The Bozos of the Cindy Sheehan Affair
#1: George W. Bush. This sums up the political stupidity he’s shown: The liberal establishment – the left wing of the state’s bird of prey – would have been just as indifferent to Cindy’s plea as are the conservatives. Liberals would not, however, have been so unbelievably stupid as to attack a lone, grieving mother, and threaten her with arrest. A liberal president would have met with this woman to “feel her pain” – with full media coverage, of course – before proceeding with the conduct of his bloody warfare.
Bush could’ve ended this “fiasco” on day one. But his arrogance got the best of him. (There’s a bit more to say about his supposed “charm” with calling her “mom” when they met initially. One person’s charm is another person’s grating behaviour.)
#2: Larry Northern, 46, of nearby Waco, Texas
Enough said.
#3: Supposed security deal for Jeb Bush:
Protesters say the man showed up just after 1:00 am asking a lot of questions and claiming to be security for the president’s brother, Governor Jeb Bush. They say he got mad and started threatening protestors when a chase ensued and police were called.
Protestor Diane Wilson says, “They started chasing him down the road. There was a full fledged chase down the road and they called the cops… He said, ‘I can make a call and have you arrested right now.’”
#4: Rush Limbaugh
August 15: “I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There’s nothing about it that’s real, including the mainstream media’s glomming onto it. It’s not real. It’s nothing more than an attempt. It’s the latest effort made by the coordinated left. ”
August 16: “Let me take a brief time out here to address something. I have been the recipient of a pretty decent amount of hate mail, far, far, far more hate mail than I usually get. Just this morning — and I don’t really get a whole lot of hate mail. And most of it’s funny as it can be. But apparently there is something that is out there misreporting what I have said. And of course, these people are reading that rather than listening to this program and choosing to believe it.
Apparently, what’s out there is that I said that Cindy Sheehan is no different than Bill Burkett, that Bill Burkett lied and Cindy Sheehan lied. They’re actually out there, people saying that I am accusing Cindy Sheehan of making up the fact that she had a son and making up the fact that her son died in Iraq. And of course, I’ve never said this. That I, early on in this, if you wanna go back — and we’ll post the archives on my website tonight just to illustrate this. I’m the one that actually expressed a little compassion for her. And I said I don’t really wanna talk too much about her, particularly because she’s lost a son here. And that can never be easy. And I don’t care — there are all kinds of different people that have all kinds of different reactions to this. But losing a child is the absolute worst thing that can happen to an adult. There’s nothing that rivals it, in my estimation.
#5: Bill O’Reilly
August 9: “O’REILLY: Well, I have to say that she obviously does because she’s the lead story on Michael Moore’s Web site on an almost daily basis. And she knows — I mean, Michael Moore isn’t a subtle guy. Everybody knows where he stands.
So I mean, I think Mrs. Sheehan bears some responsibility for this and also for the responsibility of other American families who have lost sons and daughters in Iraq, who feel that this kind of behavior borders on treasonous.
You know, you got to think about those people as well. What about their feelings?”
Next day: “I never said or implied that Mrs. Sheehan was a traitor.”
#6: Larry Mattlage. ” I ain’t threatening nobody, and I ain’t pointing a gun at nobody,” Mattlage said. “This is Texas.”
Mattlage said he was initially sympathetic toward the demonstrators, but that they have blocked roads in the area and caused traffic problems. He said he fired his gun in preparation for the dove-hunting season, but when asked if he had another motive, he said, “Figure it out for yourself.”
The list of right-wing pundits is long and wearisome and bottomless, and it’s a little difficult to parse out the “special” cases. Who stands out as particularly obnoxious and ridiculous? Hard to tell.
David Horowitz is still a Communist.