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I feel like Greg Gutfeld:
No one sent me the email about it being ALL-CINDY FRIDAY, and now I feel like a wallflower at an orgy. A BIG FAT HAIRY WALLFLOWER. It's like showing up at a costume party, and everyone but me came dressed as a blood-sucking ghoul!Greg thinks it's all about the "Chief Brody slap", but I tend towards the "media whore" explanation:
But I will give it a shot...
Cindy Sheehan's son was killed in Iraq. She's a grieving mother. Last year, the President met with Mrs. Sheehan, comforted her, and grieved with her. At the time, Mrs. Sheehan thought the President had done well and appreciated him. Enter August, no major news, and a media still smarting over the President's re-election despite everything they threw at him. Cindy Sheehan returns entering stage right -- this time a left wing media whore in the form of a grieving mother.(Follow-up here.) And yes indeed, they're all coming out of the woodwork:
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I have no use for Mrs. Sheehan. While Casey's grandparents, aunts, uncles, and numerous cousins having issued a statement saying Sheehan "now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son's good name and reputation," the media and the left allow and encourage Mrs. Sheehan to do what the others have been so inept at doing -- keeping an anti-war, anti-Bush story alive through the August news slumber. Concurrently, the media and the left ignore those parents of the fallen who are offended by Mrs. Sheehan, support the President, or otherwise recognize that Mrs. Sheehan's actions discredit and undermine the work so many fallen soldiers works hard for. Those people just do not make the story flow like the left wants.
The remarkably humorous bit of all of this is that while Mrs. Sheehan is using the body of a dead soldier to get her fifteen minutes of fame, Mrs. Sheehan is letting that body be used by Michael Moore, Code Pink, the DNC, and the media to extend their fifteen minutes of fame.
Cindy Sheehan has now been squatting in a roadside ditch near President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch since August 6. And every day more aging hippies, professional grievance-mongers, and underemployed liberal arts majors show up with their backpacks and banjos to join her. Squatting in ditches, sleeping in pup tents, and sitting around a campfire at night yodeling "This Land Is Your Land" is after all the anti-war protesters idea of nirvana.Not to worry - they apparently do have portapotties:
The bad guys hang at the Crawford Peace House, a dump of a house that looks like Hippie Central with dozens of cars, vans, SUVs and campers parked on the grass. Add portable toilets for ambience and you get the picture.Regardless, they've been busy prepping ole Cindy for her star turn:
Ms. Sheehan's new friends in the peace mob have stuffed her with more soundbites than she can rattle off at any one single event...although she sometimes slips and reflects their bizarre manias:
Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel.Woohoo! But no sweat, her new "pals" who are controlling her bookings will keep her on message and the fawning mainstream media will lap it up. They better because ole Cindy craves more attention:
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Sheehan said she considered Lynne Stewart her Atticus Finch, the lawyer who defended an innocent Black man accused of rape in the book and film "To Kill A Mockingbird."
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We have no Constitution. We're the only country with no checks and balances. We want our country back if we have to impeach George Bush down to the person who picks up the dog sh-t in Washington! Let George Bush send his two little party animals to die in Iraq. It's OK for Israel to have nuclear weapons but we are waging nuclear war in Iraq, we have contaminated the entire country. It's not OK for Syria to be in Lebanon. Hypocrites! But Israel can occupy Palestine? Stop the slaughter!
Her latest complaint, as reported in the Washington Post, is that "the mainstream media have not paid enough attention to her cause." Hmm... I just checked "Google News" and found almost 1,800 items referring to her. That same mainstream media normally greets the completion of a major construction project in Iraq with zero items. Sheehan may be vicious or highly disturbed, but she knows how to play the mainstream media like a fine musical instrument -- not that the MSM don't want to be played.I hope it's a comfort to her when her current bosom chums discard her like an empty tofu package, but I suspect she'll need even more help than she currently does. Damian at E-nough sums it up:
Ms. Sheehan is a sad character. We commiserate the loss of her son. Her grief has made her unstable, but what has made her shameless? What has made her vain? Surely it was not grief that made her stupid? It is a sin that newspapers, Democratic Congressmen, and the peace mob are using her for the usual fun.Indeed.
