Cindy Sheehan: The Biggest Con Since Newman And Redford
We will repeat, one more time, what you have heard a hundred times.
Cindy Sheehan is grieving over her son, Casey, who was killed in Iraq at the young age of 24. Many Americans- but not all- extend their sympathy to Mrs. Sheehan and the other mothers that have made similar sacrifices.
Some Americans are very selective as to whom they extend their goodwill. If you don’t share their politics, you can go to hell, and may you and yours suffer and rot away. The hypocrisy is stunning. Unless you support their agenda, you and your dead son deserve no sympathy. In fact, you can be derided and ridiculed.
That is not an overstatement. “I am starting to lose a little compassion for them. I know they have been as brainwashed as the rest of America..” So says Cindy Sheehan. "I have been silent on the Gold Star Moms who still support [President Bush] and his war by saying that they deserve the right to their opinions because they are in as much pain as I am. I would challenge them, though, at this point to start thinking for themselves"
"The fact that some of us mothers vehemently disagree with you does not mean that we have been brainwashed. We are perfectly capable of thinking for ourselves and forming intelligent opinions about this war...The more you belittle others the less likely they are to hear and respond to your message." "What an elitist, arrogant [remark]," Hallie Lord writes in an online message board.
And so it goes. There is no disagreement, there is no room for tolerance or dissent. Disagree and you are labeled a fool, or brainwashed.
To be clear- if Ms. Sheehan were to have adopted a real anti war stance, we would have applauded- and even celebrated, her right to protest the war. While we can respect Cindy Sheehan the mother, we cannot abide Cindy Sheehan, ‘political activist.’
Ms. Sheehan is no more sympathetic a figure than any other mother who has suffered a loss and in fact, she may be less deserving. Instead of legitimately opposing the war, as is her right, Ms. Sheehan has made a deliberate choice to misrepresent her agenda. Ms. Sheehan has made a deliberate choice. She has chosen to align herself with those who have a particular political agenda, as we have noted, and she has allowed the death of her son to be used to camouflage those actions and that agenda.
It is not a principled anti war stand, in the least. Cindy Sheehan and company are asking us to leave Iraq now- right now, and the consequences be damned. Of course, that in fact would most resemble what happened after we left Vietnam. Jane Fonda’s ‘heroes’ swarmed into the south, killed hundreds of thousands and kept ‘re-education camps’ populated for decades. That is what Cindy Sheehan and her supporters are asking us to do now- to turn Iraq over to the ‘freedom fighters’ Ms Sheehan and her supporters speak so highly of.
Apparently, some lives are worth less than others.
It is notable that whenever the Vietnam debacle is alluded to, as of often the case in attempting to make comparisons to the current conflict, no one ever mentions that it was Presidents Kennedy and Johnson that foisted that war upon the country- Democrats. No one today ever refers to those Presidents as ‘Hitler.’ When you consider that over 57,000 Americans died in that war, we find the lack of outrage curious, though not at all surprising.
It is also interesting to recognize that President Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights Act, is not credited for wanting to keep South Vietnam free and democratic. It is clear that
Cindy Sheehan is irrelevant. Everything she now claims to stand for and with, is irrelevant, because it is predicated on barely veiled deceit. She has made her choice and she will now have to live with that deliberately chosen deceit, surrounded by people who live by and worship deceit. In due course, she will be abandoned and forgotten., replaced with another, more photogenic icon. She will soon be relegated to a trivia blip in the real world and will have earned an irrelevant immortality in the politically correct next generation of junior high school history textbooks. As a mother who lost a son in war, she will always have our sympathy. As a political activist, she has earned our contempt.
Cindy Sheehan’s most important accomplices haven’t been the professional political activists, deliberately posing as anti war protestors, hiding the funding and their agenda.
That distinction belongs to the media, barely able to contain itself. The media won’t tell you that David Duke and Stormfront, the neo Nazis have aligned themselves with Sheehan. They won’t tell you that Sheehan and her supporters have not distanced themselves from those people. If the cause is worthy, we suppose, much can be ignored. They won't tell you just how orchestrated this 'grass roots' movement really is. For more insight on the Cindy Sheehan circus, read The Media Force Field, from the The Anchoress.
