Ecce Asshat.
Whatever attempts at fairness a Rolling Stone writer can be expected to display, none could overcome that noxious opening statement. 'Sure, I came from New York City and think your town looks like "dried dog s---," but that doesn't mean you're not good people.' And even if someone were to believe that Taibbi, with his blue state superiority complex written across his forehead, was making a half-hearted attempt at balance, all one needs to know to abandon that hope is this statement:
While Cindy was sitting in a ditch in Texas, Casey's father Pat filed for divorce back in California. When the word leaked out, messengers of that fact -- primarily blogress extraordinaire Michelle Malkin -- were savagely verbally attacked for implying that it's possible Pat's action of filing at that time was evidence of dissent from Cindy's activism. But Taibbi suggests that Pat's "perhaps a coward and perhaps unable to handle the stress" and what do we hear? So far, crickets.
In still more proof that red-blue politics often comes before family in this country, her in-laws had released a statement cruelly denouncing her. Her estranged husband, perhaps a coward and perhaps unable to handle the stress, filed for divorce.
Taibbi also suggests Matt Drudge was guilty of twisting her words in the Freeper-revealed Vacaville Reporter story with Sheehan's quote about "...the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together";
I don't believe Drudge implied any flip-flop about that part of the article, although it certainly wouldn't be outrageous to interpret it as being fundamentally different from calling him a "murderer" and a "terrorist," like she does on a daily basis nowadays.
Drudge implied that Sheehan was referring to the meeting with the president. In fact, what Sheehan was saying was that the real gift Bush gave the families was the opportunity to meet each other, not the president.
What makes Cindy a "flip-flopper" are these parts of David Henson's Reporter account of the first meeting with Bush in June 2004, which is unambiguous, not disputed, and, naturally, not mentioned much by the mainstream media:
"We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled," Cindy said. "The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached."The 10 minutes of face time with the president could have given the family a chance to vent their frustrations or ask Bush some of the difficult questions they have been asking themselves, such as whether Casey's sacrifice would make the world a safer place.
But in the end, the family decided against such talk, deferring to how they believed Casey would have wanted them to act. In addition, Pat [Sheehan, Casey's father] noted that Bush wasn't stumping for votes or trying to gain a political edge for the upcoming election.
"We have a lot of respect for the office of the president, and I have a new respect for him because he was sincere and he didn't have to take the time to meet with us," Pat said.
Sincerity was something Cindy had hoped to find in the meeting. Shortly after Casey died, Bush sent the family a form letter expressing his condolences, and Cindy said she felt it was an impersonal gesture.
"I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis," Cindy said after their meeting. "I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a man of faith."
If Taibbi were an honest reporter, he could have, even while maintaining his status as a Bush-basher for hire, postulated other possibilities for Pat's filing for divorce; "...perhaps dismayed that Cindy was no longer treating Casey's Commander-in-Chief with the respect they previously agreed upon," or something of that nature.
But Taibbi didn't write that because he's NOT an honest reporter. Fortunately, he writes for Rolling Stone, where you don't have to be.
I posted this for your information and amusement. It's not like any takes Rolling Stone seriously anymore -- if anyone ever did.
I never thought the intellectual quality of Rolling Stone could go down, but it clearly has.
Taibbi was the guy who 'volunteered' at a Republican HQ in FLA under false pretenses to write an article about "Behind Enemy Lines" for the last 'stolen election'.
Ecce Asshat.
Cindy is a radical leftwing loon. She has a lot to learn about life.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
-Ronald Reagan
FWIW Taibbi Jr. (worked for Kerry campaign) and his old man (PMSNBC-Iraq)are 5th Columnists.
Is he talking about Crawford or Manhattan?
Tell this stupid city boy-girl cows do not MOAN they MOOO.
A stoned reporter.
It is OBVIOUS there was no peace movement born in crawford. NOTHING WAS started there.
It was the execution of a DNC marketing plan. PERIOD.
The DNC may have used surrogates, they may have used CFR sanctioned "entities" but it was all a marketing gimick born out of a conference room not a ditch.
This stoned repoter is just trying to feed into the MSM delusion. Newflash to RStoned reporter. Being a dupe will not get you an award, it only buys you ridicule for your pansy boy antics, Sucker.
Total BS. More like an aggrieved Kerry voter.
Good old Rolling Stones Magazine - still struggling for relevancy when it's about 30 years past dead.
Who reads rollin stone a 100000 people?
Does it not occur to the bi-coastal urban lefty elitists that real people like living in small towns, especially small towns in the heartland? And that, yeah, it gets hot here in August...but we can handle it...and the winter's not so bad.
Does it not occur to the bi-coastal urban lefty elitists that real people consider their expensive, crowded home towns to be undesirable? Otherwise all us rubes and yokels out here would live in New Jersey, too.
When I see what the lefty establishment has done to the most beautiful city in America -- San Francisco -- I hardly think they can complain about Crawford and "roasted earth the color of dog s---".
At least, it doesn't smell like it -- which is more than the city by the bay can say.
I thought Rolling Stone was so stoned that it drowned in a river 20 years ago.
Sounds like most anywhere in the Middle East.
I wouldn't pi$$ down Taibbi's throat if his guts were on fire
Rolling Stoned - The Choice of Pravda-starved Democrats
Oh, dear Lord. Horrific.
L.N., I am really enjoying your "work" on the topic!