The Sheehan Spectacle (We're witnessing a replay of the media's cynical catering to the 9-11 widows)

The American Prowler ^ | 8/16/2005 | George Neumayr

[Dr.Hilarious]

We're witnessing a replay of the media's cynical catering to the 9-11 widows, dubbed the "Jersey Girls," which began with great interest but then trailed off in proportion to the media's embarrassment about their wildly imprecise and boring charges. The media, thrilled to have something to work with during the dog days of August, will soon lose interest in Sheehan too.

That's the final word on this story as far as I'm concerned. This is a sideshow.

[nickcarraway]

George Neumayr Ping

[AZ_Cowboy]

Neumayr nails it again.

[roses of sharon]

Just as leftists here and worldwide loved us on 9/11.

Loved us only when we are dying.

As soon as we fight back, they hate again.

[Rumple4]

Sarah Brady's husband Jim is still alive

[Jeff Gordon]

The Daily Kos is saying that the silly lady will be arrested on Thrusday.

Both she and Wilson said they expected they would get arrested Thursday. Cindy said, "I think we need as many people here on Thursday anyway, because Rice and Rumsfeld will be here....I'd rather not get arrested, but I'm willing to, I'm willing to have them pick me up and carry me away."

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[Echo Talon]

[South40]

[Echo Talon]

good 1! :D

[drlevy88]

Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty!

[Search4Truth]

I really wish you had the time to be corrected, but I think you'll be gone soon for your juvenile language.

[Search4Truth]

POOF!

[backhoe]

Code Pinko-- the Cindy Sheehan affair ( click the picture )

[Bob]

Sarah Brady's husband Jim is still alive

True, but after suffering significant brain damage, he was turned from a Republican into a dimocRAT. I suppose that's understandable.

[jonrick46]

I said this on another post and I'll reinforce the good scholarship exhibited in this post. Her is my take:

It is an easy thing to turn this narcissist Sheehan into a mule for the left complete with paypal accounts set up by moveon for donations to Peace House.

It is a formula developed during the Viet Nam War to use the grief of the parents to flip them against the government. This tactic was used in the movie, "Friendly Fire", aired as a TV movie in 1979--too late to affect the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975. However, the book, "Friendly Fire" by C.D.B. Bryan was published in 1976 began the process of discrediting those 58,219 heroes who died in Vietnam and the 153,356 heroes wounded. It embodies the psychological template to be used in future military actions by the left against our government.

We also saw this tactic being used with the families of the 9/11. You should remember the noisy moms called the Jersey Girls, and the 9-11 Families for a Peaceful Tomorrow (funded by John Kerry's wife Teresa).

[Rumple4]

not only understandable, it's required.

[nopardons]

bttt

[nathanbedford]

The Constitution of the United States vests in the commander-in-chief the power to wage war, and in Congress the responsibility to fund it or to decline to fund it. It vouchsafes to the press the right only to comment upon the process but not the power to manage it. Since Vietnam, as you point out, the press has sought to shape the foreign policy of the United States of America to its liking.

For the most part, it has done this by first creating and then exploiting a hypersensitivity to casualties which are inevitably incurred in any conflict. It cultivates this hypersensitivity by personifying the casualties and their relatives. Most of us quite rightly shrink from exploiting the bloody images of those who have died or were maimed on our behalf but, ever since Lennin, the left has learned that the ends justify the means. The ends sought by the press and the whole of the left is to deprive our democracy of the power to wage war, and even realistically to threaten to wage war as an instrument of foreign policy- at least in so far as the left might not agree with that war.

The implications of this development could not be more ominous, for, if the press and Mrs. Sheehan succeed in their end run around the American Constitution, they might also succeed in indirectly causing the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans-or Iranians-or North Koreans.

If the left and the press succeed in their quest, then, inevitably, the United States will have no credibility if it threatens war against rogue states who would develop atomic weapons and thereafter sell them or otherwise pass them along to crazed Islamic terrorists. Tens of thousands of American lives could go forefit. Or a staunch President such as George Bush, unable to intimidate such nations because the left has undermined his credibility, must make resort to strikes heavy enough to destroy such weapons, perhaps at the cost of many Iranian or North Korean lives.

Today we are in a place where the left has succeeded in killing off the Bush doctrine. If not dead, it is at least comatose and will only be revived by another massive strike on the homeland. The blood of these dead Americans will be on the hands of Mrs. Sheehan and those bloodstained (in this case, not ink-stained) wretches of the fourth estate.