This unholy alliance of deceit is one of the greatest cons since the pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting, with one exception. That great film was about a fictional con job. Today, the con job is a real one, designed to separate us from the truth and tear it up in the process.
Behind the scenes, machinations are contrived and hatched at a frenzied pace. Say anything, do anything, that pushes the sacred agenda. Another overstatement? Nope. See this. Touching, isn’t it? One of those special moments in time, right? OK, now see this. Welcome to the real world of Cyndy Sheehan's principled world of honesty and integrity.
In Georgia, Cynthia McKinney writes an open letter, insisting that Mr. Bush meet with Cyndy Sheehan, in the interest of 'fairness' and 'decency.' This is the same Cynthia McKinney that refused to vote on a congressional resolution condemning the vile and racist anti-Semitic speeches of Louis Farrakhan disciple, Khalid Muhammad. McKinney saw the vote as a threat to freedom of speech and expression. Apparently, 'fairness' and 'decency' are relative. You can ignore those calls if you stand behind a racist and a bigot like Khalid Mohammed.
Ms. McKinney was the only American delegate that refused to walk out the Durban conference, of the 'Zionism is Racism' fame. This is notable because Ms McKinney sat on the House Armed Services Committee and the House International Relations Committee.
We suppose Ms. Sheehan is willing to overlook McKinney's track record of hate because of her virulently anti American credentials- the kind that suit Cindy Sheeham and her supporters just fine.
When McKinney lost her seat in the House in 2002, many Democrats breathed a sigh of relief. She openly attributed her loss to 'the Jews' among others. When she was reelected, she was hailed as a conquering hero- mostly because she could be counted on as an anti Bush vote.
Someone needs to remind Cindy Sheehan that you are known by the company you keep.
She also needs to be reminded that her son, Casey, too, will be remembered by the company he kept- some of the finest men and women this nation have to offer. Despite all her efforts to the contrary, Cindy Sheehan will be unable to change the legacy of of Casey Sheehan, despite the cynical use of her own son's memory.
He will best be remembered by a grateful nation for having given his life in the defense of freedom.
Cindy Sheehan is grieving over her son, Casey, who was killed in Iraq at the young age of 24. Many Americans- but not all- extend their sympathy to Mrs. Sheehan and the other mothers that have made similar sacrifices.
Some Americans are very selective as to whom they extend their goodwill. If you don’t share their politics, you can go to hell, and may you and yours suffer and rot away. The hypocrisy is stunning. Unless you support their agenda, you and your dead son deserve no sympathy. In fact, you can be derided and ridiculed.
That is not an overstatement. “I am starting to lose a little compassion for them. I know they have been as brainwashed as the rest of America..” So says Cindy Sheehan. "I have been silent on the Gold Star Moms who still support [President Bush] and his war by saying that they deserve the right to their opinions because they are in as much pain as I am. I would challenge them, though, at this point to start thinking for themselves"
"The fact that some of us mothers vehemently disagree with you does not mean that we have been brainwashed. We are perfectly capable of thinking for ourselves and forming intelligent opinions about this war...The more you belittle others the less likely they are to hear and respond to your message." "What an elitist, arrogant [remark]," Hallie Lord writes in an online message board.
And so it goes. There is no disagreement, there is no room for tolerance or dissent. Disagree and you are labeled a fool, or brainwashed.
To be clear- if Ms. Sheehan were to have adopted a real anti war stance, we would have applauded- and even celebrated, her right to protest the war. While we can respect Cindy Sheehan the mother, we cannot abide Cindy Sheehan, ‘political activist.’
Ms. Sheehan is no more sympathetic a figure than any other mother who has suffered a loss and in fact, she may be less deserving. Instead of legitimately opposing the war, as is her right, Ms. Sheehan has made a deliberate choice to misrepresent her agenda. Ms. Sheehan has made a deliberate choice. She has chosen to align herself with those who have a particular political agenda, as we have noted, and she has allowed the death of her son to be used to camouflage those actions and that agenda.
