Posted on 08/24/2005 9:37:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WHO DIED AND left Cindy Sheehan in charge?
Not her son, Casey. When he was killed in Iraq, he left only a bereaved, bereft mother.
We put her in charge — the press, the politicians, the people. We put her in charge not just of her own message and her mission, which is all she had asked for, but we cranked up her voice to equal volume with the man she's calling out: POTUS himself, George W. Bush.
"We" are the TV bloviators who prefer talking-head chatter to the shoe-leather work of reporting; the only shoe leather some of them use on the job is walking from the limo to the makeup chair. "We" are the craven pols who let some mater dolorosa do their dirty work of challenging the Bush administration's war policy and deliver the message that something is wrong in Baghdad and Crawford and Washington. And "we" are all those Americans who like their information celebritized, who want news to be cast like a movie, with stock characters: the determined leader, the foreign villain, the "mom."
We take a Cindy Sheehan, who has an honest argument to make for herself and people who may hear her and agree, and we punish her for speaking out by investing her with the mantle of omniscience. Buck Henry's line from "To Die For," the brilliant film satirizing television, is: "You're not anybody in America if you're not on TV." Sheehan's mauled image shows the nasty truth we also believe, that "if you're on TV, you must be somebody" — the alpha and omega of wisdom. It's why Tom Cruise, movie star, thought it was perfectly fine to show up on TV as Tom Cruise, mental health advisor to the nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Karl Rove did. It took him off the front page.
What a vacuous article.
Tom Delay says Thanks too. :)
"WE" agree. :)
Turn it off. Keep it off. And don't let your kids watch the filth they're spewing at them.
Yup! Ask Cindy.
http://bbs.shootingsportsman.com/viewtopic.php?t=23696
Who is behind the Peace House?
Interesting site - lots of information. And fun pictures. Thanks for posting it.
Thanks!
Where's a dictionary when I need one. LOL Chena heads to the dictionary website to look up "vacuous". I'm sure the definition will be pleasing to me. :)
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