Posted on 08/13/2005 2:59:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The shameless savaging of Cindy Sheehan continues.
Bill O'Reilly says she's a tool of "far left elements."
The New York Sun echoes the charge, evidently reading the same rightwing talking points.
In an editorial on August 11, it says Sheehan "has put herself in league with some extreme groups and individuals."
This is old-style McCarthyism, straight on down to the red-baiting.
The editorial quotes Sheehan about some of the groups she's involved with, including Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out.
It then notes that these groups are on the steering committee of United for Peace and Justice, along with the Communist Party USA. (A person representing that party is one of the forty-one members who was voted onto the steering committee.)
This classic guilt-by-association trope just shows the reflexive response of the right: When your critic has credibility, and you can't find anything else on her, destroy her with the old standby: You're a communist dupe!
The Sun also points out that Sheehan is working with the Crawford Peace House, and it says that group's website "includes a photo depicting the entire state of Israel as Palestine." Actually, it depicts a protester holding a sign showing four maps of what is now Israel and the Occupied Territories, noting how Palestinians have been allowed less and less land over the past 60 years.
"Nobody is anti-Israel here," says John Wolf, one of the founders of the Crawford Peace House. "We're just asking for peace with justice and respect for international law."
But for the New York Sun, the Crawford Peace House's view of the Israel-Palestine conflict is convenient enough to tar Cindy Sheehan with.
Rightwing talk show host Phil Hendrie goes even lower, writing an article amazingly entitled "Anti-War Mom: Another Ignorant Cow," Hendrie called Sheehan a "self-righteous ignoramus," and then went into full mockery mode: "A mother grieving her loss. The inhumanity of war. Oh, the wickedness of it all."
I've seen callousness before, but this piece may top them all. And catch Hendrie's defense of the Iraq War: "This war was unavoidable, brought on by an historic clash of culture and ideal, powered by the American people themselves, rising to meet the future, pissing off the rag heads." Rag heads?
By the way, Hendrie's screed was posted on the website, freerepublic.com, which calls itself "the premier online gathering place for independent, grassroots conservatism on the web."
Sheehan responds to her critics: "Nothing you can say can hurt me or make me stop what we are doing. We are working for peace with justice. We are using peaceful means and the truth to do it."
The residue of this influence is now trying its best to rear its ugly drug infested head against the United States. The tools of the left--the Cindy Sheehans of the world-- are fools who would dismantle the moral framework of the Western Capitalistic system and slide down the primal ooze into a primitive tribal reto-Woodstock world. America in moral decay is a nation paralysed in its will to resist the forces of danger.
A common characteristic of those of the left is narcissism. When narcissism has no moral compass--no conscience--it steps into the world of the sociopath. The left is willing to trade our nation security for socialism: guns to butter. As such they are a cancer on the body politics that opposes the notion that a country of the stature of the United States has a responsibility to the condition of mankind on this planet: self sacrifice for the legacy of freedom.
Your comments are well said and to the point. "The Venona Secrets" is a real eye opener. There was also a biography of Whitaker Chambers published about 5 years ago that is a real eye opener. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unwitting fellow travelers (In Michigan their leaders are the canadian governor Jennifer Mulhern, and senators stabemall and Karl Lenin) that are too illiterate or disinterested to read and understand this stuff. They let the communist inspired media (ABS, NBS, CBSNN, CBS, PBS) do their thinking.
It will be "Bush's fault", don't ya know? /sarc off
Side note: While attending the rally in Crawford yesterday I noticed so many of the women of the Cindy camp wearing the same type of hat as she does. And it didn't become them any more than it does her. They basically appeared to be people who were searching for excitement that does not exist in their regular lives. Silly idiots, all of them.
A picture is indeed worth a thousand words, and truer ones were never spoken regarding liberal foreign policy for the U.S. lol.
"Shameless savaging" Ha! More like rightful criticism.
I get the impression they don't like us.
As time goes by I am more and more riminded on Ann Coulter's prescription. She said be must invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert the rest to Christianity. Makes more sense daily.
My only problem in what you wrote is using surrogates to do the dirty work. It's like I don't like to call Cindy names, so I get a couple newbies to sign up on FR and have them do it for me.
I hate it that politics has come to this.
More than anything, I like truth though. I don't know if I found the right site or not, but I was trying to educate a liberal about Halliburton, about which I was woefully ignorant. I searched on google and almost every site had something terribly negative to say about it.
I found factcheck.org and noted that they call both the left and the right on lies and fabrications. Didn't take the time to check it all out because I don't have that much time for that.
What I did find, however, was a .pdf legal document in which Cheney divested himself for good of all interests in Halliburton, by a 40-40-20 split to three charities, once his tax and other obligations outstanding were satisfied due to his taking part of his salary while he headed Halliburton spread over a couple to five years, can't remember exactly.
I'm also aware that any investments owned by Bush and Cheney are placed in blind trust for the duration of their time in office. That's what you get into trying to ferret out the absolute truth. I am totally in favor of exposing the lies of the left with real facts and criticizing one's political opponents without resorting to namecalling.
Thank you for your little essay. It went down better with me than being trashed personally for refusing to cross my line in the sand about trashing someone else.
This whole business will blow over, like everything seems to do. Trust me, the media will tire of her and move on to something else in due course, and she will be left high and dry, and no doubt in need of some serious help. I applaud the efforts of those who work tirelessly to expose the fabrications in the agenda being played out at Camp Crawford, and I was glad when Bush stood up to them and saying we weren't leaving.
I know getting into the war was controversial, but we went in with approval of both parties and it's a done deal. To pull out now would be a gross betrayal of any good we have gained there, the Americans who have died for the cause, including civilian contractor employees, and of the Iraqi people who are happy to be free of Saddam and putting their own lives on the line and spilling their blood along with ours.
Thanks.
Notice anything wrong in that picture?
Is this where we're sending the Monopoly $$? :)
Needed to combat ol' school communism.
No one is forcing you to read this thread.
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