Posted on 08/22/2005 7:44:52 AM PDT by AliVeritas
Frank Rich's usual bloated, overlong column today comes running to the defence of the Gold Star Moron, Cindy Sheehan, as follows:
Once Ms. Sheehan could no longer be ignored, the Swift Boating began. Character assassination is the Karl Rove tactic of choice, eagerly mimicked by his media surrogates, whenever the White House is confronted by a critic who challenges it on matters of war.
Yeah, Karl and I were discussing that at dinner the other day. Rich goes on to say, "The hope this time was that we'd change the subject to Cindy Sheehan's 'wacko' rhetoric and the opportunistic left-wing groups that have attached themselves to her like barnacles. That way we would forget about her dead son."
Sheehan hasn't forgotten her dead son. That is true. How could she? At every opportunity she spits on his memory, by crassly exploiting his death, and not just to "protest the war" -- hey, I for one would have nothing to say about her if that's all it was. What gets my goat is that she uses his death to advance a far-left and sometimes anti-Semitic agenda that drew endorsements from David Duke and neo-Nazis.
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Frank Rich wrote:
"The assault on the whistle-blower Joseph Wilson - the diplomat described by the first President Bush as "courageous" and "a true American hero" for confronting Saddam to save American hostages in 1991 - was so toxic it may yet send its perpetrators to jail."
It already has, Frank, your New York Times co-worker is in jail for refusing to testify regarding her actions in disseminating Plame's name.
Poor Rich, writing up the Sheehan fiasco as a victory. I'll bet the rest of her family isn't feeling very victorious today, whether they are in hospitals or divorce-court proceedings or writing to newspapers to say that she doesn't speak for the rest of her family.
I cant think of anyone worse than Frank Rich.....oh yeah, Paul Krugman....
Rank Fish needs to zip it.
You said that right.
He makes us look good.
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