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JON CARROLL [The Myth Of Cindy Sheehan]
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 2/3/6 | Jon Carroll

Posted on 02/03/2006 10:25:04 AM PST by SmithL

I do admire Cindy Sheehan. I like the way she used her moral authority to focus the attention on a single story of needless sacrifice, a single victim of the Bush administration's profligate and inept invasion of Iraq. Her standing as the mother of a soldier killed in the line of duty made her -- for a while -- not susceptible to the usual attacks from the right. When the sleek presidential motorcade whizzed past her small encampment in Crawford, Texas, it was a useful symbol for the decadent isolation of the Bush White House.

And so I say with all love: Cindy, back away from the fame machine. You are who you are, and you were great in that role, but you can't be someone else without a lot of work. And when things move too fast, you become a sock puppet, and easy to make fun of, and that hurts -- you, me, the cause, whatever. You could still be doing good, but right now, you're not helping. I have no idea whether you are leading the charge or following bad advice, but please, rethink the whole thing.

It all started when that encampment grew and grew. It became a kind of Woodstock for people with agendas. Inevitably, those agendas diluted and muddied the message, and pretty soon it became Camp Progressive Humans Against Globalization, Unsafe Logging Practices and American Policy in Burma. And then celebrities showed up, and we all had hot dogs and listened to Bruce Springsteen.

So somewhere, I think, Cindy Sheehan bought into the Cindy Sheehan myth. It happens. As my friend Carol Cantor says, "I think it's standard-issue (in the) left-wing activist's world, with the focus splintering into a multitude of passionate ineffectualities. She's done her bit and had her moment....

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To: Argus
If Carroll is writing like this, the word has obviously gone forth from communist hq to dump Sheehan, ever so gently but firmly.

Sounds on target. He knows Cindy was well indoctrinated to the hard left before she ever showed up in Crawford. Cindy is going to suffer the same fate as ANSWER, once the veil is lifted the jig is up.

21 posted on 02/03/2006 10:36:33 AM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: Andy from Beaverton

I thought that was an urban legend from a change in guest anti-war mother on some talking head show. Sheehan bailed and the substitute turned out to be a phony.


22 posted on 02/03/2006 10:36:53 AM PST by RebelBanker (If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
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To: SmithL
In every war there are some parents who never recover from the loss of their son.

They lose all contact with reality from that day forward.

That is what Cindy is reminding us.

She needs professional help--now.
23 posted on 02/03/2006 10:37:22 AM PST by cgbg (MSM and Democratic treason--fifty years and counting...)
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To: MplsSteve
The liberal media does so at their own peril. I guarantee the overwhelming majority of the people cant stand her.
24 posted on 02/03/2006 10:37:48 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: SmithL
As my friend Carol Cantor says, "I think it's standard-issue (in the) left-wing activist's world, with the focus splintering into a multitude of passionate ineffectualities. She's done her bit and had her moment...."

Translation: "We've used her up. Time to throw her away. But the stupid idiot won't stay in the dustbin of history!"

Good illustration of how a useful idiot can become a useless idiot, because she refuses to understand that she isn't useful any more and it's time for her to go.

Message to the Left, and to Cindy if she ever wakes up: People aren't put into this world to be used and used up. Not you, not your son, not your husband.

25 posted on 02/03/2006 10:37:49 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SmithL
I do admire Cindy Sheehan.

Weak minds think alike.

26 posted on 02/03/2006 10:37:50 AM PST by My2Cents (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell)
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To: SmithL
"You could still be doing good, but right now, you're not helping."

On the contrary, she's helping the cause tremendously. Bwahahahahaha.

27 posted on 02/03/2006 10:38:03 AM PST by jennyjenny
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To: hang 'em
Is everyone named "john" without the "h" a commie, a queer or both?

Is he? (I've got his old Chrysler LeBaron!)


28 posted on 02/03/2006 10:38:08 AM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: SmithL

Uh oh. Poor Jon Carroll. What was he thinking? After she sues the Capitol Hill police for her pain and suffering, he will be her next gravy train. Mother Sheehan doesn't handle criticism well. Wonder if he'll be on her next t-shirt.


29 posted on 02/03/2006 10:38:10 AM PST by McLynnan
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To: SmithL

The party's over, time to call it day ~~~


30 posted on 02/03/2006 10:38:40 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Soul_of_Chogokin

"Idiot doesn't realize she called her own son a terrorist with that comment."

I really don't think she cares. Her hatred for Bush, this administration and this country is larger than her love for Casey it would seem.


31 posted on 02/03/2006 10:38:51 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Andy from Beaverton
That is not the case and has been spoken about at length on here. There was confusion between the Sheehan family and another family that lost a son in Iraq who was raised by his father and step-mother.
32 posted on 02/03/2006 10:40:01 AM PST by jennyjenny
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To: SmithL

We've got to get it back to one mother, alone, sitting in her rocking chair...


33 posted on 02/03/2006 10:40:17 AM PST by Flavius Josephus (Enemy Idealogies: Pacifism, Liberalism, and Feminism, Islamic Supremacism)
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To: Echo Talon

I agree.

She's losing whatever sympathy she had from the American people over the death of her son.

But as long as the MSM can continue to beat the drum of "unlawful war" and "un-necessary deaths", they will do so.


34 posted on 02/03/2006 10:40:36 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: SmithL
LOL!

it was a useful symbol for the decadent isolation of the Bush White House.

"Decadent isolation"? Is that like diddling the young intern in the lavatory?

35 posted on 02/03/2006 10:42:14 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Revolting cat!
Well, there are always exceptions to the rule..

On the other hand, didn't he play the first gay cowboy (in Midnight Cowboy)?

;<)

(damn, how do you do those smiley winky things)

36 posted on 02/03/2006 10:43:18 AM PST by hang 'em ("None work so hard for their money as those who marry for it " - another Freeper)
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To: SmithL

I knew Mother Moonbat was finished when JON STEWART of all people made fun of her last night.


37 posted on 02/03/2006 10:43:45 AM PST by Democratshavenobrains
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To: SmithL
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38 posted on 02/03/2006 10:45:18 AM PST by My2Cents (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell)
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To: SmithL

As I was saying all summer, Cindy is the Katie Holmes of the anti-American left. They pretend to love her and she provides camouflage for their dirty little secrets.

They'll dump her like used lunch when she outlasts her usefulness.


39 posted on 02/03/2006 10:46:18 AM PST by Norman Conquest (My old man taught me two things: Mind own business, and always cut cards.)
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To: Revolting cat!
(I've got his old Chrysler LeBaron!)

Oh, yeah?! Do you have the PENCIL with teethmarks that we can have a dentist examine? Hmmm? ;-)

40 posted on 02/03/2006 10:46:26 AM PST by GLDNGUN
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