Posted on 08/30/2005 12:38:16 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Did an ABC staffer insert the following lines in an email sent by celebrity antiwar mother Cindy Sheehan?
''Am I emotional? Yes, my firstborn was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel." That is what Sheehan is claiming.
If you don't believe that explanation -- if you don't believe an ABC staffer set about to put anti-Semitic words into Cindy Sheehan's mouth -- then your hero, my liberal friends, is a raging, ignorant anti-Semite. Sorry, but what are you doing hanging with that crowd?
I am as sympathetic to Cindy Sheehan's loss as the next mother. When I heard of her plight, while on vacation with my own children, my heart ached. Why not simply meet with her, I thought -- and wrote, like the other liberal columnists -- instead of going on a bike ride to nowhere?
I am the last person to "swift boat" a mother who lost her son in this war. I don't blame anyone, man or woman, for being "emotional." I have certainly seen the charge used to belittle women many too many times, myself included, with less justification than in this case.
But I will not stand silent and see anti-Semitism masked as opposition to Israel and Israel blamed for George Bush's mistakes, if that's what they are. She did say this, apparently:
"What they're saying, too, is like, it's OK for Israel to have nuclear weapons. But Iran or Syria better not get nuclear weapons. ... It's OK for Israel to occupy Palestine ... for the United States to occupy Iraq, but it's not OK for Syria to be in Lebanon. They're a bunch of (expletive) hypocrites."
Anyone who cannot tell the difference, in any terms, between Israel on the one hand and Syria and Iran on the other is not someone who, as my grandmother would put it, is "good for the Jews" -- or for the country, I'd like to add.
I have been speaking to Jewish groups around the nation for the last year, and this is what I have been warning them. It will come to this: Israel will be blamed, which means Jews will be blamed.
There are some who resist these equations. They pretend they can blame Israel, the only Jewish state in the world, a state created out of the dust of 6 million Jews murdered, and say it has nothing to do with Jews. I do not believe this. I am not from the powerless generation of the Holocaust, the ones who watched the newsreels of the children on the S.S. St. Louis being turned away, because American Jews couldn't get their cousins in -- but the next one.
Go to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, and on your second visit, spend time in my favorite room, the one with the newspapers that make clear what everyone knew. My generation does politics, but we are not so powerful as to control George Bush. Hardly. More power rests in the gas tank.
It is ludicrous to suggest that Casey died for Israel, but it is worse to lionize Cindy Sheehan without confronting the anti-Semitism that seems to be accepted not even beneath the surface. If her allies really believe ABC was out to frame her, where is the investigation? Where is the staffer who could include such language? And what of the equation of Israel with Syria and Iran, a statement too foolish to debate? Why isn't anyone concerned about that?
Or, rather, why is it only the right?
There are lots of people in the middle right now, watching bad news streaming out of Iraq, watching Marine National Guardsmen who weren't supposed to be serving, much less dying, coming home in boxes. There seems to be no end in sight. Two of the first Republicans to urge the president to meet with Cindy Sheehan were both likely 2008 presidential contenders, Chuck Hagel and George Allen.
Symbols matter. For better or for worse, they help to define movements.
If the "antiwar movement" in America is defined, even remotely, as an anti-Israel movement, it will fail. That is certain to me.
If I believed in conspiracy theories, I'd think that the right would like nothing better than to have Cindy Sheehan lead it for just that reason.
They might be laughing all the way to the bank about the embrace of her by the so-called liberal media.
To tell the truth, it's just what I'm afraid of.
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Me, I personally believe that Susan Estrus is proof positive that Carol Channing and the Tazmanian Devil had a Love Child!
"TAZ hates REPUBLICANS!"
Bump.
I hate it when I have to agree with a liberal.
It's that alien from Star Trek!
What she also sees is the rise of Zionism within the Republican Party. This will lead to a concomitant movement of young Jews to the Republicans.
The entire "war for Israel" canard is a creation of the anti-Semitic Left, and the Democrats are too craven and too intellectually cowardly to stand up to it.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Pity. She has more in common with the Islamists than she knows.
Yes. The Republicans at ABC insert crazy statements into our emails to discredit us. This is obviously true because when you read what we actually say, we are clearly rational sensitive people. Can we help it if the BushChimpNazi Halliburton axis of evil minions control internet packets and put crazy stuff in them. I know they do this because, just the other day, I heard Zorg speak over the radio in the fillings in my teeth and he told me that . . . Hey, there they go again. That was Karl Rove this time. He even controls Free Republic. . . WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END??????
Good, at least one liberal Democrat gets it.
Susan needs to be told of the following Cindy Sheehan pronouncement:
"Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel."
Susan Estrich is a lier and a leftist demagogue.
And this article is full of lies.
Estrich is a she-hag, and usually makes ridiculous arguments to justify her ridiculous positions. But she is not stupid, and can see the damage Sheehan will do to the left if she becomes its face.
There. I fixed it for you! |
Henny Youngman - "Everyone has a right to be ugly. She abuses the privledge!"
I just showed my husband your post and Coke almost came out his nose!
Someone must have told her that nobody can understand her when she talks.
She is talking much differently today.
OMG... I just agreed with Susan Estrich.
The sky *must* be falling.
As a matter of fact I can't handle her voice either!
I can't believe it! Estrich just dissed Dean! LOL H*ll has just frozen over.
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