It is not a principled anti war stand, in the least. Cindy Sheehan and company are asking us to leave Iraq now- right now, and the consequences be damned. Of course, that in fact would most resemble what happened after we left Vietnam. Jane Fonda’s ‘heroes’ swarmed into the south, killed hundreds of thousands and kept ‘re-education camps’ populated for decades. That is what Cindy Sheehan and her supporters are asking us to do now- to turn Iraq over to the ‘freedom fighters’ Ms Sheehan and her supporters speak so highly of.
Apparently, some lives are worth less than others.
It is notable that whenever the Vietnam debacle is alluded to, as of often the case in attempting to make comparisons to the current conflict, no one ever mentions that it was Presidents Kennedy and Johnson that foisted that war upon the country- Democrats. No one today ever refers to those Presidents as ‘Hitler.’ When you consider that over 57,000 Americans died in that war, we find the lack of outrage curious, though not at all surprising.
It is also interesting to recognize that President Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights Act, is not credited for wanting to keep South Vietnam free and democratic. It is clear that
Cindy Sheehan is irrelevant. Everything she now claims to stand for and with, is irrelevant, because it is predicated on barely veiled deceit. She has made her choice and she will now have to live with that deliberately chosen deceit, surrounded by people who live by and worship deceit. In due course, she will be abandoned and forgotten., replaced with another, more photogenic icon. She will soon be relegated to a trivia blip in the real world and will have earned an irrelevant immortality in the politically correct next generation of junior high school history textbooks. As a mother who lost a son in war, she will always have our sympathy. As a political activist, she has earned our contempt.
Cindy Sheehan’s most important accomplices haven’t been the professional political activists, deliberately posing as anti war protestors, hiding the funding and their agenda.
That distinction belongs to the media, barely able to contain itself. The media won’t tell you that David Duke and Stormfront, the neo Nazis have aligned themselves with Sheehan. They won’t tell you that Sheehan and her supporters have not distanced themselves from those people. If the cause is worthy, we suppose, much can be ignored. They won't tell you just how orchestrated this 'grass roots' movement really is. For more insight on the Cindy Sheehan circus, read The Media Force Field, from the The Anchoress.
This unholy alliance of deceit is one of the greatest cons since the pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting, with one exception. That great film was about a fictional con job. Today, the con job is a real one, designed to separate us from the truth and tear it up in the process.
Behind the scenes, machinations are contrived and hatched at a frenzied pace. Say anything, do anything, that pushes the sacred agenda. Another overstatement? Nope. See this. Touching, isn’t it? One of those special moments in time, right? OK, now see this. Welcome to the real world of Cyndy Sheehan's principled world of honesty and integrity.
In Georgia, Cynthia McKinney writes an open letter, insisting that Mr. Bush meet with Cyndy Sheehan, in the interest of 'fairness' and 'decency.' This is the same Cynthia McKinney that refused to vote on a congressional resolution condemning the vile and racist anti-Semitic speeches of Louis Farrakhan disciple, Khalid Muhammad. McKinney saw the vote as a threat to freedom of speech and expression. Apparently, 'fairness' and 'decency' are relative. You can ignore those calls if you stand behind a racist and a bigot like Khalid Mohammed.
Ms. McKinney was the only American delegate that refused to walk out the Durban conference, of the 'Zionism is Racism' fame. This is notable because Ms McKinney sat on the House Armed Services Committee and the House International Relations Committee.
We suppose Ms. Sheehan is willing to overlook McKinney's track record of hate because of her virulently anti American credentials- the kind that suit Cindy Sheeham and her supporters just fine.
When McKinney lost her seat in the House in 2002, many Democrats breathed a sigh of relief. She openly attributed her loss to 'the Jews' among others. When she was reelected, she was hailed as a conquering hero- mostly because she could be counted on as an anti Bush vote.
Someone needs to remind Cindy Sheehan that you are known by the company you keep.
She also needs to be reminded that her son, Casey, too, will be remembered by the company he kept- some of the finest men and women this nation have to offer. Despite all her efforts to the contrary, Cindy Sheehan will be unable to change the legacy of of Casey Sheehan, despite the cynical use of her own son's memory.
He will best be remembered by a grateful nation for having given his life in the defense of freedom.
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