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What Cindy Sheehan Really Wants - Now imagine if she gets it. (Dem posters cryin over this article)
Slate ^ | Christopher Hitchens

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....

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bitchinaditch; cindy; cindysheehan; dichwitch; hitchens; psychocindy; whackjob
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To: pbrown

Probably so, but, who would want to?


61 posted on 08/19/2005 4:02:21 PM PDT by My2Cents ("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
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To: summer

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.


62 posted on 08/19/2005 4:02:50 PM PDT by q_an_a
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To: Sender
That's a "Hold Muh Beer" picture if I've ever seen one.

If you stage a protest as a grieving mom, and end up looking like Harry Reasoner, you might be a redneck resistor sister.

63 posted on 08/19/2005 4:03:38 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Behold the Riderless Pony. Bringing doom and destruction on a smaller scale.)
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To: DefiantZERO

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!


64 posted on 08/19/2005 4:03:54 PM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: summer

65 posted on 08/19/2005 4:05:59 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Sender
Image hosted by Photobucket.com $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!!!
66 posted on 08/19/2005 4:07:15 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Sender
BTW, has anyone actually seen Cindy Sheehan and Gary Busey together?


67 posted on 08/19/2005 4:12:31 PM PDT by My2Cents ("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
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To: TBP

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...


68 posted on 08/19/2005 4:18:00 PM PDT by TexanToTheCore (Rock the pews, Baby)
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To: TexanToTheCore

The bottom line, IMO, is money. Fundraising opportunities like this don't come around too often.


69 posted on 08/19/2005 4:21:43 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: summer
Slate obviously intends to survive, as a newspaper -- and this is why they publish the perfectly sound thoughts of Mr. Hitchens.
70 posted on 08/19/2005 4:24:08 PM PDT by Alia
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To: My2Cents

I guess she could always pay for it. :-)


71 posted on 08/19/2005 4:25:49 PM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: summer

See, the thing with Hitch is he says what he thinks right or left.


72 posted on 08/19/2005 4:33:30 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: DefiantZERO

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.


73 posted on 08/19/2005 4:37:12 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: My2Cents

Could someone post Catherine Zeta Jones Douglas please?


74 posted on 08/19/2005 4:38:21 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: The Worthless Miracle

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.


75 posted on 08/19/2005 4:42:00 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: The Worthless Miracle

Oh, btw...you are a miracle and not worthless.


76 posted on 08/19/2005 4:42:44 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: Zechariah_8_13

No, Hitchens is an atheist.


77 posted on 08/19/2005 4:43:27 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: sageb1
Most Dems who are seriously interested in keeping their jobs or in running for office are distancing themselves from Sheehan. They know the reason they haven't been able to win against Republicans is because they allowed the left to take over their party and they are running scared.

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...

78 posted on 08/19/2005 4:44:59 PM PDT by Zhangliqun (Hating Bush does not count as a strategy for defeating Islamic terrorism.)
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To: AliVeritas

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$$.


80 posted on 08/19/2005 4:48:14 PM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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