Posted on 08/19/2005 2:47:13 PM PDT by summer
When are the bureau chiefs of our newspapers and networks going to snap out of their own vacation-induced trances and send some grown-up correspondents down to Crawford, Texas? For weeks now, Cindy Sheehan has not been asked a single question that is any tougher than "How does it feel?" The media have been acting as her megaphone. After Slate published her real opinions on politics (a weird confection of pacifism with paranoid anti-Zionism) last Monday, she was eventually asked about her statement that her son Casey had been killed in a war for Israel, and she denied ever having made it. So, we must now say that, as well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.
After Slate published an extract from a letter that she wrote last March to ABC Nightline, Anderson Cooper of CNN asked her about the anti-Israel remarks the letter contained. She denied making them and proceeded in her blog to assert that someone had gotten hold of her original letter and somehow doctored it. This dark and murky allegation—evincing further paranoia on her part—has been easily and convincingly refuted, as can be seen in this sidebar. Cindy Sheehan, not content with echoing the Bin-Ladenist line that the president is the real "terrorist" and that he is the tool of a Jewish cabal, has dug a pit of falsehood around her own wild story....
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Probably so, but, who would want to?
thanks for your post - I do worry that adding too much from a Slate or LA Times article will harm Jim Robinson...that is why we MUST excerpt.
If you stage a protest as a grieving mom, and end up looking like Harry Reasoner, you might be a redneck resistor sister.
We know that Cindy and her ragtag band of geriatric hippies have got to be way, way out there in far left field. If Slate does a put-down of them they are definitely radioactive!
$5bucks and that skanks absolute moral authority will get her a cup of coffee at $tarbuck$ too... makes me want to puke evertime i hear it!!!
No it's not an insult to Lyndon La Rouche. You are probably too young to remember when he linked the Queen of England to the Atlanta child murders.
Insult? no...
The bottom line, IMO, is money. Fundraising opportunities like this don't come around too often.
I guess she could always pay for it. :-)
See, the thing with Hitch is he says what he thinks right or left.
New huh? Well it's never a liability when someone makes an argument. The problem is most liberals have a real argument (not the screaming kind), or solution...only rants. We have had our grief with Hitch on many issues, but at least you know where he stands.
Could someone post Catherine Zeta Jones Douglas please?
Geez, been watching MSM have you? Another spanking new one... what a coincidence!
Well, welcome to FR...we are family here.
We do lots of research here and recover loads of news and documents that the lazy or reluctant MSM choose not to either find or report. We always love the facts and no spin... for good or ill, regardless of the party affiliation. Since we don't get that, we find it ourselves and discuss.
Again, welcome to FR.
Oh, btw...you are a miracle and not worthless.
No, Hitchens is an atheist.
Dem operatives at this point are like a stuntman with one foot on the roof of a car driving down the street and the other foot on the roof of another car driving next to it -- and he feels the two cars starting to veer apart.
They're trying to figure out how to land...
That's what I like about him. He never tries to please anyone. If you don't like him, he doesn't give a rats a$$.
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