So this time, instead of all the generals and military families shown waving flags or discussing how Iraq is now turning the corner ("This time it's really happening. I'm serious."), the idiotbox presents us with Cindy Sheehan who wants to know why her son needed to die in Iraq. This is a damn good question. After listening to the constantly-revised litany of reasons put forth by the Washington oil cabal, we all would like to know why people are dying to make a bad situation worse.
The rightwing reaction has taken on a number of predictably despicable forms. Thus we have talk show host Phil Hendrie calling Cindy Sheehan "another ignorant cow” and Eric at RS calling Ms. Sheehan a "media whore." Does this make all the troops trotted out in front of cameras in support of the war belligerent sheep? Or perhaps media pimps? In an excellent post (with a nice classical quotation!), f. kwan points out that what's good for the goose is good for the gander:
Ms. Sheehan is using the media for all its worth to get her message across, because that's what the ruling party has always done, and what the American people appear to desire, or what Karl Rove and the mythmakers created and thus the people craved. After 9/11 they created a just-folks, God-fearing warrior to make the country safe from Terrorism from the disjointed bits of The Impaired One. Ms. Sheehan is just doing the same thing for a good cause: peace, and her role trumps even the warrior. Her role is Mom . . . Trouble ahead and trouble behind. The news laps up stories about white women in trouble, so Ms. Sheehan gives us a white woman who is trouble. No matter whether you agree with her or not, you can not deny the grief a mother has for her dead child.
One rightwing meme is that Ms. Sheehan's statement "cheapens" the sacrifice of troops in Iraq. Evidently, we should simply be good sheeple and follow behind the prez wherever he leads us, shouting baaa-aaa-aaad at all the sheeple who step out of line.
Other discussion can be found at: Right-Left Story, TacJammer, Broken Windows, Ramblings from my Mind, and Huffington Post.
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4 comments:
one thing that I do find amusing...MS. Sheehan HAD the opportunity to talk with President Bush shortly after her son's death; at THAT time she stated that "it was obvious that he felt my pain". Then she got involved with the MoveOn.org crowd and she reversed her position 180 degrees.
As President Bush stated, she has every right to express her feelings/views, but don't be surprised if she is held accountable for them. The fact that the media are holding her up as THE example of one who has suffered grief in war only points out their true agenda, you don't hear too much about all those grief stricken in the same manner who, while experiencing the same pain, still hold their loved ones in the honor that they earned by their actions. By her actions, Ms. Sheehan has cheapened her son's memory in a lot of people's eyes.
Thanks for the comment. It seems to me that the pro-war side gets plenty of air-time. All these government briefings or sanctioned discussions by people in uniform are pro-war (if they weren't, the people wouldn't be allowed to address the media.) For this reason, it's always good to see the media taking up the opposite side of the story.
Since I am a pro-pot, pro-choice, pro - people marrying who ever they want to, pro-civil rights for everyone, a feminist & an Activist Atheist, only a total idiot would consider me to be a "right- winger"
(Oh yea, I am also a vet, You know, one of those Atheists in Foxholes they say do not exist.)
Cindy Sheehan is totally clueless
and a fraud!
She is a fraud because she does not want answers why her son died or reasons why it is not time for our troops to come home. Her little mind is already made up and no amount of facts or logic or knowledge going to change it
She is just like the members of the Flat Earth Society who simply deny the existence of any facts which prove their position untenable.
The facts why we needed to liberate Iraq are there and have been for years Bush even ran for office.
Sheehan and others of her troglodyte ilk just choose to deny them.
Her idiotic denial of the facts have no more effect on the truth than the Flat Earther's denial of the facts have any effect what so ever on our oval world.
The facts are that our actions in Iraq to rid the world of a nut and liberate the Iraqi people is a necessary part of our war on terror.
And anyone who does not know that is either ignorant of sufficient facts or they are just too damn stupid to comprehend the facts.
Neil C. Reinhardt
Your best post yet Karlos.
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