schools; the Frosts have two
other school-age children.
Reid’s staff says Gemma
and Graeme receive tuition
breaks.
But it’s not clear when
those scholarships were
instituted and/or whether
the other two receive tuition
aid as well. Moreover, Frost ’s
family comes from consider
able means.
The children’s maternal
grandfather was an engi
neering executive. Their
paternal grandparents hail
from affluent Bronxville,
New York, where the grand
father is a prominent facili
ties management consultant
and chairman of the munici
pal planning board.
In other words: The public
trough is not Halsey Frost’s
last and only resort. The
accident was horrible. The
children deserve much sym
pathy and compassion. But
this family made choices.
Choices have consequences.
Taxpayers of lesser means
should not be forced to sub
sidize them.
The Frosts claim it would
cost them more per month
than their mortgage, report
edly $1,200 a month, to buy
private insurance. But insur
ance bloggers quickly found
available plans for a family
of six wit h premiums as low
as $452/month.
"That’s almost a third
of the price quoted in the
\Baltinmre Sun| article,”
wrote Bob Vineyard at
You Are Cordially
Invited To The
sth5 th Annual
“Francis the Savannah
Chitlin’ Pimp.” (Trust me on
this. I’m not clever enough
to make up a name like Sir
Lucious L. Leftfoot.)
Ms. Pierce, who spouts
marketing jargon like a gey
ser spews hot water, says
it is her hope that “our
brand (meaning the Georgia
Institute of Technology) and
his brand (meaning, I sup
pose, ‘Daddy Fat Sacks’) can
align.” Gosh, I hope so. I
don’t mean to be critical, but
most of the old architects
and bridge builders when I
know still insist on wearing
their pants well above their
fannies and are loathe to
flaunt their bling. It is about
time somebody aligned their
brands. Whatever that
means.
Pierce’s boss, associat e ath
letic director Wayne Hogan,
told the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution that Atlanta
Insureßlog. “Doesn’t anyone
bother to check the facts?”
When it comes to Democrat
health care poster children,
the answer is “No, they
don’t.” Graeme and Gemma
Frost are not the first politi
cal symbols to be exploited
by the socialized health care
pushers of the Left:
In 1996, Hillary Clinton
propped up young Jennifer
Bush, a 7-year-old with mys
tery ailments whose mother
coached her to lobby for uni
versal health care. Jennifer
was trotted out to present
the Clintons a lucky silver
dollar “to bring you good
luck so everyone can have
good insurance.”
Jennifer’s mother was
later convicted of aggra
vated child abuse and wel
fare fraud for misrepresent
ing $60,000 in assets on
Medicaid forms.
In 2000, A 1 Gore propped
up elderly widow Winifred
Skinner to lambaste high
drug prices. Gore repeated
her claim that she had to
pick up tans on the side of
the road to pay for medi
cine. Dan Rather bemoaned:
“She’s no child, but she
belongs on a poster about
high drug costs.” One prob
lem: Winifred’s own well
to-do son, businessman
Earl King, debunked those
claims.
In 2004, John Kerry
propped up Mary Ann
Knowles, a breast cancer
patient whom he claimed
“had to keep working day
after day right through her
chemotherapy, no matter
how sick she felt, because
she was terrified of losing
her family’s health insur
ance.”
The conservative
Manchester Union Leader
editorial page reported:
“Knowles chose to work
through most, but not all, of
her chemotherapy because
her husband was out of a job.
... She and husband John did
not want to take the pay cut
that would have come with
disability leave, so Mary
Ann kept working.”
The Democrats sorely
This year's speakers:
• Steve Cross, Security Manager,
Sun Trust Bank
• Cathy Mendelsohn, Consumer
Education Specialist, Georgia
• Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs
OPINION
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is a “vibrant, thriving com
munity of young, progres
sive adults” and that a key
to attracting them to Grant
Field is to make Tech less
of a “closed shop.” That’s
marketing talk for “the old
alumni in tweed coats can
take a hike because they
aren’t hip.”
Here is the best news of
all. The Georgia Tech ath
letic department marketing
gurus want to assure those
assembled on Nov. 1 that the
Big Boi Welcoming Event
and Brand Alignment con
cert won’t contain any dirty
lyrics. No need to give the
old folks a heart attack.
Reliable sources inform me
that Francis the Savannah
Chitlin’ Pimp (not to be
confused with Francis the
Talking Mule) is busy as we
speak modifying the legend
ary Georgia Tech fight song
into what is sure to be a
resent that they can no lon
ger peddle their Big Nanny
propaganda unchallenged.
Harry Reid is already throw
ing tantrums and attacking
the messengers who expose
their health care poster child
abuse.
Here’s a free prescription
for our stunted politicians:
Grow up.
Michelle Malkin is
author of Unhinged:
Exposing Liberals Gone
Wild. Her e-mail address is
malkinblog@gmail.com.
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rap standard for the ages.
Admittedly, I’m no expert,
but what I have heard thus
far sounds like Grammy
winning material:
“You a Ramblin’ Wreck,
you ol’ fool.
Walkin’ around with your
T-square tool.
Even tho you an engineer
who claims he can drink
his whiskey clear
How can you be a jolly
good fellow
when you jus’ sit there all
white and yellow?”
I doubt there will be a dry
eye in the stadium.
Meanwhile, at my alma
mater, the University of
Georgia (the nation’s old
est state-chartered univer
sity, located iq Athens, the
Classic City of the South),
a very unhip UGA athletic
department just keeps sell
ing out 92,746-seat Sanford
Stadium almost twice the
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size of Grant Field year
after year after year with
nary a marketing cliche to
be found. As embarrassed as
I am to admit this, I really
don’t think they give a rat’s
whisker in Athens about
aligning brands.
Assuming that you were
not planning to reorganize
your sock drawer that eve
ning, I hope you will mark
your calendar to be at the
“welcoming experience”
between Georgia Tech and
Virginia Tech on Nov. 1.
There will be lots of hip
hop. Lots of vibrant, young,
progressive adults. Lots of
brand aligning. Who knows?
They might even find time to
squeeze in a football game.
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P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta,
Georgia 31139, or website:
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