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."
Goodmorning ken,
This is all I know but it's dated. The media is "strangely" silent on him.
....Patrick Sheehan, Cindy Sheehan husband, supports his wife in her activism, he participates in some events and drives with Cindy when he is not working as a sales representative. He spoke about the toll this work is taking in the family. If she is not away traveling or speaking, she is home with her laptop, watching news, or talking on the phone
This is important, we try to continue to support her. ...
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1742719.php
That list is heavy with CESMs.
Bump!!
I have been through 3 wars, more terrible situations than I care to recall, and so much time away from those I love---years that I will never, ever get back. Moreover, I have lost those in this war that I love also. I am not bragging -- I hate it. But how dare this woman disparage their sacrifice.
This was my good friend, Maj Duane Dively.
We flew together, and he was my very good friend. He died in Afghanistan when his U-2 aircraft crashed.
Duane's wife Beth Ann also served in the military.
Duane was one of the most unique people I have ever met. I miss him. He believed in what he was doing, and paid the ultimate sacrifice for it. How dare this Sheehan woman strut around thinking she is God? God has a purpose for all our lives, as it says in Jeremiah 29:11. We all die. Her son died in a noble cause, and she has spit on his grave.
What a list!
I'll hightlight this one:
78. Bakir Ibrahim: Former Member of the Political Bureau of the Iraqi Communist Party &Political writer, Sweden
Thank you for posting for your friend Maj Duane Dively.
God bless him and his family.
Hendrie constantly reminds his listeners that he's mostly a liberal, but a realistic one.
Not that facts seem to matter to this Barking Moonbat author.
They're missing "The Despicable Jimmy Carter--disgraceful former US president, B. S. Streisand--babbling idiot, Madonna--prostitute, and Jane Fonda--traitor to make the list complete.
"He did things as though he was doing them for the Lord," she said. "He was very humble. He never bragged or boasted."
He sounds like a wonderful man, Ms. Sheehan could learn from his example.
HA!
They have their anti-strong U.S. agenda to get out there.
Exactly. They dishonor our troops and defecate on the President and expect everyone to just take it. These are the people who lost Vietnam for us and they'll gladly lose Iraq too. Ef em.
Wow. Looks like "D-Day" from "Animal House" and a demented Gilligan there.
That's exactly right, and everybody up to this point has cut her some slack due to her grief. Time for that to end.
Major Dively.
Good man.
It doesn't look to me like the President is having much of a vacation. He's always on the go. He is just not at the WH. These people are all idiots!
They never said much when Clinton played golf five or six times a week. At least W actually OWNS another home and doesn't have to leach off his friends for a vacation like the Clintons did!
It is the living and their future welfare which must be in the decisive equation. The dead receive honor and nothing more.
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